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features, such as the concrete wall
festooned with spidery green growth that
stretches across the infinity-edge pool,
forming a portal through which the pool
can pass. Set slightly back from the pool,
frozen in dramatic repose, is a towering
single palm tree. If in the water, one looks
below to find a patch of succulents. "A
secret garden," says Williams.
"One of the things you try to do in a home
like this is unveil the layers," says Tran,
accounting for the way the architecture
slowly opens first to the tremendous
vista, then to all the beautiful pockets of
earth, in one artfully conceived embrace.
Though placed in its hillside setting,
Tower Grove Drive feels entirely at home
in this context, as if it existed long before
it was realized—an entirely natural place
to be.
with much of the vegetation edible. (Right
off the kitchen is a production garden
for a bounty of herbs and vegetables for
the house.)
"Creating individual spaces also was
really important to this project," Williams
says. "The homeowners wanted more
intimate space." A lovely example is the
sitting area just off the husband's office;
suspended over the hillside, it seems to
float, grounded only by a few spiky plants
of varying height. Discreetly placed
plantings throughout the landscape allow
for quiet observation, a glass of wine. The
wife's green roofed office, however, with
its perimeter fringed in the grass also
used over the garage, has a deck with a
firepit and chairs for a livelier gathering.
This property also reaches out to the
landscape with truly striking architectural
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