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 opportunity came with challenges.

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2023

It sits at the edge of a nature preserve on Punta Cometa, or Comet Point, a peninsula that juts into the Pacific Ocean and was once the site of an Aztec fort. Two stone towers juxtapose the site's horizontal elements The architects also needed to consider how the landscape evolves throughout the year.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Instead of putting everything under one roof, architecture firm Lake|Flato created a network of smaller volumes to minimize impact on the forested plot. Envisioned as a home that embraces the outdoors, the residence is composed of four structures housing the home’s separate functions. Have one to share? P ost it here.

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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

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. The PEMBs consist of the structure and an exterior, which consists of insulated rib metal panels.

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Deezen

APRIL 25, 2024

Known as Rockbound, the 4100-square foot (380-square metre) home sits on a rocky, sloped three-acre site overlooking a bay that connects the property to Peggy's Cove, a national historic site that can be seen across the water. The photography is by Ema Peter.

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2024

Toronto studio Workshop Architecture Inc has created a prefabricated home in Ontario with an exposed structure and blue-painted element on the interior. The house looks raw and unvarnished," said Workshop Architecture Inc.

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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. Read: In Situ Studio creates low-lying Trull Residence for wooded site in North Carolina. Contractor: Arrowhead.

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Dwell

APRIL 30, 2024

Project Details: Location: Yarraville, Victoria, Australia Architecture and Interior Design: OOF! Every inch of space on this small site—indoors and out—is precious. The resulting house is compact but airy, filled with sun and color, and exploits the best of a narrow site in the heart of industrial Melbourne." Have one to share?

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Satish Jassal Architects designed Haringey Brick Bungalow The 110-square-metre site and narrow passageway was "like building through a straw", dictating many design and construction decisions. Two green roofs top the building, characterised by their asymmetrical pyramid shapes topped with rooflights. The photography is by Richard Chivers.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2022

Named Tree House, the dwelling was designed by London studio Fletcher Crane Architects for a former garage site in a conservation area in Chiswick that is bounded by rear gardens. It occupies the site of an old garage. Read: Phillips Tracey squeezes brick-clad Jupp House onto site of a former garage. metres below street level.

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Dwell

MAY 17, 2023

The original architecture explored a garden-court concept: three detached structures around a generous enclosed garden inspired by Latin American courtyards. The original architecture explored a garden-court concept: three detached structures around a generous enclosed garden inspired by Latin American courtyards.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 20, 2023

California studio Field Architecture designed this Sonoma Valley house out of a trio of fanning copper-clad pavilions with butterfly roofs. We looked to the bush – those forested, undeveloped areas of nature that surround the house – while allowing the built structures to adapt to the natural terrain," the studio said.

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Deezen

APRIL 20, 2024

Named Bury Gate Farm, the five-bedroom house replaces a 1950s bungalow on a sloped site on the outskirts of Pulborough, which overlooks fields and woodland. This led to its colonnaded southern elevation, which draws on classical architecture but is crafted from concrete and brick, offering a more contemporary look.

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Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2024

Dutch studio Kaan Architecten has added a visitor centre to the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, with a concrete form that references American memorial architecture. hectare site near Maastricht to commemorate soldiers who died in the second world war. Just look around in DC – one memorial after another," he continued.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 23, 2022

Hidden in the bucolic landscape of Northern Vosges Natural Park, Site Verrier de eisenthal is a publicly funded active cultural center in a historic glass factory dating back to the 18th century. They are also included a multidisciplinary cultural space hosting art installations, happenings and concerts are sited at varying floor levels.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The 117,150 square foot office building will transform an underutilized site into a vibrant setting with creative offices above 7,960 square feet of restaurant and/or retail space on the ground floor. The surrounding urban context heavily influenced the site response – particularly the activation of the streetscape.

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Deezen

APRIL 23, 2024

Nestled beside the surrounding woodland, the cabin is wrapped by an external skin or 'monocoque' – similar to an eggshell – that draws on structural systems used within the aerospace and automotive industries. The structure draws aerospace and automative construction techniques Measuring 3.3-metres-wide, metres-wide, 3.5-metres-tall

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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Chicago architecture firm Studio Gang has expanded a California college through the addition of mass-timber structures that were informed by how fungi grow in the wild. Three simple, bow-shaped structures were placed to its southeast to house students. Kresge College is a part of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Deezen

MAY 6, 2024

The nine-storey building occupies a site measuring just 83.5 However, in a small hotel with a small room area such as this, if we unconsciously design the architectural framework as usual, the layout of the interior and the way guests spend their time will be restricted," she added. "As The photography is by Keishin Horikoshi/SS Tokyo.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2023

Waechter Architecture has completed an "all-wood" commercial building in Portland , which it says is the first commercial building in Oregon to "use mass timber construction for all components of the building". The three-storey structure comprises six volumes arrayed around a central courtyard. The photography is by Lara Swimmer.

