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NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Architecture studio Unknown Works has extended a semi-detached house in east London , adding vibrant yellow-rendered forms to its front and rear. Unknown Works has extended a semi-detached house in east London. The kitchen and diner are housed in the bright yellow rear extension that opens onto the garden's brick-paved patio.

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AUGUST 28, 2022

Austin Maynard Architects has completed Terrace House, a self-funded apartment building in Melbourne which is low-cost, eco-conscious and has enough room for young families. Located on a narrow infill site in Brunswick, Terrace House is a six storey "ethical housing" building containing 16 apartments and three ground-level shop units.

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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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DECEMBER 6, 2022

The 3,340-square-foot (310-square metre) Octothorpe House is located in Bend, Oregon , a small city 160 miles (257 kilometres) southeast of Portland. Octothorpe House is an eight-sided cabin in the Oregon desert. Octothorpe House features four bedrooms. Structural engineer: Eclipse Engineering.

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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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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.

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MARCH 26, 2023

Architecture studio SDA has completed the Floating House, a concrete-framed home on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City that is elevated above ground to mitigate the impacts of flooding. It is elevated above ground to mitigate the impacts of flooding "We composed the house as three slabs floating above the ground," explained SDA.

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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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JUNE 15, 2023

The Cometa House is located in the small, coastal town of Mazunte in the state of Oaxaca. The Cometa House is located in the coastal town of Mazunte For this site, Mexican architects Mauricio Rocha and Gabriela Carrillo set out to create a spacious retreat that worked in concert with the site's topography.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

David Chipperfield Architects has the Hertogensite housing in Belgium "The design process was influenced by two main questions: how to tie together three different typologies into one coherent building, and how the building should respond to its unique surroundings," said David Chipperfield Architects associate Julien Gouiric.

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AUGUST 26, 2022

Architect Alexander Symes has added an angular addition to a house in Unanderra, Australia , featuring wood-lined living spaces that open onto a terrace perched in the canopy of a large tree. Symes designed Pepper Tree Passive House for local builder Adam Souter, whose company Souter Built aims to create high-performance sustainable homes.

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AUGUST 15, 2022

London studio Knox Bhavan has created a prefabricated , flood-resilient house on the bank of the River Thames in Buckinghamshire, which is designed to be "future-proof" for at least the next 100 years. Knox Bhavan has created a flood-resilient house beside the River Thames. March House has a prefabricated structure.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The interiors are characterised by a smooth continuous finish between the walls, floors and ceilings "Neither a conventional floor plan nor a conventional section drawing is of much help in understanding how the interior of the house works," Goldberger wrote. "It T he book in many ways is about her as much as the house really."

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Portholes and semi-circular motifs characterise this colourful renovation and extension of a Victorian terrace house in Hackney, London , by architecture studio Gundry & Ducker. Gundry & Ducker drew on the palette of 1950s American kitchens when creating the rear extension and renovated basement in this London house.

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JANUARY 8, 2022

A cluster of wood-clad buildings surround a central courtyard at this Minnesota residence by US firm Salmela Architect that was designed for clients who formerly lived in Japan. The house rests on a fifty-acre (20-hectare) parcel, the majority of which the clients granted to the Minnesota Land Trust for permanent conservation.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

has added a wedge-shaped extension and a screened-in porch to an octagon-shaped house in Cape Cod originally built in the 1970s, keeping the addition distinct from the original core. Read: The top 10 home extensions of 2024 Another rectangular volume was sandwiched between the house and the residential extension. principal Josh Slater.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

A Japanese house and restaurant are contained within this mud-covered building by architect Junya Ishigami , which was crafted by pouring concrete into holes in the ground. Junya Ishigami has hidden a house below ground level in Japan. Junya Ishigami has hidden a house below ground level in Japan. Structural engineer: Jun Sato.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Brazilian practice Studio KUNZ has created a compact gabled house that cantilevers from a sloped site in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Vertical wood slats wrap the base The arrangement creates makes the structure appear balanced atop a slate staircase that provides a rustic base for the home's clean white lines.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Spanish architecture studios DataAE and Xavier Vendrell have balanced two rows of social housing on a hillside in Barcelona overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Sea views were prioritised throughout The entire complex was arranged to prioritise views of the sea – from the housing units to both lobbies, to the vertical circulation cores.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Project Details: Location: Whakamaru, New Zealand Architect: DCA Architects of Transformation / @ dca_architects Footprint: 3,218 square feet Builder: HRC Construction Structural Engineer: No.8

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AUGUST 8, 2024

A London house extension designed by Office S&M features a ceramic facade with the same pink glaze used for Tube station tiles on the Hammersmith and City Line. Office S&M designed Beacon House, a single-storey rear extension , for a Victorian terraced house in Tottenham, north London.

