Deezen

APRIL 24, 2023

Local architect Tomás de Iruarrizaga has designed Casa Granic, a holiday home located on a hillside by Riñihue Lake in Chile that is meant for "year-round living". Iruarrizaga designed the 500-square-metre house with a timber-clad upper level that bridges two rectangular concrete structures. The photography is by Cristóbal Palma.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

The home is predominantly a pristine white inside, with an exterior in a pale pinkish color reminiscent of seashells. At night, the home glows like a light box. The louvres add a dynamic edge to the home that allows it to be precisely fine-tuned for airflow and light, prospect or privacy, openness or shelter.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Located near downtown Menlo Park, the Modal Home sits at a busy intersection and across the street from a high school. Schwartz and Architecture has completed a single-storey home in Menlo Park for a family of four "The siting of the home at the front edge of the corner lot is somewhat counter-intuitive," the team said.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Architecture studio Proctor & Shaw has topped a home extension with a steeply-angled roof clad with red pigmented zinc in East Dulwich, London. Home to a family of seven, Proctor & Shaw designed the project as an extension to an existing Edwardian house, extending the ground-floor kitchen and dining room.

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Deezen

JANUARY 30, 2024

Originally comprising two stacked apartments, Memo Architectuur overhauled the spaces to form a single-family home , adding an additional floor to align the building with the streetscape and maximise interior space. metres and length of 16 metres, the studio was tasked with drawing light into the darker areas at the centre of the home.

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Deezen

JANUARY 12, 2024

A sawtooth roof, blue ceramic tiles and corrugated steel panels define this home in Madrid , Spain , designed by Ignacio G Galán and OF Architects. A sequence of cascading gardens wrap around the home, providing outdoor seating along with a small pool. A roof terrace provides additional gardening and outdoor space for the couple.

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Deezen

MAY 16, 2023

New York City-based firm Studio MM Architect has completed a Corten steel-wrapped house with a dogtrot -style breezeway that connects to a home studio in North Branch, New York. Known as the Bully Hill House, the home was completed in 2019 by Studio MM Architect , which is led by founder Marica McKeel.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A cantilevered form with thatched surfaces defines Summer House, a holiday home designed by architecture studio RAPA on the shores of Lake Balaton in Hungary. It aims to capture the essence of those small vacation homes on the southern shore." Taking up the entirety of the southeast facade, it gives panoramic views across the lake.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The family home has the style’s characteristic central breezeway, but supercharges it with a soaring 20-foot ceiling. The clients’ desire to be surrounded by both family and nature in their home called for a new adaptation of this once-ubiquitous typology, expanding and reframing the idea of outdoor living. "In Have one to share?

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This structure was to be very strong, be as fire resistant as possible and require as little long term exterior maintenance as possible. This structure was to be very strong, be as fire resistant as possible and require as little long term exterior maintenance as possible. Every detail of the Cab (container) design was done by me.

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Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2024

A private roof terrace enclosed by greenery features in Hidden Garden House, a Sydney home reconfigured by Australian studio Sam Crawford Architects. Situated within a conservation zone, the home has been updated by Sam Crawford Architects to brighten its dark interior and transform it into an urban "sanctuary".

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2023

Based in New York City, Ryall Sheridan Carroll Architects designed the 2,500-square-foot (230-square-metre) home, called the Tree Farmer's House, for a one-acre lot. The exterior walls were clad in cedar wood The three-bedroom home "creates a sense of containment and release in the landscape." The photography is by Keith Scott Morton.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

5,880), the home features premium finishes like marble flooring, bespoke teak-framed double-pane windows, and high-quality fixtures. Have one to share? Post it here. The kitchen sink and bathroom’s adjacency allow them to benefit from minimal plumbing costs with the overhead water tank positioned right above.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Curved ceilings create a cozy feel, but wall-height windows throughout the L-shaped plan keep the home connected to its courtyard. The gardens gradually divide the residence and create harmony for the environment both at home and from the outside. The lower flat roof hangs above the connecting section.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The architects remixed the retreat by using its window coverings as doors, ceiling beams for dining tables, and lots of loud color. The home, built in the ’70s as a summer house, had no insulation of any kind, nor did it establish any kind of direct relationship with the landscape or surroundings. "In Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The studio revamped the existing three-bedroom house in the east London suburb of Wanstead to taking cues the client's childhood home in Gibraltar with a sequence of arches as a nod to the mix of British, Spanish and Moorish architecture found on the peninsula.

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Deezen

MARCH 13, 2022

Klopf Architecture has reconfigured a San Francisco home to create an open-concept living space that faces onto the backyard. The Modern Inversion project involved the renovation of a San Francisco home. The front of the home is closed off to the street. The former bay windows have been replaced with a solid white facade.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

The new addition is attached to the existing home by a fully glazed connector, bringing the natural surroundings of the lush wooden landscape inside while providing a moment of respite between home and studio/work environments. The effect creates a strong panoramic view and the feeling that the roof structure is floating.

