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Michael Hennessey Architecture clads renovated California house with black cedar and metal

Deezen

MARCH 28, 2024

Michael Hennessey Architecture created Courtyard Hous Designed for a couple with two young children, the budget-conscious project involved the renovation of a suburban-style house that was "in sore need of upgrades". Interior finishes include ash cabinetry, large-format porcelain floor tiles, and ceramic tiles around the fireplace.

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Ruth Asawa’s Redwood House in San Francisco Gets a Spirited Renovation

Dwell

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The owner’s request was to increase the volume of the house while maintaining its original DNA as defined by angular geometries, redwood interiors, and exterior courtyards. Redwood surfaces and structural elements complete the warm interior landscape, from the sloping roof beams to partition walls and built-in shelves." "The

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Gundry & Ducker's Wimbledon renovation aims to create "country house in miniature"

Deezen

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Named Wimbledon Villa, the studio renovated and extended the detached early 2000s property with the aim of making it feel like "a country house in miniature". At the centre of the house is a double-height hallway "The new interior layout is based on issues of orientation, daylight, sociability and privacy," said Ducker.

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Pine Lane House, Saugerties, New York Renovation

e-architect

JUNE 26, 2023

The addition to the main floor aligns the entry with the center of the house, while moving the interior social space closer to the existing trees to the west. The original interior was dark and introverted, so the goal for the renovation was to brighten the rooms, while connecting the inside and outside.

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Hacker Architects overhauls Oregon residence with colourful interiors and natural pine finishes

Deezen

JANUARY 2, 2022

Hacker Architects has renovated a 1970s house in central Oregon , removing walls to create a more spacious layout and preserving original design features that lend the home a "retro spirit". The renovated Bailey Residence is surrounded by forest. The renovated Bailey Residence is surrounded by forest.

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Superkül renovates reading room at Toronto's brutalist Robarts Library

Deezen

MARCH 12, 2023

The project involved renovating the cavernous concrete space on the building's fourth floor, as part of the university's larger initiative to revitalise the Robarts Library, which Superkül described as "one of North America's most significant examples of brutalist architecture". The photography is by Doublespace.

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Worrell Yeung renovates New York farm with collection of "cousin" wood-clad buildings

Deezen

APRIL 17, 2023

The studio run recently renovated and expanded the North Salem Farm house and studio on 8.7 The home's multi-layered gabled forms engage the site, interact with each other and frame interior spaces, studio co-founder Jejon Yeung said. Similarly, Worrell Yeung designed a black-clad contemporary barn in the Hudson River Valley.

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Studio Schicketanz renovates Henry Hill's mid-century house on the California coast

Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2023

Studio Schicketanz has completed a renovation of the former seaside home of modernist architect Henry Hill. Studio Schicketanz renovated modernist architect Henry Hill's home in California. The studio renovated the finishes and restored some of the original layouts. Mechanical engineer : Monterey Energy Group.

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10+ Things to Consider Before Renovating Home

Architecture Ideas

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When done properly, home renovations can be extremely gratifying and highly transformative. Home remodeling is a rewarding experience whether you are renovating entirely or just a part. While you must start your home renovation somewhere, it is best to plan ahead. Where to Start with Home Renovation?

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Olphert House Mid-Century Renovation, Sydney, NSW

e-architect

JUNE 3, 2023

A contemporary edge to the design is provided by the large areas of glazing framed in bronze aluminium and sharp detailing such as the fine edged kitchen benchtops. The existing house was in poor condition and had a layout unsuited to contemporary living. What was the brief? What were the key challenges?

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North Salem Residence, Upstate New York Renovation

e-architect

JANUARY 24, 2023

Interior renovation included re-designing the bathrooms and the kitchen / dining area, creating airy relaxed spaces featuring natural materials and playful accents. The classic features of the house were expressed further by modern brass fixtures by Vola and brass light switches by Forbes and Lomax.

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Renovation of Vaincre la Mucoviscidose Association Offices, Paris

e-architect

OCTOBER 3, 2023

This objective translates into a need to renovate outdated and unwelcoming premises. The facade renovation achieves two primary goals: engaging with the city by opening up to its immediate surroundings, and harmonizing with the existing limestone facade on the upper floors.

