Deezen

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

An oversized thatched roof shelters the geometric concrete forms of this house in Vietnam, which has been completed by local architecture studio Kientruc O. Named Thu House, the 877-square-metre dwelling in Ho Chi Minh City is designed for a client who wanted a home that would evoke their childhood in the countryside.

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JUNE 12, 2024

Barrel-vaulted concrete roofs are supported by thick laterite walls at The Stoic Wall Residence in Kerala, India , completed by local studio Lijo Reny Architects. The design language employed at The Stoic Wall Residence is unapologetically modern, yet the soul this house remains profoundly regional," it added. "The

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Archinect

OCTOBER 28, 2023

On the boards in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood is a new house for a three-peat client of Faulkner Architects. It is to replace an existing 1904 house that had lost its historic integrity due to renovations over the last 120 years. A photovoltaic array on the roof deck earns a planned net-zero annual energy usage.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Architecture studio Edition Office has created a three-bedroom house with a cutout roof and fibre-cement cladding in Mossy Point, Australia. The cutout roof forms a striking outdoor dining area in the centre of the home Fulfilling its clients' request, Edition Office designed a cutout roof that resembles a bird's mouth.

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Archinect

JULY 11, 2024

The clients deliberately chose their vacation home not far from the historic town center so that they could experience the local culture and take part in local events. As you enter the house, you traditionally stand directly in the dini. Two rooms with bathrooms are grouped around the central staircase in an open floor plan.

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MAY 24, 2024

Metal cladding and an asymmetrical roof define the exterior of the South E8 housing block by architecture firm LOHA in Raleigh, USA. In turn, there is an increased need for housing. "As Communal stairs provide access to a pair of roof terraces. The units are arrayed along a central corridor.

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Archinect

JANUARY 6, 2022

Minimal details and neutral finishes anticipate an evolving composition of the client’s art and design collection. The courtyard, once closed off from the house, is now its undisputed heart. Outside, a landscape of drought-tolerant plantings resides in playful dialogue with the home.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Architecture studio VATRAA has added an extension to a house in north London that features a "brutalist cat flap" and is built with the bricks of the structure it replaced. The garden, designed by VATRAA and planted by the client, becomes part of the interior." VATRAA was founded in 2018 by Anamaria Pircu and Bogdan Rusu.

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Archinect

JULY 2, 2024

One Ashley Road is Alison Brooks Architects’ landmark project for client, Related Argent, forming the gateway to the Tottenham Hale redevelopment, Heart of Hale. The scheme houses 183 residential units, above three levels of retail and incubator office spaces, as well as roof gardens and new public realm.

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Deezen

JUNE 27, 2024

London studio SPPARC has overhauled a Grade II-listed Georgian townhouse in Fitzrovia to create a homely four-story office featuring a honeycomb-shaped roof. SPPARC has transformed a Georgian townhouse into an office The heart of the project is a collaborative workspace on the ground floor, which SPPARC has housed in a rear extension.

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Deezen

MAY 10, 2024

Chilean studio Hebra Arquitectos has completed an elevated home with steel pilotis and a V-shaped roof, aiming to create a building that "floats in the middle of the forest". Hidden within a densely wooded area, the Lone Oak House is located in a river region in southern Chile. A glass-enclosed bridge links the two zones.

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2024

California studio TW Ryan Architecture has completed a wildfire-resistant house in the American West that features a Corten steel exterior and pyramidal roofs that allude to the mountainous terrain. Four Roof House features a Corten steel exterior Their chosen site was a bluff overlooking a lake near the town of Helmville. "The

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Deezen

JULY 23, 2024

Local timber-framed buildings influenced the geometric form of Water Farm, a house that architecture practice Studio Bark has added to a family farm in Sussex. We want the building to feel agricultural, hence the gabled ends, but also nod to the variety of domestic roof pitches found in the local area."

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Deezen

MARCH 11, 2024

Tokyo-based studio Klein Dytham Architecture has designed a bookstore wrapped with an undulating steel roof resembling "outstretched arms" in Nagano, Japan. Named Karuizawa Commongrounds Bookstore, the 495-square-metre bookstore is an extension of a two-storey building previously used as a seminar house by Tokyo's Aoyama Gakuin University.

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Deezen

MAY 14, 2023

A single concrete column supports the walls and roof of this house by Japanese studio IGArchitects, creating a flexible interior that can be opened up to the surrounding landscape. Like an opened umbrella, the roof and walls [of the home] are extended from the only column," explained IGArchitects.

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Deezen

MAY 30, 2024

Architecture studio Cairn has used hand-poured hempcrete to form the rough textured walls at House Made by Many Hands, an extension of a Victorian home in east London. As the client is a chef, the renovation centres around a large kitchen at the heart of the ground floor lit by a strip of skylights along one side.

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Deezen

JULY 1, 2023

British studio Ström Architects has completed a minimalist home in Cheltenham, UK , which references modernist Case Study Houses in California. Aptly named Case House, it is defined by pared-back finishes and forms, and layers of walls and gardens that buffer its light, airy interiors from the adjacent busy road.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The house is arranged in a C-shaped plan, opening toward an outdoor dining patio on the western side shaded by large wooden beams. The interior features a C-shaped plan An exterior staircase – shaded by a black partition lattice made of local purple rosewood – leads up to a roof terrace with 360-degree views.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 20, 2023

California studio Field Architecture designed this Sonoma Valley house out of a trio of fanning copper-clad pavilions with butterfly roofs. Named Madrone Ridge, the 4,920 square-foot (460 square-metre) house sits within the watershed of northern California's Russian River. the studio said. "By

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Dwell

JANUARY 5, 2024

Welcome to Prefab Profiles , an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. From prefab tiny houses and modular cabin kits to entire homes ready to ship, their projects represent some of the best ideas in the industry. Do you know a prefab brand that should be on our radar?

