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

MARCH 21, 2024

Roughly rectangular in plan, the house sits on a gently sloping site and was built atop the footprint of a former building. Bedrooms feature surrounding views Exterior walls are wrapped in weathering steel , which helps protect the home against wildfire. It is naturally fireproof along with steel-plate window frames."

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This structure was to be very strong, be as fire resistant as possible and require as little long term exterior maintenance as possible. This was accomplished by utilizes repurposed shipping containers, a galvanized tower crane mast and tower components, metal interior framing, aluminum framed windows/trim and stainless steel ceilings.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Having far fewer windows, the buildings reduce heat gain and energy use, while allowing residents to enjoy indoor outdoor living," the studio told Dezeen. Residents enter from a small courtyard on the outside street-edge corner of the lot into a rounded entryway that passes directly into the main exterior courtyard.

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2024

Alabama forms the site for Fowl River Cabin "When looking at the site and analysing the client's goals for the project, we knew that the siting of the building and the way it interacted with the river and trees was going to be just as crucial as the design itself," the Tall Architects team told Dezeen. Contractor: C.

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Deezen

MAY 16, 2024

Local studio Forge Craft Architecture + Design has created affordable apartments for people transitioning out of homelessness in Austin that feature a breezeway to encourage rest and preserve heritage trees on the site. Balconies painted in the same hue on either side look over the outdoor areas oriented around the oak trees.

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Deezen

JANUARY 21, 2024

Located near the coast of Gangwha County, the chapel sits at the top of a site that slopes down towards the sea, hugged from behind by dense forest and mountains. On the opposite wall, an organ is built into the exposed concrete, while narrow stained-glass windows are set within deep, faceted reveals on the southeast side.

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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

MARCH 15, 2024

US studio CCY Architects has clad a mountainside house in patinated copper panels and tilted the roof to adhere with the topography of its site in Colorado. Known as DNA Alpine, the 4,000-square foot (372-square metre) home was completed in 2022 and designed to "disappear into or somehow become" the 75-acre site in San Miguel County.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Curving walls and windows placed "like notes in a melody" define the latest Maggie's Centre , designed by architecture firm Studio Libeskind for the Royal Free Hospital in London. Timber panels clad the exterior Reaching 11.4 The windows] were decided like notes in a melody. And it turned out to be a great site."

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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

"We wanted our expansion to retain the qualities of surprise and free-spiritedness that have defined Kresge College, while at the same time opening it up to students of all abilities, the incredible natural ecology of its site, and the larger university community beyond."

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Deezen

MAY 6, 2024

The nine-storey building occupies a site measuring just 83.5 Hotel Rakuragu is located in central Tokyo "Planning windows and balconies on one side of a building for minimum lighting is typical," Kooo Architects co-founder Ayaka Kojima told Dezeen. square metres, which has buildings on either side.

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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. The team covered the structure with berms, which rise out of the flat landscape of the surrounding agricultural fields.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 9, 2023

From the side, the serrated edge blocks oblique views from the principal first-floor neighbouring windows," Proctor & Shaw director John Proctor told Dezeen. "It It is designed to be pulled back (with the shortest overhang) at the mid-window point to allow the maximum amount of light directly from above."

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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

MARCH 1, 2023

The exterior walls were clad in cedar wood The three-bedroom home "creates a sense of containment and release in the landscape." The project's exterior material palette references the surrounding agricultural area with whitewashed cedar siding and an aluminium standing-seam roof. The photography is by Keith Scott Morton.

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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

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.". Civil engineer: McNeil Engineering.

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Deezen

MAY 16, 2023

Bully Hill House is in rural New York The six-acre site slopes down to the road below and has an active hayfield for a local farmer that looks out to the distant mountains. Eighteen-inch Corten steel panels wrap around the exterior of the home and align with perimeter measurements and window ledges.

