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House XO has a structural steel frame surrounded by mango trees 3dor Concepts aimed to blend "natural beauty with industrial design elements" for the home's design, using an oversized steel frame to create loft-style spaces with high ceilings and full-height windows overlooking the surrounding garden. The photography is by Studio Iksha.
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The neo-gothic exterior of the rectory was restored to showcase where interventions have been made GRT Architects was enlisted to convert the derelict four-storey structure, and took the opportunity to rethink the spatial layout to suit the change of use.
Neal and Inga Barber built a new home atop the existing foundation of their previous house in Kenmore, a suburb of Seattle, Washington. Photo: Kyle Johnson The 1960s home appeared to be in good shape, but it had a segmented layout and only one full bath for all three of the bedrooms.
After the home was acquired by new owners, Gianni Botsford Architects was tasked with maintaining the extension but replacing the original 1860s coach house with a complementary four-storey home, which the studio named Reciprocal House. The photography is by Schnepp Renou.
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A brutalist home punctuated by large cut-outs in Portugal and a home wrapped in a shiny steel facade in South Korea are among Dezeen's houses of the month for March. Designed to have a strong connection to the outdoors, i29 centred the home around a swimming pool and a double-height courtyard filled with trees and plants.
Stone gargoyles and grotesques feature on the buildings' rooflines The Main Quad has an undulating timber-frame roof topped with polygonal anodised-aluminium roof tiles. The scheme is very varied in its experience to offer many opportunities for delight and surprise."
"The clients' desire to be surrounded by both family and nature in their home called for a new adaptation of this once-ubiquitous typology, expanding and reframing the idea of outdoor living." A dark standing-seam metal roof rises into a steep gable and thin red, circular columns add asymmetrical pops of color around the exterior.
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The tan, gable-roofed retreat has equally rugged interiors with OSB walls and polished concrete floors. At first glance, Scout appears as a collection of interconnected forms, its pitched roof rising from a bunker-like base of corrugated steel. Have one to share? Post it here.
A dark grey roof shaped like an armadillo's shell peeks out behind a row of terraced houses on Station Lodge, a home in southwest London designed by local architectural studio Lacey & Salkytov. These were clad with dark exterior walls to conceal the dust from passing trains and reduce maintenance.
Informed by its marine setting, the centre is set to comprise a sinuous, round-edged volume that draws on the "radial symmetry of starfish", and will be finished with reflective aluminium panels and rounded roof openings. The renders are by NightNurse.
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billion design for its new lakefront home. Image: Lohan Architecture via LinkedIn The proposed plan calls for a lightweight domed roof to be constructed over the structure, with 20,000 new seats added underneath and upheld by cables connecting to four exterior columns.
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