Architizer

JANUARY 22, 2025

Earthquakes are among the most unpredictable and devastating natural phenomena, testing the resilience of the built environment and the ingenuity of architects and engineers. Alongside these enhancements, the project included essential seismic retrofitting to ensure the structures resilience in earthquake-prone Seattle.

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Deezen

MARCH 20, 2025

metre-tall tower on the corner of the Gradel Quadrangles site named New Warham House, which contains offices. Both New Warham House and the Main Quad have decorative facades made from 70-millimetre-thick load-bearing stone walls, which were tied to a concrete structure. The photography is by Will Pryce.

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Deezen

JANUARY 6, 2025

The landscape elements were designed to be in conversation both with the existing civic structures as well as the architectural pavilions installed by Texas-based Lake Flato , whose founders earned the AIA gold medal in 2024. According to the team, the undulating roofs of the two performance structures reference the fluid movement of dance.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Its atrium-like living area has been positioned at the front of the site, while the bedrooms and roof terraces look out over the railway line behind. Pre-fabricated concrete panels from the old garages on site were also reused to build a new fence along the railway edge. The photography is by Will Pryce.

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Dwell

JANUARY 13, 2025

Project Details: Location: Tallebudgera, Australia Architect: Fouch Architects / @ fouchearchitects Footprint: 904 square feet Builder: Minarco Structural Engineer: Grain Structural Studio Photographer: David Chatfield / @ davidchatfield__ From the Architect: "The project was founded on three principles: try not to disturb the site, create a functional (..)

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

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 When open, large operable openings, fire-station doors, and aircraft hangar doors render the outside structure a large-scale veranda.

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Dwell

MARCH 17, 2025

A developer and their design team expanded the 1910 structure with a metal-clad box, creating a mix of flats that add housing density to Evanston, Illinois. Retaining the existing church structure and adding a compact addition maximized unit count as well as perimeter wall area for light, air, and views. Have one to share?

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2023

It sits at the edge of a nature preserve on Punta Cometa, or Comet Point, a peninsula that juts into the Pacific Ocean and was once the site of an Aztec fort. Two stone towers juxtapose the site's horizontal elements The architects also needed to consider how the landscape evolves throughout the year.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Completed on a reservoir of the Colorado River, the complex sits on a seven-acre site that slopes gently from a berm and is shaded by native pecan and bald cypress trees. Triangular frames form a W shaped structure around a 1,200-square foot (112-square metre), two-storey dock.

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Deezen

MARCH 11, 2025

Palo Quemado House overlooks a lake in southern Chile Located in Chile 's Los Ros region, the house rests on a sloped site and looks toward Lake Ranco. The project was designed for a couple who wanted a holiday home with plenty of space for visits from their three adult daughters. The photography is by Marcos Zegers.

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Deezen

MARCH 17, 2025

Located within the Chestfield Conservation Area in the English seaside town, the home called Eight Gables replaces a former dwelling on the site that had been incrementally extended over the years, resulting in an inefficient layout.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 12, 2024

It contains 60 holiday homes Anchored by a central clubhouse, the hotel site in Northamptonshire overlooks a stretch of the track's most fast-paced corners against the backdrop of rolling countryside. Our job was to find a way to bring these two elements together and complement them both." The photography is by Jack Hobhouse.

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Dwell

MARCH 21, 2023

The roof extension is built in a timber frame structure with exposed beams. Clay plaster and rammed earth from the waste soil of Brussels building sites are used for finishing. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share?

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Deezen

DECEMBER 6, 2024

For Lyon Confluence, David Chipperfield Architects adapted the site's masterplan to make the landscaping, building massing and facades more suited to its riverfront location. The studio also aimed for the 11 buildings to be visually cohesive while being distinguishable from each other.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Colien House steps down a sloped site in Barcelona "The central purpose was to answer the programme proposal made by the client by including a careful embodiment of the landscape, complying with the specific local rules and the relation of each of the four floors' elevation with the natural topography," Siza told Dezeen.

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Dwell

JANUARY 16, 2025

The site is a triangle bound on two sides by typical suburban terraces (with a right of way to an adjacent substation) and the third by the MotspurPark train station platform. The main triple-height living space sits at the front, following the sites geometry. Its dark color conceals the dust from the railway to reduce maintenance.

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2025

Situated on arable farmland acquired by the client in 2009, the home occupies the site of an old stone stable, or byre, lending it the name Cairnconon Byre. In particular, they desired a space that evoked bothies shelters often found in remote Scotland that are free to use and byres to pay homage to the site's former use.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Scottish architecture studio Loader Monteith has designed an office with a gabled roof , along with two private residences, for mountain bike tour operator H&I Adventures on a sloping brownfield site in Scotland. The structures share a timber-and-metal material palette designed to create a "common language", the studio said.

