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APRIL 25, 2024

Canadian studio Omar Gandhi Architects has completed a cedar-wrapped house "inspired by the scattered boulders" that trail down the seaside property in Hubbards, Nova Scotia. The exterior is "minimal in its massing" "The exterior is extremely minimal in its massing," said OGA principal Omar Gandhi.

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APRIL 26, 2024

London studio Mae Architects has created Harriet Hardy House in Southwark, a block of 119 social homes complete with a community centre and cafe. A tower-like volume on the site's southeastern corner is topped with a rooftop terrace. Among its 119 homes are 54 extra care flats – a form of specialist housing for older residents.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Argentinian architect Malvina Zayat has completed a white home for herself and her family that is lifted above a sloped site and enters into "an intimate dialogue with the sky and clouds". The north and west sides open up to the exterior, providing a sense of expansion. On the west end, the building hovers 3.5

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Habitable Form has created a timber-clad house on Kiawah Island in South Carolina The site conditions drove the design by architecture studio Habitable Form , which has an office nearby, on Johns Island. Exterior walls are wrapped in modified wood from the Oslo-based company, Kebony. A guest bedroom is also found on this level.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Mork-Ulnes Architects has unveiled their completed residential project in Bernal Heights, San Francisco. While the fire caused a reevaluation of the scope and scale of the redesign, the brief remained to “create a home that acted as a capsule for art and inspiration.” Image credit: Br.

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APRIL 25, 2024

Additionally, the design addresses the existing house's missed opportunities to take full advantage of the site's natural beauty – namely refining the entry approach from the forested driveway on the east and opening the house to views westward of an expansive rolling meadow and of the Sudbury River.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Architecture firm Alterstudio has completed a tower-like house in Texas that rises up from a steep, wooded site that was long overlooked "as a possible home site". The site had long been overlooked as feasible for home construction. The team cut away portions of the boxy exterior to create balconies, which vary in size.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

US architecture studio Schaum/Shieh has embedded a Virginia house with irregularly shaped volumes into the contours of a steep site. Rounded corners on the home's exterior are reflected on the interior, further softening a largely white interior palette. The house is finished with bamboo wood floors and insulated stucco.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

A family home that blurs the distinction between interior and exterior space through its unique connection to the natural landscape. Terraces adjacent to the living spaces, a hidden path to the lake shore, and two outdoor rooms with fire pits further integrate the building into the site.

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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. Kildeskovsvej's exterior is clad in red brickwork, complemented by copper-coloured metal window frames and parapets.

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APRIL 18, 2022

Rendering by Salah El Din Samir Hareedy and team The team of Egyptian architects selected last spring to oversee the overhaul will now redraw its plans for a glass-paneled modern update to the hall. Exterior elements like sun shading will be thrown out as well. The original plans. The Sunni religio.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

The planning and massing of this project is built around the premise of creating an exterior that indicates the movement of pedestrians and vehicles across the site and an interior that portrays the Capitamall signature shopping experience.

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MARCH 21, 2023

Sited on a private coastal California hillside street lined with five tightly stacked homes, the 3000 square foot residence optimizes a compact footprint, resulting in an experience that maximizes outdoor living, without compromising the privacy of the family.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

MAD Architects has shared photos of their newly-completed signature stadium that’s part of the Quzhou Sports Park in Zhejiang, China. Courtesy of MAD Architects. Courtesy of MAD Architects. In our April 2020 coverage of the project, construction of the mega development was underway. Image © CreatAR Images.

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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. 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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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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JUNE 29, 2023

The Fred Rouse Center for Arts and Community Healing Exterior. Concept rendering by MASS Design Group. Courtesy of Transform 1012 N. Main Street. The space is named in honor of Fred Rouse, a local Black man who was lynched by a.

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JUNE 23, 2022

Architecture firm Estudio MMX has spread CAB House in Mexico City over four levels by using a series of towering volumes to integrate the building into a steep site. The project was designed for a site with a natural ravine at the bottom, which Estudio MMX wanted to integrate into the planning.

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MARCH 21, 2023

The organizational strategy consists of a circulation spine connecting a series of program pavilions distributed across the site. Multiple distinct views, overlays of interior rooms and exterior gardens, exist from all moments within the partially subterranean terraced interior.

