"You've heard about the mint with the hole. Meet O House, the house with a geometrically perfect circular porthole at its centre. Located at 10 Palmerston Villas in Dublin 6, the property is one of those built by 'boutique' developer Jamie Moran, who has had a number of upmarket schemes to his credit in the capital. Recently completed on a site between two garages in the upmarket Palmerston neighbourhood,"
""We came up with the idea of putting a garden at the centre of the project," explains the architect Pierre Long, of Lawrence and Long Architects. "As a practice, we're very interested in gardens and the relationships to buildings. It's effectively a city site. Traditionally, you might have the garden at the front and at the back, where you're looking at the garden and it's part of the house.""
"O House wraps itself around that perfectly circular courtyard that sits at its heart, an inward-looking design turning its back on the street, revealing its secrets only to those who pass through the discreetly industrial facade of Corten steel, sandblasted concrete and Danish handmade brick. "The facade is a bit like a curtain," Long says. "You pull it back, and you're into this special environment.""
O House at 10 Palmerston Villas is a recently completed luxury home offered at €3.25m and marketed by Sherry FitzGerald. The property was developed by Jamie Moran and occupies a narrow city site between two garages. The design places a geometrically perfect circular courtyard garden at the home's core, creating an inward-looking plan that turns its back on the street. A remote-control front-door key opens an up-and-over garage for two cars. The exterior uses Corten steel, sandblasted concrete and Danish handmade brick, producing a discreet, industrial facade that reveals a sheltered garden environment.
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