Archinect

MARCH 25, 2022

Tucked away in Los Altos Hills, the aptly named Round House is a geometrically unique structure; one of a few similarly shaped homes built in California in the 60s. The clients fell in love with this quirky circular house and initially planned a modest remodel.

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Deezen

JUNE 19, 2024

Musician Ye , formerly known as Kanye West, has removed the windows and gutted the interior of a concrete home in Malibu , California, designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Ye has stripped a Tadao Ando-designed home back to its concrete structure. It would be wonderful to bring the house back to Tadao Ando's vision."

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Frame House transforms the existing barn house typology into a contemporary dwelling, redefined by strategic compositions of window frames on each new elevation and new structure extending from the existing gambrel roof construction.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The entirety of a terraced Victorian property in Stoke Newington was redesigned and extended, keeping only the building’s bare tectonic skeleton, due to the lack of structural integrity. The rear part of the house is extended to fit a large kitchen and dining area, with generous circulation space and a seating area where the.

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Deezen

JUNE 18, 2024

Named Di Linh House, the 50-square-metre dwelling was constructed in 2022 for a family who moved from the nearby city of Da Lat during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is formed of "light structures and materials" sourced locally "Residents must cross three steep slopes and a protective forest to reach the land," the studio told Dezeen.

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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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Archinect

OCTOBER 11, 2022

A new solution to America’s multifaceted housing frustrations is blowing up in New York’s Hudson River Valley thanks to a startup called Automatic Construction. After the concrete has cured to around 70% strength, shoring is removed while the membrane remains in place as a means of providing waterproofing for the structure.

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Deezen

JULY 3, 2024

Architecture studio Fala Atelier has created the illusion of extra height at this house in Lisbon by adding a large number of windows to its facade. Named House of Countless Windows, the home is intended to appear taller than its three storeys thanks to the windows on its facade that are arranged in a grid of five rows.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Architectural studio CAN has extended a terraced London house with a palette of wood and hemp and a large curved window that aims to redraw its connection to the garden. Verdant House's centrepiece is its sweeping curved glass window looking out to the garden, which references a Victorian shop front.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Designed for a young family, this house in Wellesley, Massachusetts is a contemporary response to the white clapboard vernacular so prevalent in the neighborhood and across New England. Built as a 100-year structure, the house was designed to meet the changing needs of a growing family.

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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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Aric Gitomer Architect

JANUARY 20, 2023

Passive houses are now considered to be the highest energy efficiency standards. An airtight structure will limit heat escape and reduce the associated energy costs, thereby providing comfort as well. Passive houses require strict design standards. Passive houses require strict design standards. air changes per hour.

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designboom

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

sobokuya's structure rests wooden pillars on natural stones, a nod to japan’s historic stone-field construction method. The post mount fuji comes to life through round window in japanese wooden house by sobokuya appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Aric Gitomer Architect

AUGUST 22, 2022

Sustainable houses are now the talk of the town. Let’s look at some essentials that can make your houses sustainable. Insulation makes the house more comfortable because it traps heat inside. Install Double Glazed Windows. These windows make the house warmer during the summer and cooler during the summer.

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Deezen

JULY 14, 2024

Living spaces that make a feature of pre-existing beams are the focus of this lookbook , which includes examples of apartments and homes that showcase integral structural elements made from wood and metal. Beams are parts of a building's structure that serve as support for ceilings, roofs and upper floors.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Mexico City architecture studio HEMAA utilised a steel structure and green-coloured eaves for Pabellón de la Reserva, a meeting place sited on the marshy shores of a lake in the mountains of central Mexico. This design choice blurs the structure's boundaries, framing the natural landscape with subtlety," he continued.

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ArchDaily

DECEMBER 17, 2023

© Fabian Dejtiar | Marcone House (1928). Architecture Classics showcased on ArchDaily serve as essential archives of architectural marvels, offering a window into the past. Structures such as Mariano Moreno’s National Library and Oscar Niemeyer’s Aeronautics Center highlight the eclectic nature of these classics. Read more »

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Archinect

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The Mountain Shelter House project, located in New York, USA, is an example of a successful integration of a private residence into a vast natural setting—it borders untouched pine forest on one side and is surrounded by a water reservoir on the other.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Winter, with its snow, ice and frozen landscapes, temporarily alters not only the physical appearance of structures but also how we experience them. Snow transforms the appearance of architectural structures, softening edges, blurring lines and muting colors.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The shape of the building is stepped with sweeping curves, which structure the volume visually. The rear-ventilated wood façade made of rhombus strips in glazed thermo ash structures the façade vertically. The expressive window curv.

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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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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In the early 20th century, large quarters in the central part of Dnipro were often developed with small residential houses and auxiliary structures. The minimalist square of the building’s main facade (20x20 m) features window openings that resonate with the variety of windows in the surrou.

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SW Oregon Architect

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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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 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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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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Archinect

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

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

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 bedrooms and bathrooms are stacked on the opposite end with windows that look out east and west. The primary suite cantilevers slightly out from the perimeter of the foundation with a glazed corner.

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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. The train tracks run right in front of the house, and there is a line of sight for commuters and other visitors," it added.

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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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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Agricultural architecture informed this timber house , which architect Roman Morschett has nestled into a grass-filled orchard site in rural southwest Germany. Larch wood was also used to create the terrace flooring, as well as window frames and parquet flooring inside.

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

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Archinect

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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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. The building will be totally reconfigured to create safe, comfortable, residences within the historic structure," CookFox associate partner Bethany Borel told Dezeen.

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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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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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