2021 Gallery
Award: Residential Design
Architects EAT for Bellows House
A single row of mature poplar trees cast morning shadows, animate the long articulated façade. The articulations, with the frustum roofs and layering of spaces, evoke street engagements and curiosities. Once inside the house, the 2 largest of the frustum roofs reveal their internal structure: reverse step concrete pyramids.
Jury Citation
Bellows House caught the jury’s attention because it is unusual. Many of the Residential Design category’s projects are working within an existing space, but this one creates a new space. It takes on the challenge wholeheartedly and does something innovative that none of the jury members had seen before. The project also exhibits a thorough knowledge of twentieth-century architectural history and reinterprets it in a creative and fresh way. This is a resolved design that integrates the interior with the architecture, giving rise to a series of spaces that are dramatic, theatrical and extremely liveable.
