Archinect

JANUARY 16, 2025

Located in one of the most affluent neighbourhoods in Toronto, the Hoggs Hollow, 10° of Separation is a simple, rational, and ethical response to the existing geographical context and nature of the site, as well as the client’s needs for a retirement home. The site exhibited two major complexities.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Named Sawmill Treehouse, the home sits on a steeply sloping site in Sawmill Settlement, a suburb near Mount Buller ski resort in the Victorian Alps, known locally as High Country. Built on site with a structural steel frame, the cabin has a rectangular form measuring 12 metres long and four metres wide.

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Deezen

APRIL 13, 2025

Studio Saransh has self-designed Oasis The studios created five blocks on the site, surrounding a central, sunken courtyard. The courtyard is lined with large steps The courtyard is lined with large steps on one side, gradually sinking down towards the west to minimise the contrast in height between the various blocks on site.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

APRIL 2, 2025

A KOA site in Maine gets a glow-up into SITES-certified retreat. With its leafy trees, modest cabins, and open RV and tent sites, Bar Harbor Woodlands looked and functioned no differently than the average pull-in campground. The original site plan for Terramor by the landscape architect Sam Coplon, FASLA.

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2025

Situated on arable farmland acquired by the client in 2009, the home occupies the site of an old stone stable, or byre, lending it the name Cairnconon Byre. In particular, they desired a space that evoked bothies shelters often found in remote Scotland that are free to use and byres to pay homage to the site's former use.

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Archinect

JANUARY 10, 2024

Voss is renowned for its spectacular landscape and as a popular destination for outdoor and extreme sports enthusiasts. 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.

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Archinect

JULY 19, 2024

Ottawa -based architecture firm Kariouk Architects has designed a family retreat defined by its open spaces and close relationship to the landscape in a remote Ontarian forest. The clients also wanted the project to promote and be aligned with the surrounding environment.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Drawing from Chinese culture, Sichuan’s landscape, the site’s agricultural history and the demands of a new city, the building could not be a more fitting venue for this year’s gala, hosted in partnership with LUXELAKES · A8 Design Center. The clients also supported the design with high quality materials and construction.

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Deezen

APRIL 5, 2025

Tuckey Design Studio , which has offices in London and Switzerland, designed Lake Como Villa on a steeply sloping site that looks directly out over the water and the village of Bellagio. Green marble columns have been added to the interior As part of the Lake Como Villa project, Tuckey Design Studio also redesigned the surrounding landscape.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Architecture as a Two-Way Exchange Pabelln 3E by TACO Taller de Arquitectura Contextual , Yucatan, Mexico Just as a traveler learns to navigate new landscapes, tastes and customs, architects immersed in foreign projects confront the subtleties of cultural expectations, site-specific constraints and regional craftsmanship.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Klas Hylln Architecture has added a pool house to a 1980s home in Warwickshire The volumes have curved edges and buff-brick exteriors, chosen to respect the original home and the surrounding landscape, while their interiors are pared-back and "almost monastic".

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Nestled in a forested grove at the north end of a narrow, 10-acre site, the house is sheltered by oak, sweet gum, maple and persimmon trees, and opens onto an expansive view of a pond. The gable extends outside the home to create shaded porches that draw the living space out into the expansive surrounding landscape.

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2023

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. Two stone towers juxtapose the site's horizontal elements The architects also needed to consider how the landscape evolves throughout the year.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The landscape, the different smells, the different sounds, the water. We wanted to bring all that to the site" The rooftop has pine trees and a pool. "We wanted it to be all-enveloping," Kontuly told Dezeen. There were a lot of small design moves like that that were made just to heighten that experiential factor." "The

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2025

A red ring, which functions as a running track, weaves through and around the playground design Once a fenced, asphalted area, the rejuvenated site is now a flexible space for ball games, concerts, outdoor cinema screenings and community events.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Colien House steps down a sloped site in Barcelona "The central purpose was to answer the programme proposal made by the client by including a careful embodiment of the landscape, complying with the specific local rules and the relation of each of the four floors' elevation with the natural topography," Siza told Dezeen.

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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. The first of two planned residences, it is distinguished by its lower height and butterfly roof.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 12, 2024

It contains 60 holiday homes Anchored by a central clubhouse, the hotel site in Northamptonshire overlooks a stretch of the track's most fast-paced corners against the backdrop of rolling countryside. Our job was to find a way to bring these two elements together and complement them both." The photography is by Jack Hobhouse.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 2, 2024

According to the studio, the house was designed to "sit respectfully" within the dramatic landscape. Designed by local studio Moke Architecten with landscape practice LA4Sale, the house is located in a new residential area near lake IJmeer. Last week, it was named rural house of the year at Dezeen Awards 2024.

