Deezen

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Local architecture studio Partisans has completed a house with an undulating yellow brick facade designed to look pixelated in Toronto , Ontario. Inspired by the client's Larry Poons paintings, the bricks are choreographed to convey movement. The box-shaped homes are in a Tudor revival style and feature a centre hallway plan.

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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 beam can actually be stone instead of steel, minimising its carbon footprint." It's a whole team. It takes time."

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Archinect

JULY 19, 2022

The client is an artist/electrical engineer who designs, programs and builds kinetic sculptures that are pattern-based in concept and built this project themself. The short elevation respects and aligns with the front faces of the neighboring row housing. Louis architectural context.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The study is perched above this space, and the primary bedroom occupies a cantilevered top floor that sticks out from the structure on the other side. This was made by cladding the foam monocoque structure with Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer (GFRP), fabricated by aerospace design firm Janicki Industries in Seattle.

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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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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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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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Dwell

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The idea was to take the existing house and give it new life—one that met the needs and aesthetics of our designer clients. The client described it as living inside a tree. Post it here.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2024

Telescope House offers framed views of Sedona The 1,600-square-foot (149-square-metre) cabin is a nature retreat for a couple who ultimately plan to live there full-time. When not staying at the house, the clients rent it out. The scenic area is known for its red-coloured rock formations, outdoor activities and arts scene.

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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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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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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

New York studio CAZA has completed a cast-concrete house in the Philippines , aiming to optimise passive cooling and natural ventilation. FR House comprises a series of "concrete cubes" that facilitate cross-ventilation and regulate the building's temperature at the warmest times of the day.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2023

House, the home sits on a farmland site and is covered with a series of berms, while multiple trumpet-shaped pillars of varying heights create wave-like levels along the expanse of its footprint. The team covered the structure with berms, which rise out of the flat landscape of the surrounding agricultural fields.

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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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Architizer

JANUARY 13, 2023

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. Text description provided by the architects.

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Deezen

APRIL 5, 2024

Called Cité Angus II, the structure is part of Technopôle Angus, an urban revitalization project that its developers say is a "full-scale sustainable development". Local architecture studio Ædifica has created a residential apartment building outside Montreal with an interior courtyard and a metal-mesh second skin on the facade.

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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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aasarchitecture

MAY 21, 2024

Spiegel Aihara Workshop (SAW) has designed the Kauhikoa Core House on the island of Maui, a two-bedroom home that appears as a tumbling set of forms settling gracefully into the landscape of its site, a former pineapple plantation. All indoor and outdoor furniture, provided by the homeowners, were custom-made in Indonesia.

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2022

Located in an inner suburb of Raleigh, HUUS house sits in a leafy neighbourhood with homes built between the 1940s and 1970s. Part of the HUUS house is sunken in the ground. The project's name comes from the old Alemannic German word for house, hüüs. This attitude is a perfect reflection of the couple who lives in the house.".

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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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Deezen

AUGUST 15, 2022

London studio Knox Bhavan has created a prefabricated , flood-resilient house on the bank of the River Thames in Buckinghamshire, which is designed to be "future-proof" for at least the next 100 years. Knox Bhavan has created a flood-resilient house beside the River Thames. March House has a prefabricated structure.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 23, 2024

Located on the Red Sea waterfront, the opera will connect residents and visitors to the sea by a cultural spine, with a natural canopy, running from the city, through the opera house, to the water. With geometric volumes inspired by Al-Balad, the opera will have a distinct appearance from different perspectives in the area.

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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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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Who are the clients and what’s interesting about them? During the pandemic they seized an opportunity to buy a larger house which ticked all of these boxes, but there was one problem. During the pandemic they seized an opportunity to buy a larger house which ticked all of these boxes, but there was one problem.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Portholes and semi-circular motifs characterise this colourful renovation and extension of a Victorian terrace house in Hackney, London , by architecture studio Gundry & Ducker. Gundry & Ducker drew on the palette of 1950s American kitchens when creating the rear extension and renovated basement in this London house.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In a groundbreaking initiative, Mecanoo, introduces a innovative social housing project in Kaohsiung, marking a significant milestone as the city’s inaugural venture into communal living solutions. The depth between the structure and the exterior walls provides shadow and reduces the solar heat gain inside the apartments.

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Deezen

AUGUST 7, 2023

US architecture studio GBBN designed three brick buildings that allow social housing to both "fit in and stand out" in Cincinnati, Ohio. The team selected red brick for all of the facades to draw on Cincinnati's masonry vernacular and to highlight both the commonalities and differences between the structures.

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aasarchitecture

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The 53-storey mixed-use tower houses 70,000 square metres of space, including offices, a restaurant near the top of the building, two observation decks and a ground-floor cafe venue. The building’s height and its small site in a dense area posed a challenge for engineering and construction. Source by Buro Happold Engineers.

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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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aasarchitecture

JULY 3, 2023

The creation of an elevation towards the Garonne to offer multiple views and thus guarantee the quality of the housing. The body is divided between an office program and a housing program. The volumes designed by the housing units in the form of twin plots extend up to the tertiary level to create voids. a common denominator.

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Deezen

APRIL 1, 2024

New York studio Leong Leong has renovated a 1970s ranch house in Los Angeles by adding a large wall, outdoor spaces and a polycarbonate panel-wrapped second storey. Due to local historic preservation guidelines, the team only renovated 50 per cent of the existing house.

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Dwell

JANUARY 23, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The secondary dwelling was part of the overall brief and master plan of the site; to maximize the site’s potential and create options for our client. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

APRIL 29, 2024

Architecture studio dMFK Architects has restored and renovated the Voysey House office in Chiswick, London , which was originally designed as a wallpaper factory by architect CFA Voysey. These look like they've always been there to a passerby, but they're brand new – a change which has vastly improved Voysey House's energy efficiency."

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Deezen

AUGUST 31, 2022

A pair of intersecting timber-clad wings contain communal living spaces and private sleeping areas for different generations of one family at this house in the Czech village of Rybí. A pair of intersecting wings define the House with In-Law Suite. The children's bedroom is housed in the more private wing.

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Dwell

MARCH 19, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The rear of the house which would form the focus of the design originally contained a small kitchen and meals areas, pseudo playroom, and laundry. Have one to share? Post it here.

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BD+C

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

8 strategies for multifamily passive house design projects 0 qpurcell Mon, 11/20/2023 - 12:22 Sustainability Stantec's Brett Lambert, Principal of Architecture and Passive House Certified Consultant, uses the Northland Newton Development project to guide designers with eight tips for designing multifamily passive house projects.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Architecture studio Snøhetta and engineer Tor Helge Dokka have created House Dokka, a mass-timber home that perches on a hillside in Kongsberg, Norway. House Dokka comprises a stack of two timber-clad volumes, supported by large wooden stilts drilled into the rocky, tree-lined landscape. The photography is by Robin Hayes.

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