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Clearing house

bout 40 minutes west of the heaving megalopolis of Mexico City, a sand-coloured brick wall curves into a dense pine forest flanked by a bustling highway. The structure, a family home designed by the Mexican practice Lanza Atelier, turns a blind wall to the endless sprawl of the city, opting instead to embrace the local landscape by domesticating a sliver

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