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English: The Ben Perrone House, 133 School Street at Plymouth Avenue, Buffalo, New York, April 2021. Easily the most striking and creative of the handful of contemporary houses that have been built on Buffalo's West Side over the past decade or so, 133 School Street was designed by architect Kevin V. Connors of Eco_Logic STUDIO - a firm that specializes in sustainable design - as the home of prominent Buffalo artist Ben Perrone (1933-). Unveiled in 2020, the house is described in most accompanying news stories as "triangle-shaped" - an homage to a recurring motif in his painting, sculpture, and installation work - but a better comparison might be to an arrowhead or a Christmas tree, whose flat roof slopes slowly upwards from base to point. However, undoubtedly the most striking feature of the house - even more so than the roofline or the shape of its footprint - is the lustrous metallic exterior, faced in fiber cement panels painted with reflective aluminum paint. These metallic side walls converge - and a relatively charming set of front steps bring an extra touch of openness and curb appeal - to a recessed entrance area, where the front door is crowned by a narrow floor-to-ceiling second-floor window that bathes the open-plan interior (replete with Perrone's own artwork and self-designed, often triangular furniture) in abundant natural light. In the rear, barely visible in this photo at far left, is his much more conventionally-dimensioned onsite studio, a low-slung rectangular building faced in carbonized cedar slats and topped with a flat roof covered in solar panels. Nestled in between the two buildings, next to the short corridor that connects them, is a narrow, wedge-shaped patio.