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    Garden Leave

    Oct 31, 2017 3 minutes
    TEXT BY Iain Aitch

    PHOTOS BY Simon Watson

    Were it Toot Rise would blend perfectly into the rural sandstone hill on which it is built. But this stainless steel cylinder pierces the chestnut-clad house like a sharp new pencil satisfyingly pushed through the lid of a shoebox. It is at once a deliberate signpost and the final flourish of British architect Nick Evans, who designed the two-story structure in East Sussex as a weekend home for himself and his family.

    ILLUSTRATION: LOHNES + WRIGHT

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