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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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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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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. Fortunately, just prior to construction, the council acquired the rear site and approved a public park instead."

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APRIL 7, 2022

Glazed brick and charred cypress wrap the exterior of a partly sunken North Carolina home designed by architecture firm In Situ Studio. The site formerly held a run-down, 1940s dwelling that was owned by the clients. The architects used several strategies to reduce the home's visual bulk. Grey tiles feature in the bathroom.

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MARCH 21, 2024

The rough finishes of an existing concrete and brick structure are contrasted by white exhibition spaces at Arario Gallery in Seoul , completed by Japanese studio Schemata Architects. Designed by architect Kim Swoo-geun, the grey-brick, heritage-listed building was completed in the 1970s and converted into the museum in 2014.

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JULY 28, 2023

TenBerke has announced a new dormitory project for the University of Washington in Seattle co-led with local mainstays Mahlum Architects , a leader in green building design. The firm’s first-ever West Coast project will incorporate its surroundings on an acre-and-a-half site on the periphery of campus and a woodland area.

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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. On the exterior, blackened timber cladding helps it blend into the shadows of the nearby trees. The photography is by Ståle Eriksen.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

French studio Amelia Tavella Architectes referenced fossils for the textured stone facade of the Auguste Benedict School, which is designed to appear as though it has "emerged from the earth". The kindergarten dormitories have been positioned at the rear of the building, where the site's natural drop and a high stone wall offer privacy.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Promotion: Swiss architecture studio Küchel Architects has designed a cantilevered house on an elevated site overlooking Lake Maggiore in Ascona, Switzerland. Described by the studio as an "architectural marvel", the home aims to showcase its natural surroundings, while ensuring the privacy of its residents.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

The architects claimed that the building combines a religious experience with secular attitude, explaining that the church "aims to create a spatial container that both respects the past and looks towards the future.". The gentle curves lend the space a fluid feel that contrasts with the rigid, geometric appearance of the exterior.

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JUNE 29, 2023

The Fred Rouse Center for Arts and Community Healing Exterior. Concept rendering by MASS Design Group. Courtesy of Transform 1012 N. Main Street. The space is named in honor of Fred Rouse, a local Black man who was lynched by a white mob in 1921,

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JANUARY 11, 2024

Architects drew on traditional mountain architecture when designing this house in the village of Malá Úpa, creating steep gables to help deal with heavy snowfall. Architects to adhere to strict construction rules. Architects to adhere to strict construction rules. Architects appeared first on Dezeen. Czech studio Mar.s

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MARCH 22, 2024

Australian studio Lahznimmo Architects has completed Powerhouse Castle Hill in northwest Sydney , a shed-like storage facility wrapped in corrugated aluminium and concrete. Its design is intended to echo its industrial surroundings in Castle Hill while providing the museum with "something special", Lahznimmo Architects said.

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MAY 8, 2022

US studio Heliotrope Architects has minimized site disturbances while creating a cedar -clad holiday home on a wooded hillside in the Pacific Northwest. The clients initially tapped Seattle's Heliotrope Architects to consult on the site selection and then hired the firm to design the dwelling itself. "We

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Gabled forms clad in blackened wood are curved and pulled apart to create "dynamic and memorable" spaces at Harudot, a cafe in Thailand by local studio IDIN Architects. Located in the beachside town of Chonburi, Harudot was designed for both the cafe brand Nana Coffee Roasters and the owner of the site.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

The King Abdullah Financial District Metro Station in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia, which was designed by UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects , has been revealed nearing completion. The post Zaha Hadid Architects' sinuous metro station nears completion in Riyadh appeared first on Dezeen. The photography is by Tom Ravenscroft.

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MARCH 15, 2024

A sedum roof designed to "change colours with the seasons" tops Heatherhill Beach House, a wooden holiday home burrowed among the hills on the Danish coast by local studio Norm Architects. The 232-square-metre house will be used by its owners as "a getaway from everyday life in Copenhagen," according to Norm Architects.

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APRIL 18, 2024

The building soffits and protected exterior walls are clad with cedar siding; a standing seam metal shell is extruded down the outermost walls, reinforcing the simple massing while protecting the recessed cedar from weathering at the west, south, and east building frontages where the building receives the most sun.

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