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Architects: Ben Koush Associates
- Area: 2000 ft²
- Year: 2018
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Photographs:Ben Koush, Paul Hester
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Manufacturers: GRAPHISOFT, Hansgrohe, Western Window Systems, VELUX Group, AS Hanging Systems, Acor, Artemide, Chicago Faucet, Daltile, Flos, Fort Knox Mailbox, Jantec, Kingston Brass, Kohler, MODULIGHTOR, Mi Windows and Doors, Mitsubishi Electric, Mustee, Navien, Progress Lighting, +10
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Lead Architects: Ben Koush
This house is located in one of Houston’s last intact, nineteenth-century, working-class neighborhoods—the Near Northside—about one mile north of downtown. While perhaps not conventionally attractive, the Near Northside’s collection of well-used Queen Anne and Folk Victorian worker’s cottages offers lessons on how old buildings can be adapted to new uses and increased density instead of simply being replaced. We took this ethos of economy into consideration for the design of a new house on a lot that had always been vacant and approached it as a prototype for future infill houses in this rapidly gentrifying urban area.
