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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Deezen

MARCH 28, 2024

Architecture studio Hewitt revealed a 33-storey-high residential block in downtown Seattle , which was inspired by an offset stack of magazines. The structure evoked mixed reactions among commenters. One characterised it as "another variation of the same old thing", citing its resemblance to "another glass mirrored angular box".

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Architizer

JANUARY 23, 2024

Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters. The numerical pattern is found in numerous organically occurring shapes, in the nautilus shell’s spiral, and in the structures of flowers, pinecones, and even hurricanes. Architects: Want to have your project featured?

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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? Post it here.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The shape of the gable, how it is detailed, and its style depends on the structural system used, which reflects regional aesthetics, climate and material availability. Today, gabled architecture can be found worldwide with both simple and elegant profiles for cultural, commercial and housing projects alike. Summerhouse Lagno?.

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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

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 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. Jahn , founded by late architect Helmut Jahn , aimed to implement military-informed design motifs throughout the structure. The bolts are exposed."

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Deezen

MAY 18, 2022

London architecture studio Bureau de Change has produced a range of patterned tiles using Thames Glass, a biomaterial created by artist Lulu Harrison from mussel shells. Harrison – a student on the Material Futures masters at Central Saint Martin's – creates her bio-glass using the ground-up shells of quagga mussels as a substitute for sand.

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Deezen

JULY 30, 2024

Conner + Perry Architects completed work on the lower terrace of the steep site, with the original Lautner house at the top of the site. The entire site is called the Goldstein Entertainment Complex, with amenities fanning down the hillside designed in a style that remains deferential to the iconic house.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Formafatal has constructed twin villas out of rammed earth on a jungled hillside in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica that open to the Pacific Ocean with expansive frameless glass. My intention was to design sustainable houses with biophilic interiors," said Štěpánová.

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ArchiDiaries

MARCH 24, 2022

Excerpt: Interconnected Volumes Establish a Dialogue Between the Indoors and the Outdoors at Earth and Glass House, a Weekend Retreat designed by Studio Lotus, located in New Delhi, India. These include a DJ deck, a small pool house and a treehouse-like machan. Project Description. Text as submitted by the Architect”).

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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. The structure is pulled back from the exterior walls," the studio said.

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Dwell

JULY 12, 2022

Will Gamble Architects also reconfigured part of the existing house to rationalize the previously disjointed arrangement of rooms and provide a more symmetrical floor plan that is true to Georgian design principles. It is conceived as an ancillary ‘pavilion type’ structure connected to the main house via a glazed link.

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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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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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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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The Spaces

AUGUST 4, 2022

Canadian architect Ron Thom designed the 1964 Geometric House using a hexagonal module structure pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright – and its interiors are inspired by his ‘total’ approach to environmental design, right down to its lighting and built-in furniture. Cabinetry and built-ins are midcentury originals.

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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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Dwell

MAY 9, 2023

Framed in timber and steel, the glass-wrapped space connects a kitchen renovated with reused materials to a lush garden. A family’s new extension features a green frame that differentiates the glass structure from the more traditional spaces inside. Can you reinvent a historic home while staying true to its original character?

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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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Deezen

JUNE 9, 2022

Fashion brand Hermès has built four large structures modelled on water towers and covered in translucent sheets of coloured paper inside events space La Pelota at Milan design week. Hermès ' artistic directors Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fabry built the structures to reflect the brand's 2022 theme of lightness.

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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 house is constructed of concrete block, the most accessible material in the area, and covered on both the exterior and interior with naturally pigmented cement.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Used as an extension of founder Louis T Lemay's personal residence, the design for the 2,500-square-foot (232-square metre) house came out of Lemay's in-house sustainable design lab called the Phénix. It has a a green roof and plenty of glass on the exterior Lemay was founded in 1957 and now boasts a team of 400 designers.

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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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Architizer

JUNE 2, 2022

Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletter. . Despite technical complications involved in construction, inclined sites can invoke inspiring new architectural possibilities that just aren’t possible on flat sites. House D by PAUHOF Architekten , Austria.

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Architizer

MAY 12, 2022

Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletter. . Studio Weave describes Midden Studio as the lovechild of rock and manor, drawing inspiration from the vernacular agricultural buildings, the rocky granite landscape, and the flourish of the ‘Scottish Baronial’ style present in the local area.

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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. Have one to share?

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Architonic

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Fluidity and flexibility to the utmost, the majestic Plumeria House showcases a stable and seamless connection of the indoors with the outdoors. The three-dimensional panorama of the facade imbibes a sense of visual interest that demarcates the structure as a phenomenal, eye-catchy entity within the area and the surroundings.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In ancient times, scholars would gather around Taihu stones, deriving inspiration from their edges, curvatures, canyons, and tunnels, which seemed to shift when viewed from different vantage points," she added. The main structure of the building is supported by two pavilions. The lending library will also house cultural events.

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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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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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Architizer

AUGUST 19, 2022

Architects sometimes reflect this leisurely ethos with a more ‘relaxed’ style of beach house design. Taking advantage of the lack of limitations set by the natural surroundings, these homes reject the rigidity (and oftentimes boxy) design of the urban environment in favor of more free-flowing curved and circular structures.

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Deezen

APRIL 14, 2024

New York architecture studio HGX Design has created a linear, glass-fronted home in the Hudson Valley informed by the "individual notes of a music composition". The structure's horizontal form was informed by the vernacular architecture of the surrounding farmland. HGX Design has created a linear home in the Hudson Valley.

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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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Architizer

MAY 18, 2022

Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletter. . This has also resulted in a growth in bicycle parking structures in recent years. With a record-breaking capacity of 13,500 bikes, the three-story underground structure facilitates convenient, safe and quick depositing of vehicles for all.

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