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AUGUST 16, 2024

Local architecture studio Modern Office of Design + Architecture has wrapped a multifamily housing development in wood siding and topped it with ramped roof gardens in Calgary , Alberta. Inside, the housing units range from 450-square foot (42-square metre) studio to 600-square foot (56-square metre) condos and from 1.5-storey

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AUGUST 3, 2024

Brooklyn studio CO Adaptive has retrofitted a terraced house in Queens , New York to meet Passive House energy efficiency standards. The renovation work revolved around the goal of the unit becoming a Passive House – or Passivhaus – a certification that recognises outstanding energy efficiency in buildings.

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AUGUST 5, 2024

has created a blocky house called Casa LL with polystyrene panels and concrete in Tepoztlán, Mexico. Located on a lot under the cliffs of Tepozteco, the "geometric composition of the house responds to a fragmentation of prisms that join and separate to shape its internal spaces," the team said. Local studio RA!

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Architecture studio Brooks + Scarpa has completed an all-electric, affordable housing complex in Santa Monica called 1819 Pico, which departs from the area's typical "defensive apartment buildings" with their solid walls and fences. For the city at large, the courtyard is an urbane housing type that fits well into neighbourhoods."

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JULY 22, 2024

US architect Philip Johnson's Glass House annexe, the Brick House, has been restored and reopened following a 15-year closure in Connecticut. It is located 80 feet downhill (24 metres) from the Glass House, separated by a lawn and connected by a stone pathway. A single door is located on its facade.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Local studios Atelier Chardonnat and Salem Architecture have renovated and expanded a mid-century modern house in Montreal, dividing the original residence from the addition with a monumental skylight. The additional volume is located at the back of the house, maintaining proportions and keeping the house in harmony with the neighbourhood.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

Dutch studio MVRDV has overhauled a former world war two German military base in the Netherlands , adding terraced housing and preserving a series of bunkers disguised as farmhouses. Designed with the same size and shape as the former buildings, the terraces each contain seven houses and have walls and roofs covered in grey slate.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Local studio Splyce Design has designed a light-filled, angled house with glazed corners and a sculptural staircase overlooking the Burrard Inlet in Vancouver , British Columbia. Settled in a quarter-acre site, the house sits 17 feet (five metres) above the sidewalk, lifting it up from the street's sightlines. "How

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The house is arranged in a C-shaped plan, opening toward an outdoor dining patio on the western side shaded by large wooden beams. The bedrooms and bathrooms are stacked on the opposite end with windows that look out east and west. Rogelio Rojas Castro Structural engineering: Ing.

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AUGUST 8, 2024

A London house extension designed by Office S&M features a ceramic facade with the same pink glaze used for Tube station tiles on the Hammersmith and City Line. Office S&M designed Beacon House, a single-storey rear extension , for a Victorian terraced house in Tottenham, north London.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Portholes and semi-circular motifs characterise this colourful renovation and extension of a Victorian terrace house in Hackney, London , by architecture studio Gundry & Ducker. Gundry & Ducker drew on the palette of 1950s American kitchens when creating the rear extension and renovated basement in this London house.

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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. Settled on the edge of a meadow surrounded by spruce trees, the massing of the two-bedroom, rectangular house follows the natural grade, never rising more than 15 feet (4.5

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Situated among the dense tree canopies, the new 800-square-foot building houses a painting studio on the upper floor and an exhibition space/single-car garage and powder room on the ground level.

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Deezen

AUGUST 19, 2024

The house belongs to architects Rebecca Rudolph, a principal at local studio Design, B **s , and Colin Thompson, who works at Gensler. The 500-square-foot (46-square-metre) house was rundown and sat on a long, slender barren lot. Two round windows add an exuberant touch to the house.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. This cast-in-place concrete house is completely off the grid—powered by photovoltaic panels and catching all domestic and landscape water from rainfall captured off the roof and stored in cisterns. "

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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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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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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2024

Telescope House offers framed views of Sedona The 1,600-square-foot (149-square-metre) cabin is a nature retreat for a couple who ultimately plan to live there full-time. When not staying at the house, the clients rent it out. It is naturally fireproof along with steel-plate window frames."

