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APRIL 4, 2024

New York firm RKTB Architects has completed One Sullivan Place, a mixed-income apartment building that rises 12 storeys and cantilevers in two directions over the rooftop of an adjacent structure. The upper four levels are wrapped in exterior insulation finishing systems (EIFS), often referred to as synthetic stucco.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2024

Indian architecture studio Nowhere has renovated a house in Hyderabad called Mayalogili, coating it with a rough red-brown plaster made with brick and marble dust produced during the project. The post Nowhere uses brick dust to plaster refurbished house in Hyderabad appeared first on Dezeen. The photography is by Vivek Eadara.

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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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JUNE 19, 2022

Architecture studio Taller Héctor Barroso has fully revamped the decades-old DDH House in Mexico City for a family of five, including new facades clad in dark brown stucco that looks black. The DDH House sits on an irregularly shaped lot in the Lomas de Chapultepec neighbourhood in Mexico City.

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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. However, we wanted to make sure it was visually and practically disconnected from the main house so that it felt truly like a new home."

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Rising nearly 70 feet, the shed houses 5,000 tons of salt and marks the historic location where the former canal enclosing Lower Manhattan met the Hudson River. Architectural concrete was a natural material selection for the Salt Shed, serving as both the building structure and exterior finish, eliminating the need for additional materials.

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Deezen

MAY 6, 2024

Peach-toned walls and arched openings define Baia Villas, a set of six holiday homes in Goa that Mumbai studio Jugal Mistri Architects has designed to evoke local vernacular. Several walls are finished with fluted plastering and "reverse buttresses" that create shaded walkways. The photography is by Ekansh Goel.

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Dwell

JANUARY 2, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Their vision was to create a modern house nestled in the backyard while preserving the charm of their existing 1940s, 850-square-foot Arts and Crafts bungalow. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

APRIL 17, 2024

A large tree lies at the heart of a cedar-clad residence in southern California designed by US studio Brett Farrow Architect, which used various tactics to "meld nature into the home's ethos". Facades are clad in Western red cedar that was lightly finished to preserve the wood's "natural beauty and unique character".

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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". 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.

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Deezen

MAY 10, 2024

Hidden within a densely wooded area, the Lone Oak House is located in a river region in southern Chile. However, the owners began telecommuting for work and decided to make the house their full-time residence. "The Exterior walls consist of cypress wood screens and large stretches of glass.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

US studio Fuse Architects added cedar cladding, expanded the windows and brightened the interiors of the Plover House on the coast of California. Fuse Architects set out to brighten the interior. Fuse Architects set out to brighten the interior. Fuse Architects retained the house's original footprint.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

A "mountainous" zigzag roofline and bright yellow balconies define the ParkLife apartment block in the Brunswick neighbourhood of Melbourne , designed by local studio Austin Maynard Architects.

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Deezen

JULY 8, 2022

Sustainably-sourced timber has been used for the structure, cladding and interior of this mews home in Highgate, London , designed by local architect Russell Jones. The entire exterior is clad with Siberian larch. The post Timber structure and finishes define London home by Russell Jones appeared first on Dezeen.

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APRIL 9, 2023

London studio Francesco Pierazzi Architects has extended a suburban house in Croydon, adding two volumes with carefully-positioned openings that follow the path of the sun. Francesco Pierazzi Architects has extended a suburban house in Croydon Along the western edge of the home, a narrow form creates a new entrance.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

Australian studio Adam Kane Architects has renovated a cottage on a quiet coastal street in Barwon Heads and connected it to a barn-like extension by a glazed link. Named Barwon Heads House, the project was designed by Melbourne studio Adam Kane Architects as a contemporary dwelling that embodied a "relaxed, coastal lifestyle".

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Dutch architecture office Studio Prototype has built a house with a hexagonal footprint in an area of Amsterdam with relaxed planning regulations. Edge House is located in Route 1066, an area in Nieuw Sloten where landowners have the greater freedom to build as long as houses meet certain criteria.

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MAY 5, 2022

Archipelago Architects Studio arranged this house in Kanagawa, Japan , around a series of central staircases that divide the spaces and provide places to sit or relax. The Tokyo-based architecture office designed Kappa House to occupy a compact plot that was originally part of the neighbouring house's garden.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

US studio Robert Gurney Architect has completed a beachfront house in Delaware consisting of "simple and pure forms" wrapped in white cedar, salvaged barn wood and fibre-cement panels. Named after the community where it is located, the Cotton Patch Hills House sits on an oceanfront site in Bethany Beach, Delaware.

