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Over the past two and a half decades, Los Angeles–based Marmol Radziner has established itself as the go-to firm for thoughtful upgrades to classic works of midcentury architecture, from its celebrated restoration of Richard Neutra’s Kaufmann House in Palm Springs, California, to its expansion of a 1960s Beverly Hills lair for photographer Steven Meisel. Equally compelling are the boldly modernist homes Marmol Radziner designs from the ground up, typically employing bluestone, cedar, schist, and stretches of glass that “extend rooms into the landscape,” says Ron Radziner, who cofounded the firm with Leo Marmol in 1989. The duo is now working on houses in Nova Scotia and California and an architecture-and-design center at the Palm Springs Art Museum. And their well-regarded prefab division devises eco-friendly building systems that are raising the bar for modular residential design. marmol-radzinerom

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