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is not loud work. But it's sharp. Studied.
An architecture that allows for stillness,
demands clarity and, as the practice
puts it, "embodies a concise, poetic prag-
matism that encourages discovery and
wonder at multiple scales." Lake House
is illustrative of this ethos.
"This project is a good example of a
common interest of ours to explore layer-
ing of rooms and views," says Jejon Yeung,
partner in charge, working in collaboration
with Worrell, Manager Beatriz de Uña
Bóveda and Project Designer Yunchao
Le. "We do not think of houses consisting
of a singular envelope for shelter from the
elements, but as an assemblage of thresh-
olds that create a rich layered experience."
Consider the home's entry courtyard spot-
N THE BANKS of Candlewood Lake
in woodsy western Connecti-
cut, a new house spills down
toward an old shore. Marked
by its stacked volumes, strong
lines and piled roof planes, the timber
and concrete form strikes a current tone,
and was designed with great scrutiny and
sympathy for its surround by New York
City-based architecture office Worrell
Yeung. That the home's connection to the
landscape is unambiguous and insistent
is both a credit to, and a code of, the
design team behind it.
In less than a decade, Worrell Yeung—
headed by the simpatico partnership of
founding principals Max Worrell, AIA and
Jejon Yeung, AIA—has distinguished itself
as a practice of some gravitas, completing
a range of architectural solutions that are
unconcerned with spectacle yet highly
interested in rigor and simplicity. Theirs
