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Courtyard House: The visitors flowed from room to room, and the camaraderie of the designers filled the spaces between, giving the house a homey family feel.
"The house is really cohesive," said Carmen Quartararo of BPL Design Group, which designed the courtyard living and dining area. "This year, it really goes together."
In-Depth : The House of Spiritual Retreat by Emilio Ambasz
Emilio Ambasz originally designed the House of Spiritual Retreat in 1979 for an imaginary site near Cordoba, Spain.
It was constructed only last year, on a hilly, arid landscape outside of Seville.
Featuring two white walls situated at a ninety-degree angle and a long stairway descending into a sunken patio, the house reformulates the vernacular Andalusian courtyard house into a surrealistic reverie, a mythic, phantasmagorical dwelling.
Binnenhofje (Ye Olde Courtyard), at 449 Singel, gives you the impression that you are eating in a medieval courtyard, with old houses and balconies all about. One of its "props" is the "Royal Parrot," who is usually ready to talk, whistle or "sing." The restaurant called 't Swarte Schaep (The Black Sheep), just off the Leidseplein, is an upstairs bodega with a "garret" dining room.
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