Deezen

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

This week's lookbook explores eight peaceful residential interiors that feature expansive glazing and floor-to-ceiling windows framing verdant views. These eight projects all use oversized or unusually shaped windows in clever ways, creating interiors that embrace nature and forge welcome connections to the outdoors.

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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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Archinect

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

California-based housing startup Samara has unveiled further details of their factory-produced studio and one-bedroom units. Customers can also choose between five colors, two roof designs, and customizable windows, doors, and decks.

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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 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

AUGUST 22, 2024

British engineer Tom Greenhill has proposed a low-cost, low-energy solution for keeping UK homes cool in a heatwave: painting the outside of windows with yoghurt. Greenhill admits that this may seem like a "totally eccentric idea". Greenhill admits that this may seem like a "totally eccentric idea".

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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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Aric Gitomer Architect

JANUARY 20, 2023

Passive houses are now considered to be the highest energy efficiency standards. Passive houses require strict design standards. To achieve a passive house certification, a building must have less than 0.6 The entire construction team must be aware of how essential airtightness is to passive house design.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2022

White smoke rises from the black house and suggests that the cottage is not empty. The wood also extends to the roof areas and the main house, even with a small cottage, looks very abstract. The wood also extends to the roof areas and the main house, even with a small cottage, looks very abstract.

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ArchDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

French Broad House, Riverdale, Tennessee, 2020, Sanders Pace Architecture, 2020. Years from now, serious collectors of architectural magazines may search for that single issue of the 21st century magazine Dwell , absent a major spread of a house designed in the midcentury modern (MCM) manner or a restoration of a building from that era.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Its shaping is subordinated to the unique scenario of the family living in the house. The original shape of the house in the longitudinal direction does not have a clear distinction between walls and roof, being associated with the natural landscape - the outcropping of rocks near the Dnipro River.

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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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Archinect

JANUARY 26, 2024

The Preston Hollow House blurs the lines between indoors and out. A floating pavilion roof hovers over the interior and exterior spaces while sliding glass panels and corrugated concrete walls define its courtyards. The house is open and light-filled yet provides seclusion from the street.

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Archinect

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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Deezen

MAY 10, 2024

Local studio Emil Eve Architects has revamped the Aden Grove house in east London , adding loft and rear extensions characterised by angular forms and terracotta tiles. The two additions feature matching terracotta tile cladding, angular forms and large windows.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Wimbledon House is a carefully considered residential project that balances modern living with the area’s historical character. The house is divided into three distinct volumes, each with a mono-pitched roof, referencing the proportions and forms of surrounding Edwardian homes.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

California-based housing startup Samara has unveiled further details of their factory-produced studio and one-bedroom units. Customers can also choose between five colors, two roof designs, and customizable windows, doors, and decks.

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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

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

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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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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Archinect

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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Archinect

JULY 18, 2024

The twelve-foot-high bank of windows and NanaWall in the great room face southwest and provide transparency through the home, while framing valley and mountain views. The roof height was intentional, to protect from the summer heat, and allow winter sun in to warm up the space.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Japanese studio Chop + Archi created a deep cross-shaped void in the centre of this compact house in Kumagaya, Japan , dividing it into distinct spaces that are buffered from each other. A cruciform void divides the interior Externally, this cross-shaped cut-out is expressed by a sloping, white-rendered roof informed by origami.

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Deezen

JULY 15, 2024

Australian practice SSdH has completed Stewart House, the renovation of a home in Melbourne that preserves the brick-clad building's original 1970s character. Located in the Brunswick suburb, the single-storey home has a brown-brick exterior and tiled roof typical of an era of rapid development in the area.

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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. Existing pavers in the garden have been retained but relayed in a new pattern that references both the extension's brickwork and the roof slates.

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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

JULY 3, 2024

Circular holes form light wells, courtyards and spaces for existing trees at this lakeside house in Mexico 's Nayarit state, designed by Mexican studio MCxA Group. Casa Santa Maria del Oro is nestled into a steep slope that falls away to the water, partially embedded within the earth and covered by a green roof.

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Deezen

MAY 26, 2024

A red-hued extension built from brick and pigmented concrete has been added to a Victorian house in the suburbs of Norwich by local architecture studio Grafted. The new extension was a way to celebrate the best details of the house through reinterpretation," she continued. The previous extension was low-key but poorly built.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Stone and timber were used to complement the sandy landscape Set back from the road, the home is accessed via a pale concrete path that leads between a service house and garage and across a large, "desert-inspired" courtyard planted with cacti. The photography is by Luz Imelda Castillo.

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Deezen

APRIL 13, 2024

Movable metal shutters reveal bright red balconies at this social housing block in Barcelona , created by local architecture studios MIAS and Coll-Leclerc Architects. Two large cuts divide the housing into three smaller, "porous" blocks with planted pathways in between. The photography is by Adrià Goula.

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Deezen

AUGUST 6, 2024

Local architecture studio CookFox Architects has unveiled plans to renovate a former women's prison in Chelsea into "100 per cent" affordable housing. Read: CookFox Architects adds tiered extension to historic New York apartment building "Expansive, efficient windows" will be converted into each apartment.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Irregularly placed square openings puncture the thick concrete exterior of SV House in Portugal , recently completed by architecture studio Spaceworkers. From the outside, they are an important element in the composition of the elevations and in the perception of the occupation of the house, but without revealing too much," the studio said.

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Deezen

MARCH 31, 2024

The 19th-century villas in the suburbs of Paris informed the arched windows and sloping roofs of this social housing block in France , completed by local studio SOA Architectes. Previous projects by SOA Architectes include the 21-storey mixed use Aya Tower in Beirut, for which the studio drew on traditional Arabian houses.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Baw Beese House is a multi-generational vacation retreat and lake house designed with three distinct living areas which can operate independently or together as a whole. The home is clad in shou sugi ban siding, a steel “hot” roof, and high-performance windows.

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Archinect

APRIL 30, 2024

Originally constructed in 1951, the single-family house epitomized the post-war residential style prevalent at the time. It appeared archetypically as a Danish house is imagined: a two-story cubic box with evenly distributed windows, red brick façade, and a gable roof.

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Deezen

MARCH 2, 2024

Prague studio Byró Architekti has renovated a 19th-century house in the Czech town of Kutná Hora, adding unexpected openings and colourful joinery that create a playful contrast with the original interior. The house's main feature is a spiral staircase that forms a vertical circulation core at the centre of the plan.

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