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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The buildings are sited to create an occupation against the dune edge that feels relaxed and timeless. To moderate light, air, view, privacy, the house is layered with sliding timber shutters. Together with the timber cladding and roof, the material will age and silver over time - integrating the buildings with the landscape.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

A curved roof and textured concrete walls characterise Northcote House in Melbourne , designed by local studio LLDS Architects for its founder partners. Slotted into the site of a former car park measuring 4.6 Slotted into the site of a former car park measuring 4.6

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APRIL 1, 2022

meter) sculpture of a shark crashing through the roof of Magnus Hanson-Heine’s house in rural Oxford, England, is now a protected landmark — and he’s not happy about it. City Council members in Oxford voted earlier in the month to add the protest artwork to its Heritage Asset Register along with 16 other sites.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Frank Lloyd Wright ’s California seaside project, Mrs. Clinton Walker House, has sold for $22 million after being listed on the market in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, according to the Wall Street Journal. Thomas Church was also responsible for the landscaping at the site in his pioneering California Style.

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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. At night, lights inside glow outwards through the roof to create a lantern-like effect.

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MARCH 23, 2023

The 35,000-square-foot distillery and adjacent 20,000-square-foot rick house structure dubbed ‘Meander’ will begin construction later this year at the Lanes Run Business Park located at the northeastern edge of the city, which is just 15 miles from the capital of Lexington. A single shingled roof of photovolt.

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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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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This project is a weekend house in the mountains of the Sierra de Arteaga, in the state of Coahuila in northern Mexico. The house is laid out on the slope of an old orchard in mountainous surroundings, with the intention of having minimal impact on the site and natural vegetation.

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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 16, 2023

Nine luxury houses sit on a uniquely long and narrow site of 7,850 square meters, facing a densely built urban context to the south and a green hillside slope to the north. Each house comprises two individual units, each of which provides roughly 5,000 square feet (465 square meters) of floor area for family living.

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Deezen

JUNE 12, 2024

Barrel-vaulted concrete roofs are supported by thick laterite walls at The Stoic Wall Residence in Kerala, India , completed by local studio Lijo Reny Architects. It is organised into a series of distinct areas across a large site surrounded by trees, following the path of the sun and separated by small courtyards.

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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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Archinect

JANUARY 10, 2023

The 155 ft long house spans 45 ft across an intermittent creek on a steeply sloping, heavily wooded site. Our strategy was to inseparably link the house, studio, and site to one another, minimizing disruption of the woods (only one tree was relocated for construction).

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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 11 houses are divided into two-, three- and four-bedroom homes that sit next to a new public route for pedestrians and cyclists.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The nearly two-year-old Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity has shared news of its arrival in a new permanent home in the San Francisco Bay Area that will consolidate its archival collection under one roof for the first time. A small gift shop bookends the experience. The Eames Institute says this is all vital to making it.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The site is located in a cottage village outside the city, surrounded by a variety of modern manor buildings. Its shaping is subordinated to the unique scenario of the family living in the house. Roof overhangs protect the interior from overheating. The volume of a residential building stands out from the flat relief.

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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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Deezen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A dark grey roof shaped like an armadillo's shell peeks out behind a row of terraced houses on Station Lodge, a home in southwest London designed by local architectural studio Lacey & Salkytov. The outside of the house doesn't reveal much", said Salkytov.

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OCTOBER 28, 2023

On the boards in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood is a new house for a three-peat client of Faulkner Architects. It is to replace an existing 1904 house that had lost its historic integrity due to renovations over the last 120 years. A photovoltaic array on the roof deck earns a planned net-zero annual energy usage.

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MARCH 28, 2024

Image credit: WEISS/MANFREDI with Reed Hilderbrand for Longwood Gardens Currently under construction , the project sees 17 acres on the Longwood Gardens site transformed into a visitor experience to host exhibitions, programs, and events. The conservatory contains gardens, pools, and fountains designed by Reed Hilderbrand.

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2024

California studio TW Ryan Architecture has completed a wildfire-resistant house in the American West that features a Corten steel exterior and pyramidal roofs that allude to the mountainous terrain. Four Roof House features a Corten steel exterior Their chosen site was a bluff overlooking a lake near the town of Helmville.

