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Another Lovely House in Singapore from Guz Architects

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Here is another al fresco beauty from Guz Architects with their signature elegance and ease; the Willow House.

Like their Fish House, this outdoor living home for a young family in Singapore has a soaring parabolic roof shape.

Discrete and private, the entrance embraces the visitor with a civilized welcome.

What lovely proportions in its gateway, draped in Singapore’s lustrous tropical greenery.

As if dropped from the circular hole above it, a circle of greenery mirrors a cutout above, letting you experience that you are under a roof garden.

Water surrounds it, creating cooling breezes.

The view back down through that circle cut in the rooftop garden is quite surreal.

Languid fronds drape from the garden above and are reflected in the serene waters below.

The rooftop garden is amazing in its resemblance to an earthbound lawn garden.

It is reached by climbing stair treads that are themselves all miniature “green roofs” – each one sown with closecut groundcover.

These green stairs pierce another frame-shaped square opening of the roof garden.

Outdoor passageways maximize the enjoyment of the garden fragrances, in Singapore’s balmy climate.

The most extraordinary view is at night, where the glass-edged pool makes it seem as if the house floats atop a solid rectangle of green gel.