Archinect

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The acclaimed Japanese firm Atelier Bow-Wow has completed its first and only home built in the United States.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Architecture studio Edition Office has created a three-bedroom house with a cutout roof and fibre-cement cladding in Mossy Point, Australia. Elevated on parallel blockwork walls within a peaceful, wooded area, the home comprises a two-storey structure with a dramatic aperture in the roofline that forms a sheltered outdoor dining space.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Located along the Haute Route des Pyrénées hiking trail that follows the French and Spanish border, Snøhetta designed Refuge de Barroude to blend into the surrounding mountainous landscape with a shape informed by the site's topography. The images are courtesy of Snøhetta.

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Dwell

AUGUST 5, 2024

Upcycled materials from a dilapidated structure found on site create a sustainable home made up of round volumes connected by a floating roof. It is a sustainable house with a minimal footprint that upcycles various spaces, components, and materials from a dilapidated structure that existed on the site. Have one to share?

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Non-profit Project Mingde has unveiled Duling Educational Centre, a staggered complex topped with roofs that help recycle rainfall into clean water for schoolchildren in rural southern China. The solution was three buildings of varying heights with roofs that channel rainfall into a lotus pond. The photography is by Jin Weiqi.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The University of Maine has unveiled what it claims to be the world’s first 3D printed home made entirely with bio-based materials. The home, developed by the university’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC), measures 600 square feet and features walls, floors, and a roof made of 3D printed wood fibers and bio-resins.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Called Hytte Riverview, the compact single-storey home balances expanses of full-height glazing with thick, textured walls intended to mimic nearby rocky outcrops. Yes, this house is so right for the site – materials low profile and the internal spaces are just great," commended Chewie. What do you make of it?

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Deezen

MAY 10, 2024

Chilean studio Hebra Arquitectos has completed an elevated home with steel pilotis and a V-shaped roof, aiming to create a building that "floats in the middle of the forest". It was commissioned during the pandemic as a second home for the client The design team had multiple goals for the project.

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Deezen

JULY 23, 2024

The five-bedroom family home is constructed from wood and defined by its origami-like, wood-clad roof, which pays homage to local buildings and agricultural structures in nearby villages. We want the building to feel agricultural, hence the gabled ends, but also nod to the variety of domestic roof pitches found in the local area."

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designboom

JANUARY 9, 2023

trees growing along the coastal site are invited to grow through the lightweight rooftop's many skylights. The post victor ortiz designs malibu home with a sinuous and porous roof plane appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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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 home’s contemporary spatial sequencing is contrasted by materiality drawing inspiration from the area’s agrarian architecture.

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Dwell

JANUARY 5, 2024

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. Stillwater homes are built by LEED-certified architects, and the company says it is committed to sustainable practices. Do you know a prefab brand that should be on our radar? Get in touch!

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2023

An oversized roof lined with terracotta tiles shelters this home in the centre of a walled garden in Quang Yen, Vietnam , designed by local studios Ra.atelier and Ngo + Pasierbinski. Photo is by Duc Ngo Inside, House in Quang Yen has plain white walls and ceilings, teamed with pale wooden furniture to bring a minimal feel to the home.

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Archinect

MARCH 13, 2024

The team still owns a 326-acre land plot in suburban Arlington Heights, where they first proposed a new Manica -led retractable roof design in March of 2022. For now, the Bears' new Soldier Field proposal is expected to cost $2 billion. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said it was "a testament to Chicago’s economic vitality."

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Deezen

AUGUST 12, 2022

An enormous thatched roof structure with open sides covers the communal areas of this home perched on a rocky cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Mexico by Zozaya Arquitectos. Zozaya Arquitectos completed a cliffside home in Zihuatanejo. Zozaya Arquitectos completed a cliffside home in Zihuatanejo.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A sloping concrete roof and perforated walls shelter the open-air interiors of Anchor House, a dwelling in the jungle in Vietnam by local studio MM++ Architects. Designed for an artist looking for an escape from the city, the 160-square-metre Anchor House sits on a narrow site surrounded by vegetation in the Mekong Delta.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The 1,400-square-foot home was completed in 1952 for a wealthy widower residing in one of California's sought-after surf meccas. Thomas Church was also responsible for the landscaping at the site in his pioneering California Style.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A faceted roof on slender columns tops this home by Gluck+ in Los Angeles ' Hollywood Hills neighbourhood, covering the residence "like a parasol". Simply named California House, the single-family residence was completed by New York City firm Gluck+ on a "spectacular" steep site overlooking LA.

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Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2023

Local practice Platform 5 Architects has completed NW10 House, a family home on an infill site in north London with exposed concrete interiors and a textured brick exterior. Centred around a skylit, concrete spiral stair, the home's spaces fan out to fill the triangular site, overlooking a paved terrace that wraps its eastern edge.