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

California studio Field Architecture designed this Sonoma Valley house out of a trio of fanning copper-clad pavilions with butterfly roofs. Named Madrone Ridge, the 4,920 square-foot (460 square-metre) house sits within the watershed of northern California's Russian River. the studio said. "By

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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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DECEMBER 28, 2023

Canadian studio 25:8 Architecture + Urban Design has added a cedar-clad extension with a shape informed by birds in flight to a house in Ottawa. When practicing yoga upstairs, the residents can look through a floor-level window down to the basketball game, and a sliding battened screen protects the glazing from damage.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Geometric shapes, fossilised stone and English cherry wood characterise this house in Wimbledon, London , overhauled by local architecture studio Gundry & Ducker. Named Wimbledon Villa, the studio renovated and extended the detached early 2000s property with the aim of making it feel like "a country house in miniature".

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MARCH 28, 2024

US studio Michael Hennessey Architecture has revitalised an ageing suburban house near San Francisco , adding black cladding and bright finishes to form a family home that bridges the past, present and future. The aim was to create a dwelling that supported the family's current needs while being mindful of what might be needed in the future.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The house belongs to Marc Manack, an architecture professor and founding principal of SILO , and his wife, Kallisto Vimr. Belmont has been transforming in recent years, with suburban-style homes popping up alongside modest dwellings that once served as worker housing for a local cotton mill.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Japanese studio Unemori Architects has used cypress wood to create Father & Son House, an extension constructed above and around a self-built annexe in Saitama. This enabled the owner to remain close to his mother, who lives in the main house on the plot. Large windows let the light in.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

American firm Studio of Metropolitan Design Architects has renovated a stone Tudor Revival house and added a pavilion-like concrete extension in Wilmington, Delaware. The modern addition is an interpretation of the existing traditional elements of the house," the studio said.

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JUNE 11, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Originally this ADU was planned as a simple guest house to the main residence. Have one to share? Post it here. Project Details: Location: Austin, Texas Architect: Side Angle Side / @ sideangleside.co

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AUGUST 30, 2022

Called Torus House on account of its looped plan, the home occupies a site with a height difference of 10 metres – sitting level with the road to the north and perched on four large concrete supports to the south. Torus House sits on a steeply sloping site in Chiba Prefecture. Torus House is elevated on four large columns. "It

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NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Architecture studio Unknown Works has extended a semi-detached house in east London , adding vibrant yellow-rendered forms to its front and rear. Unknown Works has extended a semi-detached house in east London. The kitchen and diner are housed in the bright yellow rear extension that opens onto the garden's brick-paved patio.

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APRIL 4, 2024

One Sullivan Place was designed by RKTB Architects Totalling 60,000 square feet (5,574 square metres), One Sullivan Place contains 52 rental apartments, 16 of which are classified as affordable housing. Of those 16, three are designated for senior residents. The remaining units are market-rate.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

David Kohn Architects has completed a house in southwest England with exaggerated features that include oversized eaves, patterned brickwork and acid-green details. Located in rural Dorset, Red House is a two-storey house for a couple and their young daughter. Red House takes its cues from Arts and Crafts architecture.

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APRIL 7, 2022

Located in an inner suburb of Raleigh, HUUS house sits in a leafy neighbourhood with homes built between the 1940s and 1970s. Part of the HUUS house is sunken in the ground. The project's name comes from the old Alemannic German word for house, hüüs. This attitude is a perfect reflection of the couple who lives in the house.".

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MARCH 18, 2022

London studio Nimtim Architects has redefined the interior of a 1920s house in Southwark using multifunctional partitions that are built from plywood joinery and feature a repeating arch motif. Nimtim Architects has updated a 1920s house in London. Sliding doors and windows are built into the partitions.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

Local architecture studio Partisans has completed a house with an undulating yellow brick facade designed to look pixelated in Toronto , Ontario. The top level aligns three bedrooms and a shared bath in the front of the house, while the primary suite holds the back third of the plan. The roof design accommodates a future green roof.

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MARCH 26, 2023

Architecture studio SDA has completed the Floating House, a concrete-framed home on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City that is elevated above ground to mitigate the impacts of flooding. It is elevated above ground to mitigate the impacts of flooding "We composed the house as three slabs floating above the ground," explained SDA.

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AUGUST 8, 2021

The Birch Fircrest House I had the good fortune this weekend to enjoy a tour of a remarkable work of architecture currently under construction: the Birch Fircrest House designed by Speranza Architecture + Urban Design. The double-glazed, tilt + turn, high-performance windows are manufactured by Innotech.

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AUGUST 21, 2024

Geometric windows, a slatted cedar screen, and split roof offer a contemporary take on traditional A-frames. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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