Pacific Palace

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viva italia
designed after canal-front venetian
palazzos, this residence stays true
to its italian theme with columns,
arches, arcades, and balconies.
it also emphasizes ocean views
through large expanses of glass.
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White oak cabinets
(acorncabinets.com)
in the kitchen impart a
modern touch. lighting
by hubbardton Forge
(hubbardtonforge.com)
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the sandstone fireplace
by Montigo (montigo.
com) surrounded by
Ambiente tile (ambientetile.com)
adds warmth
and texture to the room’s
sleek atmosphere.
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Street House, which has helped put his firm on the
architectural map thanks to a captivating design
full of textures and spacious intersecting volumes.
The site was a rare opportunity in Seattle, on a
hillside in the historic Queen Anne neighborhood
overlooking downtown. “It sits so proud on this
hill,” the architect says. “There are no houses in
front of it, so you have a 180-degree view from
the Olympics to the Cascades.” Pushing the house
to the edge of the property (the opposite of how
a smaller home previously located there was situated),
Rhodes’ design also creates a more private
backyard nestled against the hill, complemented
by a rooftop deck.
To help the house’s simple, modern form of
intersecting rectangles fit in amongst the neighborhood’s
namesake Queen Anne-style homes,
the exterior is clad in the same cedar lap siding,
simply stained instead of painted. Inside, on the
1,500-square-foot main floor Rhodes explains
that, “It does feel like one space.” You can open up
that door and see through the house all the way to
the back. People asked, ‘Why aren’t you putting a
big deck on the view side?’ I wanted to make the
house itself like a deck, with floor to ceiling glass.
Inside you feel like standing on a deck.” But subtle
divisions are made between dining, kitchen and
living areas with pieces such as a kitchen island
and a fireplace. “People want that main open floor,
with their living upstairs, and the extra room
downstairs with a media room,” Rhodes explains.
Upstairs is a master suite on the corner, taking full
advantage of the views; off it are additional bedrooms
and a library, the latter of which is defined
by a second-floor continuation of the fireplace. Be
it warming beside the fire or through the passive
solar of the house’s ample glass, being here is
indeed being inside and out simultaneously.
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