Deezen

MAY 10, 2024

Hidden within a densely wooded area, the Lone Oak House is located in a river region in southern Chile. However, the owners began telecommuting for work and decided to make the house their full-time residence. However, the owners began telecommuting for work and decided to make the house their full-time residence.

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AUGUST 11, 2024

I revisited another of the books in my collection this weekend: The Houses of Louis Kahn , cowritten by George H. These houses, most located in the Philadelphia area, reveal the more intimate side of Kahn’s architectural philosophy. (1)

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2023

The Cometa House is located in the small, coastal town of Mazunte in the state of Oaxaca. It sits at the edge of a nature preserve on Punta Cometa, or Comet Point, a peninsula that juts into the Pacific Ocean and was once the site of an Aztec fort. They faced several interesting conditions while designing the house.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Local architecture studio Habitable Form has created the timber-clad Victory Bay House to minimise disturbance to oak trees and to endure the storms and flooding that can strike its location along the Atlantic Seaboard. The house features an L-shaped plan so as not to disturb the surrounding oak trees.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

US architecture studio Schaum/Shieh has embedded a Virginia house with irregularly shaped volumes into the contours of a steep site. The spaces between each pod create room for gardens, outdoor nooks and wooden terraces along the house, while a parking area was carved out of the hillside at the back.

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Deezen

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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Archinect

JANUARY 10, 2024

The client’s main goal was to establish unique accommodation, connected to their existing activities center, for active guests to experience and explore the local nature. One of the main challenges is that most of the site is two to four meters under the projected flood zone levels after factoring in future climate change.

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Archinect

JULY 19, 2024

The clients also wanted the project to promote and be aligned with the surrounding environment. The architects honored this through the house’s visual and material harmonization with its surroundings, responsible material sourcing and site adaptation, and energy-saving systems.

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Deezen

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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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Asked by the client for a space that "has to look as if it has been there and will continue to be there for the longest time," Ishigami responded with a cave-like structure punctured by three courtyards. With the range in geology, the natu.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Scottish architecture studio Loader Monteith has designed an office with a gabled roof , along with two private residences, for mountain bike tour operator H&I Adventures on a sloping brownfield site in Scotland. We wanted to apply a rigour to the cladding on both houses and the office," he added. The photography is by Henry Woide.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In an industry where the gender pay gap has widened in recent years, where all-male panels at conferences are not unusual, and where macho culture still prevails on building sites, a book like this, sadly, still has a place. the clients who say they just can’t find women with the right experience.

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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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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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Archinect

JUNE 28, 2023

A new neighborhood-scale development from OSD aimed at enhancing the lives of neurodiverse adults has broken ground outside of Fayetteville, Arkansas following a special ceremony held this week with the firm and its client, a local nonprofit organization called SLS Community. Image courtesy OSD This objective will.

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Deezen

JULY 12, 2024

Thick walls of exposed concrete create a buffer from the surrounding city at House in Nishizaki, Japan, which has been completed by architecture practice Studio Cochi Architects. The post Studio Cochi Architects creates raw concrete house in Japan appeared first on Dezeen. The photography is courtesy of Studio Cochi Architects.

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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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Deezen

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Pockets of outdoor space surround Gardener's House, a suburban home in Melbourne extended and renovated by Australian studio Splinter Society. To achieve this, Splinter Society has maximised views out to the garden throughout the home and placed the client's vibrant collection of exotic orchids at centre stage.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Australian studio Retallack Thompson has constructed a steel extension for a heritage-listed stone terrace in Sydney and added a second house on the same plot to create a multi-generational family home. These rooms were relocated to the centre of the floorplan, with the disused chimneys serving as risers for the plumbing."

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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. However, some bricks could not be saved, and in some parts, we completed with reclaimed stock bricks from other London sites," it continued.

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Archinect

JANUARY 12, 2023

Blending the elegance of a chic urban retreat with the all-natural feel and openness of an idyllic getaway, this residence in Messenia, Greece was designed for a client and their extended family as a vacation home. The property is located on a generous, sloped, seaside plot.

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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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Archinect

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Our team preserved the best aspects of the original house and improved up the rest – transforming the ”funky 70s mountain lodge” to the mountain-modern home the clients wanted. The architecture and design are characterized by a rustic-modern aesthetic that meshes beautifully with the site.

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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.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Montreal -based MU Architecture has completed a lakeside house in Quebec. Image credit: Ulysse Lemerise Bouchard The project is located on a challenging site, with a narrow lot and sloping topography.

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Deezen

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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Archinect

OCTOBER 7, 2024

KOKO’s brief for the Hudson Concrete House was to design a country escape for an art collector in the Hudson River Valley that could also incorporate an experiential home for his expansive art collection. The house’s approach is defined by an artificial earthwork env.

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Deezen

MARCH 11, 2024

Chauffeurs dodge panhandlers to escort their clients directly to the front doors of exclusive restaurants For anyone needing visual evidence of regional wealth inequality in present-day LA, a visit to its downtown should do the trick. The people of Los Angeles waited patiently for half a decade to make use of a useless site.

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Deezen

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. Nielsen Schuh Architects wrapped the home in weathering steel When the couple set out to rebuild, they picked a site near their prior home.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The revamp of a 1960s estate and a stepped brick terrace on an infill site feature on the 2024 shortlist for the Royal Institute of British Architects ' Neave Brown Award for Housing. It is given in memory of modernist architect Neave Brown , who was a pioneer of social housing. Dover Court Estate also features on the list.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Wood is the dominant material throughout Karaka Tower, a vertical house extension in Wellington , New Zealand, designed by local studio Arête Architects to evoke a treehouse. The extension is intended to evoke a "childhood treehouse" "The biggest driver for our design solution was the site," studio founder Sam Brown told Dezeen.

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Spanish studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos has created a minimalist white house in Alicante , which winds through the landscape to enhance its relationship with the outdoors. Named Sabater House, the Spanish dwelling unfolds through a series of intersecting, elongated forms that ascend upwards over its 780-square-metre site.

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Deezen

JANUARY 23, 2024

German studio Atelier ST has completed Duplex, a generous family house near Leipzig that was designed to look like two semi-detached properties. The starting point for the design came from a "run-down and mould-infested" house that stood on the site previously. This led to the use of arches and circles for doorways and windows.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Called House in Ancede, the house sits on the site of a former stone ruin that it was required to roughly match in terms of its footprint and volume. Atelier Local has created House in Ancede "The house is a reconstruction of sorts," said the studio's co-founders Maria Rebelo and João Paupério.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The clients had camped on the bare land for 14 years prior. They requested a house that could be used across all the seasons, and feel intimate for two or spacious for ten. Have one to share?

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Deezen

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. To maximise the number of units that could be fit on the site, MIAS filled its maintained outline and prow-like edges. The photography is by Adrià Goula.

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