[in-enaction] featured houses: Record Houses 2007 (Arch Record)

How to slip a rambling 21st-century dwelling into the narrow bell tower 
of a 17th-century church by Christopher Wren? Tackling that 
architectural riddle, nearly as perplexing as the prospect of passing a 
camel through the eye of a needle, architects Boyarsky Murphy rose to 
the occasion with a remarkable 11-story “flat,” a soaring folly in 
central London. This great monolithic spike stands in Record Houses 2007 
amid six other featured projects. Though no two houses rose from similar 
circumstances, an extraordinary challenge generated each one.

Each of our seven featured houses—imaginative solutions— emerged from 
idiosyncratic sources of inspiration, with constraints and obstacles as 
colorful and varied as the venues themselves. —Sarah Amelar

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http://archrecord.construction.com/residential/recordHouses/0704recordHouses.asp

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