Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Argentinian architect Malvina Zayat has completed a white home for herself and her family that is lifted above a sloped site and enters into "an intimate dialogue with the sky and clouds". The house is linear in plan and accessed via a hanging staircase Facades consist of white-painted metal and stretches of glass.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

It has a bronze and sandstone exterior. The material palette of the exterior was informed by a nearby statue of Duke Kahanamoku – a Hawaiian who popularised surfing in Australia in the early 20th century – made of bronze atop a stone base. The home's interior has a minimal finish.

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Deezen

JUNE 3, 2022

Materials intended to blend with the natural landscape and interior finishes made from a single tree feature in a wood-clad home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina designed by American studio Harding Huebner. Harding Huebner designed a house that sits on a sloped site in North Carolina. The exterior is clad in garapa.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Local architecture firm La Base Studio has renovated a glass and concrete home, wrapping it in a delicate privacy and shading screen on a lush site in Buenos Aires , Argentina. Sliding glass doors open to the garden The sliding glass doors open to the garden and pool deck, blurring the interior and exterior relationship.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

US architecture studio Schaum/Shieh has embedded a Virginia house with irregularly shaped volumes into the contours of a steep site. Rectangular windows on either end of the horizontal plan create an interrupted view through the centre of the house and large sliding glass doors and picture windows were installed on the facade.

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2023

Chilean studio Hebra Arquitectos has completed an elevated, wood-and-glass cabin that is designed to have a small footprint and accommodate a person in a wheelchair. Tucked into a wooded site, it serves as a nature retreat for a single mother and her adult daughter, who has reduced mobility. It was built in just eight months.

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2022

Glazed brick and charred cypress wrap the exterior of a partly sunken North Carolina home designed by architecture firm In Situ Studio. The site formerly held a run-down, 1940s dwelling that was owned by the clients. It also has its own exterior entrance, allowing visitors to easily come and go.

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Deezen

JUNE 10, 2022

Sitting on the site of a demolished theatre with the same name, Tom Patterson Theatre will primarily host events during the Stratford Festival – an ongoing exhibition of theatre in the Ontario town that runs from April-November yearly. Exterior materials include bronze, glass, stone, and wood. The photo is by Scott Norsworthy.

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Deezen

APRIL 6, 2022

Patinated brass panels and extra-clear glass form the facades of a weekend dwelling designed by Woods + Dangaran for a boulder-strewn site in southern California. Metal trellises extend outward from the glass enclosure, offering shade and producing an interesting play of light and shadow. In the rear, 12-foot-deep (3.7-metre)

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Archinect

MARCH 13, 2022

It is a complete facade renovation and accessibility upgrade for the site and public spaces within the existing building. The main interior lobby renovation features a circular staircase, refinished and renovated with a glass guardrail and stainless steel handrails and a terrazzo tile finish on the treads.

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Deezen

JANUARY 11, 2023

Occupying a site formerly used by Plymouth University , the project involved the construction of a new teaching building and the refurbishment of the adjacent Owen Theatre, the two of which are connected by a glass link bridge. The post Stride Treglown completes site for the Deaf Academy in Exmouth appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2022

US studio Heliotrope Architects has minimized site disturbances while creating a cedar -clad holiday home on a wooded hillside in the Pacific Northwest. The clients initially tapped Seattle's Heliotrope Architects to consult on the site selection and then hired the firm to design the dwelling itself. "We

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Deezen

MAY 7, 2022

Located in Los Angeles , the Rustic Canyon house sits on a shady site dotted with California oak and sycamore trees. Exterior walls feature smooth, cream-toned stucco and large expanses of glass. The glass constructions create terraniums with the living area windows. The exterior of the home is a light shade of stucco.

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Deezen

MAY 17, 2022

Robert Gurney designed the house for a site near Washington DC. In addition to large stretches of glass, exterior walls are wrapped in stucco, brick and painted wooden clapboard – the same materials found on neighboring buildings. Floor-to-ceiling glass provides views of the garden and neighborhood activity.

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Deezen

APRIL 16, 2024

Its design is intended to "celebrate the essence" of south Indian architecture A central staircase stands alongside this atrium, with arched openings finished with panes of fluted glass. These finishes are combined with minimal furniture made of dark wood, chosen by the studio to be "timeless, simple, and evocative".

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Dwell

MAY 19, 2023

Design has crafted a stunning glass, steel, and timber home that seamlessly blends the inner and outer worlds. The clients—a family of five with three children in college—wanted to create an "urban cabin" that embraces the tranquil forested site on the shores of Lake Minnetonka. Charlie & Co.

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Architizer

JUNE 2, 2022

Despite technical complications involved in construction, inclined sites can invoke inspiring new architectural possibilities that just aren’t possible on flat sites. Below are a few ways in which architects have made the most of sloped sites to create unique homes and public buildings. when seen from certain angles.

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Deezen

JANUARY 25, 2024

Local architecture studio Bockus Payne has renovated a 1970s commercial skyscraper in Oklahoma City , reformatting its interiors and landscape and completely replacing its exterior glazing. This included removing the vertical mullions of the curtain wall on the ground floor and installing clear glass.