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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 4, 2023

The dwelling is named Pinwheel after its distinctive shape, which was JM Architecture 's solution for the client's "only request" – that it offers views of both the nearby Lake Maggiore and surrounding alpine valleys. It is] a white pebble lying in the landscape, that fits in and stands out," he continued.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The site on the Solway Coast was previously occupied by a neglected house that was demolished to make way for a building designed to blend in harmoniously with its natural surroundings. A glazed corner ensures this room feels bright and connected with the landscape.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

He now combines a reverence for those function-first structures with a modernist ethos, which is a through line at Wittman Estes , the architecture and landscape design firm he cofounded in Seattle in 2012. This size was determined as "just enough" for the clients family needs.

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Architizer

MARCH 4, 2025

TINYLEAF By GO’C , Mazama, Washington The site for this small cabin lies in the heart of the Methow Valley, whose context and climate were key to the projects design. The cabin serves as an outpost, realised prior to any other (larger) building, allowing the client to occupy the site much sooner.

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Deezen

MARCH 23, 2025

Working with the clients, the decision was made to keep the nine shotcrete pillars that supported the existing shelter, and stack the new modular cabin on top. Given the rainy climate, a flat roof was not an option so TEST designed a hip roof made of wood and clad in metal with an overhang providing a canopy around the cabin.

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Deezen

APRIL 15, 2025

Steeplechase is a 2,573-square foot (239-square metre) house that is nestled on a wooded 65-acre site in the Appalachian foothills near Hillsborough, North Carolina. The studio replaced an existing structure on site bud The team replaced an old house with a new, contemporary design while leaving 98 per cent of the natural site untouched.

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Deezen

MARCH 10, 2025

Designed for a married couple seeking an escape from city life, the 38-square-metre house is set on a sloping site in the Savaza River region near Prague , Czechia. The client really wanted to raise the building a little to incorporate an attic bedroom space," Atelier Hajn founder Martin Hajn told Dezeen.

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Dwell

JANUARY 16, 2025

Other challenges were to house the clients books and music collections in a flexible single display, and exhibit a collection of art and sentimental objects in a well-lit space without direct sunlight. The main triple-height living space sits at the front, following the sites geometry.

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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. The new design respects the site’s long-standing use as a multi family house with an embedded accessory dwelling unit at the garden level.

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Dwell

APRIL 18, 2025

Enjoying the affluence of contemporary times, exurban residents strive for a pleasurable and provocative style of landscape living. For thousands of years, houses resembled their landscapes, but not out of aesthetic intent. As early as the 19th century, however, this aesthetic approach to the landscape provoked negative reactions.

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Deezen

JANUARY 17, 2025

Photo courtesy of the 9/11 Museum & Memorial, Jin Sup Lee After local officials decided that there should be no buildings on the site, in 2004 a call was put out for designs for a memorial, in line with the masterplan by American architect Daniel Libeskind. The memorial is part of the wider Ground Zero redevelopment site.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 28, 2024

WORKac and Ignacio Urquiza Architects have created a community centre in Mexico City "PILARES are a series of strategically located public buildings across Mexico City, sited in areas experiencing high levels of vulnerability and poverty," the team said.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Portland-based studio Hacker Architects has replaced an outdated lodge with a blackened wood -and-glass structure featuring elements informed by the volcanic landscape of Sisters, Oregon. Strangely, the interior didn't really create strong connections to the incredible views around the site," Hacker principal Corey Martin told Dezeen. "We

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The clients had camped on the bare land for 14 years prior. The design is an exploration of the interstitial space between inside and outside, how you live when on holiday, the relationship with landscape and connection to a rural vernacular.

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Architizer

MAY 6, 2024

With its neverending waterfalls, mountains and evergreen forests, all interwoven with mist, the raw beauty of this unique American landscape is unparalleled. Shipley and Bates accomplished this feat through site-responsive design that blurs the line between interior and exterior. The client was also based in Dallas at the time.

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Deezen

JANUARY 15, 2025

A timber veranda frames a courtyard at House for Ela, a home by Switzerland-based architect Ewa Kaszuba on a forested site in a spa town near Warsaw. Rocks uncovered during excavation were intentionally integrated into the landscape, corresponding with interior spaces and the garden planting.

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Deezen

AUGUST 20, 2024

Colorado-based startup Elmntl has unveiled a range of customisable cabins that provide bedrooms and sauna facilities in natural landscapes. To do that, we work with our hospitality clients to get as many people as possible into the elements."

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