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MAY 22, 2024

From the moment they moved into their semidetached Victorian home in London in 2006, Nicola and Patrick Kendall dreamed of renovating their kitchen—but life and more pressing home improvements got in the way. The clients originally wanted teak cabinets, but 4 S Architecture suggested an alternative.

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APRIL 20, 2023

The roof is expressed internally as a dramatic ceiling formed of CNC birch ply ribs, with skylights cut into the structure to bring daylight deep within the plan and help animate the space throughout the day as the sun moves around house.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2023

The home, called Wabi Sabi Residence and completed in 2020 is a 4,000-square-foot (370-square metre) structure on a nine-acre lot in the Wasatch Range. Sparano + Mooney created the cantilevered home near Salt Lake City. The home is topped with a green roof. Builder: Living Home Construction. metre) and 24-foot (7.3

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JULY 15, 2022

The southern facade is free of windows to prevent the gaze of neighbors as they approach from the access way. The result is a relaxing and stylish home away from home for this jet-setting family."

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MAY 2, 2023

Rippled Douglas fir boards cap the ends of the gable home, which is finished in a mix of reclaimed wood and brick. The brief was to design a low-energy replacement home, with increased energy efficiency, designed in keeping with its unique setting and the local surroundings. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

MAY 28, 2024

Located in the small Wyoming town of Alta, the house serves as a holiday home for an outdoor-loving couple from Portland, Oregon. Alta House is in Wyoming Portland-based Lever Architecture sought to create a durable home that could withstand the region's harsh winter weather while capitalising on the picturesque setting.

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MARCH 9, 2023

Swaths of color—including jade green, yellow, and blue—punch up the home’s preserved Victorian details, right down to the stained glass window. The project transforms the existing house into a sustainable modern home that uses color, decoration, and playful details to add a sense of delight. "CHA Have one to share?

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Deezen

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Delve Architects added two-storey extensions across both homes, replacing what it described as "dark, cramped kitchen spaces" with bright open-plan living areas, plus additional bedroom spaces above. A window seat is nestled below an arched opening at the heart of the space, providing views out over the garden to the rear.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

CLB Architects designed a Japanese-influenced home in Wyoming. Locally based CLB Architects noted that the design — influenced by both Japanese architecture and California modernism – is a departure from the mountain modernism typical of vacation homes built in the region. The facade of the home is simple and linear.

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The Spaces

JULY 17, 2023

More than 75 years later, a former radar station bunker near Ringstead Bay finds new life as an unusual holiday home. The Grade II-listed military building is one of the best-preserved examples of a Chain Home station in southwest England – a ring of early warning radar stations built around 1941.

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APRIL 23, 2024

The windows are impact-rated and aluminum-clad, so they are storm-resistant and contain recyclable content. Post it here. Project Details: Location: Theodore, Alabama Architect: Tall Architects / @ tall.arch Footprint: 2,100 square feet Builder: C. The height also prepares the house for rising water.

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Deezen

JANUARY 31, 2022

Wood, stone and lime plaster pervade the minimal interior of this energy-saving home in Muswell Hill that Architecture for London has created for its founder, Ben Ridley. The interiors of the home are finished with natural materials. Structural engineer: Architecture for London. Services engineer: Green Building Store.

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Deezen

JULY 6, 2023

In Situ Studio has renovated and expanded the mid-century modern childhood home of musician James Taylor in Chapel Hill, North Carolina , into a multi-building complex for two art collectors. The team has experience refurbishing mid-century modern homes in North Carolina, having overhauled a 1959 brick ranch-style home in Raleigh in 2017.

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JUNE 15, 2022

Having consulted with a structural engineer, these structures were placed within a comfortable distance from each other. The boxes themselves work as dividers of shared and private space, yet small windows created in the boxes allow other family members to sense their presence, sometimes seen and sometimes unseen.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Nicknamed Danish Mews House for its minimalist Scandinavian furnishings, the home is tucked away in a quiet mews lane in the Lancaster Gate area. Dusheiko 's primary concerns when converting the property into a home were bringing in more light, as well as making sure that the interior could support its inhabitants as they grow older.

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DECEMBER 7, 2022

Design firm Neiheiser Argyros stripped a grid-like ’70s home to its essence in service of the Mediterranean setting. At other moments it contains full height wood-framed windows to orient views out into the garden and sea. Have a project to share? Post it here. At times the grid is infilled with brick to create enclosure and privacy.

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Santa Cruz Architect

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Adding a second floor to your home is an effective way to expand your living space without encroaching on your yard or violating property line restrictions. Maximized Living Space By building upwards instead of outwards, you can double the square footage of your home without sacrificing valuable outdoor space.

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JULY 26, 2022

The positioning, size, and proportion of the windows, which invite the insider to visually and physically engage with the surroundings in particular ways, give the house a strange scale when viewed from afar. 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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Studio Terpeluk was selected to expand the 1976 house from 2,260 square feet (210 square metres) to 3,218 square feet (299 square metres) with a new guest room suite, home office, wet bar and media room. The renovation expanded the home. Padded seating wraps the corner under a large window looking out to the San Francisco skyline.

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