Deezen

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Architecture studio Ingenhoven Architects has created a series of buildings topped with large, overhanging thatched roofs for the Lanserhof Sylt health resort on the Germany island of Sylt. Its building is topped with a thatch roof that measures 7,100 square metres – making it the largest in Europe.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

Design studio HGA has completed a pair of educational facilities , Mills Hall and Gibbons Center, that are among the first "commercially scaled mass-timber buildings" in the state of Maine. Both buildings also have mass timber frames, wooden interior finishes and brick facades.

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Deezen

JULY 13, 2022

Designed for a young family with two children, the dwelling sits on a narrow plot bordered by residential buildings and roads in the city's Aichi Prefecture. Tokyo-based Nori Architects responded with a compact two-storey home characterised by its exposed timber structure and simple interior and exterior finishes.

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Deezen

MAY 14, 2024

Collective Works has expanded the home, which it said was previously "run down", with two adjoining pitched-roof volumes at the rear and a full dormer to expand its loft. It is topped by skylights in its wood-lined pitched ceilings and overlooks the garden from a large window box with a seat.

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Deezen

MAY 10, 2024

The two additions feature matching terracotta tile cladding, angular forms and large windows. All of the new rooms feature windows that stretch to the ceiling and opportunities have been found to bring greenery and planting right up to the interior spaces."

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Deezen

MARCH 22, 2022

Kite-like canopies and geometric roofs shelter the spaces of this factory by Studio Saar , which sits atop a seasonal lake in Sanand, India. Four individual buildings housing an entrance area, utility bay, factory hall and canteen space set in a natural landscape comprise the development.

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Dwell

JANUARY 5, 2024

Welcome to Prefab Profiles , an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. The cost to build a Stillwater home varies significantly depending on factors such as geographic location, site conditions, and client-specific requirements. Stillwater homes emphasize indoor/outdoor living with walls of windows.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2023

Architecture practice Studio Zhu-Pei drew on traditional Chinese architecture to create the sweeping concrete roofs and stone walls of the Zibo OCT Art Centre in the eastern province of Shandong. In between these blocks, a number of alleyway-like spaces between the high masonry walls are sheltered by the oversized eaves of the concrete roofs.

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Dwell

APRIL 25, 2023

The owners, a pair of architects, used the "least expensive materials possible" to build a rough-and-ready retreat near the mountains. The cabin is situated on the edge of the plot and the access road, where its gable smoothly transitions into the entrance gate and fence, which, like the facade of the house, is made of rough-cut roof battens.

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Dwell

APRIL 4, 2023

At the front of the properties, two sheds connected by a roof also connect to the house on either side, forming a square around this central courtyard. The materials were also chosen to be recessive, including a dull silver roof, black sheets, and ironbark timber. To the east is the main bedroom, en suite, and walk-in wardrobe.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2022

Designed for a family local to the area, the three-storey 100JOA home occupies a tight row-house site, with a small walled garden at its rear surrounded by neighbouring buildings. We envision the courtyard as another room in the house, without a roof," it added. Vallribera Arquitectes has created a three-storey row house in Barcelona.

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Deezen

APRIL 23, 2024

"The North Fork is a place of simple barns, farms and quaint harbors, and it is from there that we drew our inspiration for the buildings of the house," said Texas-based Lake Flato Architects , the founders of which recently received the AIA Gold Medal. During the summer, windows can be opened up to bring in cool breezes from the bay.

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Dwell

JANUARY 23, 2023

Design studio Mast also inserted windows into its original brick facade and attached a glass-wrapped extension that opens onto a sunken patio. A pigsty and multiple sheds had been attached onto the back of the house and the roof had partially collapsed. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

APRIL 14, 2022

The form of the structure mimics the typical profile of a detached home – a largely rectangular form with a pitched roof. The exterior walls, roof and windows of Red Cave feature a completely flush finish that allows all of these surfaces to merge into one. Large windows and skylights funnel light into the interior.

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The Architecture Designs

AUGUST 4, 2022

A greenhouse window can serve as the individual home for your plants. Let’s explore first the definition of a greenhouse window. Afterward, we will jump into the discussion regarding the old window greenhouse. What are Greenhouse Windows? These windows angle outward from the house at a 90-degree angle.

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Deezen

JULY 31, 2022

US studio Desai Chia Architecture designed a highly sculptural, waterfront home wrapped in concrete and charred cypress that has vaulted roofs resembling wings. Built as a second home for a family of four, the building sits on a ribbon of land between a golf course and Copake Lake in Upstate New York. Windows provide framed views.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Gehry Partners has created a building for Warner Bros in Burbank Second Century Burbank is divided into two large blocks connected by a two-storey volume that is topped by a landscaped courtyard. These are used across the building's highway-facing elevations and have an "icy white appearance" intended to evoke the form of icebergs.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Design and build studio Localworks has created the Mustardseed Junior School in Uganda with organically shaped classrooms built from natural and locally sourced materials. The 1,146-square-metre building, located in the town of Sentema, is used as both a kindergarten and primary school for local children.

