Deezen

JUNE 7, 2023

In this week's comments update readers discussed a monolithic home in Mexico created as a haven for the residents and other top architecture and design stories. Occupying a corner plot, the house appears as a solid block with only a recessed doorway and garage breaking the solid white walls. What do you think about this house?

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Irregularly placed square openings puncture the thick concrete exterior of SV House in Portugal , recently completed by architecture studio Spaceworkers. Located on a sloping site near the town of Sobrado, the blocky, three-storey home occupies a plot once occupied by the home of the client's grandfather.

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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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Deezen

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Architect Odile Decq has completed a house in France with walls of translucent glass, to create the optimal lighting conditions for a client with vision impairment. The house has walls of translucent glass. The house has some small windows, for additional ventilation. The house is entered via an enclosed terrace.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

From a zigzagging minimalist home in Spain to a compact self-build project in the UK, here are the most popular houses featured on Dezeen this month. Also on the list is a Y-shaped house in Canada, a blocky concrete dwelling in Portugal and a sprawling residence among Australian farmland.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Canadian architect Todd Saunders has shaped this white house next to Lake Rousseau to create a continuous route through its interior and exterior spaces. Saunders Architecture designed the Lily Pad residence for a Toronto couple that wanted a rural retreat in the Muskoka region north of the city.

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Design Thoughts Architects

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Two Contrasting Successful Stories After Completion Of Their New House. I recently had the opportunity to explain to one of our new house desired clients what it is that we do as an architectural firm. We have found that the best projects result when we take the time to really figure out what the client is looking for.

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Deezen

JANUARY 3, 2024

Texas studio Michael Hsu Office of Architecture adapted a 110-year-old bungalow into an office for technology and bio-science investment firm 8VC in Austin. This project preserves one of the few remaining stately houses on South Congress," Michael Hsu, founder of his eponymous studio , told Dezeen. The photography is by Chase Daniel.

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Deezen

APRIL 5, 2024

Local architecture studio Ædifica has created a residential apartment building outside Montreal with an interior courtyard and a metal-mesh second skin on the facade. Parts of the facade have a metal-mesh second skin The architecture studio employed different material schemes for the outside and the inside facades.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Hollow breeze-block walls were used to blend interior and exterior spaces in Sunday, a reimagining of a typical cottage in Melbourne , Australia, designed by local studio Architecture Architecture. The renovation retained the house's existing frontage and veranda due to heritage requirements.

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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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Design Thoughts Architects

DECEMBER 15, 2022

30×40 Modern Triplex House Design With Exterior LED Lights. This 30×40 modern triplex house is designed with the client’s needs and the needs of their expanding family in mind. The house designs of today’s time are quite different and innovative. are all taken into account.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Zinc cladding and large stretches of glass feature in a holiday home bridging a creek that was remodelled and enlarged by American studio Fougeron Architecture. The Suspension House serves as a weekend dwelling for a couple and their child. The Suspension House by Fougeron Architecture bridges a creek in California.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2024

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. When not staying at the house, the clients rent it out. The scenic area is known for its red-coloured rock formations, outdoor activities and arts scene.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Over the last month, Dezeen's Pinterest followers have been searching for "house cladding" 70 per cent more than usual. Architects from around the world frequently use a variety of materials to creatively cover the exterior of buildings. Scroll down to see ten projects from our cladding board on Pinterest.

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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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Deezen

JUNE 19, 2023

Local studio Neil Architecture has wrapped a courtyard home named Casa di Campo in Australia in a four-metre-high, rammed-earth wall. Located near Melbourne in the city of Werribee South, the house is surrounded by a large expanse of farmland that is also owned and worked by the client.

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Deezen

APRIL 17, 2024

Located in the beach town of Encinitas, just north of San Diego , the house was designed to replace a family's existing ranch-style home that no longer fit their needs. Its design was informed by the surrounding California climate Roughly square in plan, the new house rises two levels and totals 3,223 square feet (299 square metres).

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Brazilian architecture studio DB Arquitetos has completed a holiday home surrounded by a wooden screen in a forested site outside of São Paulo , Brazil. The five-level house is delicately stacked along a steep slope in a densely vegetated site. When open, the screens reveal banding along the different levels.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The polycarbonate-lined Green House that architecture studio Hayhurst & Co slotted into a tight site in London has been named the RIBA 's House of the Year for 2023. It was hailed by the jury of this year's RIBA House of the Year prize as "a true oasis within the city".

