Deezen

MARCH 25, 2024

An inverted-pitch roof and angular brick cladding characterise the Butterfly House extension, which architecture studio The DHaus Company has added to a terraced home in north London. The DHaus Company has created an extension with a butterfly roof "The butterfly roof is visually striking," The DHaus Company told Dezeen.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2023

From steep single pitches to gables with overhanging eaves, we've rounded up eight houses with roofs that protrude beyond their footprint to shelter inhabitants from rain, sun, snow and prying eyes. Each is topped with a massive hip roof clad in cedar shingles in a playful, modern take on the region's historic cottages and boathouses.

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Deezen

MAY 10, 2024

Chilean studio Hebra Arquitectos has completed an elevated home with steel pilotis and a V-shaped roof, aiming to create a building that "floats in the middle of the forest". Hidden within a densely wooded area, the Lone Oak House is located in a river region in southern Chile.

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Deezen

MAY 28, 2024

Weathering steel and accoya wood wrap the exterior of the Alta House, which was created by US studio Lever Architecture to embrace the "sublime mountain landscape". Located in the small Wyoming town of Alta, the house serves as a holiday home for an outdoor-loving couple from Portland, Oregon. Situated on a half-acre (0.2-hectare)

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2024

Mexican studio COA Arquitectura has enclosed a winery outside of Guadalajara with a corrugated steel sawtooth roof and rammed earth walls. The main building is divided into two volumes A sawtooth steel roof covers the length of the facilities, lying exposed and uncovered by the stone walls on its far side.

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Deezen

APRIL 18, 2024

French studio Barrault Pressacco has completed the 102LET house outside Montpellier , mimicking the area's suburban architecture to conceal an interior defined by bright, open spaces. At the front of 102LET, a wall of sliding glass doors opens onto a covered patio, sheltered by a tiled pitched roof, typical of the area.

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The Spaces

MAY 30, 2023

Thomas Phifer drew on a long history of glass houses to inspire this Fishers Island home in New York, which disappears into the landscape while framing ocean views. It sits on the site of Armstrong’s family summer home, Hoover Hall, which burned down in 2003. These factors also add to its substantial price tag.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The house offers a chance to spend time in the countryside and enjoy the nearby preserved forest and lakes. The house has a simple floor plan with a curved wall that creates privacy toward the road.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Architecture studio 3dor Concepts used a giant sloping roof to cover all three levels of this house in Kerala, India , which features an internal courtyard garden that can be opened up to the outdoors. A giant sloping roof covers the House of Noufal. The floors of House of Noufal follow the slope of its roof.

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Deezen

JUNE 6, 2022

Francois Verhoeven Architects has completed a house in a Dutch village featuring a roof with three sloping sections that incorporate skylights , sedum and concealed solar panels. The bungalow is intended to fit into the existing neighbourhood, which comprises detached houses built alongside a series of manmade waterways.

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The Architecture Designs

MARCH 21, 2023

If you’re buying or building a home, it’s important to choose the right architectural style. Whatever style you choose will not only determine the overall look and feel of your home, but it will also have a big impact on its resale value. The right roofing style and material will help complete the home’s overall look.

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Dwell

MARCH 21, 2024

Designed by architect Pascal Truffaut, the countryside home has colorful interiors, a wave-like roof, and a bedroom suspended above the living area. The ground floor hosts a spectacular cathedral living space facing south, entirely open to the garden thanks to its glass facade.

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Deezen

AUGUST 31, 2022

An oversized gabled roof sits atop this Mexican countryside home by local architecture studio Estudio Atemporal, creating a covered space that extends the living room outside. Located roughly two hours driving from the Mexican capital, the 143-square-metre house was completed as a retreat for a city-dwelling family.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 8, 2023

German designers Julian Krüger and Benjamin Kemper have created Digital House, a micro home that can be built without using nails or screws and was designed to be easy to disassemble. Two people can quickly assemble the house without traditional hardware such as screws or nails and the need for further tools," he continued.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Local studio Geddes Ulinskas Architects has completed an expansive home in Cow Hollow, San Francisco with indoor-outdoor spaces, a cast glass staircase and stone detailing. The Bay Area studio designed the 12,000-square foot (1,114-square metre) home on a vacant 0.26 The Cow Hollow home is defined by indoor-outdoor spaces. "We

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Deezen

JANUARY 3, 2022

The Cascada House was designed by Mexican architects Nun?o Cascada House is topped with two sloping roofs. The apartment encompasses 140 square metres, and connects to the existing home below via an open stairwell. The apartment encompasses 140 square metres, and connects to the existing home below via an open stairwell.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A faceted roof on slender columns tops this home by Gluck+ in Los Angeles ' Hollywood Hills neighbourhood, covering the residence "like a parasol". Simply named California House, the single-family residence was completed by New York City firm Gluck+ on a "spectacular" steep site overlooking LA.

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

"If we are in a consolidated urban environment, the answer is simpler, but if we must choose between transforming an existing suburban house or building a new one, there is an ethical question that surpasses the merely economic equation," said the studio. And that decision comes before the project."

