{"id":19982,"date":"2016-07-17T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/brutalism-at-home\/"},"modified":"2016-07-17T12:07:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T05:07:37","slug":"brutalism-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/brutalism-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Brutalism at home"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA forgotten brutalist gem in Wiltshire has been lovingly brought back to lifeSome great buildings flaunt themselves. But others hide \u2013 like the tiny brutalist jewel known as Ansty Plum, nestled deep in a Wiltshire valley. It\u2019s a miniature masterpiece which, in the words of its latest residents, \u201csomehow slipped through the 20th century unnoticed\u201d.Architect Sandra Coppin and her husband Nico had wanted something entirely different. South African-born, with two young daughters, they\u2019d begun to feel confined in their London flat. Initially they\u2019d set their sights on Norfolk, aiming for wide horizons and extra breathing space (and, critically, somewhere for Nico to fulfil his childhood fantasy of a garden big enough to warrant a tractor-mower). But, instead, an internet search threw up this intriguing 60s modernist house in a small Wiltshire village, which had sat on the market for a year. Coppin stresses: \u201cWe were not interested. It didn\u2019t fit the brief at all. A one-bedroom house, on a third of an acre, in the middle of nowhere. But I saw that it had a little studio built by the Smithsons, so my interest was piqued. We just thought: \u2018Let\u2019s go, have a pub lunch, and pretend we\u2019re going to buy it.\u2019\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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