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. We aimed to defer to the site’s surroundings, offering ample indoor-outdoor spaces for gathering and reflection." meters) above ground level.

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2023

A pair of stone towers and a thatched -roof palapa are among the features at a nature retreat in southern Mexico designed by architects Mauricio Rocha and Gabriela Carrillo. The Cometa House is located in the small, coastal town of Mazunte in the state of Oaxaca. They faced several interesting conditions while designing the house.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Clay tiles line the front of a slender family house in San Miguel de Allende that was designed by local architect Mauricio Alonso to be in "continuous dialogue with the landscape". Designed for a family of three, the house is located in a dense neighbourhood and occupies an oddly shaped property in a cul-de-sac.

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Dwell

MARCH 27, 2024

If you have a house that comes with a yard, you’ve probably asked yourself whether you need to hire someone to make that space beautiful. That’s why we asked Cate Singleton, a landscape architect based out of Dallas, to share her thoughts on when to go pro. What landscape projects benefit from a professional?

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Deezen

MAY 1, 2024

American studio Walker Warner Architects has completed Hale Kiawe, a family retreat with simple, gabled forms are set within an undulating landscape dotted with chunky lava rocks. Walker Warner Architects designed the retreat with simple, gabled forms For a 4.7 (1.9-hectare)

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Deezen

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". Accessed via a cobblestone street, the home is perched on a hilly property with extensive views of the landscape.

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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

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 house presents as two interlocked, stacking boxes – that are meant to weather over time to match the pale grey of the sky – perched on a hillside. "The

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

A circular volume formed of concrete steps and planting wraps up and around The Pomelo Amphawa Cafe, completed by Bangkok studio Looklen Architects in Thailand. Set in a lychee garden overlooking the Mekong River, the north-facing cafe is contained within a rectangular glazed volume framed by the stepped circular landscape.

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Archinect

JANUARY 9, 2024

The pastoral site, at the border between meadow and woodland, was first cleared by Native Americans as hunting grounds. Later it became the site of the first house built by a settler in 1680. This synergy among the land, livestock, and human intervention stabilized the landscape for generations.

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Archinect

JANUARY 9, 2024

A coastal lagoon’s narrow shape and adjacent topography funnel storm surge and wave action onto a scenic but low-lying site. The design for a home here must respond to these conditions and engage the landscape in a resilient way, while remaining functional and enjoyable to its inhabitants.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 28, 2023

On the boards in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood is a new house for a three-peat client of Faulkner Architects. It is to replace an existing 1904 house that had lost its historic integrity due to renovations over the last 120 years. A photovoltaic array on the roof deck earns a planned net-zero annual energy usage.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Located at 7,300 feet, high above the city of Boulder, Colorado, the Sunshine Canyon Residence accentuates its dramatic site by juxtaposing a simple form with the steep contours of a landscape scarred by wildfire. The same fire scorched this site, which they selected to start again with a new approach to living in the mountains.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The buildings are sited to create an occupation against the dune edge that feels relaxed and timeless. To moderate light, air, view, privacy, the house is layered with sliding timber shutters. Together with the timber cladding and roof, the material will age and silver over time - integrating the buildings with the landscape.

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Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. On a secluded wooded site, the new structure grounds itself to the earth with its approach to material and form. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The following rural retreats also seek to make the most of the country’s rich and surreal landscapes. The houses below are the product of architectural experimentation with design forms, local materials and vernacular styles, ultimately seeking to live harmoniously with their surroundings. Easterbrook House. Scrubby Bay House.

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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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Archinect

JULY 11, 2023

Interested in maintaining a similar connection to the land as their current residence, an undeveloped rugged sandstone terrain, bisected by a dry river, and dotted with native yucca, oak, sagebrush, and beavertail cactus, was selected as the site for the new home.

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Archinect

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. Additionally, a guest quarters open.

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Architizer

MAY 6, 2024

With its neverending waterfalls, mountains and evergreen forests, all interwoven with mist, the raw beauty of this unique American landscape is unparalleled. Shipley and Bates accomplished this feat through site-responsive design that blurs the line between interior and exterior. So how does one build in a place like this?

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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. Walls of shutters can be opened to overlook the landscape and an adjacent bamboo structure containing a bathroom.

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Deezen

JANUARY 6, 2023

London practice ZMMA has transformed the home of artist Thomas Gainsborough in Sudbury, Suffolk , into a gallery and museum with a material palette of redbrick and flint informed by his landscape paintings. Gainsborough House was renovated by ZMMA. Read: Norm Architects frames countryside views at Suffolk holiday home.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2023

Specht Architects has designed a symmetrical glass pavilion in The Berkshires in Massachusetts that was created as a residence and a place to showcase antiques. metre) wide porch that wraps around the entire house and shades the interior spaces, reducing the home's heating and cooling load.

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Habitus Living

AUGUST 13, 2023

A handful of key features of this new house stand out straight away – the clean, minimalist lines that are all the more effective for their scale and strong geometry; a restrained selection of timbers and concrete; fluidity between indoors and outdoors; and, perhaps most strikingly, the connection to nature.

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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

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". Built for a married couple in Austin , the house feels immersed in the wilderness but is, in fact, surrounded by "very ordinary, suburban conditions".

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Deezen

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. Commissioned by Southwark Council, the housing forms part of the Aylesbury estate redevelopment and is organised in a U-shape around a central courtyard.

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Architonic

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

<p>This is a house for a couple living in a suburban residential area. </p> <p>The site is surrounded by houses and apartments, and the front road has a significant amount of traffic. .</p> The perimeter wall has a green garden on its outer edge since the site is large enough to accommodate it.

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Deezen

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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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. Other Danish houses recently featured on Dezeen include a cedar-clad summerhouse by Norm Architects and Villa E in Aarhus by CF Møller.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 5, 2023

An "urban farm" rooftop garden , planted terraces and a fish-pond atrium characterise this renovated house in Melbourne , designed by Austin Maynard Architects. The renovated site now includes five distinct garden areas. This left a dwelling that the studio described as "muddled, confused, dark and in a sad state of disrepair".

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Deezen

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Maine studio Elliott Architects has created a seaside house that includes a dramatic, cantilevered volume on stilt that stretches towards the ocean and the tree line. House on a Bay is a twisted residence overlooking the sea. He felt strongly that this building should be singular, much like its site.

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Architizer

AUGUST 24, 2022

Text description provided by the architects. Its panoramic vantage point provides inspiration and the steep slope of the site allows access to its views from several elevations, drawing the viewer into the greater surroundings. © Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture. © Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture. Year: 2020.

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Deezen

JANUARY 25, 2022

Greek studio KRAK Architects has conceptualised an angular underground house on the south coast of Crete with semi-open living spaces and an infinity pool that looks out to the Libyan sea. KRAK Architects has imagined an underground house on the coast of Crete. The conceptual house would be built from concrete.

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Architizer

JANUARY 24, 2023

Project Status: Built Year: 2020 Text description provided by the architects. The clients had been living on a sloping two-acre site for over 20 years and were ready for a new chapter. © Arterra Landscape Architects The new strong concept of arranging contemporary buildings to create a series of outdoor spaces did just that.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Snøhetta also designed landscaped plazas and roof terraces for Airside, which sits above the Kai Tak MTR station in the district that formerly held Kai Tak, Hong Kong's international airport from 1925 to 1998. The photography is by Kevin Mak.

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Deezen

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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