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Cometa House is nestled within trees on coastal site in Oaxaca

Deezen

The Cometa House is located in the small, coastal town of Mazunte in the state of Oaxaca. 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. They faced several interesting conditions while designing the house.

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Omer Arbel balances nature and form in this award-winning Canadian Pacific Northwest house

Archinect

The design scheme won in the 'Future Project House' category at the 2019 World Architecture Festival. A demonstration column had to be constructed on the site in order to get the clients' final approval.

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Takeshi Hirobe Architects designs Japanese house to "dance around" complex site

Deezen

Challenging site constraints informed the angular shape of this concrete house named Villa MKZ, designed by Japanese studio Takeshi Hirobe Architects. The footprint of this vacation home dances around the complex conditions of the site," studio founder Takeshi Hirobe told Dezeen. metres in the centre," said Hirobe. "By

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Pinwheel house by JM Architecture resembles "a white pebble in the landscape"

Deezen

The dwelling is named Pinwheel after its distinctive shape, which was JM Architecture 's solution for the client's "only request" – that it offers views of both the nearby Lake Maggiore and surrounding alpine valleys. It is] a white pebble lying in the landscape, that fits in and stands out," he continued.

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Loader Monteith adds charred-timber-clad office to brownfield site in Inverness

Deezen

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. We wanted to apply a rigour to the cladding on both houses and the office," he added. The photography is by Henry Woide.

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Surreal Sites: 8 Rural Retreats Set in New Zealand’s Cinematic Landscape

Architizer

The following rural retreats also seek to make the most of the country’s rich and surreal landscapes. The houses below are the product of architectural experimentation with design forms, local materials and vernacular styles, ultimately seeking to live harmoniously with their surroundings. Easterbrook House. Scrubby Bay House.

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Timeless lines framing the landscape

Habitus Living

A handful of key features of this new house stand out straight away – the clean, minimalist lines that are all the more effective for their scale and strong geometry; a restrained selection of timbers and concrete; fluidity between indoors and outdoors; and, perhaps most strikingly, the connection to nature.