Date
1937
Project Type
Residential
Location
Sussex, England
Languages
Dutch
English
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Spanish
People/Firms
A. N. Marquis Co.
Abraham and Straus, Inc.
Agostini, Alfredo
Albers, Josef
Albert, Edouard
Aldrich, Nelson
Allen, Deborah
American Architect and Architecture
American Designers Committee for French Civilian Relief
American Embassy (Bogotá, Colombia)
Amsterdamsche Bank
Andrews, Wayne
Andruss, D.
Aoyagi, Tetsu
Arango, Elizabeth
James Macnabb commissioned a house from Breuer and York in 1936 and construction was completed the following year. The T-shaped house had an entrance hall, kitchen, maid's quarters and garage on the ground floor with the main living spaces above. The living and dining rooms opened onto a dramatic curved terrace, which could also be reached by exterior stairs and was supported by a single column. Breuer and Yorke extended a long row of bedrooms to take advantage of the sea view and raised this wing of the house on oval, concrete pilotis. Two different structural systems were used with load-bearing brick walls used for the two-story portion of the house and reinforced concrete for the bedroom wing. There, concrete pilotis supported a reinforced concrete floor slab with additional support provided by a concrete beam running along the top of the windows around the entire wing.
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