Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The three-bedroom house by Nikjoo is located on a backland site tucked behind Stoke Newington's Church Street and was originally a parking space used by a convenience store to receive deliveries. At the top of the house is a third-floor main bedroom with a walk-in wardrobe, ensuite bathroom and access to a secluded roof terrace.

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Deezen

MARCH 17, 2025

Inside, this wooden structure is contrasted by white walls, while externally planks of wood that match the colour of the frame are used as a subtle nod to Tudor half-timbering, in which a wooden frame would be infilled with stucco or brick.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Local studio Miró Rivera Architects has clad the lakeside River Hills Residence in weathering steel , complemented by a delicate two-storey dock and guest house. The intent was to create a lakeside retreat that invites nature into the house, and encourages occupants to connect with the outdoors."

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Deezen

MARCH 20, 2025

A house based on designs by Frank Lloyd Wright has been completed in Ohio in a way that is "true to Wright's plan, intent and spirit" according to its owner and general contractor Sarah Dykstra, despite its attribution being contested. The carport separates a toolshed from the long section that houses the bedrooms.

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Deezen

JUNE 6, 2022

Francois Verhoeven Architects has completed a house in a Dutch village featuring a roof with three sloping sections that incorporate skylights , sedum and concealed solar panels. The bungalow is intended to fit into the existing neighbourhood, which comprises detached houses built alongside a series of manmade waterways.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion 0 qpurcell Thu, 09/28/2023 - 10:37 Office Buildings IMEG's Edwin Dean, Joe Gulden, and Doug Sweeney, share seven key focuses for structural engineers when planning office-to-residential conversions. faces a housing deficit of 3.8 million units.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2024

Mexican studio COA Arquitectura has enclosed a winery outside of Guadalajara with a corrugated steel sawtooth roof and rammed earth walls. The main building is divided into two volumes A sawtooth steel roof covers the length of the facilities, lying exposed and uncovered by the stone walls on its far side.

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Dwell

JANUARY 9, 2025

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. By building most of the house off-site we were then able to help reduce disruption to the local community and road network as well as substantially reduce on-site construction time and material waste. "A

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Deezen

OCTOBER 15, 2024

It has completed dozens of high-profile projects including a bubble-like extension for a house in Japan. Many of its in-progress projects include formal references to natural phenomena, such as the wave-like roof for the proposed Nanhai Art Center in Guangdong. The photography is by Iwan Baan unless otherwise stated.

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Dwell

MARCH 10, 2025

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The house is tucked back from the road on a flag lot surrounded by more traditional suburban homes. Have one to share? Post it here. We added 1,512 square feet for a total of 3,102 square feet.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 23, 2024

"The project approaches the existing pumping station as a 'found object', integrating an office and restaurant within, while flanking the heritage building with two residential blocks that push the potentials of multi-family housing," said the studio. The photography is by James Brittain.

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Dwell

JANUARY 16, 2025

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The design was adapted to allow easy future conversion into two houses and make the project financially viable long-term. The owners of this U.K. Have one to share? Post it here.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Canadian architecture studio Lemay has designed a chalet prototype with a sloped roof and extensive glazing using mass timber in Potton, Quebec. The ground floor is primarily transparent with floor-to-ceiling glazing, but a screen of dark-coloured cedar slats wraps around the house and helps it blend into its alpine context.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Other projects by LOHA include a Raleigh apartment building with a highly sculptural roof and a cedar-clad housing block in Detroit. The photography is by Eric Staudenmaier.

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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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Deezen

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Read: Eight houses designed to showcase cars feature in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter As for sound-proofing, while the residences are "slightly more acoustically insulated" than the average hotel, there is no way to block out the sound of the track entirely. The photography is by Jack Hobhouse.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A spiralling cable-net roof modelled in the image of a Fibonacci sequence tops a new public greenhouse designed by Canadian studio KPMB Architects in Winnipeg. KPMB Architects developed the design in partnership with Architecture49 and Blackwell Structural Engineers.

