Palm Beach seasonal resident Adrian Tauro has gotten what he had been seeking for nearly a year — the approval of the town’s Architectural Commission for the design of a house he commissioned on the North End.
At their most recent meeting, architectural commissioners greenlighted, with conditions, the house Tauro wants to build at 224 Via Marila on a lot of about three-quarters of an acre. The house’s clean-lined architecture would blend tropical and traditional influences with a cedar-shingle roof, a stucco exterior, coral-stone detailing and expansive windows. At the rear of the house, a poolside breezeway would connect the three-bedroom house to a one-bedroom guesthouse.
The path to the approval Tauro earned at the July 23 meeting was rigorous and convoluted. The house had undergone two changes in architectural style since the original design failed to pass muster with the board in September 2024. It started out with Cape Dutch-style architecture before morphing into a Mediterranean villa — and, finally, into the tropical/traditional version that was just approved with about 7,000 square feet of living space, inside and out…