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A4 Architects

MARCH 4, 2024

The William Watts-Sherman House is an architectural landmark set amongst the opulent mansions of Newport, Rhode Island. The house holds a significant place in American architectural history, heralding the dawn of the Shingle Style and influencing succeeding generations of architects. The impact of the design was notable.

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e-architect

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Architect David Adjaye designed the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi. The purpose of the house is to foster inter-religious dialogue and exchange, promoting peaceful co-existence and acceptance among diverse beliefs, nationalities, and cultures. The community also offers educational and event-based programming.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2023

House, the home sits on a farmland site and is covered with a series of berms, while multiple trumpet-shaped pillars of varying heights create wave-like levels along the expanse of its footprint. Read: Omer Arbel Office films concrete tree-like forms that will become House 75.9

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Deezen

JANUARY 23, 2024

German studio Atelier ST has completed Duplex, a generous family house near Leipzig that was designed to look like two semi-detached properties. The starting point for the design came from a "run-down and mould-infested" house that stood on the site previously. This led to the use of arches and circles for doorways and windows.

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ArchiDiaries

MARCH 23, 2022

Excerpt: Shareef house, designed by DS2 Architecture is built in Gudiyatham, a town in Vellore district of Tamil Nadu.The house form is an adaptation of the prevalent residential archetype, which response to the local climate by being linear and having multiple courts. Project Description. Text as submitted by the Architects”).

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Deezen

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Next up in our review of the year , we look back at the houses that grabbed Dezeen readers' attention in 2022, including a dwelling hidden below ground, a pink holiday home and a cantilevering cabin. House and Restaurant in Yamaguchi, Japan, by Junya Ishigami. Dezeen's most popular house of 2022 was also the most unusual.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Local architecture studio Habitable Form has created the timber-clad Victory Bay House to minimise disturbance to oak trees and to endure the storms and flooding that can strike its location along the Atlantic Seaboard. Exterior walls are wrapped in modified wood from the Oslo-based company, Kebony.

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A4 Architects

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

While the Isaac Bell House is a relatively modest building compared to the opulent mansions of Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island which surround it, its historical significance is far greater than its size. These inventive features marked the design as a fresh and expressive work of architectural art.

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Habitus Living

JANUARY 30, 2024

Freshwater House has been reimagined by Jacqui Koska as a tranquil and restful home, anchored by a simple yet flexible floorplan. The muted and neutral interior palette of Freshwater House reflects the coastal environment , while carefully selected materials amplify the sense of belonging.

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Architonic

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The exterior cladding is shou sugi ban charred timber cladding. Natural materials such as timber and stone were a feature throughout the home in places such as the bathrooms, kitchens and exterior paving. .</p> <p>The finishing of the home is monochrome to allow for furniture and art to bring life to the spaces.

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Deezen

MARCH 6, 2024

Japanese studio Akio Isshiki Architects has updated a house in Osaka by adding a multi-level void designed to maximise light and encourage play. Named House in Hattori-Tenjin, the 30-year-old dwelling is located on a dense residential street in the port city and previously had a dark, "standardised" interior.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

Also included is a project that renovates a mews house according to Japanese design principles and a garden informed by traditional English country gardens. As you leave the house, a formal garden links the interior and exterior with low expanses of clipped hedging contrasted with a looser, romantic style of planting. "As

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Architizer

MARCH 10, 2022

The Judo House was designed for a couple and their young family. Both clients are Judo experts, the wife being a former Olympic Judo competitor. Besides the usual requirements of a family house they wanted a space where they could practice Judo with the children. © Nervegna Reed Architecture. © Nervegna Reed Architecture.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

SMStudio designed the concrete-clad home to replace a "tired, 1950s bungalow" The home replaces a "tired, 1950s bungalow" that did not accommodate the client's needs, said SMStudio , a local firm led by Simon Montgomery. The result is a bold, playful facade that plays with light and shadow, creating interest and intrigue."

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Architizer

MARCH 1, 2024

Being a transcontinental country, Georgia’s architecture reflects many civilization influences, with the most notable period being the medieval era. One example is the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta, a UNESCO World Heritage site renowned for its exquisite frescoes and architectural details.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 10, 2023

OOIIO Architecture completes a new singular residential project in Toledo, to build a spectacular house in the well-known neighbourhood of Valparaíso. An architectural and urban wonder that completely conditions the life of Toledo and the configuration of the city. Source by OOIIO Architecture.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Recycled TV screens cover the walls of the seven-bedroom Hundred Acre Wood house , which architecture studio Denizen Works has created on a site overlooking Loch Awe in Scotland. Denizen Works has created the Hundred Acre Wood house. Its rough exterior is clad in recycled TV screens. It is naturally lit by an oculus.

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