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Deezen

MARCH 4, 2023

Cristián Izquierdo L, a partner at Santiago-based studio Izquierdo Lehmann , designed Casa Encoique in 2021 as a guest pavilion adjacent to an existing holiday home that would allow the site to accommodate multiple generations. Some lines, like the horizontal joints in the exterior glazing, match perfectly to the form.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

Jun Mitsui & Associates and Pelli Clarke & Partners have converted a grocery store into a sake brewery The site contains three buildings – the brewery, housed in the shell of a former Stop & Shop grocery store, a small rice polishing building and a wastewater treatment facility.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Cedar cladding and distinctive windows feature on the exterior of tall rowhouses that were designed, developed and constructed by California architect Brett Farrow. Cedar cladding features on the exterior. For an irregularly shaped site, Farrow conceived 13 slender, detached homes that line a central auto court.

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Dwell

DECEMBER 7, 2022

A simple and regular concrete structural grid creates a variety of interior and exterior spaces with views across the Eubean Sea. At other moments it contains full height wood-framed windows to orient views out into the garden and sea. Have a project to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Splyce Design added a cantilevered staircase to Yield House The front of the house – functioning like stacked viewing platforms with wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling windows – looks to the city, mountains and ocean, while the restrained rear side frames views of Douglas firs and western red cedars in the coastal rainforest.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2022

A modern window is cut into the rustic facade. The building's exterior was inspired by the vernacular constructions of the area, a region of Quebec known as the Eastern Townships. The corner window of the main living space looks out into the foilage. The interiors are minimal, in contrast to the exterior.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

The structures have mass-timber structures and brick facades The new buildings – officially called Barry Mills Hall and the John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies – were designed by American studio HGA , which served as both architect and structural engineer. The photography is by Michael Moran.

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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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Dwell

JULY 27, 2022

Project Details: Location: Aichi, Japan Architect: Nori Architects / @nori_architects Builder: TOKORO Structural Engineer: Seiji Okawa Textile Designer: Yuki Tsutsumi Equipment Advisor: Kozo Takase Lighting Advisor: CHIPS LLC. The exterior skin and mechanical equipment were designed for year-round comfort and energy-efficiency.

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Dwell

MAY 2, 2023

The single-story building is designed sensitively in massing, incorporating natural materials that blend it into the site, reducing the impact of the new home on the surroundings. Two double en suite bedrooms are located on the ground floor, with generous frameless picture windows offering an abundance of natural daylight.

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Deezen

AUGUST 4, 2023

Black wood and asphalt shingles clad the exterior of the Polker housing block by architect and developer SinHei Kwok, who took cues from historic "pyramid cottages" while conceiving the project. Stucco covers one elevation On the north- and south-facing elevations, the roof and exterior walls are wrapped in variegated asphalt shingles.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

Set at 8,900 feet, the short construction window necessitated an innovative approach. Photo © Boone Speed Employing modular and prefabricated construction, enabled the construction timeline to be compressed into a brief five-month window. Unpretentious and inviting, the exterior is expressed in reclaimed wood.

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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 exterior was envisioned as a "series of shields that provide privacy and mitigate solar exposure," the team said. The photography is by Dror Baldinger.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Urlo Studio designed a rotated, triangular mixed-use complex clad in red concrete panels and terracotta tiles that is meant to reference the architectural heritage of its site in Quito , Ecuador. Above, two- and three-bedroom apartments rotate around a central courtyard.

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JULY 26, 2022

The exterior form of the house is generated through internal spatial configurations that work to enhance a specific view or produce an unexpected interior space. The internal spaces are arranged around a central stair and orientated toward the long views north and west.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The project was envisioned as a "modern reincarnation" of the hotel that once operated on the site. The exterior facades, featuring white stucco and arched windows, were kept largely intact. While the exterior has a historic look, the interior is much more modern. The photography is by Erin Feinblatt.

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MARCH 15, 2023

Project Details: Location: Fundo Leona, Chile Architects: Hebra Arquitectos Footprint: 1,500 square feet Builder: Tierra Fertil Structural Engineer: Pedro Valenzuela Photographer: Marcos Zegers From the Architect: " The home is designed as an envisaged aerial volume with burnt wooden cladding on the exterior walls in the Japanese style of yakisugi.

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Deezen

AUGUST 23, 2022

Non-combustible materials form the exterior of a cabin near Lake Tahoe that was designed by US studio Faulkner Architects to serve as a "base camp" for an active family. 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.

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