Remove Housing Remove Roofing Remove Structural Engineering
article thumbnail

Andrei Saltykov tucks unconventional house behind suburban London street

Deezen

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.

Housing 106
article thumbnail

HW Studio carves pyramidal lightwell into Mexican house

Deezen

Nestled into a small lot measuring only 4 metres by 10 metres (13 feet by 33 feet) Casa Emma was an excavation exercise, with the team carving a void in the center of the house in the shape of the troje granaries created by the local Purpecha indigenous group.

Housing 110
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Loader Monteith celebrates rural Scottish architecture at Cairnconon Byre house

Deezen

Architecture studio Loader Monteith has replaced a dilapidated farm building in Angus, Scotland , with a home finished with stone, black-painted pine and a red corrugated-metal roof. In this area of Angus, byres are typically unrendered stone buildings with pitched roofs," Mack continued. The photography by Jim Stephenson.

Housing 99
article thumbnail

Studio Becker Xu revises dogtrot model for North Carolina house

Deezen

Chicago-based Studio Becker Xu has separated a vernacular dogtrot house to create a set of concrete pavilion-like blocks capped with a pine gable to form a house in North Carolina. A dark standing-seam metal roof rises into a steep gable and thin red, circular columns add asymmetrical pops of color around the exterior.

Housing 106
article thumbnail

In New Zealand, a "House Within a House" Explores the Limits of Indoor/Outdoor Living

Dwell

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Project Details: Location: Whakamaru, New Zealand Architect: DCA Architects of Transformation / @ dca_architects Footprint: 3,218 square feet Builder: HRC Construction Structural Engineer: No.8

Housing 98
article thumbnail

David Kohn Architects curves University of Oxford college building around three-sided quadrangles

Deezen

Read: David Kohn celebrates English eccentricities with Red House in Dorset "There is a commentary in the original quadrangles and this perception that Oxford ought to counter its appearance of being exclusive," David Kohn Architects founder David Kohn told Dezeen. A stone tower contains offices David Kohn Architects also designed a 21.5-metre-tall

Building 125
article thumbnail

Hebra Arquitectos orients wood-clad Palo Quemado toward distant lake

Deezen

Chilean studio Hebra Arquitectos has completed a house in southern Chile with native oak cladding and faceted roofs laid out along a V-shaped plan to provide the best views of a lake. Palo Quemado House overlooks a lake in southern Chile Located in Chile 's Los Ros region, the house rests on a sloped site and looks toward Lake Ranco.

Glass 111