Archinect

JANUARY 6, 2023

The complete renovation and addition open the residence up to the stunning views. Simplified exterior finishes of stucco and steel elements contrast with the rugged terrain. A new entry gate, “portal” leads to an entry courtyard and into the great room addition.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Our latest lookbook collects eight houses from around the world that feature kitchens with tactile brick floors, including a mid-century home in the USA and a coastal dwelling in Denmark. Married with warm oak finishes and a custom washi-paper pendant lamp, the textured flooring is intended to contribute to a warm and cosy atmosphere. "A

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Archinect

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Tadao Ando, the house features a concrete exterior in keeping with the acclaimed architect’s streamlined brutalist ethos. Now, instead of renovating the four-bedroom beachfront house on Malibu Road, Ye has decided to sell it, with a price tag of $53 million (he’s listing it at a loss).

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Deezen

MARCH 28, 2024

US studio Michael Hennessey Architecture has revitalised an ageing suburban house near San Francisco , adding black cladding and bright finishes to form a family home that bridges the past, present and future. Interior finishes include ash cabinetry, large-format porcelain floor tiles, and ceramic tiles around the fireplace.

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Deezen

MAY 28, 2024

Charred wood was used to clad the exterior of Dzen House Shovk lead architect and partner Anton Verhun oversaw the design, which was informed by the owner's travels to Japan and his respect for the aesthetic simplicity and practicality of traditional Japanese interiors. The photography is by Yevhenii Avramenko.

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Deezen

MARCH 4, 2024

Positioned on Lovers Walk hill overlooking the city of Cork, the townhouse – called Lovers Walk – was renovated by Kingston Lafferty Design. One of these spaces is a "sensual" red kitchen The ground floor was adapted to include an open-plan kitchen defined by a counter, island and splashback finished in veiny red quartzite.

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Dwell

JANUARY 2, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Their vision was to create a modern house nestled in the backyard while preserving the charm of their existing 1940s, 850-square-foot Arts and Crafts bungalow. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

MAY 30, 2024

London studio Westerdahl has renovated a house in Cambridge , reorganising an existing extension and cladding it in green zinc panels that blend in with the surrounding planting. Westerdahl was tasked with better connecting the home, named Folded House, to its large garden after it had been blocked by utility spaces in its extension.

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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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Dwell

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Larry Yung took on a decade-long renovation by himself, and he has a word of warning: "Be ready for a challenge." Larry Yung is a contemporary fine artist and interior designer , but that doesn’t mean he was fully prepared for the toll renovating a fixer-upper in Bayview, California would take on him.

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Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2024

A private roof terrace enclosed by greenery features in Hidden Garden House, a Sydney home reconfigured by Australian studio Sam Crawford Architects. Situated within a conservation zone, the home has been updated by Sam Crawford Architects to brighten its dark interior and transform it into an urban "sanctuary".

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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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ArchDaily

JUNE 30, 2023

Fragment of a scaffolded house wall in West London. Image © xvan72/AdobeStock As one takes a visual tour through the city, one might spot structures that break the rhythm of finished architectural products.

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Deezen

APRIL 17, 2023

Brooklyn-based studio Worrell Yeung has updated a historic property in New York with a series of gabled buildings clad in various timber finishes and details. The studio run recently renovated and expanded the North Salem Farm house and studio on 8.7 The main house was originally a dairy barn.

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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. The project also included a new bathroom added to the side extension, the renovation of the house's entrance and a new staircase up to the upper floors.

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Deezen

JUNE 7, 2024

Architecture studio Nikjoo has renovated a post-war home called Trove in east London , opening up its interior and adding a pair of extensions with fittings by emerging designers. Nikjoo collaborated with creative developer Flawk to carry out the project, after its founder Ashley Law purchased the derelict house in 2022.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2024

Indian architecture studio Nowhere has renovated a house in Hyderabad called Mayalogili, coating it with a rough red-brown plaster made with brick and marble dust produced during the project. The post Nowhere uses brick dust to plaster refurbished house in Hyderabad appeared first on Dezeen. The photography is by Vivek Eadara.

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Deezen

MAY 11, 2024

New York studio BoND has "brought back the simplicity" to this modernist home on Fire Island by stripping away finishes from previous renovations and adjusting the internal layout. White-painted walls, ceilings and structural beams help the space to feel light and bright, which is also aided by large expanses of glass.

