Deezen

MARCH 25, 2024

Dutch studio MVRDV has revealed a series of residential high-rises arranged around courtyards in Shenzhen 's Qianhai bay, which will form part of a smart city development by technology company Tencent. All units are identical in size and layout, with each providing a balcony or bay window to its occupant." "The

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Deezen

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Lime-plastered walls, tiled floors and wooden joinery define the interior The blockwork arches, designed in collaboration with structural engineer Techne Engineering also reduced demolition and construction waste and eliminated the need to put in costly ground beams, Wu explained.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The dining room is extended from the corridor and features a circular window The wooden ceiling and white walls are juxtaposed by dark earthen tiles and a heavy board-formed half-wall that curves from the entrance into the central space. A circular window breaks the orthogonal design but references the curved walls.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

When seen from inside, the roof's shell structure is exposed revealing its "complex" geometry and its Douglas fir and steel construction, designed in collaboration with London structural engineers Foster Structures. These have been designed with heavy block-work and oblique windows to reduce noise from the train line.

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Deezen

JULY 13, 2023

UK studio Corstorphine & Wright has converted a world war two bunker in Dorset, UK, into a holiday home with a blast-shaped window cut in its front. Corstorphine & Wright worked with structural engineer Symmetrys to maintain a sense of history by retaining almost all of the existing structure. "It

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Deezen

MARCH 18, 2022

The joinery also conceals structural elements and sliding doors, while glazed openings provide a visual connection between spaces on either side. Sliding doors and windows are built into the partitions. A curved motif, which informed the project's name, is repeated across the windows, doors and alcoves built into the joinery.

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Deezen

APRIL 25, 2024

Omar Gandhi clad the home in naturally weathering cedar boards Naturally weathering cedar boards were interspersed with detail elements of Corten steel to form picture frame hoops around the windows. Approaching the building from the public side, a sense of privacy and shelter welcomes visitors," the team said.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Three simple, bow-shaped structures were placed to its southeast to house students. The residential buildings were clad in timber The Kresge College Academic Center sits on an uneven site next to a steep ravine. The expansion's centrepiece is an academic centre with a series of protrusions that jut out asymmetrically from a core.

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Dwell

JUNE 15, 2022

To fit in synergistically with the residential area surrounding the client’s house, one of the requirements was that the exterior should look like a ‘conventionally shaped house’. Having consulted with a structural engineer, these structures were placed within a comfortable distance from each other.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The 83-metre-high tower, which will be mainly residential but also house retail and office spaces, will have a cascading shape that narrows as it rises. These loggias will feature in all of the apartments and be built with aluminium window frames. Above: the tower will be built in Tirana.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2022

A modern window is cut into the rustic facade. The corner window of the main living space looks out into the foilage. A hallway leads past them to an open-concept kitchen, living and dining space with tall windows that look out onto the site's dense wooded surroundings. Structural engineer: Geniex.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

A residential extension wrapped in galvanised metal is positioned over a garden and attached to an old carriage house in this project by Montreal studio Thomas Balaban Architecte. TBA repaired the brick facade and replaced windows. Windows and skylights bring in daylight and offer a connection to the exterior.

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Deezen

JUNE 19, 2022

On the street-facing facade, windows were kept small enough to retain privacy while still allowing light to enter and for the inhabitants to view the surroundings. As it extends into its garden, the exterior completely envelops the programme and the large windows blur the boundaries between spaces.". Engineering: Tomás Rodríguez.

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Deezen

AUGUST 3, 2022

The residential tower has flats on 19 floors. The 19 stories above hold apartments and culminate in a top floor with floor-to-ceiling glass windows and two sky decks. Materials were almost exclusively glass window wall and various metal panels," Korb said of the cladding. Glulam and CLT was used for the structure.

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Deezen

APRIL 24, 2023

Iruarrizaga designed the 500-square-metre house with a timber-clad upper level that bridges two rectangular concrete structures. The home is located by a lake in southern Chile Large windows on all sides of the upper level provide views of the surrounding landscape, including the lake, mountains and nearby Mocho Choshuenco volcano.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Boston-based architecture studio Safdie Architects has completed a 24-storey residential building in Ecuador that has a snaking profile with staggered apartments and terraces. Qorner is a residential tower in Quito that was designed by Safdie Architects. Qorner is a residential tower in Quito that was designed by Safdie Architects.

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

Prioritising natural light, Oliver Leech Architects expanded the ground floor with an open living, dining and kitchen space, which meets the existing building with a large skylight and a window seat overlooking a small courtyard. The extension features a window seat overlooking the rear courtyard Oliver Leech Architects was founded in 2016.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2024

Known as GROW, the project includes 20 residential units and a 0.6-acre The four-storey building zigzags up from the ground in alternating bands of vertical wooden boards, in natural and blackened finishes, both punctuated with black-framed windows.

