Architizer

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Roofs are one of the most defining elements of architecture. As the most iconic roof form, the gable is the result of intersecting roof pitches. Today, gabled architecture can be found worldwide with both simple and elegant profiles for cultural, commercial and housing projects alike. Modern Countryside Villa.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Chicago-based studio Wheeler Kearns Architects has created a wood-wrapped lake house with three separate structures whose design was informed "by the natural beauty and tranquillity" of Lake Michigan. Completed in August 2022, the Meadow Lane Retreat is a multi-structure house on a wooded site in Michigan.

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The Spaces

MAY 1, 2024

When you think of a ‘country farmhouse,’ rustic beams, stone walls, and raw materials spring to mind, but this Florida farmstead kicks that aesthetic to the curb and features a round house inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s Arizona designs.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The stone-clad Connecticut retreat is surprisingly advanced with a steel frame, glass sliders, geothermal heating and cooling, and a motorized roof hatch to the deck. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share?

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Dwell

JULY 25, 2024

Welcome to Prefab Profiles , an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. From prefab tiny houses and modular cabin kits to entire homes ready to ship, their projects represent some of the best ideas in the industry. Do you know a prefab brand that should be on our radar?

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Deezen

JUNE 25, 2022

London studio Will Gamble Architects has added a brick bedroom suite to a Georgian house in England, along with a contrasting glass-walled extension on the ground floor that opens to the garden. Will Gamble Architects has extended a Georgian house in England. Glass walls line the ground-floor addition.

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Archinect

APRIL 29, 2024

Located in the city’s Putuo District, the new Changfeng development will boast an affordable housing component, retail offerings, offices, and public facilities, all centered around a 54,000-square-foot new cultural destination called Jia Art they say is inspired by the "spring blessing" flower that's endemic to the local park.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Local studios Atelier Chardonnat and Salem Architecture have renovated and expanded a mid-century modern house in Montreal, dividing the original residence from the addition with a monumental skylight. The additional volume is located at the back of the house, maintaining proportions and keeping the house in harmony with the neighbourhood.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Local studio Geddes Ulinskas Architects has completed an expansive home in Cow Hollow, San Francisco with indoor-outdoor spaces, a cast glass staircase and stone detailing. Geddes Ulinskas Architects added wood-wrapped roof eaves to the structure. Sliding glass doors continue throughout the home.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2022

An oversized gabled roof sits atop this Mexican countryside home by local architecture studio Estudio Atemporal, creating a covered space that extends the living room outside. Located roughly two hours driving from the Mexican capital, the 143-square-metre house was completed as a retreat for a city-dwelling family.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Dutch studio WillemsenU has completed a house that is partially buried underground to blend in with its rural surroundings in Eindhoven , the Netherlands. Appropriately called The House Under the Ground, the home is designed by WillemsenU to "enhance the beauty" of its site and act as a retreat for the couple who own it.

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Dwell

APRIL 11, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Under a shared, cantilevered roof, the atrium-shaped floor plan creates an "inside/outside" effect for its purpose as a summer house, using the outdoor spaces as much as the indoors.

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aasarchitecture

MARCH 6, 2024

This house, situated in the Kujawy region of Poland, seizes all the opportunities provided by the lake plot. The owners of the plot situated by a picturesque lake in the central-northern part of Poland, have long been dreaming of building a permanent residence with a summer house. The whole house is covered with European larch boards.

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Deezen

MAY 11, 2024

The 1,100-square-foot (102 square metres), two-bedroom home is a Sears Modern kit house – the blueprints and building supplies for which were originally ordered from the American retailer's catalogue. 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 21, 2024

Architecture practice Studio Octopi has added a rear extension clad in mint-green metal to The Saddlery, a Georgian house in southeast London. Studio Octopi 's design uses the extension to rationalise the levels between the existing house and the garden and to revamp the fragmented rear elevation.

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Deezen

JULY 19, 2023

British studio Hopkins Architects has added an indoor tennis centre with an undulating timber-coated roof to the All England Lawn Tennis Club at Wimbledon , UK. It has an undulating timber-coated roof The building contains six indoor courts within a partially timber-clad structure punctuated by white, Y-shaped columns.

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The Spaces

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Outside, the patinaed sandstone structure is crowned by a corrugated steel roof. Rugged beams cross the ceiling overhead, while windows and pivoting glass doors are set in new steel frames that highlight the thickness of the sandstone walls. Pivoting glass doors lead out to the quiet courtyard.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Over the last month, Dezeen's Pinterest followers have been searching for "house cladding" 70 per cent more than usual. 2HIEN house, Vietnam, by CTA Architecture studio CTA clad this two-storey Vietnamese home with scallop, or "fish-scale", tiles from the client's old home.

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Deezen

JUNE 12, 2024

Handel Architects has completed a skyscraper in Boston with Passive House -certified office spaces, which its developers say is the largest office to reach that certification in the world. This is the first time a developer has applied the Passive House approach to an office building of this size and scale," it continued.

