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JANUARY 30, 2024

A treasured Frank Lloyd Wright home once resided in by the architect himself has sold for a reported $6 million in suburban New Canaan, Connecticut. The house is one of Wright’s largest designs and was purchased for $2 million below the original $8 million asking price that was published with its first listing in June 2023.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 26, 2023

” The home, named Cherry Valley House, sits on a steep ridge that descends to the lakeshore. Image credit: Felix Michaud Image credit: Felix Michaud The house is sunken into the ridge, “protected at its back and providing a vantage point below the trees,” according to the team.

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JULY 13, 2024

A collection of distinctive new builds and carefully crafted residential extensions have been rounded up for our latest lookbook , which gathers home interiors enhanced and brightened by clerestory openings. The new extension is topped with a mono-pitched roof and lined with large, translucent clerestory glazing to draw light into the home.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Pierre Koenig’s Schwartz House has been listed for sale in Rustic Canyon, Los Angeles. Built in 1994, the home is the last project Koening completed, uniquely built on four structural steel beams. By contrast, the four columns and external staircase are finished in black paint.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 10, 2023

MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects has completed an oceanside home on Nova Scotia’s South Shore described as “a prototype for modest living.” ” The Chester House measures 1,350 square feet and was designed to be “culturally and economically appropriate to its setting.”

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Archinect

JULY 4, 2024

Hungarian design-build studio Hello Wood has shared its latest home with us, seamlessly blending into its rural surroundings and bridging the gap between the natural environment and engineered objects. Photo: György Palkó Located in rural Hungary , CLT House is approximately 1,453 square feet and fully equipped.

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Archinect

APRIL 28, 2022

Washington Post House of the Week. This Charles Goodman-designed mid-century modern home was transformed into a 4 bed/2 full bath modernist paradise with Poggenpohl kitchen with Bosch appliances. The now 1,863 square-foot home was slightly expanded to accommodate a larger kitchen with beautiful custom Poggenpohl cabinetry.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 11, 2022

A new solution to America’s multifaceted housing frustrations is blowing up in New York’s Hudson River Valley thanks to a startup called Automatic Construction. After the concrete has cured to around 70% strength, shoring is removed while the membrane remains in place as a means of providing waterproofing for the structure.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

House in the Dunes Architect: Unknown ArchitectsLocation: Terschelling, The NetherlandsType: HouseYear: 2022Photographs: MWA Hart Nibbrig Unknown Architects have created a cabin-style vacation home in the Netherlands with panoramic windows that overlook the surrounding dunes and hills.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Wagoya House: A Mid-Century Modern Masterpiece in Los Angeles Welcome to Wagoya House, a stunning architectural marvel nestled in the heart of Los Angeles. Natural Materials and Vertical Grain Douglas Fir Windows and Doors: One of the defining features of Wagoya House is the extensive use of natural materials.

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Archinect

MARCH 25, 2022

Tucked away in Los Altos Hills, the aptly named Round House is a geometrically unique structure; one of a few similarly shaped homes built in California in the 60s. The clients fell in love with this quirky circular house and initially planned a modest remodel.

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Archinect

AUGUST 10, 2022

Los Angeles' historic Hollyhock House will reopen to the public on Aug. The Frank Lloyd Wright -designed home closed its doors at the start of the pandemic in early 2020. The property saw conservation work on its cast stone, art glass windows, woodwork, and landscape. 18, city officials announced.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Indian architects Harshit Singh Kothari and Tanvi Jain have completed Tiny House on the outskirts of Indore, a micro home prototype designed in response to India 's shortage of affordable housing. million houses in urban areas," Kothari and Jain told Dezeen. With a compact footprint of 19.5

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The drama over the project provides a window into just how hard it is for the city to scale up its housing and shelter system, even as a recent report from the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) estimated it would take more than 6,000 extra temporary and permanent beds to solve the crisis on the streets.

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Archinect

AUGUST 10, 2022

Los Angeles' historic Hollyhock House will reopen to the public on Aug. The Frank Lloyd Wright -designed home closed its doors at the start of the pandemic in early 2020. The property saw conservation work on its cast stone, art glass windows, woodwork, and landscape. 18, city officials announced.

