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| A similar projection happens in this two-story house, but here it extends down to the first floor and works with the canopy to demarcate the entrance. Wraparound windows take advantage of the slight projection. Private Comment
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| The prominent gable on this house in Maine sits above a screened-in porch. The tapering horizontal slots create some interesting lighting in the open space and also help to ventilate it. Private Comment
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| The garage for the same house in Maine also features a gable top, an almost platonic prism that seems to float above the stone walls and wood columns below. The simplicity of the roof and wall materials above, as well as the sharpness of the edges, make it particularly modern. Private Comment
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| At first glance this residence looks traditional, and for the most part it is, but the gable end has modern touches: the horizontal banding at the base of the first floor and top of the second floor, the asymmetry of the first floor window, and the carved corner entrance. Note how the last is also highlighted by a tree-trunk column. Private Comment
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| This gable end is a floor-to-roof glass wall that sits behind a chimney; the latter punctures the roof extension, a move that necessitates the addition of steel-tube columns to the side. Private Comment
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| The end of this house also includes a chimney in front of the gable, but here the roof is notched around the circular flue. Private Comment
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| The architect of this house labels it "Modern Shingle Style I," a moniker that seems fitting with the Siamese gables over the long front porch. Private Comment
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| "Flattened gable" is an appropriate description for the end of this house. The low profile is accentuated by the solid wood infill at the end, a continuation of the wall below, but it's an expression that reads as a triangle with the notched porch and horizontal window below. Private Comment
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| From a distance the various parts of this house take on an exaggerated appearance: the large glass wall at the gable end, the small random openings around the corner, the roof extension overhead, and the canopy that extends from the roof and overlaps with the perpendicular volume. See a closer look next. Private Comment
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| This view reveals how the "+" shaped house is rendered in two ways that bring the gable vernacular into the contemporary. This white side, described in the previous photo, is contrasted with the dark metal panels that wrap the walls and roof, and the regular grid of windows that gives a strong logic to the other volume. Private Comment
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