The client was the sole owner of a huge privately owned company. A large, artistic house was his dream and a long awaited gift to himself. We had done preliminary drawings for another site a year earlier which was on a comfortable two acres. But later it was decided to demolish his present house and build the new house on that site, which was half the size.
            This made three stories necessary and required squeezing the structure between the minimum flood elevation and the 35' maximum height restriction. It became rather overpowering to the scale of the neighborhood and I did everything I could to emphasize horizontality, lightness and minimize the scale of its parts. In the process we created an incredibly complicated structure of concrete and steel. We had completed 105 sheets of working drawings before being stopped. Normally that would be considered an office tragedy, but in this case I felt that it was a project that probably should not be built.
            Materials were as follows………Moss green ceramic tile on serpentine planter walls concealing the first floor…….Beige Acadia stone on all exterior floors, Living room floor and all walls originating from the ground…….Beige/white stucco on all horizontal elements……..Moss green steel window and door frames with 9/16" laminated tempered glass for security and storm protection…….Pearl beige Japanese roof tile.
            This project had lasted one year, almost to the day.