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Deezen

MARCH 14, 2024

Architecture practice Studio Guma has overhauled an old farmhouse in Normandy, retaining its stone and timber structure to "evoke the rural history" of the site. A paved patio is accessed through sliding glass doors Studio Guma has preserved the farmhouse's existing structure and complemented it with subtle contrasts in concrete and steel.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Named after the community where it is located, the Cotton Patch Hills House sits on an oceanfront site in Bethany Beach, Delaware. For a sandy site that faces the water, the team created a rectilinear, three-storey building that totals 5,842 square feet (542 square metres). The staircase is made of white oak and steel.

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Architizer

MARCH 11, 2022

Reflective finishes can also be used at different scales or combined with other materials to dramatically transform spaces. The western façades of these blocks are covered in mirrored glass to create stunning views and help the units become one with their surroundings. Images by Roh Kyung.

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Deezen

JANUARY 25, 2024

Designed for a family of three with a limited budget, the home occupies a 70-square-metre site and is planned around two large concrete blocks. At night, the glow from the glass creates a lantern-like effect. Wood-framed, sliding windows in the translucent facade allow both floors to be partially opened to the exterior.

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Dwell

MARCH 15, 2024

Sited on an oversize lakefront lot in Winter Haven, this residence stands as a testament to architectural brilliance, providing total privacy in a cul-de-sac setting and non-HOA private community. The front yard features low-maintenance landscaping, including Florida natives and succulent plants.

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Deezen

MARCH 13, 2023

A set of giant wooden tables and chairs shelter the glass buildings of Sweets Bank, the headquarters of sweet company Shunkado in Hamamatsu City, Japan , designed by Nikken Sekkei. The building contains offices, a restaurant, a cafe and a bank The project is split into a pair of two-storey glass blocks.

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Architizer

MAY 20, 2024

Zion National Park, the museum’s main architectural highlight is its canyon-like roof, covering the entire building and an additional 6,000 square feet (560 square meters) of exterior under-roof event space. This LEED Gold building celebrates natural light with a sky-lit atrium and a sculptural glass art installation by James Carpenter.

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Deezen

APRIL 17, 2024

Facades are clad in Western red cedar that was lightly finished to preserve the wood's "natural beauty and unique character". Early in the design process, a guiding concern for the team was preserving a large, native Torrey pine tree that had been planted decades earlier and had grown to dominate the site.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Brazilian architecture studio DB Arquitetos has completed a holiday home surrounded by a wooden screen in a forested site outside of São Paulo , Brazil. The five-level house is delicately stacked along a steep slope in a densely vegetated site. The two-tiered roof is supported by round concrete columns.

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Deezen

APRIL 13, 2024

Located on a triangular plot to the south of the city, the building provides 72 apartments across seven storeys and is clad with vertical panels of terracotta-coloured glass-reinforced concrete. To maximise the number of units that could be fit on the site, MIAS filled its maintained outline and prow-like edges.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2024

The cantilevering volumes are supported by two-storey steel trusses For the empty parcel, the team sought to "maximise the buildable floor area for the small corner site by capitalizing on the air rights of the neighbouring building". The photography is by Albert Vecerka of ESTO (exteriors) and United Management (interiors).

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Deezen

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Tucked into a forested site, the project is located in Broken Bow, a town in southeastern Oklahoma that sits within the foothills of the Kiamichi Mountains. The cabin is clad in black metal with warm-toned wood accents Exterior walls and roofs were clad in black metal, with warm-toned Brazilian cumaru wood applied in select areas.

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Architizer

JANUARY 26, 2023

The exterior is clad in a rain screen of weathered steel that recalls the site’s steel mill history, with an exposed mass timber interior. miles from the site. The cost of bringing a sanitary sewer to the site was $2.0M – threatening the viability of the entire development.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The dwelling, named Brick House, occupies a long, narrow site near the city of La Eliana that was formerly used as a tennis court and is sheltered by trees around its perimeter. The size of each [brick] allows us to approximate the volumetric forcefulness that defines the exterior image of the project to the human scale.".

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Deezen

APRIL 30, 2022

The use of large panes of glass on the exterior of a dwelling is a popular trend in residential architecture as it is an effective way to make living spaces feel bigger and brighter. The interior is finished with a restrained grey palette, helping to retain focus on the colours of the dramatic vista beyond.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2024

The concrete of the silo structure is left exposed This ambition is also echoed outside, where the original white-plastered exterior of the silo has been restored and matched on the facades of the volume that was replaced. The other move that we did here was to open up this industrial site, it was closed for grain not for people," said Wåge.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Slender timber columns frame the living spaces in Forest of Pillars, a block of two family homes in Fukushima , Japan, designed by local studio IGArchitects to reference the forest of thin trees at the rear of the site. Above all, it would be more dramatic if the interior could not be imagined from the exterior, wouldn't it?"

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Deezen

APRIL 20, 2023

Lantern House is a villa in Lagos by Tosin Oshinowo-led studio CmDesign Atelier Overlooking a garden, pool and terrace wrapping the northeastern edge of the site, Lantern House has a mixture of openings and steel screens that ensure privacy and light throughout the building.

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Deezen

APRIL 15, 2024

Jean Benoît Vétillard Architecture has created a house and artist's studio in Paris Maison Nana is accessed by a paved garden, which Jean Benoît Vétillard Architecture has placed across half of the site. Here, a living, dining and kitchen space is wrapped by exposed blockwork walls and framed by slender steel columns in a pale shade of green.

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