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Green Style: Innovative Solar Design

It took seven years, but Lawrence Scarpa and Angela Brooks, a husband-and-wife architect team in Santa Monica, finally succeeded in "creating a solar-powered house that meets their high design standards while costing almost nothing to run. By combining avant-garde aesthetics with sound environmental practices, they’ve blown away the lingering frumpy image that helps keep solar houses out of the mainstream..."

 
 

Read more about their home and see more photos at Dwell.

Images: Marvin Rand and Darcy Hemley for Dwell

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Wow, I really like everything about this project. Especially the way the lounge space opens up (although I sort of want to rip that blue shag rug out of the picture) and the view from the street. Great photos, too, by the way.

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posted by k51279 on September 5th 2009 at 12:37am
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