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La Grange Pavilion in Texas
American Folly and Swimming Pool Project in Texas, USA – design by Murray Legge Architecture
Sep 29, 2017
La Grange Pavilion
Design: Murray Legge Architecture
Location: La Grange, Texas, USA
La Grange Pavilion

La Grange Pavilion was created as part of a landscape intervention for a house perched on a bluff overlooking the forest and farmland of Colorado River basin seventy miles east of Austin. Surrounding views offer a quintessential display of central Texas wildlife and landscape: songbirds chirping in gnarled oaks on the bluff, hawks and buzzards spiraling on warm updrafts, morning mists in the valley below dissolving in the heat of the day, and ending with the long shadows of a low sun or the dramatic colors of an overcast sunset. The homeowners envisioned an outdoor patio area that would enable them to enjoy this incredible landscape throughout the year.
Situated on the bluff?s edge, a series of outdoor ?rooms? weaves amongst the trunks of a live oak grove adjacent to a new swimming pool. A continuous expanse of creamy Lueders limestone pavers delineates the habitable areas from the surrounding natural landscape while creating retaining walls, planters, steps, benches, and flooring surfaces. The various individual rooms?outdoor lounge, grilling station, dining area, and pool deck?are unified into a single fluid space as it steps down with the natura...