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This Brick Backyard House Doubles as a Sunken Living Room for the Garden

Dwell

JANUARY 23, 2024

Pocket doors and a timber-slatted screen slide away to connect the airy interiors with a patio and lawn. Spaces are modest in size yet comfortable for functional contemporary living. Spaces are modest in size yet comfortable for functional contemporary living. Have one to share? Post it here.

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A ’50s Teardown in the Netherlands Gets a Second Chance—and a Beautiful Brick Extension

Dwell

DECEMBER 13, 2022

After living with its charms, the owners decided to renovate and create a swooping indoor/outdoor addition that "hugs" the backyard. The renovated white villa has been treated with white and anthracite-colored mineral paint. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Ménard Dworkind adds sculptural mezzanine to 1980s Quebec home

Deezen

MARCH 6, 2023

Ménard Dworkind has renovated a 1980s house on the south shore of Montreal with rounded plaster details and a terracotta fireplace. Rounded plaster details and a terracotta fireplace characterise the interior design Set on a 5,600-square-foot (520-square-metre) lot, the original house had a dilapidated greenhouse hanging on the front facade.

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Anacapa Architecture converts historic building into Drift Santa Barbara hotel

Deezen

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Anacapa Architecture has renovated an early 1900s building to create the Drift Hotel The hotel occupies a three-storey, Italian Mediterranean-style building that totals 15,617 square feet (1,451 square metres). While the exterior has a historic look, the interior is much more modern. The building has served various uses over time.

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PDP refurbishes art deco office block with jewel-like extensions in glass and steel

Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2023

London practice PDP has renovated Eighty Strand, an art deco office building on the Strand, restoring its original finishes and complementing them with glazed pavilions that reference the style's geometric forms. Eighty Strand was renovated by PDP. The renovation was sensitive to the building's art deco style.

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Maison Merveilleuse, Montréal Interior

e-architect

JANUARY 27, 2022

Maison Merveilleuse, Montréal Interior Renovation, Québec Real Estate Development, Canadian Architecture Photos. Recognized for its expertise and creativity in high-quality interior design for major corporate and residential projects, Montreal agency, Imagine, is pleased to unveil Maison Merveilleuse , a completely renovated 1500 sq.

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Deborah Berke Partners renovates and expands historic buildings at University of Pennsylvania

Deezen

MARCH 8, 2022

Rooms feature neutral tones with pops of colour, and a blending of historic details with contemporary decor. Project credits: Architect and interior designer: Deborah Berke Partners. Structural engineer: Keast & Hood. Mechanical engineering: Bala Engineering. The photography is by Chris Cooper.

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Living between past and present

Habitus Living

JANUARY 30, 2022

The shell-like structure initially framed an immense void for military activity to fill. Although a previous renovation in the 1990s defined tighter-knit rooms, carving up the space, Tobias Partners’ approach returned to the openness of the early interior, allowing one zone to flow into another. Photography – Justin Alexander.

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Hewitt creates residential tower in Seattle informed by stack of magazines

Deezen

MARCH 26, 2024

Called Skyglass , the 335-foot-high (102 metre) tower is located just east of the Space Needle, which was recently renovated by Olson Kundig Architects , and contains apartments with shops on its lower floors. In that giving the occupants a lot more than what you might get in a more conventional design." This is not an accordion.

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Naturehumaine places sculptural outdoor stairs on Montreal apartment addition

Deezen

JUNE 15, 2022

Naturehumaine has completed six new apartments in a historic Montreal neighbourhood, renovating an existing volume and adding a similar building to an adjacent, vacant lot. Read: Naturehumaine revives 1920s apartment in Montreal with contemporary finishes. The interiors adopt a restrained palette.

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Metal Screens Form a "Skin" Around This Revived ’80s-Built Home in Australia

Dwell

MARCH 31, 2023

The perforated panels shade the interiors of the brick residence, which is reimagined with terrazzo, cork floors, and a distinctly millennial colorway. The home had great potential to transform into a more contemporary, streamlined, and noteworthy presence in the area whilst respecting the existing structure and surrounding neighborhood.

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Jensen Architects revamps Stanford Residence in California for IDEO co-founder

Deezen

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Stanford Residence is a mid-century renovation for IDEO. Kelley – who co-founded IDEO in 1991 with Bill Moggridge and Mike Nuttall – is a professor in Stanford's engineering school. The team set out to renovate the original home and add a studio in the rear. The interior design allows for the display of art and other objects.

