Archinect

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The length of the floorplan meant that there was a need for natural light to reach the middle part of the house, thus the idea was born to retain a part of the rear garden as a courtyard that would sit amongst the functional layout of the space and provide not only light but also vital cross ventilation and visual connection.

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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. 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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Archinect

AUGUST 10, 2022

Los Angeles' historic Hollyhock House will reopen to the public on Aug. During this time, LA's Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) embarked on “significant transformations” at the Hollyhock House and Residence A, a guest house (also designed by Wright) located at the same site. 18, city officials announced.

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Deezen

JULY 3, 2024

Architecture studio Fala Atelier has created the illusion of extra height at this house in Lisbon by adding a large number of windows to its facade. Named House of Countless Windows, the home is intended to appear taller than its three storeys thanks to the windows on its facade that are arranged in a grid of five rows.

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Archinect

AUGUST 10, 2022

Los Angeles' historic Hollyhock House will reopen to the public on Aug. During this time, LA's Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) embarked on “significant transformations” at the Hollyhock House and Residence A, a guest house (also designed by Wright) located at the same site. 18, city officials announced.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Located in West Hampstead, London, Minty House is a reimagined Victorian terrace designed by Peter Morris Architects. Glazing work was carried out by Fluid Glass. The focal point of the extension is a curved glass bay window that brings in natural light and provides views of the garden.

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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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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

JANUARY 26, 2024

Local architecture studio Daniel Canda & Asociados has renovated a 1980s country club residence in Argentina , opening up the interior and wrapping the second floor in ribbon windows. The team kept much of the bottom half of the house intact, removing interior walls and flattening its original gabled roof.

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Archinect

APRIL 7, 2023

The gift is meant to house local families that have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict. acre site that the city hopes will ultimately house more than 70 homes." A new gift facilitated by the Ukrainian Red Cross has installed 10 new “foldable” modular home designs from Hapi Homes, LLC.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Wall-to-wall glass and a material palette informed by local vernacular define Zen House, a 33-square-metre micro home on stilts in Austria, completed by Czech studio Jan Tyrpekl. It is elevated on concrete stilts "It has an archetypal house shape, but it is placed on pillars, letting the landscape pass freely beneath and through it.

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Archinect

JUNE 6, 2024

A house for a couple and their family looking to slow down on Long Beach Island. Sited on a particularly narrow stretch of the barrier island, the house takes full advantage of the lot’s unique positioning to maximize expansive views towards both the bay and the ocean.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 10, 2023

” The Chester House measures 1,350 square feet and was designed to be “culturally and economically appropriate to its setting.” The top floor facade is surrounded by glass to create panoramic views of the forest, while small punch windows create vignettes of the landscape features.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

French Broad House, Riverdale, Tennessee, 2020, Sanders Pace Architecture, 2020. Years from now, serious collectors of architectural magazines may search for that single issue of the 21st century magazine Dwell , absent a major spread of a house designed in the midcentury modern (MCM) manner or a restoration of a building from that era.

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Archinect

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

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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Deezen

JUNE 19, 2024

Musician Ye , formerly known as Kanye West, has removed the windows and gutted the interior of a concrete home in Malibu , California, designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Above and top photos by Backgrid Ye's transformation of the Ando-designed beach house, which he purchased in 2021 for $57.3 But I pretty much did."

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Dwell

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Designed by Everson Architect, the home is defined by striking, minimalist forms and punctuated by vast expanses of glass that dissolve the boundaries between inside and out and frame views of the surrounding wetlands. Instead, they reserved the grandiose gesture for the back of the house."

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Irish studio Scullion Architects took visual cues from long galleries in country homes in its design of Rathdown, a window-lined extension to a house in Terenure, Dublin. Scullion Architects has extended a 1930s house in Dublin "The existing house was lacking any social heart," studio director Declan Scullion told Dezeen.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Rose is a guesthouse made of concrete, weathering steel, glass and water. 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. Floor-to-ceiling windows provide the interaction of nature and the interior.

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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

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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Deezen

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Pruzan Art Center houses the university's Davison Arts Collection "The Pruzan Art Center is a transformative addition to Wesleyan University, offering a space where art, history, and academic inquiry come together," PRO co-founder Miriam Peterson said.

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Archinect

AUGUST 30, 2022

As detailed in the award announcement, Valley’s three peaks switch between a sheer glass façade and protruding stone-clad windows and balconies. The center of the building features a publicly accessible terraced valley, and its jutting elements create a variety of unique housing units.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Architecture studio VATRAA has added an extension to a house in north London that features a "brutalist cat flap" and is built with the bricks of the structure it replaced. Its Stoke Newington extension was recently longlisted in the house renovation category of the Dezeen Awards 2024. The photography is by Jim Stephenson.

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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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Deezen

JULY 3, 2024

Circular holes form light wells, courtyards and spaces for existing trees at this lakeside house in Mexico 's Nayarit state, designed by Mexican studio MCxA Group. Concrete flooring and earth-toned decor – including volcanic stone and recycled wood elements – are framed by dark steel columns and window trims.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The Positive Energy House is inspired by nature's resilience and rejuvenation. Enclosed with a triple-glazed glass facade, the atrium incorporates operable windows and doors for passive ve. On the south side, this new layer created an interstitial atrium space outside the original building but within the insulated shell.

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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

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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Dwell

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The side of the extension is defined by a translucent glass wall that brings light into the new living spaces, registering the blurry movements behind it while maintaining security and privacy from the street.

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The Spaces

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The house is designed as a remote oasis, paying homage to the landscape while blending sympathetically into the hillside. The design revolves around its remarkable setting, with the centrepiece of the open-plan layout being a single 6-metre-high window overlooking the creek.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Agricultural architecture informed this timber house , which architect Roman Morschett has nestled into a grass-filled orchard site in rural southwest Germany. Larch wood was also used to create the terrace flooring, as well as window frames and parquet flooring inside.

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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 12, 2024

A university building in Toronto by Handel Architects has received formal recognition as a Passive House project, making it "the largest Passive House building in Canada". A university dormitory by Handel Architects has received Passive House recognition. The photo is by CORE Architects.

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