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MAY 15, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Breeze-block walls demarcate the various zones of the house, yet permit light, breeze, and views. And yet, our clients also have a love of yellow, inspired by Luis Barragan’s bold colors.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Local studio Amit Upadhye Architects added a guest house and updated Polaris House in Arizona to capture the "diurnal journey of the sun". Located on a one-acre desert property in Paradise Valley, Polaris House is named after and directed toward the North Star.

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MARCH 19, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The rear of the house which would form the focus of the design originally contained a small kitchen and meals areas, pseudo playroom, and laundry. Have one to share? Post it here.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

UK studio Kirkland Fraser Moor has created a contemporary house named Ashraya in Hertfordshire, England, which is topped by a cross-laminated timber arch. Ashraya stands next to a historic house and walled garden. The house sits under a CLT arch. The distinctive house was built under the Paragraph 80 planning regulation.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Composed of three distinct buildings – a main house, guesthouse and writer's studio – the project was designed for a California-based couple who manage an independent record label. Stretching horizontally from east to west, the main house is rectangular in plan yet more sculptural in form.

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

VAVA House Seattle, Modern Washington Real Estate, Contemporary Home WA, US Property Photos. VAVA House Seattle, Washington, USA. VAVA House in Seattle. VAVA House, Seattle, WA. The design of the VAVA House emphasizes the creative ways families share space and help each other grow, learn, and play. Design: Fivedot.

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The brief is one familiar to the practice: balance the heritage constraints of an original house (in this case, Edwardian-era) with the needs of a growing family. Have one to share? Post it here.

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MAY 8, 2023

Feldman Architecture designed a house in a town that overlooks California's Silicon Valley They found a property south of the city in Portola Valley, a town on the eastern side of the Santa Cruz Mountains. L-shaped in plan, the house consists of two bars tucked into a sloped site and wrap an outdoor space in the rear.

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JULY 31, 2022

Three additional bedrooms are located upstairs, including one housed in a volume that cantilevers 15 feet (4.6 Running alongside the house is a carport with a large roof "attic", which contains storage space for sports and gardening equipment. Read: Desai Chia Architecture perches black Ledge House on rocky hillside.

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MARCH 19, 2022

Three sculptural, metal-clad volumes form a student housing complex by American studio LOHA that is designed to look less bulky than a typical apartment building. Just across the street is another project by local firm LOHA – a student housing complex called Westgate1515 that also takes up an entire block.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

US architecture studio GBBN designed three brick buildings that allow social housing to both "fit in and stand out" in Cincinnati, Ohio. The studio recently expanded a 19th century brick house in Pennsylvania into an education facility with a glass bridge connection and metal-clad, barn-like structure. The photography is by Ryan Kurtz.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

Named the JArzm house – using the first initial of each family member – the home is set into a 60-foot slope in Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighborhood. John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (JFAK) completed the house – and 540-square foot (50-square metre) accessory dwelling unit (ADU) – in November 2021.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Beneath the hilly mounds are a series of private areas for reading and conferences, and parts of the mounds are flattened to house tables. The mounds flatten in areas to house tables Snøhetta was founded by Thorsen with architect Craig Dykers in 1989. Beijing City Library also incorporates spaces for performances and book restoration.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

Elsewhere in Paris, Christ & Gantenbein completed a 124-metre-long steel-clad housing block , and RSHP unveiled its design for a "post-carbon" neighbourhood that will be located in the La Défense business district. The photography is by Julien Hourcade.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. At Taper House, the architects’ aim was to transform the tired-looking Victorian house into a contemporary home that forms a closer relationship with the garden and natural light. Post it here.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

The studio, which specializes in projects along Florida's vast coastline dedicated to "environmental modernism", completed the expansive, 8,500-square foot (2,590-square meter) house – known as the Angel Oaks Residence – in 2021. Civil engineer: Jorge G. Angel Oaks Residence is located in Miami The five-bedroom, 7.5-bathroom

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Eric had worked with this client before and was intrigued by the request to step outside of his preferred design sensibilities and to venture in a seemingly opposite aesthetic direction. Post it here.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Other projects by Wittman Estes include a black house inspired by ancient Chinese landscape paintings and an elevated extension to a 1940s beach house that is supported by pin piles and thin steel columns , minimising damage to the landscape. The photography is by Nic Lehoux.

