Deezen

JULY 13, 2024

Clerestory windows typically refer to a strip of glazing situated at the very top of a wall, or above eye-level, positioned just beneath the roof to draw in daylight. While traditionally coined in reference to the highest storey of clear glazing in a church or cathedral, clerestory windows are increasingly used in residential projects.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The site of the metabolist Nakagin Capsule Tower , which was disassembled in Tokyo 's Ginza district in 2022, is set to be taken over by a luxury hotel led by hospitality brand Accor. Accor has revealed it will open the Pullman Tokyo Ginza hotel on the site of the iconic Japanese housing block in late 2027.

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APRIL 7, 2023

The gift is meant to house local families that have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict. The company says: “The prefabricated homes are prebuilt and folded by Hapi Homes and assembled on-site. acre site that the city hopes will ultimately house more than 70 homes." The homes will be located on a 2.4-acre

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MAY 10, 2023

The former site of the notorious Viper Room will now feature an increased number of affordable housing units and market-rate condos while retaining its planned 5-star hotel component, which has been reduced from 113 to 90 rooms. LED mesh window coverings appear also to have been removed from the updated facade.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Spanish architecture studios DataAE and Xavier Vendrell have balanced two rows of social housing on a hillside in Barcelona overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Sea views were prioritised throughout The entire complex was arranged to prioritise views of the sea – from the housing units to both lobbies, to the vertical circulation cores.

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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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MARCH 21, 2023

Sited on a private coastal California hillside street lined with five tightly stacked homes, the 3000 square foot residence optimizes a compact footprint, resulting in an experience that maximizes outdoor living, without compromising the privacy of the family. Additionally, a guest quarters open.

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JUNE 6, 2024

A house for a couple and their family looking to slow down on Long Beach Island. Sited on a particularly narrow stretch of the barrier island, the house takes full advantage of the lot’s unique positioning to maximize expansive views towards both the bay and the ocean.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

The building is volumetrically oriented to the geometry of the site and also widens out in the direction of the shore. The height of the building as well as the arrangement of the floors refers directly to the topography of the site, with its slope towards the water. The expressive window curv.

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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

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. And to the east, the Whoo student accommodation and hostel is housed in a minimal concrete block with a sawtooth roof.

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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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JUNE 9, 2022

The upgrades now make it the second-largest in the BPL’s system and are part of a larger $52 million land-sale funded push that brings with it 114 units of off-site affordable housing at the site and a suite of upgrades and repairs to nine other branches. Image © Gregg Richards/Courtesy of Brooklyn Public Library.

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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. Located on a sloping site near the town of Sobrado, the blocky, three-storey home occupies a plot once occupied by the home of the client's grandfather.

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Archinect

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 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.

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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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MAY 19, 2024

It is no secret that the absence of affordable housing is a crisis here in Lane County. According to Better Housing Together , the Eugene area is among the most-constrained housing markets in the nation, second only to Seattle. Cracking the housing affordability nut has proven to be an enormously vexing problem.

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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. The volume of a residential building stands out from the flat relief. Roof overhangs protect the interior from overheating.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

In search of an alternative Japanese house type in urban density This detached house represents contemporary Japanese urban dwelling, while employing conventional wooden frame construction and reinterpreting traditional typology of Townhouse(Machiya) and Farm house(Nōka) of the region.

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JULY 30, 2024

After living in Manhattan for decades, the owners sought to trade the confines of city living for a site with sweeping views of the Hudson River. The site is entered via a winding gravel drive through meadow grasses and lilacs up to a framed view of the Hudson River through the carport.

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MAY 19, 2023

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. Under the zenithal light that enters through the roof of the 4.5

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Deezen

APRIL 21, 2024

Walls of exposed concrete define this skinny house in Saitama, Japan , which local studio IGArchitects designed with a width of just 2.7 Named 2700, the home is designed for a young couple on a long and thin site left over following a road expansion in the city, which is close to Tokyo. The home has a width of 2.7

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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. To maximise the number of units that could be fit on the site, MIAS filled its maintained outline and prow-like edges. The photography is by Adrià Goula.

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Deezen

JULY 2, 2024

Architects Hanna Karits and Mari Hunt used locally sourced wood to create this house in Estonia , which sits on top of a disused cellar in a forest. Named Põro House, the home is designed to have minimal impact on its remote plot, which is surrounded by lakes and trees in Võru County.

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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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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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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 structure is sited to have minimal impact on the land and constructed to have minimal carbon footprint.

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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. But inside the main space is extraordinary.

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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

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. Concrete flooring and earth-toned decor – including volcanic stone and recycled wood elements – are framed by dark steel columns and window trims.

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Dwell

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The renovation for a young family sought to open up and bring light into a typical skinny terrace, taking advantage of a prominent corner site. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Named Datum House, the existing Victorian maisonette in the Dartmouth Park Conversation Area has been opened up by DHaus at its lower ground-floor level and expanded with an additional bedroom. This steps up to a standalone garden studio at the end of the site. "We The photography is by James Retief.

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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

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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JANUARY 3, 2024

Architecture studios Jan Henrik Jansen Arkitekter and Studio Marshall Blecher have designed Vollerup Atrium House, a travertine holiday home that is defined by its central atrium. It has been designed to be a generational house and the client wanted something that would last the test of time and age gracefully."

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Deezen

APRIL 8, 2024

Scalloped facades featuring tones of cream and red brick define a U-shaped housing block by Bell Phillips in Marylebone in central London. London studio Bell Phillips wanted to create a contextual and contemporary addition to the Georgian and late Victorian architecture that surrounds the site.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Situated on a corner site where the old and new neighbourhoods of Leiria meet, the block of five apartments is connected to an existing, yellow-painted 20th century house, which was renovated and converted into two additional apartments as part of the project. The concept can be resumed in two words: protect and care."

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