Deezen

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

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. Verdant House's centrepiece is its sweeping curved glass window looking out to the garden, which references a Victorian shop front.

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Archinect

MARCH 21, 2023

A façade of smooth plaster and cedar siding bundle the interior rooms with strategically placed exterior spaces, producing long sightlines throughout the interior. Telescoping doors and windows extend the living, dining, and kitchen seamlessly out to the entry garden and the interior pool terrace.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

The Preston Hollow House blurs the lines between indoors and out. A floating pavilion roof hovers over the interior and exterior spaces while sliding glass panels and corrugated concrete walls define its courtyards. The house is open and light-filled yet provides seclusion from the street.

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Deezen

AUGUST 22, 2024

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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Deezen

JUNE 13, 2024

Located in a 1970s housing block, the narrow commercial space has been transformed into a light-filled home named 097 Waves of Glass and Clouds of Metal. Cloud-shaped screens feature over the front window. Photo by Giulietta Margot Perforated-metal screens bookend the two-storey apartment and frame its windows.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Wimbledon House is a carefully considered residential project that balances modern living with the area’s historical character. The house is divided into three distinct volumes, each with a mono-pitched roof, referencing the proportions and forms of surrounding Edwardian homes.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Wood dominates the kitchen of this Los Angeles home, which was designed with earthy interiors In the hacienda-style dwelling, the designer's aim was to bring the outdoors in through the use of earth-toned surfaces and decor, and light from large windows. The photography is by Sam Frost.

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Archinect

APRIL 28, 2022

Washington Post House of the Week. The detailed renovation includes all new windows (fitted into restored Goodman window frames), new flooring, custom millwork, molding, trim, new doors, and solid ash cabinetry in the fully renovated bathrooms. A custom mud/storage area was created in the reconfigured entrance.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Belgian studio Studio Okami Architecten has completed Patio House, a home in East Flanders wrapped in brick walls punctuated with a cross-shaped pattern. Studio Okami Architecten arranged the house over a single-storey plan, adding internal plant-filled patios that bring in light and ventilation and give the project its name.

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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. Internally, these openings focus on framing pieces of the distant landscape, or even the sky, avoiding the surroundings punctuated by houses."

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Deezen

JULY 15, 2024

Australian practice SSdH has completed Stewart House, the renovation of a home in Melbourne that preserves the brick-clad building's original 1970s character. Located in the Brunswick suburb, the single-storey home has a brown-brick exterior and tiled roof typical of an era of rapid development in the area.

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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.

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Deezen

MAY 10, 2024

Local studio Emil Eve Architects has revamped the Aden Grove house in east London , adding loft and rear extensions characterised by angular forms and terracotta tiles. The two additions feature matching terracotta tile cladding, angular forms and large windows. The photography is by Taran Wilkhu.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Local architectural studio Polysmiths has aimed to bring Mediterranean warmth to a London terraced house with a sequence of structural arches and a mottled lime plaster finish. In the middle of the kitchen, a red travertine stone kitchen island with a vein-like texture creates a focal point for the house and a place to entertain guests.

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Deezen

MARCH 13, 2024

Mexican architecture practice FMT Estudio has renovated and extended a 1980s house adding clean white facades accented by wooden and wrought iron details in Mérida on the Yucatán peninsula. On the ground floor, the kitchen was expanded On the ground floor, the original kitchen was expanded into the central core of the house.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The steel exterior seems private and fully immersed in the wild nature, whilst the inner part of the building is opposite – open and fragile due to the floor-to-ceiling windows. In the mountain house water becаme a material of the same importance as concrete, glass and steel.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The house is arranged in a C-shaped plan, opening toward an outdoor dining patio on the western side shaded by large wooden beams. The bedrooms and bathrooms are stacked on the opposite end with windows that look out east and west. The primary suite cantilevers slightly out from the perimeter of the foundation with a glazed corner.

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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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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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Deezen

JULY 22, 2024

US architect Philip Johnson's Glass House annexe, the Brick House, has been restored and reopened following a 15-year closure in Connecticut. And yet, now that the project is complete, most visitors will be completely unaware of the vast amount of exterior and interior restoration efforts that went into this project."

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Deezen

MARCH 2, 2024

Prague studio Byró Architekti has renovated a 19th-century house in the Czech town of Kutná Hora, adding unexpected openings and colourful joinery that create a playful contrast with the original interior. The house's main feature is a spiral staircase that forms a vertical circulation core at the centre of the plan.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Jack's House - an environmental project that represents a number of global trends. Because one of the walls of the building almost completely glazed (living room on the first floor and the bedroom above it with large panoramic windows), there is a constant confrontation «in-out» the interior and exterior.

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Deezen

APRIL 29, 2024

Mexican architecture practice HW Studio has created a hillside house outside of Mexico City consisting of a vertical volume that houses circulation and a horizontal volume containing its living spaces. A curved wall divides the house A dividing wall separates the kitchen from the living area, which is located in a corner.

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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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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. Two large cuts divide the housing into three smaller, "porous" blocks with planted pathways in between. The photography is by Adrià Goula.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Stone and timber were used to complement the sandy landscape Set back from the road, the home is accessed via a pale concrete path that leads between a service house and garage and across a large, "desert-inspired" courtyard planted with cacti. The photography is by Luz Imelda Castillo.

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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

MARCH 31, 2024

The 19th-century villas in the suburbs of Paris informed the arched windows and sloping roofs of this social housing block in France , completed by local studio SOA Architectes. Previous projects by SOA Architectes include the 21-storey mixed use Aya Tower in Beirut, for which the studio drew on traditional Arabian houses.

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Deezen

JULY 8, 2024

Domestico Estudio has arranged a double-gabled house clad in grey bricks in a way that preserves the surrounding forest in Hidalgo, Mexico. Known as Madí House, the 2,200-square-foot (205-square metre) residence was constructed in 2022. Residents can pass under the stair landing into a small office space that looks out to the forest.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Situated on a corner site where the old and new neighbourhoods of Leiria meet, the block of five apartments is connected to an existing, yellow-painted 20th century house, which was renovated and converted into two additional apartments as part of the project. The concept can be resumed in two words: protect and care."

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Deezen

JUNE 7, 2024

Nikjoo collaborated with creative developer Flawk to carry out the project, after its founder Ashley Law purchased the derelict house in 2022. A kitchen and dining area now occupies the home's original footprint, while the rear extension contains a living space that overlooks a courtyard garden through a large folding window.

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Deezen

AUGUST 5, 2024

has created a blocky house called Casa LL with polystyrene panels and concrete in Tepoztlán, Mexico. Located on a lot under the cliffs of Tepozteco, the "geometric composition of the house responds to a fragmentation of prisms that join and separate to shape its internal spaces," the team said. Local studio RA!

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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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Deezen

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Dílna designed the new building to be a "practical and utilitarian" contrast to this existing historic building, with a minimal, white-plastered exterior that mirrors the white cube-style studio spaces within. The post Dílna houses Brno art studios within a stack of white cubes appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Named Datum House, the existing Victorian maisonette in the Dartmouth Park Conversation Area has been opened up by DHaus at its lower ground-floor level and expanded with an additional bedroom. Due to the site's position in a conservation area, the exterior of the extension was required to be in keeping with neighbouring buildings.

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Deezen

JULY 2, 2024

Architects Hanna Karits and Mari Hunt used locally sourced wood to create this house in Estonia , which sits on top of a disused cellar in a forest. Named Põro House, the home is designed to have minimal impact on its remote plot, which is surrounded by lakes and trees in Võru County.

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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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