Structural engineer Hanif Kara receives the 2024 Soane Medal
Archinect
OCTOBER 8, 2024
The 2024 Soane Medal has been awarded to Hanif Kara, the British structural engineer and founder of the London-based firm AKT II.
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Innovative engineering showcased at the 2022 Structural Awards
Archinect
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
The UK’s Institution of Structural Engineers has announced the winners of the Structural Awards 2022, which seeks to celebrate the role of structural engineers in sustainability, social impact, innovation, and ingenuity. “The winning projects perfectly encapsulate our new guiding attribut.
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News: Structural engineer Hanif Kara receives the 2024 Soane Medal
Bustler
OCTOBER 7, 2024
The 2024 Soane Medal has been awarded to Hanif Kara, the British structural engineer and founder of the London-based firm AKT II.
Tomás de Iruarrizaga bridges concrete forms with wooden structure for Chile holiday home
Deezen
APRIL 24, 2023
Iruarrizaga designed the 500-square-metre house with a timber-clad upper level that bridges two rectangular concrete structures. Bedrooms and en-suite bathrooms are located in the two concrete structures, which are separated by a covered outdoor space leading to a decked patio overlooking the lake.
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This architect has identified the qualities office buildings need for converting to residential
Archinect
MARCH 21, 2023
That simple recipe for pandemic lemonade—offices people no longer use, combining with central urban locations where people want to live—is blissfully ignorant of a wide range of architectural and economic factors that make the vast majority of office buildings simply unsuitable as housing.
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Studio Libeskind unveils social housing that feels "like home" in Brooklyn
Deezen
MAY 24, 2024
Architecture firm Studio Libeskind has completed The Atrium at Sumner Houses, an affordable housing block with 190 apartments for seniors in Brooklyn , New York. Libeskind, who is now one of the world's best-known architects, lived in the housing cooperative when he was a teenager in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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CLB Architects creates trio of "tectonic structures" for Wyoming residence
Deezen
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
US studio CLB Architects has created a retreat in rural Wyoming that has three wood-clad structures, with a creek running underneath the primary residence. Located on a 35-acre (14-hectare) property near the town of Wilson, the home was envisioned as a series of "tectonic structures" set within a diverse ecosystem.
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Geological formations shape design of Wyoming house by Lever Architecture
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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Polysmiths adds Mediterranean texture to Arch House in London
Deezen
DECEMBER 2, 2024
Local architectural studio Polysmiths has aimed to bring Mediterranean warmth to a London terraced house with a sequence of structural arches and a mottled lime plaster finish. We eventually settled on using structural arches that support the existing rear wall, and connect with the extension, and the garden beyond."
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Unknown Works finishes CLT House extension with bright yellow render
Deezen
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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Blood, Sweat, and Tears: The Birch Fircrest House
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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. Note the basalt outcropping, which has been left in place as a feature within the house.
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Andrei Saltykov tucks unconventional house behind suburban London street
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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Wooden louvres create "subtle seclusion" at Tokyo house by Keiji Ashizawa Design
Deezen
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Japanese architect Keiji Ashizawa referenced louvres on townhouses in Kyoto when designing the concrete House in Aoyama, which is intended to foster a sense of privacy. The floors are connected by a winding wooden staircase, which combines with wooden furniture to add a more organic feel to the house and contrast the stark concrete.
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Architects "can develop a new language" with structural stone says Aurore Baulier
Deezen
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Top: Aurore Baulier is calling on architects to use structural stone. She advocates for the use of structural stone as part Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN), where she coordinates the Natural Materials Group. A better combination is to start actually having hybrid structures with timber and stone."
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RED Arquitectos integrates corn millstone into facade of Mexican house
Deezen
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
The house is arranged in a C-shaped plan, opening toward an outdoor dining patio on the western side shaded by large wooden beams. The house is constructed of concrete block, the most accessible material in the area, and covered on both the exterior and interior with naturally pigmented cement.
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Wildfires influence design of Campout House in northern California
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. Engineered wood and steel were used for the structural frame.
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Specht Architects creates austere glass house in the Berkshires
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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David Chipperfield adds social housing and offices to Lyon riverside development
Deezen
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. A cafe on the ground floor faces the public square and loggias at the apartment entrances overlook a garden courtyard. "The
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Field Architecture clads flowing Sonoma house in copper
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
Cometa House is nestled within trees on coastal site in Oaxaca
Deezen
JUNE 15, 2023
The Cometa House is located in the small, coastal town of Mazunte in the state of Oaxaca. The Cometa House is located in the coastal town of Mazunte For this site, Mexican architects Mauricio Rocha and Gabriela Carrillo set out to create a spacious retreat that worked in concert with the site's topography.
