Deezen

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Architecture firm Alterstudio has completed a tower-like house in Texas that rises up from a steep, wooded site that was long overlooked "as a possible home site". The site had long been overlooked as feasible for home construction. The team cut away portions of the boxy exterior to create balconies, which vary in size.

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Deezen

JULY 4, 2023

It is designed by JM Architecture to resemble "a white pebble in the landscape" A concrete basement level supports the upper timber structure of Pinwheel, which was prefabricated to minimise maintenance and construction time due to the site's remote location. The photography is by Mascheroni.

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Habitus Living

AUGUST 13, 2023

Simplicity – in the most complimentary sense – is the quality that carries all the way through from the clients’ brief to the finished object. “Initially we explored other locations on the site for the house, but we kept coming back to the thought of the reflections, light and movement that the water would provide,” he adds.

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Architizer

MAY 6, 2024

With its neverending waterfalls, mountains and evergreen forests, all interwoven with mist, the raw beauty of this unique American landscape is unparalleled. Shipley and Bates accomplished this feat through site-responsive design that blurs the line between interior and exterior. So how does one build in a place like this?

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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". Accessed via a cobblestone street, the home is perched on a hilly property with extensive views of the landscape.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In order to better connect the home's interiors with the surrounding landscape, its new upper storey features a series of deep window reveals, creating a large window box in the bedroom looking out across the beach and sea. It has a bronze and sandstone exterior. 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

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A flowing landscape of grass-topped, terracotta-coloured concrete animates the Chaohu Natural and Cultural Centre designed by Chinese studio Change Architects to reference mountains in Anhui province. Designed by the German-based studio Ippolito Fleitz Group , they are intended to echo the flowing form of the exterior.

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Deezen

JANUARY 6, 2023

London practice ZMMA has transformed the home of artist Thomas Gainsborough in Sudbury, Suffolk , into a gallery and museum with a material palette of redbrick and flint informed by his landscape paintings. It has a red brick and flint exterior. The studio referenced Gainsborough's local landscape paintings.

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2023

Tucked into a wooded site, it serves as a nature retreat for a single mother and her adult daughter, who has reduced mobility. The house is elevated above the forest floor Key design goals for Santiago's Hebra Arquitectos included minimising disruption to the site and ensuring the forest was the focal point. The roof rises to 4.5

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Deezen

OCTOBER 21, 2022

London studio Hayhurst & Co has completed the Edith Neville Primary School near King's Cross, with pockets of landscape and external play spaces wrapped by a filigree screen of white aluminium mesh. A zigzagging canopy bridges the interior and exterior. The school was wrapped in a white aluminium mesh.

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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

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. Flanking the ends of the main bar are piers made of concrete masonry units (CMUs), which help anchor the home to the site. Landscape architect: Chris Sosa.

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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 Cabinetry: Space Theory.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2024

Nowhere has renovated a house in Hyderabad called Mayalogili Alongside brick and marble dust, the studio also used plants and soil from the site to create tactile internal finishes that "weave in the materiality of the landscape", it said.

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Deezen

MAY 29, 2024

Located on the site of a former soy sauce factory, the open single-storey home was designed for a client who requested bright spaces with ample access to the outdoors. 3 in an L-shape to hug a courtyard and overlook the "borrowed landscape" from a nearby vacant lot. Chidori Studio has created Hokuriku Residence No.

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2024

California studio TW Ryan Architecture has completed a wildfire-resistant house in the American West that features a Corten steel exterior and pyramidal roofs that allude to the mountainous terrain. Four Roof House features a Corten steel exterior Their chosen site was a bluff overlooking a lake near the town of Helmville.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2023

bath house out of two volumes with floor-to-ceiling glazed ends that float above the landscape. The north volume is oriented along a direct east-to-west axis and contains the private spaces, while the south volume, rotated 45 degrees along the canyon's axis, holds the public gathering spaces that overlook the landscape and city below.