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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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MAY 1, 2023

As children grow up and move out of the house, many parents find themselves with an empty nest. However, it also presents an opportunity to create the perfect empty nester’s house. In this blog post, we will explore the key features of the perfect empty nester’s house.

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Archinect

MARCH 2, 2024

Portland -based interdisciplinary design studio Skylab Architecture has announced its partnership with woman-owned kit home manufacturer Steel Hut to design forward-thinking, affordable dwellings that boast increased fire resistance and durability for harsh climates. The prefabricated homes are entirely made of recycled and recyclable steel.

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ArchDaily

MARCH 26, 2024

Morgan / Shutterstock Positioned between the streetscape of a neighborhood and the privacy of the interior of a house lies the porch. Taking on the role of an entrance, a window to ponder out of, a gathering spot, and a stage, the porch has come to represent community and identity for many neighborhoods in the United States.

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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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Archinect

MARCH 21, 2023

Sited on a private coastal California hillside street lined with five tightly stacked homes, the 3000 square foot residence optimizes a compact footprint, resulting in an experience that maximizes outdoor living, without compromising the privacy of the family.

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JANUARY 20, 2023

Passive houses are now considered to be the highest energy efficiency standards. Passive houses require strict design standards. To achieve a passive house certification, a building must have less than 0.6 The entire construction team must be aware of how essential airtightness is to passive house design.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Belgian studio Objekt Architecten has updated a home in rural Wichelen called Lamat House, inserting a contemporary interior of exposed concrete and red steelwork into its traditional red-brick shell. Our concept revolves around this view, within the existing boundaries of the house and the limits of the available budget," he added.

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Deezen

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. The homes feel uplifting upon entering, with the simple intuitive floor plan making efficient use of space while supporting the busyness of family life," she added.

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MAY 19, 2024

It is no secret that the absence of affordable housing is a crisis here in Lane County. According to Better Housing Together , the Eugene area is among the most-constrained housing markets in the nation, second only to Seattle. Cracking the housing affordability nut has proven to be an enormously vexing problem.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Plasterwork influenced by Mallorcan villas lines the walls of this home in Los Angeles that designer Rob Diaz custom built himself. The brief for the four-bedroom, five-bathroom property in Studio City "was to design a home using all natural materials", according to Diaz, who has developed several single-family homes across the city.

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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. Many materials were either repurposed; for example, the original bricks from the demolished section of the old house were cleaned on site and relaid. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Wimbledon House is a carefully considered residential project that balances modern living with the area’s historical character. The house is divided into three distinct volumes, each with a mono-pitched roof, referencing the proportions and forms of surrounding Edwardian homes.

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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 16, 2024

Architecture studio Edition Office has completed Naples Street House, a multi-generational home in Melbourne designed as a "carved solid" wrapped in bricks. A central garden helps bring in natural light Naples Street House's central courtyard is lined with the same brick as the walls and roof and dotted with curved areas of planting.

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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. Located in the Brunswick suburb, the single-storey home has a brown-brick exterior and tiled roof typical of an era of rapid development in the area.

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Deezen

MAY 22, 2024

Indian studio Kiron Cheerla Architecture has completed Pott House, a home in Hyderabad topped by a lantern-like roof that draws light and natural ventilation into its interiors. A smaller first floor occupies the southern half of the home. At night, lights inside glow outwards through the roof to create a lantern-like effect.

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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. In the middle of the kitchen, a red travertine stone kitchen island with a vein-like texture creates a focal point for the house and a place to entertain guests.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The home of the future — it’s a place we’ve all seen in films, on TV, and even at exhibitions. If you were lucky, it might have been your rich friend’s parents’ house growing up. Thousands of amazing products hit the market each year, determined to make our lives easier and our homes more intuitive.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

A roof of dark patinated copper distinguishes this house in Wimbledon Village, London , designed by local architecture studio Jason Good Architecture. We aimed to design a house that sits comfortably and sensitively within its context, without simply recreating the past," founder Jason Good told Dezeen. "We

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Deezen

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 terraced Victorian home in Newington Green required an update due to its dark interior and series of narrow, disjointed rooms, said Emil Eve Architects.

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