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Deezen

JUNE 27, 2024

London studio SPPARC has overhauled a Grade II-listed Georgian townhouse in Fitzrovia to create a homely four-story office featuring a honeycomb-shaped roof. Designed for a family-run business, the project reverses a "tired and outdated" renovation of the home near Charlotte Street Conservation Area from the 1990s.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Scottish architecture studio Loader Monteith has designed an office with a gabled roof , along with two private residences, for mountain bike tour operator H&I Adventures on a sloping brownfield site in Scotland. The first of two planned residences, it is distinguished by its lower height and butterfly roof.

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Deezen

MAY 15, 2024

A 36-metre-tall concrete silo has been converted into a dramatic hotel lobby at Bacalan Block – the transformation of a former factory site in Bordeaux into a mixed-use development by Colboc Sachet Architects. Atop its roof, a row of gabled metal forms contain a restaurant and spa wrapped by a panoramic terrace overlooking the city.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Masonry waste from a nearby builder's yard was used to create various shapes, textures and habitats for birds and bees in the brick walls of Foxglove House, a home in rural Hertfordshire by local studio Kirkland Fraser Moor. Nooks in the walls provide homes for wildlife.

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Avontuura

MAY 14, 2024

Inspired by the mountains of the Bob Marshall National Wilderness adjacent to the site, four tented roof peaks climb organically. The post Inspired by the mountains of Montana, the Four Roof House is clad entirely in standing seam weathering steel appeared first on Åvontuura.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Architecture studio Wallmakers has reimagined a traditional roof by adding skylights that double as seating for an arts centre and home in Kerala, India. Nisarga Art Hub is topped with a large roof Indian studio Wallmakers punctured skylights into the roof to draw natural light into the communal space below.

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Deezen

MARCH 13, 2024

Pyramidal Corten steel roofs define a distillery designed by ODOS Architects on the outskirts of Monasterevin in rural County Kildare, Ireland. The buildings of the old Ballykelly mill now contain exhibition halls and flexible office space for the Church of Oak, and are topped with a new roof terrace.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Indian studio 3dor Concepts has completed The Slab, a family home in Kerala that is protected from the elements by a facade of wooden louvres and a large concrete roof. 3dor Concepts has created a home in Kerala wrapped with wooden louvres "Three things were decided in the initial visit," explained 3dor Concepts.

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Deezen

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 one-story home unfurls in a 120-foot-long (36-metre) horizontal line that runs parallel to the topography, with its front elevated to meet wooden terraces, and portions of the back sitting flat on the slope.

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Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

Located in Washington’s Kitsap Peninsula, the rambler-style home utilized the trees for the roof and a coffee table, too. On a secluded wooded site, the new structure grounds itself to the earth with its approach to material and form. Cedar milled on site was used to create the entry door, entry benches, and east privacy fence.

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Archinect

APRIL 26, 2024

This 2,100 square foot home is comprised of six modular boxes arranged in a courtyard hybrid layout. Designed for a soon-to-be retiring couple, the home is sensitive to the clients wanting to age in place. The vast majority of the home was fabricated off-site at a modular manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Chinese practice Arch Studio has renovated and extended a courtyard home called Mixed House on the outskirts of Beijing , China, by inserting a timber structure topped by a wavy roof. Arch Studio has renovated a courtyard home near Beijing. Arch Studio has renovated a courtyard home near Beijing.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Breeze-block walls and a roof cutout for a palm tree are among the special features at an Arizona house designed by The Ranch Mine , which took cues from a mid-century modern dwelling across the street. The low-lying home consists of central blocks and a rectangular wing placed at an angle.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A sawtooth roof that references the nearby South Melbourne Market tops Ferrars & York, an apartment block in Australia designed by local studio Six Degrees Architects. There is a rooftop terrace On the top floor, the form of Ferrars & York's sawtooth roof has been used to add additional height to the apartments.

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Deezen

MARCH 25, 2024

An inverted-pitch roof and angular brick cladding characterise the Butterfly House extension, which architecture studio The DHaus Company has added to a terraced home in north London. The DHaus Company has created an extension with a butterfly roof "The butterfly roof is visually striking," The DHaus Company told Dezeen.

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Deezen

JANUARY 25, 2024

UK architecture studio DaeWha Kang Design has designed a pavilion and courtyard for The OWO hotel at the site of the former Old War Office in Whitehall, London. The pavilion is located in front of the 1906 Grade II*-listed building, designed by architect William Young, that was once used by the British government's military departments.

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Deezen

JULY 25, 2024

Site constraints and local architecture guided the angular form of Mesh House, a copper-clad home that London studio Alison Brooks Architects has completed in Belsize Park. The home's untraditional form guides the shape of the rooms, with angular walls creating uniquely shaped, single- and double-height spaces.

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Dwell

MARCH 15, 2022

An architect couple finance their family home by doubling the plan and selling half. Architect couple Andreas Lyckefors and Josefine Wikholm took an unusual approach to designing their dream home. Photograph by Kalle Sanner Living in one of the units and selling the other allowed them to finance the entire project.

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