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92 — Andrea Palladio 2 — Greatest Villas

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The Piano Nobile Is a House, Er, a Party House

Peladio's villa is a 'little temple' where it sits on a big plinth, says the architect. The house has different elevations to allow for party-house style living in its lower ground floor and top floors. Peladio: "It allows you to yet put in a rugged lower layer, which feels like an outcrope"

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