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

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 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

AUGUST 12, 2022

An enormous thatched roof structure with open sides covers the communal areas of this home perched on a rocky cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Mexico by Zozaya Arquitectos. The structure features an enormous open thatched roof. Two levels make up the home, which is accessed from the top due to the site conditions.

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Dwell

MAY 13, 2024

The site itself was very interesting, because it felt expansive from one end, but actually quite intimate and enclosed by nature at the other." Before: Exterior After: Exterior The design firm Sherwood Kypreos preserved and repaired the home’s original brise-soleil. a Woodburning Stove?

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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. Contractor: Arrowhead.

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Dwell

MAY 10, 2023

A soaring roof in exposed Monterey cypress and wood floors in a matching hue emphasize a view of the seaside setting. 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. Have one to share? Post it here.

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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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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

JULY 31, 2022

US studio Desai Chia Architecture designed a highly sculptural, waterfront home wrapped in concrete and charred cypress that has vaulted roofs resembling wings. During the project's inception, designers from Manhattan's Desai Chia Architecture visited the site in different seasons to understand the climate and terrain.

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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. Architecture practice Chidori Studio has completed Hokuriku Residence No. 3, a house in Hakusan that references traditional Japanese homes and industrial architecture.

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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 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

APRIL 17, 2022

It follows the line of the existing stone wall facing the street but its gabled roof projects up above it, maintaining a consistent height along its length. It incorporates stone walls from a building that previously occupied the site. Mezzanine levels slot beneath its gabled roof. Elsewhere in Porto, Fahr 021.3

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Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Raw finishes and "as found" materials informed by brutalist architecture are used throughout this home , which Portuguese studio Atelier Local has created on a nature reserve near Porto. Called House in Ancede, the house sits on the site of a former stone ruin that it was required to roughly match in terms of its footprint and volume.

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Deezen

MAY 26, 2024

The red-hued extension is built from brick and pigmented concrete "As the project was prominently sited within the conservation area, a sensitive, contextual response was essential," studio founder Lemma Redda told Dezeen. The previous extension was low-key but poorly built.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2023

"We wanted to touch lightly on the site, so the home cantilevers over the site, is grounded at the entrance, and then floats over the landscape as you move through the home," the studio said. This projection helped us to minimize the impact on this natural site and reduce excavation.". The home is topped with a green roof.

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Deezen

JANUARY 31, 2024

Named Hut-Inspired House, the simple, 180-square-metre house in the town of Říčany is based on the gabled form of cabins near the site that are now being demolished due to the redevelopment of the area.

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Deezen

APRIL 13, 2024

To maximise the number of units that could be fit on the site, MIAS filled its maintained outline and prow-like edges. While the layout of the apartments in the centre has been kept consistent, the two prow-like corners to the east and the west of the site contain unique spaces tailored to their more angular and narrow floor plans.

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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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Deezen

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Local studio WXCA has completed the Polish History Museum and Polish Army Museum alongside a new public square on the site of the former Warsaw Citadel in Poland. A sedum roof tops the building "Contemporary museums are not just about the exhibits," explained Wroński.

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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. It looks south towards the village of Krasynk from a terrace elevated on slender black-steel columns and sheltered by the large angular roof.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A small triangular site guided the geometric form of Butterfly House, an accessible home that London studio Oliver Leech Architects has added to the corner of a garden in Surrey. Wrapping around smaller private gardens, the angular form of Butterfly House is dictated by the shape of its site – a corner plot at the southern tip of the garden.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

River Bend Residence is a tranquil home designed to sit lightly upon the land, minimising disruption to the site and existing trees," said Lake Flato Architects , which has offices in San Antonio and Austin. The buildings are topped with tall, pyramidal hipped roofs. A portion of the dwelling is lifted above the site by concrete piers.

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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. Coated in ochre-toned render, the rounded stairwell connects the levels of the home and is perforated with small rectangular windows.

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Deezen

MAY 6, 2024

Baia Villas is designed to echo the colourful architecture of Mandrem "Baia Villas started with an intimate understanding of the site and the small town of Mandrem in north Goa, which boasts remarkable beaches and heightened spirits," said Jugal Mistri Architects founder Jugal Mistri. "[It]

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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

JANUARY 22, 2022

Brazilian architecture studio Debaixo do Bloco Arquitetura has built a concrete home in Brasília made up of three volumes, each lit by a central light well carved out of its angular roof. Each of the volumes has an angular roof that pitches towards the centre, forming a light well. The photography is by Joana França.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The team sought to oppose the recent suburban-style development of the surrounding neighbourhood "Steel Louise is a single-family, urban infill house that reckons with dramatic contradictions between its site's past and present, becoming a private house with a unique public persona." The photography is by Keith Isaacs.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The parking garage roof was thus designed as a public square – Münsterplatz – and the vertical access structure to the city park was designed as a tower – Bertholdturm – with a publicly accessible viewing platform." "Together they create an identity-forming urban ensemble," he continued. The photography is by Gregor Schmidt.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It has a deliberately simple design, intended to echo the form of an old 20-square-metre tool shed that previously occupied the site. Inside, the concept of an archetypal cabin is reflected in wooden finishes throughout, alongside minimal fixings and fittings in the bedroom space and simple shelving and benches in the workshop. "We

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Architizer

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Delta began salvaging and repurposing longleaf pine over three decades ago and prides itself on sourcing quality material, de-nailing boards and timbers, as well as sawing and milling large timbers into finished products. The interior finishes are light and airy. A green roof surrounds all the living spaces and sleeping rooms.

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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

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 design blurs indoor-outdoor boundaries, encouraging reflection, engagement and idea exchange.

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Deezen

APRIL 19, 2023

StudioAC has created a house in a wooded area called Devil's Glen "The design process began with an on-site picnic, where a discussion focused more on the natural elements of the site rather than the building," explained the studio. That conversation inspired the ethic of the project to come," it continued.

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Deezen

MAY 19, 2023

Girona-based Arquitecturia , led by Josep Camps and Olga Felip, designed House 016 to foster a close connection to both its site, which is surrounded by lawns and trees, and the internal garden. horizontal one with framed views to different pieces of garden.

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