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Archinect

JULY 24, 2023

These kinds of guidelines cite “sustainability,” but miss a larger point about housing in Minneapolis.

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Bustler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

RIBA has announced a winner in this year’s House of the Year contest via the final episode of the Grand Designs: House of the Year program, which aired on the BBC’s Channel 4 earlier today. Read the full post on Bustler.

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Deezen

MARCH 19, 2022

London studio Will Gamble Architects has added an asymmetric and monochromatic extension to an Edwardian house in Richmond, designed to juxtapose the original architecture. Will Gamble Architects has added an asymmetric extension to an Edwardian house in London. It is clad in black zinc. "The

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Canadian architecture studio D'Arcy Jones Architects has completed a project called John Street Redo, which involved renovating and enlarging an early 1900s home in a way that is "forward-looking without erasing an old building's original charm". While many houses in the area back up to laneways, this home is sandwiched between two streets.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

Austere concrete walls create labyrinthine paths and pockets of greenery around this home in Melbourne , Australia, which was designed by local practice FGR Architects. Concrete walls wrap around the exterior of the house "The Courtyard Residence resembles a rectangular origami of concrete and glass.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2024

Chilean architecture studio Croxatto and Opazo Architects has created a holiday home outside of Santiago with a rotated, wedge-shaped terrace at its front. The house is located on a hilly site The first platform contains parking spaces, which are located on ground level and face the structure's concrete foundation.

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Deezen

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 building's beige exterior was replaced with black, vertical cedar siding that adds a sense of gravitas, the studio said.

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Deezen

JANUARY 16, 2022

British studio RX Architects referenced Mediterranean beach houses when designing Seabreeze, a coastal holiday home in East Sussex that is covered in smooth pink concrete. Located on Camber Sands beach in England, the dwelling is designed for a couple with three children who wanted to replace a house that previously occupied the site.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Brazilian studio Bloco Arquitetos has used prefabricated elements to create a house with two stacked, perpendicular volumes clad with screens in Brasília. Known as the 350 House, the 500-square metre residence can be completely opened to light and views or closed for privacy because of the many screens along its side.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Tadao Ando, the house features a concrete exterior in keeping with the acclaimed architect’s streamlined brutalist ethos. In the couple of dozen months that Ye has owned the property, the music performer and designer removed the home’s interiors, leaving it essentially gutted.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

American architecture studio Lake Flato has created a ranch house from rammed earth in the desert grasslands of Texas named Marfa Ranch. The house was designed to blend in with the landscape with rammed earth walls and a low-lying form. "The This material was used for the structure as well as for the finishes.

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Deezen

MARCH 22, 2024

The Palm Springs Art Museum has unveiled the reconstructed Aluminaire House in California, a modernist house originally designed in the 1930s by architect Albert Frey and editor A Lawrence Kocher. Marmol, who was a personal friend of Frey's, said the project is a tribute to the late architect's legacy. "I

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

DB Arquitetos and Marina Salles completed the holiday home on a forested site in Brazil The home was completed in 2023 by the Brazilian team of DB Arquitectos , which is lead by architect David Basto, and Marina Salles Arquitectura e Interiores , which previously renovated the interior of the client's primary residence in downtown São Paulo.

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Deezen

JANUARY 8, 2022

A cluster of wood-clad buildings surround a central courtyard at this Minnesota residence by US firm Salmela Architect that was designed for clients who formerly lived in Japan. The house rests on a fifty-acre (20-hectare) parcel, the majority of which the clients granted to the Minnesota Land Trust for permanent conservation.

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Deezen

JUNE 22, 2023

Wood and zinc -clad forms hug a spacious courtyard in a California home designed by US studio Walker Warner Architects to serve as a "private oasis". Designed for a client who co-founded a film and documentary production company, the house – called Santa Monica Modern – is located in a walkable neighbourhood, near shops and restaurants.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Italian architect Antonino Cardillo has completed a house near Lake Garda featuring steep ceilings, arched doorways and a palette of textured plaster and marble. This room features marble walls and textured plaster ceilings The layout centres around a grand first-floor living room described as "the soul of this house".

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Seoul studio AOA Architects has created Hoji Gangneung, a series of uniquely shaped concrete dwellings linked by a raised, circular path in the South Korean countryside. Located in Gangwon-do, Hoji Gangneung includes a family house for the owner and three guesthouses, along with a communal building.

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