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House with pink windows by Objekt Architecten

Archinect

We were commissioned by our clients to transform an outdated Flemish 3-fronted house with traditional rear extension into a contemporary home with plenty of light. Moreover, the rear of the house is bathed in light thanks to the large window. During the renovation, the entire roof was renewed.

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Types of Residential Windows

Aric Gitomer Architect

Windows are the openings to the outer world. Encompassed within your home is the niche of comfort, warmth, and safety that get their aesthetic touch through windows. Windows act as catalysts of a functional yet visual completion of a home. Along with distributing load, windows promote natural ventilation and light.

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Yoghurt window coating proposed as emergency heatwave measure

Deezen

British engineer Tom Greenhill has proposed a low-cost, low-energy solution for keeping UK homes cool in a heatwave: painting the outside of windows with yoghurt. Greenhill admits that this may seem like a "totally eccentric idea". Greenhill admits that this may seem like a "totally eccentric idea".

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Kiron Cheerla Architecture crowns home in India with lantern-like roof

Deezen

Indian studio Kiron Cheerla Architecture has completed Pott House, a home in Hyderabad topped by a lantern-like roof that draws light and natural ventilation into its interiors. At night, lights inside glow outwards through the roof to create a lantern-like effect. The photography is by Vivek Eadara.

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CAN relinks Verdant House with garden using statement green window

Deezen

Architectural studio CAN has extended a terraced London house with a palette of wood and hemp and a large curved window that aims to redraw its connection to the garden. It is topped with a meadow-planted roof. It is intended to reconnect the home its outdoor space after the old conservatory had left them "disjointed".

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Big Windows and White Interiors Punch Up a Gloomy ’60s California Beach House

Dwell

The idea was to take the existing house and give it new life—one that met the needs and aesthetics of our designer clients. The original house was clad entirely with cedar shingles both inside and out: the walls, roof, and ceilings. The client described it as living inside a tree.

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Noe Valley by Faulkner Architects

Archinect

On the boards in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood is a new house for a three-peat client of Faulkner Architects. Four levels that include a shared garage, pool and garden along with roof top deck allow uncommon amenity for a city lot. A photovoltaic array on the roof deck earns a planned net-zero annual energy usage.

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