Deezen

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The home was first constructed in the mid-1970s by a civil engineer, and La Base Studio demolished part of it for its current iteration. Sliding glass doors open to the garden The sliding glass doors open to the garden and pool deck, blurring the interior and exterior relationship. The photography is by Cristóbal Palma.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

US studio Inaba Williams Architects has created two mirrored houses with courtyards in Santa Monica , California that are clad in white stucco and have net-zero energy use, according to the studio. The white of the exterior continues inside A bedroom suite, garage, and a secluded zen garden hold the southern edge of the site.

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Deezen

APRIL 14, 2024

HGX Design created the house to host the owner's visiting family and it now stands as the main dwelling on the 35-acre property, which is dotted with agricultural buildings and another residence. Floor-to-ceiling windows line the majority of the exterior, with the remainder clad in a vertical cedar siding.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The house's placement was carefully considered, as the couple wanted to ensure there was enough space around the structure for cultivating vegetables, gathering around a fire pit and possibly adding a guest house/workshop in the future. The concrete podium also has an aesthetic function, as it adds visual weight.

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2022

They carved away parts of the housing block – including a sizable cut in the main facade – to create a sense of openness and to connect the building to its surroundings. "11 The building has a white exterior that helps enhance natural light and reduce heat gain – the latter being an important consideration given the area's hot climate.

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Deezen

MAY 22, 2023

Daniel Joseph Chenin settled the 7,800-square foot (725-square-metre) house on an acre rock outcrop near government-protected land in Las Vegas Valley, looking out to Red Rock Canyon. Fort 137 is characterised by its stone facade The house is heralded by a 28-foot tall (8.5

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Contemporary House India by Robert Gregory, with photographs by Edmund Sumner Thames & Hudson , November 2021 Hardcover | 9-1/4 x 11-3/4 inches | 272 pages | 355 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9780500021330 | $75.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : India has a long, diverse history of remarkable architecture.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. This house is a true reflection of the personalities of the family members." The owners chose the rhythmic cladding to complement three mahogany trees on the property. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

APRIL 6, 2022

Woods also wanted a house that departed from the mid-century modern style that is so ubiquitous in Palm Springs. Behind the main bar is a "west wing" containing a garage and guest house. The exterior also features generous stretches of low-iron glass , known for its high transparency. Soils engineer: Landmark Consultants.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Bay Area studio David Baker Architects has completed 145 units of social housing using modular construction and a weathering steel facade in San Francisco , California. Modules make up the social housing in San Francisco. The six-storey project stacks 87 two-unit boxes. The raked facade is clad in weathering steel.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2023

bath house out of two volumes with floor-to-ceiling glazed ends that float above the landscape. The house is clad in Western Red Cedar Select that references the landscape and works to reduce construction waste by using 14-foot (4.2-metre) metre) boards that extend from the base of the exterior wall to the parapet without cuts.

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Deezen

JULY 31, 2022

For the exterior walls, the team used a mix of concrete and cypress boards that were charred using the ancient Japanese technique of Shou Sugi Ban , helping bolster the wood's resistance to insects and rot. Three additional bedrooms are located upstairs, including one housed in a volume that cantilevers 15 feet (4.6

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Roofing Housing Civil Engineering Restoration 111

Deezen

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. Closets and a bathroom form a core in the centre of the space.

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Deezen

JANUARY 3, 2023

Brooks + Scarpa has completed an apartment building with a scalloped, textured facade in Los Angeles that offers affordable low-cost housing to young adults that are transitioning out of group homes. The project offers low-cost housing to young adults. All-white exterior materials include stucco and perforated mesh screens.

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Deezen

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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Deezen

APRIL 17, 2023

The studio run recently renovated and expanded the North Salem Farm house and studio on 8.7 The main house was originally a dairy barn. Different wood treatments were used throughout the house A photography studio and garage sit parallel to the main house and connect with a sheltered central entry.

