He sought London-based Studio Vero for help in designing the space, which had a rather bland interior. The heart of the 7,500-square-foot duplex is the double-volume, 38-by-30-foot living room.

Cramped rooms in a three-story family residence become double-height living spaces awash in light. Houses We Love: Every day ...

The openness of the double-height living spaces and light flooding in through the retained windows gives a strong sense of the building’s history. The volume has been gracefully subdivided with a new ...

Natural light, cross ventilation and – thanks to the slope of the land – multilevel blended indoor/outdoor living ... its double height ceiling, lent itself to a dynamic hang-out space the ...