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Pink Paint Wainscoting Unifies a Formerly Dreary Terrace Home in London

Dwell

MARCH 9, 2023

CHA upgraded the house’s fabric, structure, and energy performance. A sequence of interior and exterior ‘rooms’, comprising a small courtyard, a study, and a dining room are connected by circular windows that bring light deep into the interior. Post it here. A new single-story side return adds additional ground floor space.

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Charles F. Bloszies inserts glass addition into San Francisco cathedral complex

Deezen

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Bloszies has completed an extension and renovation of the Cathedral School for Boys in San Francisco. The studio added a metal and glass extension to the school The extension included the "careful inssertaion" of a modern, glass-lined structure between the cathedral and the school. Local studio Office of Charles F. Bloszies, FAIA.

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In Situ Studio creates HUUS house for sloped site in Raleigh

Deezen

APRIL 7, 2022

Like other parts of the city, the area is experiencing a lot of new development and building renovations. Local firm In Situ Studio was charged with designing a contemporary residence for a couple – the husband is an electrical engineer, and the wife is a German and history teacher. The photography is by Keith Isaacs.

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Konishi Gaffney converts 1950s garage into artist's studio with a sense of "civic grandeur"

Deezen

AUGUST 19, 2022

Konishi Gaffney devised a scheme that involved filling in the existing garage door, raising the structure's roof to match the height of the house's ground floor and incorporating the property's side gate into the facade. As a practice we've been exploring ways of expressing the structure of cladding in projects," said Konishi Gaffney.

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Peterson Rich Office inserts white-cube galleries into converted Detroit church

Deezen

MARCH 27, 2024

Brooklyn architecture studio Peterson Rich Office has adapted an early-1900s Detroit church into The Shepherd arts centre, inserting contemporary art galleries into its nave and transept. It is part of the Little Village redevelopment project in the city's East Village.

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Everything Is Proudly On Display at This Cheery London Terrace Home

Dwell

MAY 30, 2023

The renovation dabbles in cluttercore with built-ins showing off colorful dishware, and whimsical wallpapers paired with tile in rich hues. The interiors play with different styles, materials, and periods to create a bold but harmonious scheme which pulls the house together while creating clear distinctions between spaces.

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Historic sanitorium in Greek mountain forest transformed into Manna hotel

Deezen

JANUARY 28, 2024

The building is set in a fir forest in Arcadia, a mountainous region of Greece "The client's ambition was to reinterpret the concept of a sanctuary in the mountains with contemporary terms," reads K-Studio's design statement. Attic rooms offer the most modern feel, extending out to balconies set within large gable-ended dormers.

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Blu Dot Showroom, Portland, Oregon

e-architect

JUNE 28, 2023

While the building had a clear organization of a pre-war warehouse structure, a series of renovations divided the interior space and disrupted its logic. The canopy takes on its own identity, curving downward against the brick facade to frame the new entry to the interior.

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Mork-Ulnes creates black San Francisco house to be "laboratory" for creative work

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 home's interior design was overseen by Alison Damonte The home's completion marks the end of a journey spanning more than a decade.

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South Hill House, Toronto, Ontario

e-architect

APRIL 12, 2023

When altering both the interior and exterior, a sensitivity to the existing structure was observed. The new addition stands in contrast with contemporary details, larger open spaces, and modernist massing. Across the façade of the existing house, built openings were respected and referenced when conceiving interior layouts.

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Deborah Berke Partners revamps modernist law centre at Harvard University

Deezen

MARCH 17, 2023

The project entailed enlarging the rectangular building, modifying the stone-clad facades and reconfiguring the interior. New York-based Deborah Berke Partners was tapped to design an update that met the centre's contemporary needs, which included more meeting rooms and social spaces.

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Repurposed wooden slats cover Hamptons residence by Birdseye

Deezen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Vermont architecture studio Birdseye has wrapped a Hamptons cottage in thin wooden slats that cast striped shadows on the interiors throughout the day. The architectural context of Sagaponack, New York is a unique layering of modernism, contemporary refinement, historicism and rural farmland," the studio explained. Construction Inc.

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Stone pavilion with Islamic motifs completes Alberta's Aga Khan Gardens

Deezen

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In addition to providing multi-use functionality, the pavilion was to resonate with its rich surroundings and extend the themes of the Garden, a contemporary interpretation of Islamic landscape architecture in a northern climate and context," said AXIA. Architectural & interior design: Arriz + Co.

