PROJECT
Showhouse
ARCHITECT
Hufft Projects
LOCATION
Kansas City, Missouri
In Roanoke Park, a neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri, whose streets are lined with sycamore trees and turn-of-the-20th-century Prairie School– style houses, Matthew and Jesse Hufft’s home stands out without subverting. Subtle gestures and forms—a roof that appears to float atop a glass gable, an effortlessly cantilevered 12-foot steel porte cochere slowly reveal this house to be unlike its neighbors.
“I designed it so if you’re driving 30 miles per hour down the street, you don’t notice that it’s new,” says Matthew, an architect. “It fits into the neighborhood, an ode to the modern using technology and steel.”
Hufft conceived the house first and foremost as a home for himself and Jesse; their children, Rock, six, Cash, four, and Clover, two;…