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Deezen

MAY 5, 2023

The main house sits within this meadow, overlooking a shallow bay. Bohlin Cywinski Jackson clad the house in Douglas fir and cedar. Photo is by Benjamin Benschneider The building is located uphill from the primary house – close enough to feel connected but far enough away to offer privacy.

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Deezen

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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Deezen

MARCH 5, 2024

Exterior walls are clad in corrugated steel siding. Wittman Estes included five dorm-style bedrooms in the project "Rhythmic glazing reinforces a rational exterior and reveals the functionality of the interior," the team added. The entrance is marked by an aluminium trellis and a sign with large, illuminated red letters.

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Dwell

AUGUST 5, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. It is a sustainable house with a minimal footprint that upcycles various spaces, components, and materials from a dilapidated structure that existed on the site. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Architect Tsukasa Ono designed this housing project on Japan 's Yakushima island to have a positive impact on its natural setting, using a "regenerative" approach to improve the soil by promoting the growth of mycelium and bacteria. Tsukasa Ono designed a co-operative housing project in Japan.

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Deezen

APRIL 18, 2022

White siding and a curvy aluminium screen make up the exterior of a residential building in Los Angeles designed by American firm Brooks + Scarpa. Magnolia Apartments is a new model of mixed-use housing that includes both workforce and market-rate housing," the team said, noting that many of the tenants use public transit and don't own a car.

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Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2024

The visitor centre houses a display space and auditorium Inside, the wood-lined auditorium and visitor facilities sit at the centre of the space behind poured concrete walls that mirror the appearance of the exterior. Project credits: Architect: Kaan Architecten Landscape designer: Karres + Brands landschapsarchitecten B.V.,

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2023

Wood and cement wrap the exterior of a hillside, family home designed by California studio Feldman Architecture to feel like a "space of serenity". 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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Architizer

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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Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The program for the house is simple: a three-bedroom, two-bath house with space for playing music and drawing for a musician and an architect. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2022

British architecture firm Adjaye Associates has designed a collection of pigmented-concrete pavilions in Winter Park, Florida , to house a library and an events centre. The pavilions were designed as square and rectangular buildings with exterior walls that are angled inwards at their base. hectares) Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

At the ground floor are restaurants, retail, offices and an entrance to the courtyard "The window pattern is based on the maximum allowable percentage of opening along the exterior, broken up into a staggered, offset and repeated pattern around the middle levels of the building," said the studio.

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Roofing Interior Building Civil Engineering 131

Deezen

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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Deezen

MAY 16, 2024

Called Zilker Studios, the structure includes 110 affordable apartments operated by local housing organisation Foundation Communities. The mid-rise housing complex consists of a long volume on a narrow site, flanked by outdoor public spaces with a breezeway and an open-air staircase on the far end. The photography is by Casey Dunn.

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Space Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering 119

Deezen

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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Building Architect Civil Engineering Exterior 105

Dwell

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The studio’s stone walls conceal a robust steel structure, fully insulated yet incorporating pockets into which both the protective plank shutters and European engineered glass sliders retract.

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Deezen

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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Deezen

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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Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2022

Exterior cladding was designed to look like canvas folds. Read: Circus tents and Japanese architecture inform Seattle house renovation. Structural engineer: Batiserf. Services engineer: Bet Choulet. Civil engineer: Ateve. Its bohemian and whimsical spirit enchanted the estate. Photo is by Marc Dunile.

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Deezen

MAY 30, 2024

Located in the Willets Point neighbourhood, the stadium is part of a 23-acre development that includes a public school, hotel, retail and a 100 per cent affordable housing project. The New York City Council recently approved the Universal Land Use Review Process for the entire development.

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The Spaces

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Behind this hillside former home’s unassuming, whitewashed exterior lies a treasure trove of vintage furniture and finds assembled by owner Mikkel Kristensen – a Danish photographer and former fashion brand owner who’s transformed the property into an eight-bedroom boutique hotel, Marqí.

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