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Dwell

MAY 10, 2023

A soaring roof in exposed Monterey cypress and wood floors in a matching hue emphasize a view of the seaside setting. As well as the living pavilion, there is a two-story sleeping pavilion at the back of the site with a roof terrace capturing the evening sun. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

MARCH 17, 2022

A hipped roof covered in stepped tiles tops this extension to a home on a suburban estate in Epsom, Surrey , designed by London-based studio Oliver Leech Architects. spoke to every tile company in England to find something bespoke, and ended up looking to the Danish company Petersen for the grey roof tiles," he continued.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Chinese practice Arch Studio has renovated and extended a courtyard home called Mixed House on the outskirts of Beijing , China, by inserting a timber structure topped by a wavy roof. Topped with a wave-like roof and filled with new living areas, this wooden volume also splits the existing courtyard into a series of smaller external spaces.

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Deezen

APRIL 16, 2024

Traditional materials and building techniques "celebrate the essence" of south Indian architecture at Telugu Medium, a restaurant in Hyderabad by local practice Sona Reddy Studio. These finishes are combined with minimal furniture made of dark wood, chosen by the studio to be "timeless, simple, and evocative".

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Estudio Santa Rita has completed a compact and efficient building with colourful storage units and a saw-tooth roof that houses the offices and workshops of a creative couple in Mérida , Mexico. Estudios MF is for a couple, a fashion designer and a painter, who commissioned Estudio Santa Rita to design and build their workspace.

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Deezen

MARCH 5, 2024

In-Between Pavilion provides a home for the Design Homology Museum, tucked between two buildings in the dense streetscape of the historic Nantou area. Intended as a "vertical street", the staircase connects to small terraces on each floor and a patio on the roof finished with wooden decking. The photography is by Chen Hao.

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Deezen

JUNE 3, 2023

Architecture firm Make and interior design practice BAR Studio have converted Sydney 's heritage-listed Department of Education building into the latest outpost from Capella Hotels. The heritage building that houses Capella Sydney provided us with the underpinning for the interior design," said co-founder Stewart Robertson. "The

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Deezen

AUGUST 17, 2022

Iridescent aluminium sheets clad the rhomboid-shaped D2 building, a creative workplace by Cambridge studio Mole Architects that forms the latest addition to London's Design District. Headed by architect Meredith Bowles, Mole Architects previously completed a larger building called C2 that opens onto the district's central courtyard.

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Deezen

MAY 19, 2023

Spanish practice Arquitecturia has completed a home in the Catalan town of Caldes de Malavella, which is comprised of six small buildings organised around a courtyard at its centre. Each of the home's blocks is topped by an angular butterfly roof finished with green ceramic tiles, designed to channel rainwater down into the central garden.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Mighty Buildings has delivered what it claims is the world's first 3D-printed zero-net home as part of a 40-unit community in Desert Hot Springs that explores environmental and economic development strategies. Mighty Buildings designed the home in California. "We Read: ICON and Lake Flato build 3D-printed House Zero in Austin.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Here he picks 10 buildings that are "givers rather than takers". In his book named Humanise , along with the Radio 4 series and recently launched initiative , Heatherwick takes aim at boring buildings. Thomas Heatherwick is campaigning to end boring buildings. There's no reason not to build them anywhere.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

The compact building in Belgium provides four classrooms, a dining area and staff spaces, which are organised radially around a skylit hall to allow them to "visually flow into each other". A skylit hall sits at the heart of the nursery "The roof extends 1.75 metres so that the bench remains sheltered and covered.

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Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2024

The building has a gabled roof In response to strict zoning rules and environmental sensitivities, the studio created a small-footprint building that preserved existing trees and minimised the overall impact on the landscape. The black cladding is interrupted on the upper level by a band of ribbon windows.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It has a hinged side that opens the interior to the surrounding forest "The characteristic, classical image of the forest cabin refers to traditional storage buildings in the Aralar region and, in shape and size, to a characteristic, archetypal image of a gable-roofed hut," studio director Michael Schmidt told Dezeen.

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Architecture Ideas

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It’s an exciting journey to build your own house, serving as a reflection of you. From planning to on-site construction, a lot goes behind building a house. Let’s understand every phase of the construction with a step-by-step guide on how to build a house. Let’s see how to build your own house. What is my Budget?

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Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Raw finishes and "as found" materials informed by brutalist architecture are used throughout this home , which Portuguese studio Atelier Local has created on a nature reserve near Porto. Its proportions, the slope of the roof as well as the basis for the facade's composition was set from the beginning," they told Dezeen.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Materials from a dismantled warehouse were used to build this courtyard house named Dailly, which local studio Mamout has nestled between two buildings in Belgium. The sloping roof considerably increases the feeling of space," said Busana. The concept is therefore to have a low, long house lit by patios."

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Deezen

OCTOBER 5, 2023

"When talking about the local architecture, people who are living in the area always say 'there is no value', 'the buildings are out of date' or 'there is nothing to see'," studio founder Kenichi Kurosawa told Dezeen. It has a timber structure "The outshape of the building was almost the same as the building before," said Kurosawa.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Pricegore aimed to revamp the existing home by creating generous and flexible living spaces, while respecting the building's brutalist ideals with exposed material finishes. Both the ground floor and first floor living room were finished with floor to ceiling glazed partitions overlooking a green threshold of tall grasses and plants.

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