This addition is a modern gallery for its owners’ large art and photography collection. By abstracting the pattern of original brick, a graphically-rich skin was developed that allows for flexible window placement, frames unique views of the surrounding urban landscape, and provides wall space for art.

The renovated kitchen, TV room, bathroom, master suite, and photo studio provide space for displaying artworks with a permanent, flexible, museum-quality hanging system embedded in the aluminum crown molding. LED lighting and a beautiful polycarbonate clerestory create gallery-style daylighting in the once dark cottage. This addition creates a new playful modernist home.