The new home is located on the grounds of a large nineteenth-century urban estate. The perimeter of the estate facing the street is bound by a tall stucco masonry wall that is historically protected and was required to remain by the city. Set behind this wall, the new home is faced with stucco and is austere and minimal in its massing; sharing a similar material language and scale to other large homes built in this Blackstone Boulevard neighborhood a century earlier.

The rectilinear white stucco exterior of the home is softened on the interior by a centrally located sinuous plaster grand staircase linking the three levels of the home. The curving plaster stair walls hold a bent steel tube handrail with a blackened finish that closely follows the geometry of the stair. The stair walls are topped with a painted wood cap and an inset skirtboard meets the white oak stair treads at the bottom.

A deep-set skylight with radiused edges is located above the stair as the spatial extension of the void formed by the wrapping stair. The daylighting from above creates a lively play of ever-changing light and shadows onto the spiraling surfaces of the staircase.