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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. Exterior walls are wrapped in modified wood from the Oslo-based company, Kebony.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Breeze-block walls and a roof cutout for a palm tree are among the special features at an Arizona house designed by The Ranch Mine , which took cues from a mid-century modern dwelling across the street. Vacant for decades, the historic house has a simple, boxy shape and white exterior screens with elliptical openings.

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Mining Site Housing Exterior 140

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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Site Housing Windows Roofing 141

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. The Termoarcilla was topped with white stucco for a uniform, neutral exterior finish. metre overhang that minimises the foundation in the rocky terrain.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Argentinian architect Malvina Zayat has completed a white home for herself and her family that is lifted above a sloped site and enters into "an intimate dialogue with the sky and clouds". The house is linear in plan and accessed via a hanging staircase Facades consist of white-painted metal and stretches of glass.

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Archinect

MARCH 21, 2023

Sited on a private coastal California hillside street lined with five tightly stacked homes, the 3000 square foot residence optimizes a compact footprint, resulting in an experience that maximizes outdoor living, without compromising the privacy of the family.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

City Council Members in Los Angeles have issued a mandate to owners of the graffiti-tagged Oceanview Plaza development in Downtown to remove the artwork weeks after its unfinished exterior became a national news item and the latest flash point in a debate over the citywide housing crisis that has lingered for a number of years.

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Archinect

APRIL 6, 2023

Her administration selected the winner from three development proposals submitted for the site at 132 N. The site will also include ground-floor retail space, 16 exterior parking spots, and a public plaza for outdoor dining and gathering. Kedzie Ave. The winning proposal was designed by Brooks + Scarpa and Studio Dwell.

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Archinect

MARCH 29, 2024

The home credited as one of Frank Lloyd Wright ’s first Prairie School designs, the 1900 Warren Hickox House, has hit the market recently in Kankakee, Illinois, for a listing price of $779,000. Sited adjacent to the R. Harley Bradley House from the same year, the 3,277-square-foot design features four bedrooms and 2.5

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Deezen

MAY 15, 2024

A 36-metre-tall concrete silo has been converted into a dramatic hotel lobby at Bacalan Block – the transformation of a former factory site in Bordeaux into a mixed-use development by Colboc Sachet Architects. And to the east, the Whoo student accommodation and hostel is housed in a minimal concrete block with a sawtooth roof.

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Information Site Industrial Students 138

Archinect

AUGUST 11, 2022

“Given the dire shortage of affordable housing in London and the valuable real estate occupied by the Trellick, it is almost certain that someone will build on the site in the future. Many fear the build would only attract more developers to the surrounding neighborhood, spoiling the character of the site.”

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Archinect

APRIL 25, 2024

The design challenge involved editing and synthesizing numerous additions to the original house, which had become increasingly incoherent. The project was a collaborative effort with Richardson Associates, Landscape Architects.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Situated on an urban infill site, this house builds on Buffalo's rich architectural heritage, with works by Frank Lloyd Wright and H.H. But rather than looking only to the past, the house offers a model for twenty-first century urban life, with a soaring interior space organized around views, nature and daylight.

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Housing Architecture Exterior Site 130

Archinect

MARCH 21, 2023

The organizational strategy consists of a circulation spine connecting a series of program pavilions distributed across the site. Multiple distinct views, overlays of interior rooms and exterior gardens, exist from all moments within the partially subterranean terraced interior.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In search of an alternative Japanese house type in urban density This detached house represents contemporary Japanese urban dwelling, while employing conventional wooden frame construction and reinterpreting traditional typology of Townhouse(Machiya) and Farm house(Nōka) of the region.

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Housing Regulation Site Exterior 130

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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Housing Exterior Windows Landscape 141

Archinect

MARCH 29, 2024

Located in the south of France, between Montpellier and the sea, the project involved the conversion of a warehouse into housing. The challenge was to propose a type of housing adapted to the Mediterranean climate and customs, while maintaining the industrial character of the site.

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Architect Exterior Industrial Environment 214

Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

US studio Robert Gurney Architect has completed a beachfront house in Delaware consisting of "simple and pure forms" wrapped in white cedar, salvaged barn wood and fibre-cement panels. Named after the community where it is located, the Cotton Patch Hills House sits on an oceanfront site in Bethany Beach, Delaware.

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Housing Structural Engineering Exterior Interior 139

Archinect

APRIL 29, 2022

Alquist will kick off the project with a demonstration near the site of the first two 3D printed homes in Pulaski, Virginia today, Friday, April 29. The initiative hopes that this structure, along with Project Virginia, can serve as blueprints for delivering affordable housing in rural and underserved regions of America.