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Deezen

MARCH 19, 2023

Scallop-patterned window screens reference the arch motif. Read: The DHaus Company adds hotel and Japanese-informed homes to London pub Entrances are located on the east-facing side, which has more of a quiet, residential feel. The homes are topped by green roofs and photovoltaic solar panels.

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Dwell

JULY 26, 2022

The character of this project is defined by a combination of distinctive elements that reference the volumetric composition, scale, and material palette of the local residential type. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners.

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Deezen

JANUARY 30, 2024

Read: Concrete "wells" illuminate French home renovated by Atelier Delalande Tabourin A curved, concrete upper floor hosts a living space that overlooks the kitchen area below, with floor-to-ceiling windows both drawing in sunlight and providing views of the garden.

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AUGUST 8, 2021

The irregularity of the climatic condition of the steeply sloped, east-facing site also informed the placement of the operable windows to optimize passive ventilation strategies (which include inducing a stack effect for cooling during the hottest months of the year). Motorized clerestory windows will facilitate stack-effect cooling.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The red tone of the brickwork heavily contrasts the green that colours the doors, window frames and the underside of roof canopies. Other details include bulging bays that span entire rooms, circular and semi-circular windows, and drainpipes that draw bold graphic lines. Windows come in various shapes and sizes. Project credits.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Read: FGMF covers Brazilian house in translucent shell Floor-to-ceiling windows and the continuation of the interior ceiling to the exterior soffit create a subtle transition to the outside, marked by a thin black, metallic frame. In the dining area, a glass door opens to a wooden pergola that supports climbing plants. "The

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Deezen

JANUARY 15, 2025

Read: Conran and Partners unveils residential conversion of Richard Seifert's Centre Point "Originally built in 1968 and refurbished in 1996 and 2003, our design has removed the layers of interventions to retain, expose and celebrate the original architecture and vision," Gedstone continued. The photography is by Gareth Gardner.

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Deezen

AUGUST 3, 2024

Bright blue was chosen for new window and door frames Where the flooring was removed, reclaimed red oak planks that matched the originals were laid at an angle to highlight the minor intervention. Larger windows were added to bring more light into the dining room, which overlooks a new rear deck. The photography is by Naho Kubota.

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Deezen

AUGUST 19, 2022

These changes unified the structure's appearance from the road creating a sense of contemporary "civic grandeur", as well as facilitating secure side access to the back garden. The grid of battens frame a window and conceal a side gate. "As Windows and skylights allow plenty of natural light to enter the studio. Windows: Velfac.

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Deezen

JANUARY 7, 2025

The centre of the residential building is a large, partially covered courtyard with a Spanish-stair amphitheatre and gathering space, shaded with open rises, that allow for the island breeze to flow through.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The second floor is illuminated by six new dormer windows and accommodates another two bedrooms plus their respective en-suite bathrooms. Danish Mews House is one of several residential projects that Neil Dusheiko has completed in London. Structural engineer: Price and Myers. Photo by Rachael Smith.

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Deezen

JULY 19, 2024

It features a split gabled roof "Reminiscent of the overlapping layers of shale rock in the surrounding landscape, the split roof design features two intersecting gables that create opportunities for window openings where the roof volumes separate," the studio said. The photography is by Riley Snelling.

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Deezen

MAY 28, 2024

Read: TW Ryan Architecture clads pyramidal Montana house in weathering steel To boost the home's energy efficiency and thermal comfort, the team created a super-tight envelope using wood-fibre insulation and triple-pane doors and windows. The house also has an energy-recovery ventilation system. The photography is by Lara Swimmer.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Located across the street from Santa Monica College, the residential complex – also known as Brunson Terrace – was designed for a half-acre corner site. Windows are strategically placed, resulting in a non-uniform appearance that adds a dynamic quality to the building. The project's predicted energy use intensity (pEUI) number is 6.6,

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Deezen

JULY 9, 2024

Finnish studio AOR Architects has completed the Monio School and Cultural Centre in Hyrylä, using over 5,000 industrial timber logs to create a structure that references the area's traditional wooden villas. The lobby space is used like a library, with open spaces for studying, working and hanging out," said Ristola.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The house is located in a suburb developed in the 1920s and 30s, with surprising and quirky art-deco details like stepping windows and porches, and bold geometric patterns," Mavropoulos told Dezeen. The project is the latest in a series of characterful residential projects by Bureau de Change. The photography is by Gilbert McCarragher.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The house is resolved on three floors with a steel structure, an element that orders and organizes all the structural decisions. The directionality of the windows responds to the curvature of the corrugated sheets on the subfloor, making their connection appear much more harmonious.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Splyce Design added a cantilevered staircase to Yield House The front of the house – functioning like stacked viewing platforms with wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling windows – looks to the city, mountains and ocean, while the restrained rear side frames views of Douglas firs and western red cedars in the coastal rainforest.

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2024

Triple-glazed pine and aluminium-clad windows were set deeply into the walls to create sills that can double as seating, desks, and counters. The windows were also placed to create cross ventilation with square windows on the sides of the house facing neighbours, smaller to increase privacy.

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