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Dwell

MAY 10, 2023

As well as the living pavilion, there is a two-story sleeping pavilion at the back of the site with a roof terrace capturing the evening sun. Clad in New Zealand-grown Monterey cypress, a timber that omits a fragrant, spicy scent, the entry nook is a cave-like space.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2024

Wendell Burnette Architects used Corten steel to clad a cabin in Arizona designed to capture views while disappearing into the landscape like a "dark shadow". The home was designed "to recede into the landscape" "This home is designed to recede into the landscape as a dark shadow," said Phoenix-based studio Wendell Burnette Architects.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Irregularly placed square openings puncture the thick concrete exterior of SV House in Portugal , recently completed by architecture studio Spaceworkers. Located on a sloping site near the town of Sobrado, the blocky, three-storey home occupies a plot once occupied by the home of the client's grandfather.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Construction often requires a rewriting of the landscape. Rather than asserting dominance over a landscape, the architect allows it to shape their vision. Rocks excavated during the home’s construction have been fused into the fabric of the building; still a part of their native landscape yet reframed and imbued with fresh purpose.

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Deezen

MAY 6, 2024

Located in Mandrem, a small town in the north of the state, the homes are intended to mirror the character of the local area, including its colourful architecture and landscapes. It] has a rich mix of local tradition and international appeal, boosting the senses with colourful textures, landscapes and water bodies," he told Dezeen.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Rich hues and curving geometries feature throughout Somers House, an L-shaped coastal home that Australian studio Kennedy Nolan has added to a coastal site in Victoria. A sweeping semicircular opening in the facade of the raised wing frames a bridge that connects the home's first-floor entrance to the sloping landscape.

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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. Landscape architect: Campion Hruby Landscape Architects. Neutral interiors define the home.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Peninsula House has a curved form crafted from rammed earth Instead of designing an orthogonal volume, Wood Marsh took cues from the shape of the coastline and the meandering paths leading to the site. This was designed to be in strong contrast to the powerful, windswept exterior landscape," said Marsh. "It

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2023

Named O Lofos, or The Hill, the holiday home is located in the foothills of Mount Thryptis, a mountain on the eastern side of the Greek island, and is designed by Block722 to blend in with the surrounding landscape. In response to the site's steep slope, the blocks of the home sit on two different levels set within a staggered outdoor space.

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Deezen

MARCH 16, 2024

Krasnyk House's form mimics the typical architecture of the Hutsuls – an ethnic group from the mountains of western Ukraine – and blends it with contemporary materials and finishes. Here, a panoramic triangular window provides views out across the landscape.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Our site was challenging, with pre-existing interface to the east and proposed planning for an apartment building of a similar scale at the rear," explained the studio. Fortunately, just prior to construction, the council acquired the rear site and approved a public park instead."

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The stone facade draws on fossils Fossil Building is topped by a green roof, helping it to blend into the stepped hillside when viewed from above and opening up to the landscape from below. "My This gives all of the classrooms access to a landscaped outdoor area sheltered by the overhang of the first floor above.

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Deezen

APRIL 19, 2023

Overlooking a lake in a wooded area called Devil's Glen, the home was designed by StudioAC to have a minimal impact on the landscape while allowing its inhabitants to take in the expansive views. The interior frames views of a lake StudioAC was founded in 2015 by architects Jennifer Kudlats and designer Andrew Hill.

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2024

Designed for the studio 's founder, Aldo Celoria, the home's foundations are formed by what was once a traditional cellar and dining area dug into the sloping site, which used to be visited by Celoria's family.

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Deezen

JUNE 29, 2023

Texas studio Tobin Smith Architect has completed a home for an irregular site facing a nature preserve that was envisioned as a "series of shields" clad in limestone and stucco. The team's goal was to create a home that could not only accommodate family life, but also serve as a peaceful refuge where occupants feel immersed in the landscape.

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Deezen

APRIL 19, 2024

Replacing a former gymnasium on the same site, the building slots in between the school to the north and a sprawling brick piazza to the south created by local studio Archea Associati in 2010. Contrasting this grey exterior, the inside of the gym has been finished with a datum of bright yellow across the ground floor level.

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