Archinect

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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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. The project's bold arched windows and the side streets filled with reverse fins curving out to offer shade stimulate the imagination," said Mistri.

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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. 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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Deezen

MAY 6, 2024

Japanese studio Kooo Architects has designed the skinny Hotel Rakuragu in central Tokyo to have a "unique shape", with cut-out balconies that help to preserve privacy. The nine-storey building occupies a site measuring just 83.5 square metres, which has buildings on either side. The plot the hotel stands on measures just 83.5

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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 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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Deezen

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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Deezen

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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Deezen

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.

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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

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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Deezen

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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Santa Cruz Architect

JUNE 10, 2023

Window flashing is an essential component of any home’s building envelope. Understanding the key aspects of window flashing is crucial for homeowners to ensure the longevity and integrity of their windows and overall structural integrity. It features a slope that encourages water to drain down and out.

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Deezen

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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Archinect

MARCH 24, 2023

This project is, in a sense, born of the land, its striking slanted roof mimicking the natural topography of the site. 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

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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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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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2023

Ryall Sheridan Carroll Architects has created a cedar-clad , pavilion-like house on the North Fork of Long Island that includes a detached garage and pool. Based in New York City, Ryall Sheridan Carroll Architects designed the 2,500-square-foot (230-square-metre) home, called the Tree Farmer's House, for a one-acre lot.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Windows are fun because they enliven any space with natural light and effortlessly connect us to the world outside. However, architects should be wary of adopting windows too excessively. Luckily, louvers are an ideal counterpart to windows. By Nguyen Khai Architects & Associates , Hue, Vietnam.

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Deezen

APRIL 16, 2024

US architecture Ross Barney Architects has completed a NASA laboratory for deep-space technology testing in Cleveland , USA, which includes a tower made of pre-cast concrete panels for testing antennas. AIA Gold Medal-winning architect and founder of RBA Carol Ross Barney said that the building is an expression of its function.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 22, 2022

By Dorrington Atcheson Architects , Titirangi, Auckland, New Zealand. The soothing macrocarpa interior, the central stone fireplace and broad windows beautifully complement the tranquil exterior. By Cheshire Architects , Kaiwaka, New Zealand. By Herbst Architects , Coromandel, New Zealand. Easterbrook House.

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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

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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Architizer

JULY 17, 2023

If there is one thing that architects and their clients can agree on, it’s that architecture should always work in harmony with nature. Paul Keskeys: How did the client brief and the project’s unique site help to shape your initial concept for Silver Residence? David Strand: This was a truly unique site.

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Dwell

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The subtle yet refined design is modest in scale, and makes use of the sloping site where the lodge appears elevated amongst the trees as the ground levels fall away below. Have one to share?

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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. The project entailed the remodel of a beachfront home dating to 1968 and designed by architect George Cody.

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Architizer

JUNE 2, 2022

Architects: Want to have your project featured? Despite technical complications involved in construction, inclined sites can invoke inspiring new architectural possibilities that just aren’t possible on flat sites. The rooms are placed around this central opening, ensuring that all the windows reach the surface.

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Deezen

MARCH 24, 2023

Movable curtains of translucent PVC mesh cover the facade of this block of offices and flats in Paris, which has been converted from a 1970s concrete structure by local practice Moussafir Architectes. Moussafir Architectes was founded by Jacques Moussafir and is based in Paris. The photography is by Hervé Abbadie unless stated.

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2022

Scandinavian firm CF Møller Architects has completed a house where all the exterior surfaces match, thanks to a combination of dark red bricks and tiles. The aim was replicate the university's "simplicity and straightforward use of local materials", according to architect and CF Møller partner Klaus Toustrup. Project credits.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

US studio Inaba Williams Architects has created two mirrored houses with courtyards in Santa Monica , California that are clad in white stucco and have net-zero energy use, according to the studio. The white of the exterior continues inside A bedroom suite, garage, and a secluded zen garden hold the southern edge of the site.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

US studio CLB Architects has created a retreat in rural Wyoming that has three wood-clad structures, with a creek running underneath the primary residence. Each building responds to its immediate surroundings Local firm CLB Architects carved away portions of the 6,000-square-foot (557-square-metre) building to form recesses and openings.

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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". The home was designed "to recede into the landscape" "This home is designed to recede into the landscape as a dark shadow," said Phoenix-based studio Wendell Burnette Architects.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Bright white plaster clads the exterior of a 1960s concrete building that has been turned into the self-designed studio of Baldridge Architects, which acted as the designer and contractor. On the exterior, crisp-white plaster was added to the original concrete masonry.

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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

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

JULY 21, 2022

Architecture studio SPF Architects has completed a sports facility in Los Angeles consisting of two separate buildings that were built using pre-engineered metal structures in order to not disrupt activity at the site. SPF Architects designed atheletic buildings for the Michelle and Barack Obama Sports Complex.

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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. Fifty-Acre Wood is a home in Minnesota that was designed by Salmela Architect. The living areas have views across the site in all directions.

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