Montgomery County, United States
Maryland Residence
Montgomery County, United States
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
The Maryland Residence in Bethesda, Montgomery County, Maryland, is a postmodern house designed by César Pelli and completed in 1989. One of the architect's rare domestic commissions, it comprises five pavilions connected around a central brick gallery roughly 100 feet long that Pelli identified as the building's defining space. The gallery, with its gently pitched gabled roof that appears to float while admitting light through clerestory windows, features teak and opaque glass walls with French doors at its entrance. Two two-story, stucco-faced pavilions with hipped roofs project northward for living spaces, while smaller pavilions to the south—shaped as octagons and staggered squares—contain kitchen and dining areas. Situated on a large trapezoidal lot on Glenbrook Road, the house is set back from the street and screened by mature trees, with the General Contractor E.A. Baker Co., Inc. receiving a Craftmanship Award for its doors and windows.
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- house
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- Montgomery County, United States
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