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JUNE 22, 2022

Called Pink House, the project transforms the five-bedroom dwelling into a "private city oasis", informed by memories of the client's favourite holidays in Provence, Morocco and New York. Oliver Leech Architects has extended a Victorian house in London. Structural engineer: Momentum Structural Engineers.

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AUGUST 3, 2024

Brooklyn studio CO Adaptive has retrofitted a terraced house in Queens , New York to meet Passive House energy efficiency standards. The renovation work revolved around the goal of the unit becoming a Passive House – or Passivhaus – a certification that recognises outstanding energy efficiency in buildings.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. We wanted to revive the form of the house and modify the floor plan for modern-day family living.

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

Chicago-based Studio Becker Xu has separated a vernacular dogtrot house to create a set of concrete pavilion-like blocks capped with a pine gable to form a house in North Carolina. Inside, the two blocks of the dogtrot have been split in half to form four pavilions that each house a separate function and open views in four directions.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Local studio Oliver Leech Architects has extended a Victorian terrace house in south London, introducing a four-metre-wide skylight at its centre that offers views of a wildflower meadow roof. Here we used the light to draw you into the house through the darker hallway and towards a huge fixed skylight in the centre of the house." "We

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AUGUST 6, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The 19th-century building was first built in 1864 as a local village school and was converted to a house in the 1940s. Have one to share? Post it here.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

US studio Klopf Architecture has completed the Sonoma Hilltop New Residence, a horizontal house in wine country that takes cues from mid-century modern architecture and has dangling chains that collect rainwater. Rectangular in plan, the 4,068-square-foot (378-square-metre) house has a flat roof and low profile.

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MARCH 21, 2024

Telescope House offers framed views of Sedona The 1,600-square-foot (149-square-metre) cabin is a nature retreat for a couple who ultimately plan to live there full-time. When not staying at the house, the clients rent it out. The scenic area is known for its red-coloured rock formations, outdoor activities and arts scene.

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JULY 25, 2022

MAD has completed the UNIC housing block in Paris. The 6,600-square-metre apartment tower is designed as a landmark within the development, which is set alongside Martin Luther King Park in an area of more traditional housing blocks. Read: First photos emerge of tiered tower built by Renzo Piano to house Paris law courts.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The secondary dwelling was part of the overall brief and master plan of the site; to maximize the site’s potential and create options for our client. Have one to share? Post it here.

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AUGUST 31, 2022

A pair of intersecting timber-clad wings contain communal living spaces and private sleeping areas for different generations of one family at this house in the Czech village of Rybí. A pair of intersecting wings define the House with In-Law Suite. The children's bedroom is housed in the more private wing.

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MARCH 13, 2023

The house sits on an elevated perch in the Eola Hills, a region near the city of Salem in northern Oregon. When low clouds descend over the valley in the morning, the house appears to be on top of the world," said Seattle-based Ueda Design Studio. Automatic exterior sunshades help reduce solar heat gain.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California , the cedar house was originally constructed in 1961 and expanded in 1969 and again in 1971, with unusually shaped rooms, rounded seating spaces and colourful glass accents. Mechanical engineer : Monterey Energy Group. Structural engineer: Duckbrew Inc.

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OCTOBER 3, 2024

Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has completed Colien House, a three-storey concrete home embedded into a hill that overlooks a beach in Barcelona. The home was made from orange-tinted concrete Siza designed Colien House to have a compact layout that steps into the landscape, intending to minimise the built impact on the site.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Mork-Ulnes Architects has completed the Silver Lining House, a crisp, gabled home clad in black-stained cedar that was designed for an architectural photographer and interior designer. Half-polished chrome slats bounce reflections around the stairwell, an effect meant to "mimic the experience of walking through a disco ball".

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JANUARY 29, 2024

PAT teamed up with fellow Italian architect Ferdinando Fagnola on the project, which involved renovating a 2oth-century "white house" and adding a series of elevated, pavilion-like structures. The white house, built in the Swahili style of nearby city Lamu, was the starting point for the design.

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