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Deezen

JULY 23, 2024

Local timber-framed buildings influenced the geometric form of Water Farm, a house that architecture practice Studio Bark has added to a family farm in Sussex. 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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Archinect

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The arrangement of the volumes on the site responds, on the one hand, to the site’s location within its context and its commercial needs, and on the other, to the structural conditions that are required in lacustrine soil. The project consists of three buildings, each with a designated use: shopping center, hotel, and offices.

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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. SPPARC has transformed a Georgian townhouse into an office The heart of the project is a collaborative workspace on the ground floor, which SPPARC has housed in a rear extension.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 2, 2024

To kick off our review of 2024 , Dezeen editor Tom Ravenscroft picks the houses that drew readers' attention this year, including a hillside home by Álvaro Siza and three residences that incorporate greenhouses. According to the studio, the house was designed to "sit respectfully" within the dramatic landscape.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Taiwanese studio Bio-Architecture Formosana followed the principles of a circular economy when designing the Taisugar Circular Village, a housing complex in Tainan , Taiwan. The housing surrounds an urban farm TCV was constructed from prefabricated modules to minimise waste, combined with a mixture of hollowed core concrete slabs and steel.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Danish architecture studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen has completed a multi-functional art centre in Beijing , referencing the shape of a granary that once occupied the site. The roof design was informed by a granary that once stood on the site The centre is comprised of three buildings defined by their swooping roof structures.

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JULY 18, 2024

This home, on two acres, near Mazama in Washington's Methow Valley, was sited to take maximum advantage of a south-facing orientation. The roof height was intentional, to protect from the summer heat, and allow winter sun in to warm up the space. A centerline from the kitchen to the fireplace wall is a nod to formality.

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JUNE 7, 2022

As reported by The Guardian , it has the ability to produce 50 times the energy of an average rooftop photovoltaic array used in residential housing. The addition of extra roof panels will cut almost all ongoing power costs, and after a few years, the site is expected to be carbon-neutral.

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MAY 19, 2023

Under the zenithal light that enters through the roof of the 4.5 meter high central space of the house, its inhabitants can enjoy the surrounding landscape through the large windows that end in two of its perimeter patios and a large terrace that extends into the terrain by means of vegetated platforms.

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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. However, some bricks could not be saved, and in some parts, we completed with reclaimed stock bricks from other London sites," it continued.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Wood is the dominant material throughout Karaka Tower, a vertical house extension in Wellington , New Zealand, designed by local studio Arête Architects to evoke a treehouse. The extension is intended to evoke a "childhood treehouse" "The biggest driver for our design solution was the site," studio founder Sam Brown told Dezeen.

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Deezen

AUGUST 28, 2024

Indian practice Studio MOB has completed A House in the Farm, a modern farmhouse comprising intersecting concrete blocks and sheltered spaces to encourage indoor-outdoor living. Underneath the home's pitched upper roof, an accent wall coated in brickwork adds an earthy feel to the facade.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

US studio Robert Gurney Architect has completed a beachfront house in Delaware consisting of "simple and pure forms" wrapped in white cedar, salvaged barn wood and fibre-cement panels. Named after the community where it is located, the Cotton Patch Hills House sits on an oceanfront site in Bethany Beach, Delaware.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a house nestled into the rocky landscape of Rooi Els in South Africa by KLG Architects. Yes, this house is so right for the site – materials low profile and the internal spaces are just great," commended Chewie. Which side are you on? What do you make of it?

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AUGUST 8, 2024

This house is located on an elongated site overlooking the ocean at San Jose del Cabo. A formal scheme was established with a series of large, heavy concrete walls and a series of patios that configure the spaces within the house accompanied by water features, creating an atmosphere of serenity.

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Deezen

JUNE 17, 2024

Plates of weathering steel wrap the House for a New Beginning, a project designed by US studio Nielsen Schuh Architects for a couple whose original home was destroyed by a wildfire. Nielsen Schuh Architects wrapped the home in weathering steel When the couple set out to rebuild, they picked a site near their prior home.

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