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A courtyard villa of clever penetrations
and glazing to usher daylight throughout.
“M
any architects dreamt of that time and place,”
says Marco Spinelli of Adelaide’s ArchitectsInk.
“It promised some pretty alluring visions.” As if to realise
and perpetuate the dream, Spinelli’s vision on the flanks
of Adelaide’s Mount Osmond parallels some of LA’s most
famous houses.
The Plane Tree House is as much a love-song to the
work of the great moderns — Pierre Koenig, Richard Neutra
and Craig Elwood among others. While the view i ́