Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Named the JArzm house – using the first initial of each family member – the home is set into a 60-foot slope in Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighborhood. John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (JFAK) completed the house – and 540-square foot (50-square metre) accessory dwelling unit (ADU) – in November 2021.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The home was first constructed in the mid-1970s by a civil engineer, and La Base Studio demolished part of it for its current iteration. Sliding glass doors open to the garden The sliding glass doors open to the garden and pool deck, blurring the interior and exterior relationship. The photography is by Cristóbal Palma.

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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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aasarchitecture

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This totally electric “Net Zero” 100% affordable housing project is certified LEED Platinum and has an astounding pEUI of 6.6, Photo © Brooks + Scarpa More than any other multi-dwelling housing, courtyard apartments, “make you feel like you belong to a place.” 4850 sqm), 49 units (0.57 acres) 86du/acre.

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Deezen

MAY 16, 2024

Called Zilker Studios, the structure includes 110 affordable apartments operated by local housing organisation Foundation Communities. The mid-rise housing complex consists of a long volume on a narrow site, flanked by outdoor public spaces with a breezeway and an open-air staircase on the far end. The photography is by Casey Dunn.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2023

bath house out of two volumes with floor-to-ceiling glazed ends that float above the landscape. The north volume is oriented along a direct east-to-west axis and contains the private spaces, while the south volume, rotated 45 degrees along the canyon's axis, holds the public gathering spaces that overlook the landscape and city below.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

Jun Mitsui & Associates and Pelli Clarke & Partners have converted a grocery store into a sake brewery The site contains three buildings – the brewery, housed in the shell of a former Stop & Shop grocery store, a small rice polishing building and a wastewater treatment facility.

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2022

They carved away parts of the housing block – including a sizable cut in the main facade – to create a sense of openness and to connect the building to its surroundings. "11 The building has a white exterior that helps enhance natural light and reduce heat gain – the latter being an important consideration given the area's hot climate.

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Deezen

JULY 31, 2022

For the exterior walls, the team used a mix of concrete and cypress boards that were charred using the ancient Japanese technique of Shou Sugi Ban , helping bolster the wood's resistance to insects and rot. Within the home, the team created a layout that prioritises a connection to the landscape and indoor-outdoor living.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Bay Area studio David Baker Architects has completed 145 units of social housing using modular construction and a weathering steel facade in San Francisco , California. Modules make up the social housing in San Francisco. The six-storey project stacks 87 two-unit boxes. The raked facade is clad in weathering steel.

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Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2024

Kaan Architecten has created a visitor centre at the Netherlands American Cemetery In 2017, Kaan Architecten was commissioned by the American Battle Monuments Commission to add a visitor centre to the landscaped site, providing a small display space and an auditorium. The photography is by Simon Menges.

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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. In OOIIO Architecture, upon detecting this urban and social particularity of the city, we decided to start from the “lookout” concept for the project of this design house in Toledo.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Composed of three distinct buildings – a main house, guesthouse and writer's studio – the project was designed for a California-based couple who manage an independent record label. Stretching horizontally from east to west, the main house is rectangular in plan yet more sculptural in form.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

At the ground floor are restaurants, retail, offices and an entrance to the courtyard "The window pattern is based on the maximum allowable percentage of opening along the exterior, broken up into a staggered, offset and repeated pattern around the middle levels of the building," said the studio.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The studio’s stone walls conceal a robust steel structure, fully insulated yet incorporating pockets into which both the protective plank shutters and European engineered glass sliders retract.

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Deezen

MAY 5, 2023

The main house sits within this meadow, overlooking a shallow bay. Bohlin Cywinski Jackson clad the house in Douglas fir and cedar. Photo is by Benjamin Benschneider The building is located uphill from the primary house – close enough to feel connected but far enough away to offer privacy.

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e-architect

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Sage Gardens Housing, Sacramento, Californian Real Estate, CA Home, USA Architecture Photos. Sage Gardens Housing in Sacramento. Sage Gardens Housing, CA. The Sage Gardens plans provide for 144 units for seniors to live and thrive in, with their new homes flooded with natural light and integrated with the landscape.

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Deezen

JANUARY 19, 2023

The studio, which specializes in projects along Florida's vast coastline dedicated to "environmental modernism", completed the expansive, 8,500-square foot (2,590-square meter) house – known as the Angel Oaks Residence – in 2021. The second storey is wrapped with vertical ipe wood fins that jut out from a densely landscaped planter.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Three simple, bow-shaped structures were placed to its southeast to house students. These buildings are five storeys tall and have a central core set back from the wood-clad exterior, with large window boxes on each end that create sheltered patios on the second storey. It also added a square at the building's primary entry.

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Deezen

APRIL 18, 2022

White siding and a curvy aluminium screen make up the exterior of a residential building in Los Angeles designed by American firm Brooks + Scarpa. Magnolia Apartments is a new model of mixed-use housing that includes both workforce and market-rate housing," the team said, noting that many of the tenants use public transit and don't own a car.

