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An architect designs his own residence, the results: spectacular.
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What happens when an architect infuses teahouse Zen into a client’s practical needs, in this case the desire for a yoga studio and a music room?
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It was an architect-client relationship that was meant to be.
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As Kris and Rhonda Fagala flip through before photographs of their 1925 apartment building, they smile and grimace as they flash back to the initial walk-throughs of the dilapidated structure