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Dwell

AUGUST 7, 2023

After a fire ravaged this site in rural Portugal, architect Miguel Marcelino designed a country house on an existing stone garden terrace. © Archive Miguel Marcelino But sometimes an unexpected force of nature inspires new possibilities. © Archive Miguel Marcelino The existing stone-walled terraces inspired the home’s design. .

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Dwell

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Glass sliders running the length of the interior can close off the living space, or retract for a wide-open connection to the dining area, patio, and pool. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners.

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Deezen

MARCH 12, 2022

The Sommerhus project (Summer House) is located in Mulmur, Ontario , roughly 100 kilometres outside of Toronto. The two-storey structures are topped with gabled roofs that resemble buildings found in this rural setting. Summerhus comprises two volumes connected by a glass walkway. The photography is by Scott Norsworthy.

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Deezen

MARCH 30, 2023

Mexican studio Zozaya Arquitectos has designed a concrete seaside house defined by a calming water feature on the Pacific coast. The client wanted a very minimal and clean design house from the beginning but without losing the vernacular and traditional architecture," ZAR director Daniel Zozaya told Dezeen. "We

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Building and Interiors

MAY 21, 2022

The single floor house design first gained prominence in the 1950s, and currently, it continues to expand in popularity and demand. One of the many reasons for the popularity of single floor houses is their easy layout and overall accessibility. With this style of the house, you can choose from a variety of sizes and types.

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Dwell

DECEMBER 22, 2023

She’s got cupboards stuffed with Santa mugs and slightly creepy ceramic angels , a mantle display of old glass tree-toppers , and a "gang" of plywood Santas artfully placed behind her living room sofa. I like how it looks, and I like the whimsy it inspires." I just like the old stuff," Romanaggi says. "I

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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 interior features a C-shaped plan An exterior staircase – shaded by a black partition lattice made of local purple rosewood – leads up to a roof terrace with 360-degree views.

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Deezen

JUNE 29, 2023

Recycled metal sheeting and repurposed wood and glass form Tree House by the Lake, a home in Vietnam designed by local studio H2. Tree House by the Lake is a house by H2 "The aim of the project is to create a house that blends in with the woods," H2 told Dezeen.

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Deezen

MARCH 29, 2023

Mexican studio Zozaya Arquitectos has designed a concrete seaside house defined by a calming water feature on the Pacific coast. The client wanted a very minimal and clean design house from the beginning but without losing the vernacular and traditional architecture," ZAR director Daniel Zozaya told Dezeen. "We

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Deezen

JANUARY 24, 2022

Salt Lake City architecture studio Imbue Design has built a house outside Zion National Park in Utah with sweeping views of one of the USA's most renowned landscapes. Imbue Design built the house outside Zion National Park. This earthy tone, as well as the masonry's reddish shade, were inspired by the colour of the soil in the area.

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The Architecture Designs

MARCH 21, 2023

The right roofing style and material will help complete the home’s overall look. Let’s take a closer look at some of the most popular architectural styles for homes in the USA and explore which roofing types work best with each. When it comes to roofing, Colonial homes traditionally feature either wood shingles or asphalt shingles.

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Deezen

JANUARY 24, 2024

A curvy canopy with a rooftop reflecting pool is among the standout features at a Long Island house designed by US studios Steven Harris Architects and Rees Roberts & Partners to embrace its sand-dune setting. On the ground level, one finds multiple guest bedrooms, back-of-house spaces and an indoor basketball court.

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The Spaces

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Frankfurt architect Alexander Bernjus conceived this Frankfurt townhouse as a ‘house in a house’, complex with monastic interiors and monumental spaces. Fantastic Frank Frankfurt is listing the contemporary home for €1.98m, and it comes with planning permission for an additional roof terrace. Photography: Fantastic Frank.

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Deezen

AUGUST 27, 2024

Chicago architecture studio Jahn has used massive steel trusses and a glass envelope for a military archive building with a structure informed by amphibious landing vehicles. It has a glass envelope supported by massive red trusses "Everything has some military inspiration," Jahn managing director Philip Castillo told Dezeen. "We

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Ryan Leidner Architecture completed the 2,500-square-foot (230-square metre) Hosono House in 2021, cladding the house in charcoal-stained cedar siding with a copper, standing seam roof. The bridge would span the lush front garden and connect to the house between the top and middle stories.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a summer house on the coast of Norway, the weather will change fast, often changing during the day, creating both inside and outside hours," studio founder Erling Berg told Dezeen. The roof's shape and placement was designed to offer shading from the sun, as well as to allow light into the central atrium.

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Architecture Ideas

MAY 25, 2023

A popular trend in architecture is the construction of buildings topped with flat roofs. Specialized windows for flat roofs are a solution dedicated to buildings of this type, improving their functionality. The issue of meeting the functional conditions also applies to glazing in the form of windows for flat roofs.

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