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Santa Cruz Architect

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Santiago Calatrava, born on July 28, 1951, in Benimmet, Valencia, Spain, is one of the most celebrated architects and engineers of our time. Known for his innovative approach that seamlessly combines structural engineering with artistic expression, Calatravas works have left an indelible mark on the global architectural landscape.

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Dwell

JANUARY 2, 2025

Updating insulation was critical, of course, but so was preserving the historic structure with the materials and construction techniques originally used to build it. The replacement of the roof tiles allowed for the integration of external insulation, making all the structural elements of the framework visible from the inside.

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Deezen

JANUARY 23, 2025

For Sixth and Guadalupe, these include targeted LEED Gold certification, Austin Energy Green Building (AEGB) 3-star rating, efficient utilities and a "pedestrian-oriented" site, marked with a greenspace tucked into a corner of its lot.

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Deezen

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". The site had long been overlooked as feasible for home construction. The opportunity came with challenges.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The abandoned quarry, which supplied slabs to Albany, Kingston, and New York City in the 1800s, had become a spring-fed pond and the quarry tailings had become mossy hillocks.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 30, 2024

DataAE and Xavier Vendrell designed the project on a Barcelona hillside Claudi Aguiló and Albert Domingo, who run DataAE , and Xavier Vendrell Studio respectively, worked to create the project on a steep site at the edge of town. metre overhang that minimises the foundation in the rocky terrain.

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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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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Behind the elegant dark wooden façade and bold aesthetics are particularly progressive engineering strategies that imbue the structure with remarkable resilience: the building was designed to withstand the force of possible avalanches. Historically, humans have developed strategies for constructing in avalanche-prone areas.

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e-architect

APRIL 8, 2025

The project encompasses a reconfiguration of the existing building as the base with a new upper floor addition which spans the established gardens on the site and replans the home with a new central core for this multigenerational family home. The rhythmic quality of the sawtooth roof to the new bridge structure is both lyrical and rational.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The home is located on a steep site in Los Angeless Montecito Heights neighborhood. There were a lot of days on site spent measuring, adjusting, prototyping, and doing it again." The hatch had to be structural engineered to have the same load-bearing capacity as the surrounding concrete floor. Its part of the floor.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Known as the Dogtrot House, the 3200-square foot (300-square metre) residence sits on a 10-acre site in Hillsborough, outside of Raleigh-Durham, that is densely wooded with oak, sweet gum, maple and persimmon trees and overlooks a pond. The photography is by Keith Isaacs.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

It islocated onehouse back from a busystreetcorner withapartments and shopfronts.This proximitymeansa mix ofsurroundinghousingtypes and the site is heavily overlooked. There was anexisting single-story bungalow on the site that wascarefully deconstructed toenable the re-use of building fabric, including the bricks and timber-roofframing.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Smith's proposal is being developed with structural engineer Thornton Tomasetti , after the pair won a competition to design it together in 2009. Construction recently restarted at the site after it had been delayed and finally halted in 2018. What is Jeddah Tower's current construction status?

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

These details emphasize the homes sense of belonging to its site, blurring the boundaries between built form and landscape." Post it here. At the heart of the main dwelling is an open-concept mezzanine level, complete with its own balcony overlooking Lake Wnaka.

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Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

Project Details: Location: Washington, United States Architect: GO'C / @ go_c_studio Footprint: 1,700 square feet Builder: Sparrow Woodworks Structural Engineer: SSF Engineers Civil Engineer: J Welch Engineering Envelope Consultant: RDH Building Science Inc. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Nestled in a forested grove at the north end of a narrow, 10-acre site, the house is sheltered by oak, sweet gum, maple and persimmon trees, and opens onto an expansive view of a pond. Post it here.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 28, 2024

"Another fascinating aspect was seeing the Space Age and Jet Age imagery coming in during the sixties, as well as gaining a fuller understanding of the important relationship between architecture and innovative structural engineering during the mid-century era."

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Deezen

APRIL 25, 2024

Known as Rockbound, the 4100-square foot (380-square metre) home sits on a rocky, sloped three-acre site overlooking a bay that connects the property to Peggy's Cove, a national historic site that can be seen across the water. The photography is by Ema Peter.

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Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2024

hectare site near Maastricht to commemorate soldiers who died in the second world war. The structure's "monumental" form draws on American memorial architecture "The United States has a strong tradition when it comes to memorials," Kaan Architecten co-founder Vincent Panhuysen told Dezeen. "All The photography is by Simon Menges.

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