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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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JANUARY 27, 2024

Green terrazzo is teamed with concrete and clay-toned plaster at Terzetto, a London flat extension that architecture studio ConForm Architects has modelled on bay windows. Externally, these distinct materials have been combined to evoke the components of a bay window – which are a plinth, column and pediment.

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MAY 8, 2024

Tropical modernism informed the plaster finishes of this extension in Hackney , London , which has been completed by local architecture studio Sonn. Aptly named The Plaster House, Sonn was tasked with adding an additional bedroom to the Victorian terraced building, as well as improving its connection to a rear garden.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Named Clinic in Anif, the two-storey project by Steiner Architecture houses a ground-floor respiratory clinic along with two individual apartment units on the upper floor. Here the views are more expansive, the natural light vaster and through the openings, on the extra thick window reveals, the ever-present red concrete."

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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. Prioritising maximising light in the home, SSdH replaced its rear wall with a full-height, aluminium-framed window.

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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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OCTOBER 16, 2024

British architecture studio Al-Jawad Pike has won this year's Neave Brown Award for Housing for Chowdury Walk, a council housing development in Hackney, London. Attention to detailing and quality of materials and finishes runs through every aspect of the project both internally and externally."

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DECEMBER 8, 2024

Named Casa Suna, the 700-square-metre home sits between the sea and mountains in La Ribera, and has been finished in a palette of pale stone and timber in order to visually complement the surrounding, sandy landscape. The post YDR Studio organises house in Mexico around stargazing courtyard appeared first on Dezeen.

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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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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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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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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Irregularly placed square openings puncture the thick concrete exterior of SV House in Portugal , recently completed by architecture studio Spaceworkers. From the outside, they are an important element in the composition of the elevations and in the perception of the occupation of the house, but without revealing too much," the studio said.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Architecture studio DHaus has used a full-width skylight to draw light into this extension in north London , which is finished with a pared-back palette of pale brick, plaster and oak. The post DHaus brings "sense of openness" to Datum House with wall-to-wall skylight appeared first on Dezeen.

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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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NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Pockets of outdoor space surround Gardener's House, a suburban home in Melbourne extended and renovated by Australian studio Splinter Society. The design strategy was to pull the new extension off the rear of the existing home, enabling northern light into the house, but also allowing the living spaces to be surrounded by the garden."

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Top photo by Jaime Navarro The 1,150-square-metre complex consists of four identical houses that sit side by side on a sloped property within Rancho Avándaro, a golf and recreational community. Each house faces a central courtyard. Photo by Jaime Navarro Each house has two levels and a basement.

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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. The previous extension was low-key but poorly built.

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APRIL 21, 2024

Walls of exposed concrete define this skinny house in Saitama, Japan , which local studio IGArchitects designed with a width of just 2.7 IGArchitects has created a skinny house in Japan "Land in Tokyo and surrounding cities is very expensive," IGArchitects founder Masato Igarashi told Dezeen. "We The home has a width of 2.7

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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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APRIL 23, 2024

"The North Fork is a place of simple barns, farms and quaint harbors, and it is from there that we drew our inspiration for the buildings of the house," said Texas-based Lake Flato Architects , the founders of which recently received the AIA Gold Medal. During the summer, windows can be opened up to bring in cool breezes from the bay.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

Japanese studio Chop + Archi created a deep cross-shaped void in the centre of this compact house in Kumagaya, Japan , dividing it into distinct spaces that are buffered from each other. The train tracks run right in front of the house, and there is a line of sight for commuters and other visitors," it added.

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JULY 2, 2024

Seattle-based manufacturer Lindal Cedar Homes has partnered with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to create a series of purchasable house designs informed by the American architect's Usonian philosophy. Lindal Cedar Homes has created a series of house designs based upon Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian principles.

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APRIL 11, 2024

Each unit has large windows. Each block features large windows at its western end, looking towards the sea and pine trees to the west. A small bed is backed by a full-height window in the larger unit Two Sisters has a prefabricated structure of glue-laminated timber, finished externally with vertical planks of spruce.

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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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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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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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NOVEMBER 9, 2024

The studios were designed to look "more like a modern art gallery" Loosely corresponding to the floor levels of the adjacent building, the studios are organised across four storeys housed within three distinct rectilinear blocks, which have been pushed and pulled slightly to articulate the building's facades.

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MARCH 5, 2024

The first case study in our Social Housing Revival series looks at a housing block in Vienna organised around a central "common heart" that harks back to the city's golden age of municipal construction.

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JUNE 25, 2024

A series of staggered, multi-level courtyards animate the plan of In-between Gardens, a house in the town of Tiptur, India , designed by architecture studio A Threshold. Its bold black finish is paired with minimalist white-washed walls above that reference the local vernacular. The photography is by Atik Bheda.

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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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AUGUST 12, 2024

The Ranch Mine has created a house clad in black metal in Montana Designed by Phoenix-based studio The Ranch Mine , the house was built to serve as a nature retreat for a family of five from southern California. The house was designed to embody a sense of "modern luxury meet[ing] natural splendor". metres)," the team said. "It

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

California studio Field Architecture designed this Sonoma Valley house out of a trio of fanning copper-clad pavilions with butterfly roofs. Named Madrone Ridge, the 4,920 square-foot (460 square-metre) house sits within the watershed of northern California's Russian River. the studio said. "By

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

has completed Two Face House in Turkey , a home finished with two contrasting facades to provide shelter and panoramic views. has created the Two Face House in Turkey Facing southwards, a solid stone facade protects Two Face House from the midday sun, while a lightweight timber-framed facade sits to the north.

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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. It is located 80 feet downhill (24 metres) from the Glass House, separated by a lawn and connected by a stone pathway. A single door is located on its facade.

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APRIL 8, 2024

Belgian studio Ae-Architecten has used glazed yellow bricks and concrete-lined living spaces to renovate SL House, a detached home in Ghent, Belgium. We consider the house as a palimpsest in which we preserved the qualities in the existing fabric." The photography is by Tim Van De Velde.

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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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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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