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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Fuse Architects shed the home’s dark shingles—including ones inside—and covered its ocean-facing facade with glazing that frames views and draws in light. 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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MARCH 31, 2024

The 19th-century villas in the suburbs of Paris informed the arched windows and sloping roofs of this social housing block in France , completed by local studio SOA Architectes. Its design references 19th-century Parisian villas nearby SOA Architectes divided the apartments across three volumes.

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Archinect

MARCH 21, 2023

A façade of smooth plaster and cedar siding bundle the interior rooms with strategically placed exterior spaces, producing long sightlines throughout the interior. Telescoping doors and windows extend the living, dining, and kitchen seamlessly out to the entry garden and the interior pool terrace.

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Deezen

JULY 6, 2024

A blocky concrete form and cutout courtyards define House in Tsurumi-ku, a family home that Japanese studio FujiwaraMuro Architects has added to a sloping street corner in Osaka. This layout was designed by FujiwaraMuro Architects to offer the family privacy from the busy neighbouring street while ensuring ample light.

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Deezen

JUNE 13, 2024

Located in a 1970s housing block, the narrow commercial space has been transformed into a light-filled home named 097 Waves of Glass and Clouds of Metal. Cloud-shaped screens feature over the front window. Photo by Giulietta Margot Perforated-metal screens bookend the two-storey apartment and frame its windows.

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Deezen

AUGUST 19, 2024

A co-founder of the firm Design, B **s and her architect husband have completed the latest iteration of their family home in California , which features ample daylight and the "feeling of being in the trees". The house belongs to architects Rebecca Rudolph, a principal at local studio Design, B **s , and Colin Thompson, who works at Gensler.

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Deezen

JUNE 24, 2024

New York-based design studio Oza Sabbeth Architects has wrapped an L-shaped beach house in cedar and topped it with a standing seam gabled roof in Montauk. The design of the home was founded not only in the strengths of the location but also the liabilities," Oza Sabbeth Architects lead designer Peter Sabbeth told Dezeen. "The

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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. 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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Dwell

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

As the house hunt got underway, the couple soon realized that it would be challenging to meet all of their family’s needs in an older home—especially around a more open layout for entertaining and their growing kids. "We We also learned that we wanted more control over the look of the exterior of the home."

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Deezen

JUNE 12, 2024

Handel Architects has completed a skyscraper in Boston with Passive House -certified office spaces, which its developers say is the largest office to reach that certification in the world. This is the first time a developer has applied the Passive House approach to an office building of this size and scale," it continued.

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Deezen

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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Dwell

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Catherine McElwain and architect Dermot Ryan celebrate their midcentury’s gridded tile, glass bricks, and ironwork as they inject it with industrial materials and vibrant color. It’s like a series of stacked boxes, with very large windows and beautiful tiling. The top floor has wraparound windows with a 360-degree view—it blew me away."

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Deezen

JANUARY 6, 2024

London studio Delve Architects has transformed a Victorian house in Camberwell with a cork-clad extension that introduces a bright open-plan kitchen and dining space for entertaining. The intention was to maximise sight lines into the long garden and bring in light as much as possible." metre-high glass door with green-painted frames.

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Deezen

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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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Local studio Mary Arnold-Forster Architects has updated an old schoolhouse in Scotland , adding two slate-clad extensions designed to contrast its original sandstone structure. While the school itself remains operational, the house now functions as a private residence. The photography is by Will Scott.

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Archinect

MARCH 24, 2023

Local zoning code dictated that the maximum building height be measured from existing natural grade at each point along the length of the structure, and from this design parameter emerged the form of the house. Long gallery walls run the length of each side of the tube and large windows open to the exterior at either end.

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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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Deezen

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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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2024

Warm tones feature across the facade and interior of The Lookout, a stilted house that local studio Parsonson Architects has added to a hillside site in New Zealand. To add interest to the home's simple rectangular form, Parsonson Architects incorporated geometric cutouts and a sloped roof.

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Deezen

JANUARY 17, 2024

French studio Vallet de Martinis Architectes has created an assisted living complex for the Joffre-Dupuytren Hospital beside a forest in the suburbs of Paris. Drawing on the layout of a typical house, Vallet de Martinis Architectes designed the building with open communal spaces on the ground floor and more private living units above.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Pale brick , stone and timber were used to create a "rustic and warm feeling" at this home in rural China , designed by local studio CPlus Architects. Mother's House was born in this context, as an independent experimental sample to help revitalise the villages," it added. The photography is by Zhu Yumeng unless otherwise stated.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Architecture studio LMN Architects and landscape studio Field Operations have opened a wood-clad aquarium extension topped with a public park that acts as a bridge between the city and Seattle's waterfront. LMN Architects and Field Operations have completed a park and aquarium extension in Seattle.

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2024

Italian studio Messner Architects has extended and reconfigured a house in South Tyrol to create three apartments , each with a contrasting exterior finish of plaster, wood and metal. While the existing structure was left largely unchanged, Messner Architects removed its gabled roof to create an expanded second floor.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Ukrainian studio Zikzak Architects has released its design for the first Ronald McDonald House in Ukraine , which will provide temporary housing to children receiving treatment at Kyiv 's Okhmatdyt hospital and their families. It will include a kitchen, food storage room, wardrobes, bathrooms, showers, and storage areas.

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Deezen

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

AUGUST 22, 2024

An extension perched above a ranch house and a 3D-printed home designed by Lake Flato and ICON feature in this roundup of contemporary architecture in Austin , Texas. A carport also houses a pale-blue Thunderbird , which inspired the choice of a bright blue front door.

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Deezen

MAY 26, 2024

A red-hued extension built from brick and pigmented concrete has been added to a Victorian house in the suburbs of Norwich by local architecture studio Grafted. The new extension was a way to celebrate the best details of the house through reinterpretation," she continued.

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Deezen

JULY 9, 2024

Finnish studio AOR Architects has completed the Monio School and Cultural Centre in Hyrylä, using over 5,000 industrial timber logs to create a structure that references the area's traditional wooden villas. Different spatial groups are located in the log houses on three floors." It is a fascinatingly simple way of building.

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Architecture Ideas

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

When it comes to designing the exterior of your home, choosing suitable materials can make all the difference. Exterior house stone is a popular choice for homeowners looking to add elegance and durability to their home’s exterior. Let’s see types of exterior house stone.

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Deezen

APRIL 29, 2024

Local studio Valbæk Brørup Architects drew on the principles of Danish functionalism for Kildeskovsvej, a red-brick house outside Copenhagen with a blocky form broken up by large corner windows. Above, the bedrooms overlook the garden with a row of large windows.

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Deezen

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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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

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Fluted blocks of local stone bring a tactile finish to this home in Greece , which has been completed by local studio Point27 Architects. The family dwelling, named Atrium House, is located on the outskirts of the port city of Thessaloniki, on a tree-filled site that looks out towards the Thermaic Gulf.

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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

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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AUGUST 2, 2024

Architecture studio Alison Brooks Architects has completed the One Ashley Road residential development in London , with a pair of angular terracotta towers framing a square. In response to the nearby Berol House, the studio designed the pair of tower blocks to have bold, geometric forms intended to reference Berol pencils.

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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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