A 7,263-square-foot single-owner custom residence at the edge of Stone Canyon — composed in a series of curving glass walls and stacked-stone columns, perched to read the Catalinas in the morning and the Tortolitas at evening's last light.
Set on a hilltop within Stone Canyon's guard-gated, golf-course community, the residence is the work of Marc Soloway, AIA — an architect whose practice has shaped some of Southern Arizona's most considered contemporary homes. The interiors are by Lori Carroll, a Tucson-based designer whose work has been published nationally and whose hand reads, plainly, in every cherry-wood ceiling and stone column on these pages.
What Soloway has built here is a residence in the round — curving walls of glass that follow the contour of the hilltop, opening the great room to the Catalinas in one direction and the Tortolitas in the other. The architecture asks the desert in. The desert obliges.
“Designed to capture
the natural beauty of the high desert.”
A Soloway home is, in our experience, a residence that asks to be photographed at the hour the desert turns. The curving glass walls and the high stacked-stone columns become two different buildings depending on the angle of the sun — one architecture in the morning, another at dusk.
Working with the inherent curves and angles that were designed was the biggest challenge. Capturing the motion, the movement, the flow of the space — that was where the artist in me came alive.
What we tried to do here, simply, is what Soloway and Carroll did first: a record — built in pavilions of light and stone — of a place worth taking the time to receive.
Stacked stone, cherry-wood ceilings, slate floors, and curving sheets of glass — held against a hilltop the architect chose to honor rather than reshape.
The challenge of working at dusk with curving glass and stacked stone — the kind of problem this building set us — is the kind of thing we write about in the journal.
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