The simple restrained material pallet of stone, wood, concrete, and white walls contribute to the elemental feeling of the house.

其简单内敛的材料，石材、木材、混凝土和白色的墙壁构成了此栋房子的元素。

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Roosevelt is stark and elemental but also very lyrical in the careful dialogue it arranges between trees, stone, sky and water (and so well conceived and executed that Superstorm Sandy didn't leave a scratch).

WSJ: Zaha Hadid, Farshid Moussavi, Louis Kahn and the Best of 2012 in Architecture