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Deezen

AUGUST 12, 2022

The low-lying building is located just south of Iowa City's downtown district, near a recreational area and a future housing development. Totalling 99,294 square feet (9,225 square metres), the facility houses the city's street and water departments, including all of their equipment and vehicles. MEP engineer: Modus.

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aasarchitecture

JULY 7, 2023

Strategically placed windows, purposeful exterior circulation and units that wrap the outer-most edges, orient the 67 low-income apartments to social spaces that are spatially apart, yet visually connected to each other thru the social spaces at the center of the complex of buildings. Source by Brooks + Scarpa.

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e-architect

DECEMBER 24, 2022

A family home unites the demands of an extensive program with hierarchy, plasticity, natural light, views, blurring of interior/exterior space and a unique connection to the natural landscape. The end result is a seamless integration of architecture, landscape architecture, and nature. Civil Engineer: Coterra Engineering.

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Deezen

APRIL 3, 2024

Built between 1959 and 1963 according to plans by Basil Spence, Blocks A and B housed the Magnox reactors and were intended to reference the look and feel of medieval castles. "Remarkably, they do seem to sit as comfortably in the landscape as a nuclear reactor can. Port Talbot Bypass J39 to J41 (1966) "Opened in 1966, the 4.5

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Deezen

MAY 2, 2022

We felt it was important to rethink the idea of a weekend house from the environmental, social, economic and aesthetic commitment to provide only what is necessary," said Práctica Arquitectura, an office based in Monterrey. Beyond the roof's edges, the landscape is terraced down to meet the site's grade. metres above the floor.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Completed in April 2022 for Pennsylvania State University Behrend, the Federal House Renovation & Addition project saw the conversion of the oldest brick building in the Harborcreek Township into a modern educational facility. GBBN preserved and expanded a 19th-century house into an educational facility.

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Deezen

JUNE 9, 2023

Encompassing 281,000 square feet (26,106 square metres), the building houses a range of research institutes focused on topics such as food, water, energy and climate change. The exterior is hard and protective, while in the interior courtyard, an abundance of light highlights its transparency and glazed openings."

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Deezen

JUNE 21, 2023

Designed to be a quiet backdrop to the existing landscape, the low, simple building has a broad, thin roof that curves gently and creates a shaded vantage point across the park. The soffit is a very dark blue stucco that amplifies the figural quality of the hoop and allows the colors of the landscape and sky to take the lead."

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aasarchitecture

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

More than any other multi-dwelling housing, courtyard apartments, “make you feel like you belong to a place.” This much needed affordable housing provides poor and disadvantaged populations housing in an affluent area of town where low-wage workers are critical but unable to afford to live. Photo © Jeff Durkin.

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aasarchitecture

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In 2019 the Tennessee Housing Development Agency reported that over45% of Nashville, renters are housing cost-burdened: spending more than 30% of their income on housing-related expenses. With rents rising15% in the past year alone and a projected 50,000-unit deficit by 2030, the city’s housing crisis shows no signs of slowing.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2022

British architecture firm Adjaye Associates has designed a collection of pigmented-concrete pavilions in Winter Park, Florida , to house a library and an events centre. The pavilions were designed as square and rectangular buildings with exterior walls that are angled inwards at their base. hectares) Martin Luther King, Jr.

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aasarchitecture

JANUARY 22, 2024

Indoors and out, the facilities provide a direct connection to the surrounding scenic landscape, as each of buildings overlooks the vineyard and the region. Photo © Likeness Studio Interior and exterior materials are clean-lined while resilient. The buildings are joined by a generous 2,703-square-foot covered Crush Pad.

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Deezen

JULY 21, 2022

Local architecture studio SPF Architects expanded the existing 29-acre park with new structures that houses basketball and swimming facilities. The studio landed on pre-engineered metal buildings (PEMB) from Nucor in order to create structures spacious enough for athletic activity that could be fabricated off-site. Project credits.

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e-architect

JUNE 1, 2023

On-site stormwater management in a native landscape bioswale animates the pedestrian experience along Clive Drive, along with an innovative “green-cleaning” education program for residents, while exterior shading devices on the southern facade mitigate solar gains and augment energy efficiency.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Rising five levels, the house was designed for a couple who wanted a home with a peaceful atmosphere and views of San Francisco. Local studio Jensen Architects designed the house to both embrace and defy its difficult site conditions – a hilly parcel in the Cole Valley neighbourhood, near the city's famed Sutro Tower.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 27, 2023

This objective plays out in merging exterior and interior spaces and in the efficient operations of the club. Image © Jeff Brink The club amenity spaces and concierge offices are located on the main level, with back of house functions and parking on the basement level, and club residential dwellings on the second level.

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Dwell

JUNE 15, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The bush-hammered concrete walls form the primary structure, define the exterior, and delineate the zones within. Have one to share? Post it here.

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