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Deezen

MAY 4, 2024

Loader Monteith and Studio SJM won a competition to design it with their proposal to "embrace the students and the landscape" with a low-slung, L-shaped building that hugs the site's trees. The Harmeny Learning Hub comprises two buildings set atop a paved patio.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Canadian architecture studio Dialog has renovated and expanded a gymnasium with an indoor park in Calgary , Alberta. Round skylights bring light into the space The team created spaces for gathering and for quiet meditation – such as a large cloud-like space clad in metal tiles within the multi-building structure.

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Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2022

Paris studio K Architectures has created a permanent home for the Domaine de Bayssan Theatre near Béziers, France , which was informed by circus tents. . Built on the Domaine de Bayssan estate near the town of Béziers in southern France, the permanent theatre replaced a circus tent that was erected on the site in 2006.

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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. Called Cité Angus II, the structure is part of Technopôle Angus, an urban revitalization project that its developers say is a "full-scale sustainable development".

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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. Appearing as two distinct buildings, the structure has a front facade along Sullivan Place and a front facade along Washington Avenue.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 16, 2023

US studio Anacapa Architecture has transformed an early 1900s, stucco -clad building that was formerly closed off to the public into a welcoming hotel filled with compact rooms and handcrafted decor. The project was envisioned as a "modern reincarnation" of the hotel that once operated on the site. The photography is by Erin Feinblatt.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Named after the community where it is located, the Cotton Patch Hills House sits on an oceanfront site in Bethany Beach, Delaware. For a sandy site that faces the water, the team created a rectilinear, three-storey building that totals 5,842 square feet (542 square metres). The staircase is made of white oak and steel.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The Atherton pavilions consist of two accessory structures that are richly detailed and intimately connected to the landscape. The pavilions are delicately placed amidst the landscape of redwoods and other mature trees, blending in with the softscape and helping make the transition between garden and structure as seamless as possible.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Steel canopies shade the spaces of the Kamwokya Community Centre in Kampala, Uganda , designed by Berlin studio Kéré Architecture. Kéré Architecture has created the Kamwokya Community Centre in Kampala. Read: Termite mounds inform Kéré Architecture's design of Kenyan education campus. The photography is by Kéré Architecture.

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Habitus Living

JUNE 6, 2023

Situated within 100 metres of the water’s edge, on the fringe of a heritage precinct, “Harold” is a spectacular residence in Middle Park, Victoria that has been given new life by a skyward extension and reconfiguration by local architecture firm Coy Yiontis and built by CBD Contracting Group. Shade Factor shadefactor.com.au

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Architizer

JANUARY 26, 2023

miles from the site. The cost of bringing a sanitary sewer to the site was $2.0M – threatening the viability of the entire development. Working with our civil and plumbing engineers, we developed a design for an on-site black water treatment system where the outflow was clean water. Good design is always the answer.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Chinese studio FOG Architecture has turned a courtyard house in Beijing into a flagship store for fragrance brand ToSummer with exposed wooden roof trusses and columns. Grey brick tiles from the original building are restored A rain chain was hung from the roof connecting to a hundred-year-old well of the site.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Limestone facades layered with latticed screens define this community and administrative building that architecture studio John McAslan + Partners has created at London's Baitul Futuh Mosque. The building has been designed to utilise passive and active measures to maximise its sustainable credentials and long-term future," Ravenscroft said.

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BD+C

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Navigating architectural challenges—from 'unbuildable' to unbelievable 0 qpurcell Mon, 10/30/2023 - 10:12 Senior Living Design Mick Schaefer, AIA, NCARB, LEED GA, recounts the challenges Vessel Architecture & Design had to overcome while designing a state-of-the-art senior living facility. The "unbuildable" hill.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Architecture studio Arsenit has designed Piil, a modular wood-and-steel holiday home elevated above the ground at the edge of a forest in Estonia. Piil was informed by Estonia's observation towers, which are often placed in scenic locations, and assembled on-site. metres above ground and creates a sheltered outdoor space.

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

Open-air bedrooms and terraces are raised above the treetops at this holiday home designed by Italian architecture studio PAT on Kenya 's Manda Island. PAT teamed up with fellow Italian architect Ferdinando Fagnola on the project, which involved renovating a 2oth-century "white house" and adding a series of elevated, pavilion-like structures.

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