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Palazzo Senza Tempo by Mario Cucinella Architects

aasarchitecture

AUGUST 8, 2023

A public building, Palazzo Senza Tempo comprises a range of renovated and re-purposed town houses dating from as early as the 14th Century set along Peccioli’s via Carraira. In the project, we wanted to carry on the idea that historical centres can give themselves a new life with contemporary elements, not living only in the past.

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AQGD Thailand // S+S Architects

Architizer

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Project DescriptionProject Name: AQGD Japanese Restaurant renovation Architect: S+S Architects Interior designer: Golf Kris Completion Year: 2021 Built Area: 620 sq.m. Over time its residence area has become an area of economic function, so have the users and that was where the initiate of this renovation project has risen.

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Averra Developments – Mount Pleasant Modern | Single Family Home

Westeck News

APRIL 1, 2022

Our Client Spotlight explores the latest projects from Custom Home Builders, Architects, Designers and Renovation Specialists. Averra Developments proudly completed this 3,000 square-foot contemporary new home built for a young, active family of five in the heart of Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood. Forms and Framing | Aedifex.

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This Refreshed London Victorian Takes The Millennial Aesthetic to the Max

Dwell

MAY 12, 2023

The main objectives of the project were to connect the house with the garden and to visually ‘expand’ the interior space of the house without necessarily adding more area. The lower ground extension is expressed in stained accoya wood cladding, defining a clear contemporary break from the Victorian detailing above.

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Lanaudière Residence, Montreal, Quebec

e-architect

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The raw-steel structure from a previous renovation was retained, but the stair treads were replaced with new ones made of oiled white oak in order to maintain continuity with the materials used on the ground floor. Its projects are contemporary and minimalist. Year: 2022 Designers: Michael Godmer, Catherine C.

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Can Santacilia, Palma de Mallorca

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Can Santacilia, Palma de Mallorca Apartments Interior, Balearic Islands Design Images, Spanish Building Renovation, Photos. It is a careful renovation of two buildings located in the heart of Palma de Mallorca’s old town. Architecture and interior design: OHLAB / oliver hernaiz architecture lab – [link].

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Century 21 theater rehabilitation, San Jose, California

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

Century 21 theater rehabilitation, San Jose renovated building, North California architecture news. Architecture and Interiors: TEF Design. The design approach focuses on rehabilitating the historic structure according to the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation. Civil Engineer: BKF Engineers.

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Michael Hennessey Architecture clads renovated California house with black cedar and metal

Ruth Asawa’s Redwood House in San Francisco Gets a Spirited Renovation

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Renovation of Vaincre la Mucoviscidose Association Offices, Paris

This Brick Backyard House Doubles as a Sunken Living Room for the Garden

A ’50s Teardown in the Netherlands Gets a Second Chance—and a Beautiful Brick Extension

Ménard Dworkind adds sculptural mezzanine to 1980s Quebec home

Anacapa Architecture converts historic building into Drift Santa Barbara hotel

PDP refurbishes art deco office block with jewel-like extensions in glass and steel

Maison Merveilleuse, Montréal Interior

Deborah Berke Partners renovates and expands historic buildings at University of Pennsylvania

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Hewitt creates residential tower in Seattle informed by stack of magazines

Naturehumaine places sculptural outdoor stairs on Montreal apartment addition

Metal Screens Form a "Skin" Around This Revived ’80s-Built Home in Australia

Jensen Architects revamps Stanford Residence in California for IDEO co-founder

Pink Paint Wainscoting Unifies a Formerly Dreary Terrace Home in London

Charles F. Bloszies inserts glass addition into San Francisco cathedral complex

In Situ Studio creates HUUS house for sloped site in Raleigh

Konishi Gaffney converts 1950s garage into artist's studio with a sense of "civic grandeur"

Peterson Rich Office inserts white-cube galleries into converted Detroit church

Everything Is Proudly On Display at This Cheery London Terrace Home

Historic sanitorium in Greek mountain forest transformed into Manna hotel

Blu Dot Showroom, Portland, Oregon

Mork-Ulnes creates black San Francisco house to be "laboratory" for creative work

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Deborah Berke Partners revamps modernist law centre at Harvard University

Repurposed wooden slats cover Hamptons residence by Birdseye

Stone pavilion with Islamic motifs completes Alberta's Aga Khan Gardens

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