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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A sloping fibreglass roof and a glass facade characterise New York studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro 's first completed single-family residential project, which has been photographed officially for the first time by Iwan Baan. It is really surreal and magical in the whole; the whole roof just feels like it's floating."

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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

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 roof design accommodates a future green roof.

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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. The 812-square-foot home was built for a couple who splits time between Indonesia and Maui.

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2023

A pair of stone towers and a thatched -roof palapa are among the features at a nature retreat in southern Mexico designed by architects Mauricio Rocha and Gabriela Carrillo. The Cometa House is located in the small, coastal town of Mazunte in the state of Oaxaca. They faced several interesting conditions while designing the house.

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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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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. The shed roof – capped in standing seam metal – creates a series of narrow, slanted interior spaces.

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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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Deezen

AUGUST 23, 2023

New York-based studio O'Neill McVoy Architects has created a grey stucco house with a Z-shaped plan and an upward-pitched roof in Houston. We saw the neighborhood's 6/12 roof pitch requirement not as a restriction, but as an opportunity to play with steep roofs in new ways to shape space and volume," the team said.

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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. Mature trees, which were planted in the hollow interiors of the columns, spring out of the roof line.

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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 first of two planned residences, it is distinguished by its lower height and butterfly roof.

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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

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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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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aasarchitecture

MAY 29, 2024

Construction works have reached roof level at the new 3.2 Image © Zaha Hadid Architects The towers frame a large central plaza with a sculptural pavilion housing panoramic lifts that connect to the levels below. million sq. development above Hong Kong’s High Speed Rail West Kowloon Terminus. Providing almost 100,000 sq.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2024

Local studio Oliver Leech Architects has extended a Victorian terrace house in south London, introducing a four-metre-wide skylight at its centre that offers views of a wildflower meadow roof. Here we used the light to draw you into the house through the darker hallway and towards a huge fixed skylight in the centre of the house." "We

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Deezen

JUNE 21, 2023

Local architecture firm In Situ Studio wrapped an art museum visitor centre in Raleigh, North Carolina with darkened steel and cantilevered a roof with an aperture over its patio. The roof features a rounded triangle roof opening made of aluminium. Project credits: Client: North Carolina Museum of Art Contractor: Frank L.

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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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e-architect

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Mews House Deep Retrofit Building Project, London Home Refurb, English Low Carbon Architecture Photos. Mews House Deep Retrofit. Retrofitted mews house shortlisted for RIBA House of the Year 2022. Mews House Deep Retrofit by Prewett Bizley Architects, in London, south east England: photograph © Tom Graham.

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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. The house includes an open-concept kitchen.

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Deezen

AUGUST 26, 2022

Architect Alexander Symes has added an angular addition to a house in Unanderra, Australia , featuring wood-lined living spaces that open onto a terrace perched in the canopy of a large tree. Symes designed Pepper Tree Passive House for local builder Adam Souter, whose company Souter Built aims to create high-performance sustainable homes.

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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

JUNE 22, 2022

Called Pink House, the project transforms the five-bedroom dwelling into a "private city oasis", informed by memories of the client's favourite holidays in Provence, Morocco and New York. Oliver Leech Architects has extended a Victorian house in London. Structural engineer: Momentum Structural Engineers.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Chinese studio FOG Architecture has turned a courtyard house in Beijing into a flagship store for fragrance brand ToSummer with exposed wooden roof trusses and columns. Located within a 500-square-meter Siheyuan complex, the store occupies a 280-year-old courtyard house that are common in the region.

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Deezen

MARCH 13, 2023

The house sits on an elevated perch in the Eola Hills, a region near the city of Salem in northern Oregon. When low clouds descend over the valley in the morning, the house appears to be on top of the world," said Seattle-based Ueda Design Studio. Similarly, the concrete flooring continues outdoors to a patio.

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e-architect

DECEMBER 22, 2021

VAVA House Seattle, Modern Washington Real Estate, Contemporary Home WA, US Property Photos. VAVA House Seattle, Washington, USA. VAVA House in Seattle. VAVA House, Seattle, WA. The design of the VAVA House emphasizes the creative ways families share space and help each other grow, learn, and play. Design: Fivedot.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Mork-Ulnes Architects has completed the Silver Lining House, a crisp, gabled home clad in black-stained cedar that was designed for an architectural photographer and interior designer. The couple, who are avid collectors, desired a home that showcased their treasured belongings and supported their creative work.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Named the JArzm house – using the first initial of each family member – the home is set into a 60-foot slope in Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighborhood. John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (JFAK) completed the house – and 540-square foot (50-square metre) accessory dwelling unit (ADU) – in November 2021.

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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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Deezen

MARCH 3, 2023

UK studio Charles Holland Architects has created an unconventional, colourful extension to a Victorian terraced house in east London. Charles Holland Architects renovated the house in Bow and added an extension to create a home with numerous, interconnected spaces rather than a large open-plan layout.

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e-architect

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

House Slabbert, Stellenbosch Villa, Western Cape Residence, South African Modern Architecture, Photos. House Slabbert in Stellenbosch. House Slabbert, Western Cape. 24 Nov 2022. Design: SALT Architects. Location: Stellenbosch, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Photos: Robyn Walker. A discrete 2.5 What was the brief?

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

US studio Klopf Architecture has completed the Sonoma Hilltop New Residence, a horizontal house in wine country that takes cues from mid-century modern architecture and has dangling chains that collect rainwater. Rectangular in plan, the 4,068-square-foot (378-square-metre) house has a flat roof and low profile.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

UK studio Kirkland Fraser Moor has created a contemporary house named Ashraya in Hertfordshire, England, which is topped by a cross-laminated timber arch. With a grass-topped, arched roof it was designed to be both contemporary and integrated into the landscape. Ashraya stands next to a historic house and walled garden.

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MAY 22, 2024

The clients originally wanted teak cabinets, but 4 S Architecture suggested an alternative. "We The client was really pleased with the result." It all began with an image of a house on a mood board I put together on Pinterest." I really wanted a curved wall," says Nicola. "It

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

PAT teamed up with fellow Italian architect Ferdinando Fagnola on the project, which involved renovating a 2oth-century "white house" and adding a series of elevated, pavilion-like structures. The white house, built in the Swahili style of nearby city Lamu, was the starting point for the design.

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