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Dwell

APRIL 21, 2023

The homeowners created the structures using stones collected on-site to connect their rural residence to the land. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 20, 2023

California studio Field Architecture designed this Sonoma Valley house out of a trio of fanning copper-clad pavilions with butterfly roofs. Named Madrone Ridge, the 4,920 square-foot (460 square-metre) house sits within the watershed of northern California's Russian River. the studio said. "By

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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. "The

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Local studio Hopson Rodstrom Design placed a sawtooth roof on top of this black-clad apartment building with an interior courtyard in southern California. Located in West Los Angeles on a busy thoroughfare, the project is called The Jagger – named after the massive sawtooth roof that tops it.

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e-architect

MARCH 13, 2025

As New Wave London’s primary headquarters, the expansion of New Wave House meets the contractors’ growing spatial requirements, encompassing a new area for the main office in the new timber pavilion. Thomas-McBrien also created space for a 100 square metre communal roof terrace, lined with native planting.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The 3,340-square-foot (310-square metre) Octothorpe House is located in Bend, Oregon , a small city 160 miles (257 kilometres) southeast of Portland. Octothorpe House is an eight-sided cabin in the Oregon desert. The shed roof – capped in standing seam metal – creates a series of narrow, slanted interior spaces.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Nestled in a forested grove at the north end of a narrow, 10-acre site, the house is sheltered by oak, sweet gum, maple and persimmon trees, and opens onto an expansive view of a pond. "In

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Dwell

JULY 9, 2024

A living roof is heavy; managing the extra weight requires careful consideration in its design. To pull off a sculptural green roof—and the 2,500 square foot, off-grid-ready weekend getaway tucked beneath it— it helps to have an international design firm at your disposal. Photo: Stéphane Groleau The house in summer camouflage.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Canadian studio D'Arcy Jones Architects has transformed a dilapidated, 120-year-old building into a cedar -clad family house, leaving historical materials exposed in the updated interiors. It was first built in the early 1900s and has served different uses over time, from being a makeshift hospital to a rooming house.

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Deezen

JULY 11, 2024

Dating to 1933, the house was built by ship captain Ole E Nelson, who modelled it after his boyhood home in Bergen, Norway. Heliotrope has designed an extension to a historic 1930s home The captain reportedly selected all of the wood used in the house and sent back pieces that did not meet his standards.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2023

The clients hired Texas-based Specht Architects to build a 2,000-square-foot (186-square metre) minimalist house with floor-to-ceiling glass walls that afforded views of the surrounding meadow and large old-growth trees. The axial approach includes replanted natural grasses The roof extends to create a 15-foot (4.5-metre)

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Dwell

MARCH 24, 2023

The timber-and-steel addition’s landscaped roof hides it from sight while tying it into the sloping backyard of the primary residence. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2023

A pair of stone towers and a thatched -roof palapa are among the features at a nature retreat in southern Mexico designed by architects Mauricio Rocha and Gabriela Carrillo. The Cometa House is located in the small, coastal town of Mazunte in the state of Oaxaca. They faced several interesting conditions while designing the house.

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2022

Architecture studio Loader Monteith has renovated a modernist house in the Scottish Borders that was damaged in a fire, using a light touch to reinstate its original design by architect Peter Womersley. Loader Monteith has renovated a modernist house in the Scottish Borders. metre grid.

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Deezen

APRIL 12, 2022

UK studio Hudson Architects has built a house in a Norfolk coastal village with Corten steel , glass and flint walls. Located at the edge of a village on the English county of Norfolk, the Coast House was designed by Hudson Architects to replace a 1920s house within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

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Deezen

AUGUST 23, 2022

The CAMPout House is located on a gently sloping site in Truckee, a mountain town just north of the lake known for its skiing , hiking and water sports. CAMPout House sits on a gently sloping site. The house's design was informed by its occupants' active lifestyle. The house includes an open-concept kitchen.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2024

Local architecture studio Modern Office of Design + Architecture has wrapped a multifamily housing development in wood siding and topped it with ramped roof gardens in Calgary , Alberta. Inside, the housing units range from 450-square foot (42-square metre) studio to 600-square foot (56-square metre) condos and from 1.5-storey

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The tan, gable-roofed retreat has equally rugged interiors with OSB walls and polished concrete floors. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Brazilian practice Studio KUNZ has created a compact gabled house that cantilevers from a sloped site in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Vertical wood slats wrap the base The arrangement creates makes the structure appear balanced atop a slate staircase that provides a rustic base for the home's clean white lines.

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