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Mork-Ulnes completes eight-sided Octothorpe House in Oregon desert
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. Octothorpe House features four bedrooms. Mork-Ulnes Architects added flex spaces to the interior.
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Elliott Architects uses dramatic cantilever for House on a Bay
Deezen
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. Elliott Architects created the house with two distinctive bars. Structural engineer: Thorton Tomasetti.
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Philip Johnson's Glass House guest annexe reopens after restoration
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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Architect couple creates Atwater House in Los Angeles over two decades
Deezen
AUGUST 19, 2024
The house belongs to architects Rebecca Rudolph, a principal at local studio Design, B **s , and Colin Thompson, who works at Gensler. The 500-square-foot (46-square-metre) house was rundown and sat on a long, slender barren lot. Two round windows add an exuberant touch to the house.
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Studio 3.0 adds dual extensions to 1970s Octagon house in Cape Cod
Deezen
DECEMBER 18, 2024
has added a wedge-shaped extension and a screened-in porch to an octagon-shaped house in Cape Cod originally built in the 1970s, keeping the addition distinct from the original core. Read: The top 10 home extensions of 2024 Another rectangular volume was sandwiched between the house and the residential extension. principal Josh Slater.
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Ruth Asawa’s Redwood House in San Francisco Gets a Spirited Renovation
Dwell
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The owner’s request was to increase the volume of the house while maintaining its original DNA as defined by angular geometries, redwood interiors, and exterior courtyards.
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Heliotrope uses "warm and subdued" materials for Seattle house extension
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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RA! turns Mexican house in on itself with interior courtyards
Deezen
AUGUST 5, 2024
has created a blocky house called Casa LL with polystyrene panels and concrete in Tepoztlán, Mexico. Located on a lot under the cliffs of Tepozteco, the "geometric composition of the house responds to a fragmentation of prisms that join and separate to shape its internal spaces," the team said. Local studio RA!
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Monolithic Rammed Earth Walls Keep This Marfa Ranch House Insulated in the Desert Climate
Dwell
JANUARY 25, 2023
Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Borrowing from the area’s earliest structures, the rooms of the house are organized around a courtyard, a cool respite from the sun-drenched desert grasslands beyond the walls. Have one to share?
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SDA completes flood-resilient concrete house in Vietnam
Deezen
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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Tan Yamanouchi & AWGL designs Japanese house to be "one big cat tree"
Deezen
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Architect Tan Yamanouchi & AWGL designed A Cat Tree House as a home in Kamakura, Japan , for his family and cats. Tan Yamanouchi designed A Cat Tree House for his family and cats "The main aim behind this project was to design a house regarding our two cats as two clients," studio founder Tan Yamanouchi told Dezeen.
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SILO creates Steel Louise house for Charlotte neighbourhood with "dramatic contradictions"
Deezen
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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Studio KUNZ splits gabled Brazilian house into two trapezoidal forms
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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David Chipperfield combines three housing typologies at Hertogensite in Belgium
Deezen
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
David Chipperfield Architects has the Hertogensite housing in Belgium "The design process was influenced by two main questions: how to tie together three different typologies into one coherent building, and how the building should respond to its unique surroundings," said David Chipperfield Architects associate Julien Gouiric.
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Concrete columns frame Bury Gate Farm house by Sandy Rendel Architects
Deezen
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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Junya Ishigami hides mud-covered house and restaurant below ground level in Japan
Deezen
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. Structural engineer: Jun Sato.
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Wheeler Kearns wraps Michigan lake house with two tones of wood
Deezen
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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Unemori Architects envelops existing building with Father & Son House
Deezen
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Japanese studio Unemori Architects has used cypress wood to create Father & Son House, an extension constructed above and around a self-built annexe in Saitama. This enabled the owner to remain close to his mother, who lives in the main house on the plot. We planned it so that many woods, old and new, are directly visible.
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Austin Maynard Architects develops "ethical housing" in inner-city Melbourne
Deezen
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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In New Zealand, a "House Within a House" Explores the Limits of Indoor/Outdoor Living
Dwell
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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In Tasmania, a Backyard House Built Into the Hillside Provides Space for Visiting Grandparents
Dwell
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. Have one to share?
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RSHP to transform world's largest cluster of Victorian gas holders into housing
Deezen
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 images are courtesy of RSHP.
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CO Adaptive overhauls Queens home to meet Passive House standards
Deezen
AUGUST 3, 2024
Brooklyn studio CO Adaptive has retrofitted a terraced house in Queens , New York to meet Passive House energy efficiency standards. The renovation work revolved around the goal of the unit becoming a Passive House – or Passivhaus – a certification that recognises outstanding energy efficiency in buildings. "We
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Robert Gurney clads gabled Delaware house with cedar shingles
Deezen
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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