Rock-solid accolades

Stone house wins top honor from design site

Terrigenous Landscape Architecture of Chester, owned by Scott Wunderle, is winner of the Best of Houzz Community Design award for 2013.

The firm won for its design of a local outbuilding: a coop made from local stone and extruded glass rods. Wunderle says he undertook the work as a private challenge and was inspired by Chester’s Stone Village, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

The project leverages historic lime mortar, found objects, and the skills of local craftspeople.

Houzz is a Palo Alto, Calif.,-based online community founded in 2009, devoted to architecture, interior design and decorating, landscape design and home improvement. Its design award is based on images chosen as the most popular among the company’s millions of members.

That global stamp of approval struck Wunderle as a “nice twist” for a modest project: “I work at many different scales and materials and I view this project as an extension of the unique Vermont landscape,” he said.