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AUGUST 8, 2021

The Birch Fircrest House I had the good fortune this weekend to enjoy a tour of a remarkable work of architecture currently under construction: the Birch Fircrest House designed by Speranza Architecture + Urban Design. Philip Speranza , AIA offered the personal tour, describing the design in detail for me.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Architecture firm Alterstudio has completed a tower-like house in Texas that rises up from a steep, wooded site that was long overlooked "as a possible home site". Built for a married couple in Austin , the house feels immersed in the wilderness but is, in fact, surrounded by "very ordinary, suburban conditions".

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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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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. But inside the main space is extraordinary.

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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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NOVEMBER 28, 2024

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

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

Maine studio Elliott Architects has created a seaside house that includes a dramatic, cantilevered volume on stilt that stretches towards the ocean and the tree line. House on a Bay is a twisted residence overlooking the sea. He felt strongly that this building should be singular, much like its site.

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MARCH 12, 2022

Swedish architect Måns Tham has created a house on the outskirts of Stockholm using eight standard shipping containers that are stacked and elevated on metal pillars. Måns Tham used shipping containers to create this house in Stockholm. The house comprises eight containers with a standard width of 2.4

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APRIL 20, 2024

Named Bury Gate Farm, the five-bedroom house replaces a 1950s bungalow on a sloped site on the outskirts of Pulborough, which overlooks fields and woodland. Previous projects by the studio include a barrel-vaulted barn conversion in West Sussex and a narrow house slotted into a disused alley in Peckham.

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DECEMBER 6, 2024

British studio David Chipperfield Architects has completed a social housing block, an office building and a mixed-use high-rise as part of a masterplan in Lyon led by Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron. The studio also aimed for the 11 buildings to be visually cohesive while being distinguishable from each other.

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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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MARCH 15, 2024

US studio CCY Architects has clad a mountainside house in patinated copper panels and tilted the roof to adhere with the topography of its site in Colorado. Known as DNA Alpine, the 4,000-square foot (372-square metre) home was completed in 2022 and designed to "disappear into or somehow become" the 75-acre site in San Miguel County.

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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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JULY 11, 2024

British studio RSHP has received planning consent to build cylindrical housing blocks within Victorian gas holders at the Bromley-by-Bow Gasworks in London. The proposal will create a lasting and meaningful legacy for Londoners that extends far beyond the site."

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MARCH 30, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The original existing rear additions to the house connected very poorly to the context of the site and to the original terrace. Have one to share? Post it here.

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APRIL 9, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. On a secluded wooded site, the new structure grounds itself to the earth with its approach to material and form. Have one to share? Post it here.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The Stradella Ridge house sits on a steep, triangular property in Bel Air, an affluent neighbourhood in the foothills of the Santa Monica mountains. The elevated site provides sweeping views of the undulating terrain and the distant ocean. Different treatments were used on the facades. The photography is by Mike Kelley.

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MARCH 26, 2023

Architecture studio SDA has completed the Floating House, a concrete-framed home on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City that is elevated above ground to mitigate the impacts of flooding. It is elevated above ground to mitigate the impacts of flooding "We composed the house as three slabs floating above the ground," explained SDA.

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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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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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OCTOBER 2, 2024

Dutch studio MVRDV has overhauled a former world war two German military base in the Netherlands , adding terraced housing and preserving a series of bunkers disguised as farmhouses. Designed with the same size and shape as the former buildings, the terraces each contain seven houses and have walls and roofs covered in grey slate.

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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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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Situated on a narrow site between a fragment of the city's medieval wall and a branch of the river Dyle, the complex comprises a 14-storey tower, nine townhouses and a small apartment block united "into one coherent building". The photography is by Maxime Delvaux.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The house belongs to Marc Manack, an architecture professor and founding principal of SILO , and his wife, Kallisto Vimr. Belmont has been transforming in recent years, with suburban-style homes popping up alongside modest dwellings that once served as worker housing for a local cotton mill.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

US studio Kadre Architects has converted two rundown motels in Los Angeles County into The Sierra, a supportive living complex that serves as a "new housing prototype" for people experiencing homelessness. hectare) site near a highway, the complex consists of five buildings surrounded by pathways and park space.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Architecture studio Unknown Works has extended a semi-detached house in east London , adding vibrant yellow-rendered forms to its front and rear. Unknown Works has extended a semi-detached house in east London. The kitchen and diner are housed in the bright yellow rear extension that opens onto the garden's brick-paved patio.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

A Japanese house and restaurant are contained within this mud-covered building by architect Junya Ishigami , which was crafted by pouring concrete into holes in the ground. Junya Ishigami has hidden a house below ground level in Japan. Junya Ishigami has hidden a house below ground level in Japan.

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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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MARCH 24, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. This garden flows seamlessly onto the roof and is planted with native grasses and shrubs improving the biodiversity of the site while concealing the dwelling from the houses above. Post it here.

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JULY 22, 2024

US architect Philip Johnson's Glass House annexe, the Brick House, has been restored and reopened following a 15-year closure in Connecticut. It is located 80 feet downhill (24 metres) from the Glass House, separated by a lawn and connected by a stone pathway. A single door is located on its facade.

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AUGUST 26, 2022

Architect Alexander Symes has added an angular addition to a house in Unanderra, Australia , featuring wood-lined living spaces that open onto a terrace perched in the canopy of a large tree. Symes designed Pepper Tree Passive House for local builder Adam Souter, whose company Souter Built aims to create high-performance sustainable homes.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

Satish Jassal Architects designed Haringey Brick Bungalow The 110-square-metre site and narrow passageway was "like building through a straw", dictating many design and construction decisions. The two accommodation wings of the house were rotated and overlook the courtyards," said Jassal.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Chicago-based studio Wheeler Kearns Architects has created a wood-wrapped lake house with three separate structures whose design was informed "by the natural beauty and tranquillity" of Lake Michigan. Completed in August 2022, the Meadow Lane Retreat is a multi-structure house on a wooded site in Michigan.

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AUGUST 28, 2022

Austin Maynard Architects has completed Terrace House, a self-funded apartment building in Melbourne which is low-cost, eco-conscious and has enough room for young families. Located on a narrow infill site in Brunswick, Terrace House is a six storey "ethical housing" building containing 16 apartments and three ground-level shop units.

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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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MAY 3, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. From the northwestern side of the site is a wedge of bio-corridor stretching along the Dalejský Brook. Urban space surrounds the site on the south and east sides. Have one to share? Post it here.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The secondary dwelling was part of the overall brief and master plan of the site; to maximize the site’s potential and create options for our client. Have one to share? Post it here.

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