ARTICLE: Organic Beauty / by Kerri Allmer

Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s merging of modern architecture with nature, this renovation was made possible by the successful marriage of poured concrete with shotcrete.

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The landscape architect, Wesley Stout Associates in New Canaan, Conn., had a stunning canvas to develop when working on this yard renovation. Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, the home featured prominent horizontal lines and was built into the topography, sitting partly in ledge and perched among the majestic woods.

As part of the team, the landscape architect called in Drakeley Pool Co. “It’s a very modernistic house tied into the side of the hill and designed to blend with the environment,” says Bill Drakeley, managing member of the Bethlehem, Conn. pool builder and co-founder of Watershape University.

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