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O BY MARIMAR MCNAUGHTON PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOSHUA CURRY
n a sloped embank-ment
overlooking
Airlie Road, architect
Haywood Newkirk
designed the last house in a
decades-long career for his eldest
son, Haywood Newkirk IV.
Wrapped in an envelope of
windows facing east and south,
the architect took advantage of
the site fringed with live oak and
deciduous trees.
“See, there’re no leaves,” Newkirk
points out one winter day. “When
the sun gets down to this angle in
the wintertime, it’s solar … the sun
comes in. In the summer, the sun is
… straight up, and there’re leaves
on the trees, and it’s cool.”
Buffered by a hedgerow that
muffles the sound of passing
vehicles, the site’s elevation allows
views of Wrightsville’s marina
district.
Haywood Newkirk the younger
says he wanted to be able to sit in
his living room and see his boat
and watch his beautiful wife cook
dinner. What the client wants in
layman’s terms is what his father
calls the program.
“Everybody has a program …
so many bedrooms, living, dining.
… Everybody has a program and
a budget, a site. When you have
the site, a budget, a program, it
designs itself. You don’t do a …
thing but put it together. You have
Live oaks tower
above the Newkirk
home on Airlie Road,
the most recent
design by architect
Haywood Newkirk,
for his eldest son
and family.
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