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APRIL 9, 2024

Jun Mitsui & Associates and Pelli Clarke & Partners have converted a grocery store into a sake brewery The site contains three buildings – the brewery, housed in the shell of a former Stop & Shop grocery store, a small rice polishing building and a wastewater treatment facility.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Rising five levels, the house was designed for a couple who wanted a home with a peaceful atmosphere and views of San Francisco. Local studio Jensen Architects designed the house to both embrace and defy its difficult site conditions – a hilly parcel in the Cole Valley neighbourhood, near the city's famed Sutro Tower.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The goal was to reconnect this structure with the environment while best utilizing the exceptional site for the clients. "In Have one to share? Post it here.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. However, from the water or the beach, its silhouette is evocative of a harbor marker, upright on the dune, guiding its seafaring clients home. Have one to share? Post it here.

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APRIL 28, 2022

East End House – Perched on a bluff overlooking the water, this house on Long Island’s East End is a serene year-round retreat. The house settles into its natural environment, prioritizing new and old growth trees, outdoor living spaces, and views while using its low profile to minimize its presence on the site. Year: 2019.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2022

The main volume of the 3,632-square-foot house is oriented along an east-west axis, which allows the living spaces to take full advantage of southern light, while its asymmetrically gabled roof orients the interiors toward the primary views. Its design is inspired by the separate but connected forms of a dogtrot barn. © CLB Architects.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The cabins are adorned with vintage furnishing Among Skylab's other Colorado projects is Owl Creek Residence , a triangular house with an exposed, intricate steel structure in Snowmass. "Curated with tongue-in-cheek novelty and a mid-century vibe, the A-frame cabins and Saloon create a destination that is both classic and novel."

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JUNE 8, 2022

The home was designed to achieve three main goals – to make the most of the natural setting, provide ample space for visitors, and accommodate the client's impressive art collection, which features work by artists such as Richard Serra, Deborah Butterfield and Roy Lichtenstein. Civil engineer: Nelson Engineering (Dave Dufault).

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FEBRUARY 13, 2022

The clients were personally involved in the entire design process and worked closely with us on every detail.” –Jim Perched high on a hill, this country house in Westchester, New York overlooks the family’s property, wooded hills, and neighboring reservoirs. Jim Olson, FAIA, Design Principal. © Olson Kundig. © Olson Kundig.

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JANUARY 2, 2022

Barrow House Lincolnshire Property, English Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Home, Building Photos. Barrow House in Lincolnshire. Barrow House. Barrow House sits in its rural setting surrounded by wildflower meadows and overlooks an extensive private pond. M&E Engineers: EB7. 2 Jan 2022. Site size: 9165 sqm.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In OOIIO Architecture Studio we carry out a new complete residential project, integrating architecture and interior design, in this case for a single-family home in Barajas, Madrid: the Tornado House. Our work method when starting a single-family housing project always beguins from a deep understanding of the needs and tastes of our clients.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

The low-lying building is located just south of Iowa City's downtown district, near a recreational area and a future housing development. Totalling 99,294 square feet (9,225 square metres), the facility houses the city's street and water departments, including all of their equipment and vehicles. MEP engineer: Modus.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

More than any other multi-dwelling housing, courtyard apartments, “make you feel like you belong to a place.” This much needed affordable housing provides poor and disadvantaged populations housing in an affluent area of town where low-wage workers are critical but unable to afford to live. Photo © Jeff Durkin.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Both the leg and the accommodation modules above act as large steel trusses—made in-house by the client, metal manufacturer Levstal Group. Have one to share? Post it here.

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JANUARY 13, 2023

ZGF – working with development group Wexford Science & Technology – reimagined the 224,866-square foot (20,890-square metre) factory to house state-of-the-art research labs, collaborative spaces,and community amenities. MEP engineers + lighting: Affiliated Engineers, Inc. Structural engineer: Thornton Tomasetti.

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JUNE 9, 2023

Encompassing 281,000 square feet (26,106 square metres), the building houses a range of research institutes focused on topics such as food, water, energy and climate change. The academic building is located on ASU's main campus in Tempe, which is part of the Phoenix metropolitan area. There also is a 389-seat auditorium.

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

As a result, we delivered a house that serves the lifestyle of our client and creates a super exciting perch to look out over the hills to the city of Austin beyond," the architect added. Civil engineer: Blyel Engineering. Structural engineer: PCS Structural Solutions. Olson Kundig was founded in 1966.

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Architizer

MAY 11, 2022

Atherton pavilions – The two pavilions nestled in this verdant landscape were a response to the clients’ vision for a deeper engagement with their lovely yard. How have your clients responded to the finished project? Project Status: Built. Year: 2019. Size: 0 sqft – 1000 sqft. © Feldman Architecture. © Feldman Architecture.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

Read: Slow uses charred wood to clad "hut-like" home in Japan The back-of-house spaces and state-of-the-art kitchen are located on the north side of the plan, forming a triangle that can serve each of the public areas. Upstairs, a floor lounge, bar and terrace space overlook the ground floor.

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