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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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Deezen

JULY 15, 2024

The east wing at London's Buckingham Palace , which opened this month, houses a series of decadent interconnected rooms including the centre room, which leads to the palace's famed balcony overlooking the Mall. The post Buckingham Palace's chinoiserie interiors revealed following five-year renovation appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The majority of the walls throughout the apartment are covered in a textured lime plaster finish by Bauwerk Colour, complementing exposed wooden ceiling beams in each room. The post Bureau Tempo applies subtle tones and textures to renovated Brooklyn loft appeared first on Dezeen. The photography is by Alex Lesage.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The pink flowers of a large bougainvillea tree contrast the whitewashed building The renovated whitewashed structures sit among 27 acres of pine forests, olive groves and terraced agricultural land, from which much of the produce used in the hotel's restaurant is sourced. The photography is by Lekuona Studio.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Architect Raúl Sánchez has renovated a flat in a typical Barcelona apartment building, adding built-in cabinetry and furnishings in hues that echo the original mosaic flooring. The post Gold-leaf wall divides renovated Barcelona apartment by Raúl Sánchez Architects appeared first on Dezeen.

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Dwell

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. He is Danish with an appreciation for pale timber, clean finishes and minimal ornamentation. We finished internal and external surfaces with natural limewash to enable it to breathe.

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Deezen

MARCH 6, 2024

Japanese studio Akio Isshiki Architects has updated a house in Osaka by adding a multi-level void designed to maximise light and encourage play. Named House in Hattori-Tenjin, the 30-year-old dwelling is located on a dense residential street in the port city and previously had a dark, "standardised" interior.

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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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Dwell

JUNE 5, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Located on a densely-inhabited, car-free street, the two-story terraced house occupies a constrained site with no back garden and only a thin strip of external space. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

JANUARY 21, 2024

The 1,000-square-foot primary residence in Hudson Heights was partially renovated for a couple, who had been living in the space for several years before deciding to invest in making it better suited to their needs, rather than buying another apartment. The photography is by Sean Davidson.

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Deezen

JULY 6, 2024

A blocky concrete form and cutout courtyards define House in Tsurumi-ku, a family home that Japanese studio FujiwaraMuro Architects has added to a sloping street corner in Osaka. These finishes are contrasted with several surfaces covered in timber battens, ranging from ceilings to the kitchen island.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Japanese studio Kurosawa Kawara-Ten has used local and recycled materials to transform a vacant house into a workspace named Ichihara Life and Work Commission Office. Kurosawa Kawara-Ten created a double-level interior "We aimed to show that dealing with things that already exist was worthy enough in the area where the building is," he added.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Dezeen's top five houses of the month for December feature a home in Japan designed as "one big room" and a "floating treehouse" on a Norwegian hillside. Also featured in the roundup is a wooden house that steps down a hillside in Chile and the renovation of a brutalist townhouse in London.

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Deezen

JULY 11, 2024

Dating to 1933, the house was built by ship captain Ole E Nelson, who modelled it after his boyhood home in Bergen, Norway. Heliotrope has designed an extension to a historic 1930s home The captain reportedly selected all of the wood used in the house and sent back pieces that did not meet his standards.

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Deezen

AUGUST 9, 2024

The redesign turns the lower level into a semi-public space for events and exhibitions while creating a new research library and renovated staff offices." We like to work with color as a kind of volumetric finish rather than a secondary or superficial layer."

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Dwell

AUGUST 30, 2024

Photo by Casey Dunn Side Angle Side led the renovation of this 2,350-square-foot home for Steph Steele, the owner of Austin’s Tiny Grocer stores, and her wife, Margaret Tucker, who works as a family law attorney. Before they could move, they needed to renovate the main home on the plot. Steph, Margaret, and their two dogs spent 2.5

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Dwell

MAY 1, 2024

They enclosed a balcony to create a larger living area, finished it in cedar and Douglas fir, and then peppered in beloved furnishings. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here. It Finally Feels Like Theirs.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

DB Arquitetos and Marina Salles completed the holiday home on a forested site in Brazil The home was completed in 2023 by the Brazilian team of DB Arquitectos , which is lead by architect David Basto, and Marina Salles Arquitectura e Interiores , which previously renovated the interior of the client's primary residence in downtown São Paulo.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

A modernist house originally designed by Belgian architect Paul Neefs has undergone a restoration by architecture studio ISM Architecten in the town of Beerse, Belgium. Meanwhile, the bedrooms and kitchen were placed along the outer perimeter of the house but were too cramped to meet today's standards, according to the studio.

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