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...studio apartment with terrace rents for $195 a month; a three-bedroom, split-level goes for $450; penthouses on the 15th floor with three bedrooms, three baths, a maid's room and bath, an atrium open to the sky, and a sunken living room are $1,000 a month. In addition to the view, other attractions are available at relatively modest extra cost to all tenants: access to the free-form swimming pool carved out of the cliff is $100 a year per family, garage parking is $25 a month, limousine service from Horizon House to Manhattan executive suites...
MODERN LIVING links the old and new in its report on the atrium house, which comes from a blueprint as old as the hills of Rome but is fast becoming the newest thing in town housing. ART touches on old v. new as it studies the argument whether Paris should or should not have its face washed, whether old buildings (or people) should look young, whether decades of dirt add character or merely hide style. The issue of old and new comes out in a hopeful way in THE HEMISPHERE story about a sensible move toward land reform-at long...
...blueprint is as old as the hills, and the ancient hills of Rome at that. But the atrium house is fast becoming the newest thing in suburban housing, and nearly as popular as it was when Romulus was little more than a babe...
Jungles and an Aviary. Individual architects such as Edward D. Stone and Philip C. Johnson have designed custom-built atrium houses for private clients in years past. But only lately have mass builders begun to adopt the style. Pacesetter Homes set 169 atria on a tract in San Clemente, Calif., and Builder William J. Levitt-of the Levittown Levitts -includes a version of the house in his 1,450-unit development currently abuilding near Cape Kennedy, Fla. Greatest enthusiast is California's Joseph L. Eichler, who has built some 3,000 houses in 31 development tracts in the last...
Rhapsody & Shrugs. Whatever the use, atrium owners agree that the advantages are great. Says Mrs. Bradley, "We can sunbathe and the neighbors can't see, have the outside fragrance go all through the house, leave the toddlers outside and keep an eye on them from practically anywhere inside. And when it rains," she adds rhapsodically, "the maple leaves turn dark and glistening, the outside comes right indoors and makes all this our very own world...