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Deezen

JUNE 25, 2024

A series of staggered, multi-level courtyards animate the plan of In-between Gardens, a house in the town of Tiptur, India , designed by architecture studio A Threshold. The post Courtyards create "communal atmosphere" at Indian house by A Threshold appeared first on Dezeen. The photography is by Atik Bheda.

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Deezen

MARCH 30, 2023

Mexican studio Zozaya Arquitectos has designed a concrete seaside house defined by a calming water feature on the Pacific coast. The client wanted a very minimal and clean design house from the beginning but without losing the vernacular and traditional architecture," ZAR director Daniel Zozaya told Dezeen. "We

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Deezen

MAY 26, 2024

A red-hued extension built from brick and pigmented concrete has been added to a Victorian house in the suburbs of Norwich by local architecture studio Grafted. The new extension was a way to celebrate the best details of the house through reinterpretation," she continued. The previous extension was low-key but poorly built.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Architect Tan Yamanouchi & AWGL designed A Cat Tree House as a home in Kamakura, Japan , for his family and cats. Tan Yamanouchi designed A Cat Tree House for his family and cats "The main aim behind this project was to design a house regarding our two cats as two clients," studio founder Tan Yamanouchi told Dezeen.

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Deezen

JANUARY 31, 2024

Local studio Atelier Hajný has created a charred timber-clad housing block near Prague that references a holiday cabin visited by the client since his childhood. The photography is by Radek Úlehla The post Atelier Hajný references rural Czech cabins for triangular housing block appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A small triangular site guided the geometric form of Butterfly House, an accessible home that London studio Oliver Leech Architects has added to the corner of a garden in Surrey. However, we wanted to make sure it was visually and practically disconnected from the main house so that it felt truly like a new home."

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JUNE 17, 2024

Plates of weathering steel wrap the House for a New Beginning, a project designed by US studio Nielsen Schuh Architects for a couple whose original home was destroyed by a wildfire. The house was designed for clients who had lost their prior home in the 2017 Tubbs Fire The new, 9.73-acre

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Deezen

DECEMBER 2, 2024

To kick off our review of 2024 , Dezeen editor Tom Ravenscroft picks the houses that drew readers' attention this year, including a hillside home by Álvaro Siza and three residences that incorporate greenhouses. According to the studio, the house was designed to "sit respectfully" within the dramatic landscape.

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APRIL 13, 2024

Movable metal shutters reveal bright red balconies at this social housing block in Barcelona , created by local architecture studios MIAS and Coll-Leclerc Architects. Two large cuts divide the housing into three smaller, "porous" blocks with planted pathways in between. The photography is by Adrià Goula.

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AUGUST 21, 2024

With a 12-storey home in Mumbai gaining attention , we've put together a roundup of Indian houses recently featured on Dezeen that depart from the norms of residential architecture. Despite its loftiness, Sarvasva is not the tallest house in Mumbai. For example, Wallmakers describes Chuzhi as "camouflage architecture".

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2023

The clients hired Texas-based Specht Architects to build a 2,000-square-foot (186-square metre) minimalist house with floor-to-ceiling glass walls that afforded views of the surrounding meadow and large old-growth trees. The axial approach includes replanted natural grasses The roof extends to create a 15-foot (4.5-metre)

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JULY 4, 2024

UK studio Will Gamble Architects has extended and modernised a Victorian house in south London , using curved shapes and a palette of natural materials to create a calm and minimalist aesthetic. This aesthetic allowed us to deliver a highly bespoke project tailored to our clients' needs."

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

An architect's self-designed home in Melbourne and a London residence with a copper "top hat" are among the most popular houses on Dezeen this month. Also included in our monthly roundup of the top houses published on Dezeen is an "uncomplicated abode" in the Vietnamese jungle and a barn-like building in rural Kent.

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2023

A pair of stone towers and a thatched -roof palapa are among the features at a nature retreat in southern Mexico designed by architects Mauricio Rocha and Gabriela Carrillo. The Cometa House is located in the small, coastal town of Mazunte in the state of Oaxaca. They faced several interesting conditions while designing the house.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 1, 2024

California-based studio Donaldson + Partners has designed a circular house partially embedded in the landscape with large concrete parabolic arches in Montecito, California. Pink lights illuminate the interior The Hill House Montecito is part of Donaldson's evolution into a more artistic practice, according to the studio.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Irregularly placed square openings puncture the thick concrete exterior of SV House in Portugal , recently completed by architecture studio Spaceworkers. Located on a sloping site near the town of Sobrado, the blocky, three-storey home occupies a plot once occupied by the home of the client's grandfather.

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MARCH 29, 2023

A mid-century house originally designed by British architect Trevor Dannatt has undergone a sensitive restoration by architecture studio Coppin Dockray in north London. Coppin Dockray has overhauled Hampstead House in London. It was barely insulated, the roof was failing," the studio's co-founder Sandra Coppin told Dezeen.

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