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The Spaces

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A Deco Revival house midway between Brussels and Antwerp is on the market with Belgian realtor Architecten Woning for €445,000. The geometric villa, an early example of postmodernism , was designed by Belgian architect Hugo Lejon as his own home, on the site of a 1930s Jos Chabot house near the Bosbeek River in Willebroek.

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Deezen

APRIL 5, 2024

A series of circular voids and "halo" skylights create spaces for trees to grow through this home in Semarang, Indonesia , which has been completed by local studio Tamara Wibowo Architects. The residence comprises two gabled structures and a central strip A series of circular cut-outs define this central roof.

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Deezen

APRIL 6, 2024

Amsterdam studio Woonpioniers has used natural materials and prefabricated elements throughout the Sprout Ruben & Marjolein house , which includes an open, greenhouse-like volume. For this prototype, which is located in Olst, Woonpioniers created a small house comprising a two-storey volume topped with a mono-pitched roof.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2023

Studio Symbiosis has completed a villa in Delhi, India , that rises up from its landscaped grounds, forming a terraced roof that is covered with plants to maximise the site's green area. Villa KD45 is a concrete home in India that was designed by Studio Symbiosis. The home rises from the ground. It was constructed from concrete.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Jenny Peysin Architecture has completed a house in the Hamptons with a poured-in-place concrete envelope and a glazed living space. Completed in 2019 on the eastern end of Long Island , New York, the 8,300-square foot (770-square metre) home has a board-formed mass with punched windows, natural materials and light-filled spaces.

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Deezen

APRIL 22, 2024

Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti has completed Frame House, a family home in Ljubljana clad in red-brick tiles that play on the area's pitched-roof buildings. Frame House is located in the city's suburbs and designed by OFIS Arhitekti with a footprint of 200 square metres so as not to intrude on the site's large rear garden.

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The Spaces

MAY 30, 2024

A US company is selling house kits based on the plans of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian homes, tweaked for modern living. Lindal Cedar Homes is based in Seattle and first announced its partnership with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation in 2018. The company offers nine models.

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Deezen

MAY 10, 2022

Ecuadorian studio Leppanen Anker Arquitectura took cues from traditional haciendas to create a sculptural house in the Andes Mountains that is made of stone , wood and clay. It was designed as a holiday home for a couple and their three children, although it became their full-time residence during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2023

Montreal architect Stephane Gaulin-Brown has placed a single-slope roof with a curved soffit on top of a ski chalet to open it up to the forests of Mont Tremblant, Quebec. The primary feature is a long shed roof with an ochre-coloured wooden soffit that curves from the exterior wall up to the edge of the cantilever.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Presented at this year's Designblok festival in Prague , Cake Houses is a modular home concept that allows clients to design bespoke homes via an online configurator. Above: the first Cake Houses project was completed this year. Above: the first Cake Houses project was completed this year.

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Architizer

MAY 28, 2024

London is home to some of the most innovative and beautiful residential architecture in the world. A detached house, set within a walled garden among mature trees, terminates the mews. The site, formerly occupied by semi-derelict industrial units, backs onto older terraced housing. Architects: Want to have your project featured?

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Iranian architecture studio Olgoo has completed a subterranean holiday home near Tehran , topped by a green roof that merges with the surrounding landscape. It is topped by a green roof Intended to be used by multiple families, the pentagonal plan of The Inside Home is split into three exposed concrete blocks.

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Deezen

JUNE 29, 2023

Recycled metal sheeting and repurposed wood and glass form Tree House by the Lake, a home in Vietnam designed by local studio H2. Located on the shores of Da Bang Lake in the Chau Duc District in Vietnam, the home was commissioned by an elderly couple and designed by H2 to bring them and their grandchildren closer to nature.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A sawtooth roof that references the nearby South Melbourne Market tops Ferrars & York, an apartment block in Australia designed by local studio Six Degrees Architects. There is a rooftop terrace On the top floor, the form of Ferrars & York's sawtooth roof has been used to add additional height to the apartments.

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Dwell

MAY 22, 2024

The array of glass doors surrounding the decks and patios invite in the coastal air and natural environs. A separate guesthouse with one bedroom, one bath, a living room, and an office area is set off an oversized roof deck. The park-like grounds hold a gunite pool, a pool house, a bocce court, and various gathering areas."

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Dwell

MAY 12, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The building is organized around a repeating grid of slender quadripartite columns that frame views and support a lightweight trussed roof structure. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

An angular black volume sits atop a cork-clad ground floor to form Casa 9, a home that Italian studio LCA Architetti has added to a valley on the border between Italy and Switzerland. A paved walkway runs along the front of the home's ground floor, which has a rectangular footprint designed to match the forms of the surrounding buildings.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Birds, butterflies and trees are considered co-owners of Labri, a glass house in Vietnam designed by local studio Nguyen Khai Architects & Associates. The 55-square-metre home, which is shortlisted in the Urban house category of the Dezeen Awards , was commissioned by a couple for a site beside a large pond in the city of Hue.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Mexican architect Cesar Mancillas used high concrete walls while creating a linear house with spaces focused on relaxation in the often-changing urban landscape of Ensenada, Mexico. The high walls isolate the home from prevailing winds The high walls isolate the house from the prevailing winds of the Valle de Guadalupe.

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