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Home Exterior Site Structure 246

Deezen

MAY 28, 2024

Weathering steel and accoya wood wrap the exterior of the Alta House, which was created by US studio Lever Architecture to embrace the "sublime mountain landscape". Located in the small Wyoming town of Alta, the house serves as a holiday home for an outdoor-loving couple from Portland, Oregon. Situated on a half-acre (0.2-hectare)

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Housing Civil Engineering Structural Engineering Architecture 143

Archinect

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Four site walls create a perch for the main volume of the house – a spare box with articulated roof forms. The boxy exterior of the house shrouds a voluptuous and porous interior. The boxy exterior of the house shrouds a voluptuous and porous interior.

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Exterior Roofing Site Housing 208

Deezen

AUGUST 27, 2024

Australian studio Fouché Architects has completed Tallowwood Cabin, a black house with an angular form that cantilevers over its sloping plot in Queensland. Tallowwood Cabin is located in a small clearing within a forested site in Tallebudgera and was designed for the father of the couple who owns the land.

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Housing Architect Exterior Site 126

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. The foundations are meanwhile built from recycled concrete.

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Archinect

AUGUST 5, 2024

CY Counry Houses is a private residential retreat organized as a compound that have been designed also for hospitality use. It features a couple of key buildings that serves as social spots for gathering, such the Main House as well as an exterior kitchen pavilion covered with a local grass roof on top a modern steel structure.

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Housing Exterior Residential Roofing 130

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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Housing Architecture Roofing Site 137

Deezen

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Called Peninsula House, the dwelling is located near the town of Flinders, overlooking the Bass Strait and surrounded by farmland. Peninsula House has a curved form crafted from rammed earth Instead of designing an orthogonal volume, Wood Marsh took cues from the shape of the coastline and the meandering paths leading to the site.

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Housing Exterior Landscape Interior 133

Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Mexican architect Cesar Mancillas used high concrete walls while creating a linear house with spaces focused on relaxation in the often-changing urban landscape of Ensenada, Mexico. The high walls isolate the home from prevailing winds The high walls isolate the house from the prevailing winds of the Valle de Guadalupe.

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Housing Roofing Interior Site 139

Archinect

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Named ‘The Silver Lining House,’ the home was commissioned by architectural photographer Bruce Damonte and interior designer Alison Damonte, who sought a “container for the couple’s art and furniture collection, and a laboratory for their work. Image credit: Br.

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Archinect

JULY 22, 2024

Located in the heart of Dublin, Ireland, the Flynn Mews House seamlessly integrates into and celebrates its historic urban fabric. The house comprises two volumes that flank an interior sunken courtyard, creating a dynamic sequencing of exterior and interior spaces that is highly atypical in urban Dublin.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Vertical House presents a novel approach to urban infill design at a single-residential scale. Diverging from the common response of infill design that orients the home toward front and back yards, LOHA articulated punctures on all sides of this home’s exterior skin.

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Housing Architect Exterior Residential 130

Deezen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

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.

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Housing Roofing Structural Engineering Structure 105

Deezen

AUGUST 22, 2024

An extension perched above a ranch house and a 3D-printed home designed by Lake Flato and ICON feature in this roundup of contemporary architecture in Austin , Texas. A carport also houses a pale-blue Thunderbird , which inspired the choice of a bright blue front door.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The house belongs to Marc Manack, an architecture professor and founding principal of SILO , and his wife, Kallisto Vimr. Belmont has been transforming in recent years, with suburban-style homes popping up alongside modest dwellings that once served as worker housing for a local cotton mill.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Its design is informed by mountains and valleys Inserted on a small street named Passage Crimée, the five-storey structure aims to provide housing with a "village-like" feel that is in keeping with the surrounding low-rise buildings.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Brazilian architecture studio DB Arquitetos has completed a holiday home surrounded by a wooden screen in a forested site outside of São Paulo , Brazil. The five-level house is delicately stacked along a steep slope in a densely vegetated site. When open, the screens reveal banding along the different levels.

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Architizer

MARCH 13, 2024

In the realm of social housing, Madrid has been at the forefront of a movement to create beautiful, functional and socially conscious housing projects that are deeply rooted in the city’s unique urban fabric and local context. Madrid is not only the vibrant capital of Spain but also a hub of innovative architectural design.

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Housing Architecture Exterior Inspiration 143

Deezen

MARCH 25, 2024

Spanish architecture studios SelgasCano and Diego Cano used multi-coloured tubes made from recycled aluminium to clad a house on a steep site in Los Angeles. This covering makes a powerful impact on the house, wraps completely around it, and frames the view in the large terrace."

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Housing Exterior Roofing Site 136