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APRIL 9, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. On a secluded wooded site, the new structure grounds itself to the earth with its approach to material and form. Have one to share? Post it here.

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AUGUST 23, 2022

The CAMPout House is located on a gently sloping site in Truckee, a mountain town just north of the lake known for its skiing , hiking and water sports. CAMPout House sits on a gently sloping site. The house's design was informed by its occupants' active lifestyle. The house includes an open-concept kitchen.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

US studio Kadre Architects has converted two rundown motels in Los Angeles County into The Sierra, a supportive living complex that serves as a "new housing prototype" for people experiencing homelessness. hectare) site near a highway, the complex consists of five buildings surrounded by pathways and park space.

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MARCH 12, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The house is a succession of rooms divided by two patios. The house is a succession of rooms divided by two patios. The central double-height space contains the vertical circulation of the house.

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JULY 22, 2024

US architect Philip Johnson's Glass House annexe, the Brick House, has been restored and reopened following a 15-year closure in Connecticut. It is located 80 feet downhill (24 metres) from the Glass House, separated by a lawn and connected by a stone pathway. A single door is located on its facade.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Instead, the studio decided to create a 1,500-square-foot (139-square-metre) structure on the site that consists of a gallery and gathering space and a utilities area, separated by a courtyard. Also important was the remediation of the contaminated site, often referred to as a brownfield site.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Local architecture firm La Base Studio has renovated a glass and concrete home, wrapping it in a delicate privacy and shading screen on a lush site in Buenos Aires , Argentina. 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.

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MARCH 18, 2024

Located near the town of Healdsburg in Sonoma County , the house sits on a hilltop dotted with oak trees. The team embarked on designing a sustainable and contextually sensitive house, a process that involved hiking the 15-acre (six-hectare) site and camping out there.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

It also features landscaped spaces Inside, the lower buildings house 60,000 square metres of retail space, while the tower holds 100,000 square metres of office space. The project's design is informed by Hong Kong's legacy of textile manufacturing and draws on different aspects of tailoring. The photography is by Kevin Mak.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Architecture studio Brooks + Scarpa has completed an all-electric, affordable housing complex in Santa Monica called 1819 Pico, which departs from the area's typical "defensive apartment buildings" with their solid walls and fences. For the city at large, the courtyard is an urbane housing type that fits well into neighbourhoods."

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The project, called The Rambler, is tucked into a wooded site on the Kitsap Peninsula, which lies northwest of Seattle. The Rambler house is located on a wooded site Rectangular in plan, the home is horizontally oriented. The home is designed to be rooted to the landscape.

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MAY 11, 2022

The simplicity of the two structures belies the amount of coordination and engineering needed – from the design team and the builder. The unconventional detailing required more mockups and testing on-site and a greater level of coordination and oversight from the entire team. © Feldman Architecture. © Feldman Architecture.

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APRIL 26, 2024

London studio Mae Architects has created Harriet Hardy House in Southwark, a block of 119 social homes complete with a community centre and cafe. Commissioned by Southwark Council, the housing forms part of the Aylesbury estate redevelopment and is organised in a U-shape around a central courtyard. The photography is by Tim Crocker.

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MAY 5, 2023

Photo is by Benjamin Benschneider The site is reached by boat, and a winding path leads from a dock through a wooded area and into a sunlit meadow. The main house sits within this meadow, overlooking a shallow bay. Bohlin Cywinski Jackson clad the house in Douglas fir and cedar. The guesthouse was built on Henry Island.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

bath house out of two volumes with floor-to-ceiling glazed ends that float above the landscape. We wanted to touch lightly on the site, so the home cantilevers over the site, is grounded at the entrance, and then floats over the landscape as you move through the home," the studio said. Civil engineer: McNeil Engineering.

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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. Establishing a spectrum of spatial conditions on a site of just 1,883 square feet was a challenge, and one that defined the DNA of this project. Have one to share? Post it here.

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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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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The formal language was derived from a deep read of the site in which it sits: the dune," DS+R partner Charles Renfro told Dezeen. A series of staircases allow circulation among the split levels of the living area "We got to take about two-thirds of the steel out of the house," said Renfro. "So I mean, it's made like a surfboard."

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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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APRIL 24, 2022

The Sound House is located on a sloped property in the city's Magnolia neighbourhood – a site that offers vistas of the downtown district and the Puget Sound. The dwelling sits atop an existing plateau that formerly held a house dating to the 1920s. Sound House consists of two storeys, a basement and a rooftop viewing deck.

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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. Only the necessities are included in the compact units.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

Located on a triangular site in Paris's 19th arrondissement, the project is "the capital's first zero-carbon district", according to TVK. TVK claims the 35,200-square-metre development is the largest load-bearing stone building site since Georges-Eugène Haussmann's reconstruction of Paris in the mid-19th century.

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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. Ono explained. "I

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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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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. Located within a car-centric part of the city, the site formerly held an auto dealership. LOHA created the student housing for a site in Los Angeles.

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JULY 31, 2022

During the project's inception, designers from Manhattan's Desai Chia Architecture visited the site in different seasons to understand the climate and terrain. Three additional bedrooms are located upstairs, including one housed in a volume that cantilevers 15 feet (4.6 Desai Chia created "winged" roofs for the house.

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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. The home's multi-layered gabled forms engage the site, interact with each other and frame interior spaces, studio co-founder Jejon Yeung said. acres in Westchester County, New York.

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AUGUST 5, 2024

Upcycled materials from a dilapidated structure found on site create a sustainable home made up of round volumes connected by a floating roof. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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DECEMBER 17, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The renovation for a young family sought to open up and bring light into a typical skinny terrace, taking advantage of a prominent corner site. Have one to share? Post it here.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

hectare site near Maastricht to commemorate soldiers who died in the second world war. 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.

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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. Structural and civil engineering: Labib Funk.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Curling around a central courtyard, a staggered trio of redbrick buildings house a new nursery, teaching dormitories and a collection of indoor and open-air community spaces for the village's 3,000 residents to gather in. The solution was three buildings of varying heights with roofs that channel rainfall into a lotus pond.

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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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MARCH 1, 2022

The quarter-hectare site, which stretches along Camarillo Street, was formerly occupied by a small office building. 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 apartments have either one or two bedrooms.

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MAY 16, 2024

Local studio Forge Craft Architecture + Design has created affordable apartments for people transitioning out of homelessness in Austin that feature a breezeway to encourage rest and preserve heritage trees on the site. Affordable housing and solutions to homelessness have seen a resurgence. The photography is by Casey Dunn.

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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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MARCH 5, 2024

Fire Station 67 is made from prefabricated steel modules Totalling 4,667 square feet (434 square metres), the single-level station sits on a flat site, with hills in the background. The building is made of steel modules that were prefabricated in a factory, trucked to the site, and put into place using a telescopic forklift.

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