{"id":30305,"date":"2012-05-29T03:36:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T07:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=30305"},"modified":"2013-03-14T13:37:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T17:37:07","slug":"no-mean-city-a-70s-house-gets-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/05\/29\/no-mean-city-a-70s-house-gets-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"NO MEAN CITY: A &#8217;70s house gets updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30308\" title=\"IMG-1_01121\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/05\/IMG-1_01121.jpeg\" width=\"576\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Cross-posted from\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomeancity.net\"><em>No Mean City,<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0Alex&#8217;s personal blog on architecture<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/images\/line-grey-1pixel-600wide.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"1\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mazen Studio recently designed the interior for a house near Toronto that&#8217;s an artful combination of high-desert California modernism and a heavy-timbered 1970s ranch house.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote about it for International Architecture and Design;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/05\/IAD-Bungalow-Spr20121.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s the PDF (5 pages)<\/a>. More, and pictures, after the jump..<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nomeancity.net\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" \/>Working with a couple of clients who travel often to Southern California (and South Florida),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mazenstudio.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Mazen El-Abdallah<\/a>\u00a0did a thoughtful job of importing materials and moves that fit in those contexts &#8211; spiky grasses, George Nelson furniture, a conversation pit &#8211; into an unusual blend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-30312\" title=\"ZAK outdoor\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/05\/ZAK-outdoor.tiff\" width=\"496\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mazenstudio.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mazen<\/a>, a young architect and designer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomeancity.net\/?p=700\" target=\"_blank\">whose work I&#8217;ve covered here and in Desinglines<\/a>, usually works in a more contemporary mode. He&#8217;s achieved something really interesting here, I think. It&#8217;s\u00a0not so much that the specific materials or moves are unusual; they are mostly quite common. But it&#8217;s an un-placeable mashup of details and textures that is impossible to tie to a specific moment in design history. It is, in a word, timeless.<\/p>\n<p>For the gallery, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomeancity.net\/?p=2432\" target=\"_blank\">visit No Mean City.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Scott Norsworthy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"gallery link=&quot;file&quot; columns=&quot;2&quot;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nomeancity.net\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wpgallery\/img\/t.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Cross-posted from\u00a0No Mean City,\u00a0Alex&#8217;s personal blog on architecture Mazen Studio recently designed the interior for a house near Toronto that&#8217;s an artful combination of high-desert California modernism and a heavy-timbered 1970s ranch house. I wrote about it for International Architecture and Design;\u00a0here&#8217;s the PDF (5 pages). 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