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. Among its 119 homes are 54 extra care flats – a form of specialist housing for older residents.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Palo Alto-based Field Architecture designed the home around the presence and absence of water in the unique microclimate, with the project completed in 2021. By surrendering the manmade environment to the same natural forces that shape the land, the house collaborates with the natural hydrological systems that nurture the landscape."

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Dwell

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In this part of California, it is no longer legal for homes to be suspended over a creek. Most importantly, the new home had to follow the exact outline of the existing house and decks. Atop a steel frame, the roof—like the home itself—hovers, creating a dynamic space with lots of natural light.

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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

MAY 2, 2022

A tall, pyramidal roof tops the main living area of this holiday home in northern Mexico by Práctica Arquitectura, made almost entirely of concrete. Located on a large plot of land in the village of El Barrial, near the city of Monterrey , the project was developed as a secondary home for a family and dubbed "El Aguacate" – or "The Avocado".

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Deezen

APRIL 14, 2024

New York architecture studio HGX Design has created a linear, glass-fronted home in the Hudson Valley informed by the "individual notes of a music composition". HGX Design has created a linear home in the Hudson Valley. It consists of four rectangular wings that branch off of an entry foyer.

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Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

Located in Washington’s Kitsap Peninsula, the rambler-style home utilized the trees for the roof and a coffee table, too. The house is 1,700 square feet, and reaches into the landscape with a sheltering roof and screen walls to create usable outdoor spaces on all sides. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Located in Austin, Texas , the r usted steel-clad home was completed for a retired professional golfer. Visitors enter directly into the home's open-concept kitchen, living, and dining room – a large space overlooking the ravine below. The home is clad in rusted-steel siding. "My The home contains four bedrooms.

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Deezen

JUNE 28, 2022

Read: Richard Serra sculpture finds permanent home inside charred timber LX Pavilion. At the base of the building, soil embankments were filled back in around the structure which gives it the appearance of something embedded into the landscape for years, a unity of sculptural form and geography that can be seen in much of Serra's work.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Completed in 2019 on the eastern end of Long Island , New York, the 8,300-square foot (770-square metre) home has a board-formed mass with punched windows, natural materials and light-filled spaces. The home has a poolhouse with an outdoor shower. Read: Ten of the best homes in the Hamptons. Landscape: The Bayberry.

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Deezen

JUNE 8, 2022

The home was designed to achieve three main goals – to make the most of the natural setting, provide ample space for visitors, and accommodate the client's impressive art collection, which features work by artists such as Richard Serra, Deborah Butterfield and Roy Lichtenstein. Windows open the home to the mountains beyond.

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Deezen

APRIL 1, 2024

Historic preservation guidelines limited the interventions that could be made "We were inspired by the client's desire to rethink cliches of contemporary domesticity and create a home to live with art but not be saturated by it," co-founder Dominic Leong told Dezeen. To reduce water usage, the landscaping is drought tolerant "xeriscape."

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Dwell

JULY 20, 2022

The concrete-and-steel home by Faulkner Architects gives one family a refined escape in the mountains of Northern California. Dug into the slope, the home wraps a courtyard that offers privacy from neighbors. Basalt floors were chosen to echo the surrounding landscape, which is punctuated by basalt boulders.

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e-architect

JULY 13, 2023

Part of the ‘Chain Home’ Radar system during WW2, the bunker, along with several others on the clients’ land, and a perimeter of aerial arrays dotted along the English coast, were designed to detect incoming enemy aircraft, and signal their position. The bunker otherwise remains submerged in the landscape, as it was originally designed to be.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

Known as DNA Alpine, the 4,000-square foot (372-square metre) home was completed in 2022 and designed to "disappear into or somehow become" the 75-acre site in San Miguel County. This DNA sequence, ever-present and unseen, underscores the subtleties of the landscape and the beauty of deferring to it."

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aasarchitecture

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Spiegel Aihara Workshop (SAW) has completed the transformative architectural and landscape design of a 1962 home in Mill Valley for a couple and their two young children. The project, known as The Middle Half, dramatically reconfigures the home’s core to create an open, light-flooded interior and direct connection to the landscape.

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Dwell

AUGUST 2, 2023

Denis Joelsons crafts a home that embraces the Atlantic Forest with wide-open spaces and chic black tile that runs inside and out. Instead, the focus point within this landscape is defined by the tree canopy. Have one to share? Post it here. Located in a valley, the property does not offer particularly striking views of the horizon.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

"With less need for air conditioning and generous access to landscaped areas, they offer a more natural, less tempered experience with the environment." The studio said the home has achieved net-zero emissions At the northern end of the site lies a small two-storey volume that holds a media room and a private suite.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Located on a 35-acre (14-hectare) property near the town of Wilson, the home was envisioned as a series of "tectonic structures" set within a diverse ecosystem. It was envisioned as a series of tectonic structures Both homeowners are also authors, and they desired a second home in rural Wyoming where they could write while immersed in nature.

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Deezen

JANUARY 19, 2023

"We carefully located the home amongst the existing oaks, from which its name was derived," the Strang Design team said. The careful placement of the home gives the sense that it has been there for ages and grew amongst the trees." The second storey is wrapped with vertical ipe wood fins that jut out from a densely landscaped planter.

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e-architect

MAY 17, 2023

One of the primary design goals was to ensure that the home had a sense of connectivity, despite its size. They also incorporated strong natural materials like rough-cut Jerusalem tiles for the exterior walls, exposed board form concrete, and teak millwork accents throughout the home.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

John's Terminal revealed in the cut facade as if in a section drawing, now feature a landscape that visually connects pedestrians and occupants to nature while enhancing the newly opened streetscape," said Cookfox Architects. Landscape architect of record: Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Local architecture firm La Base Studio has renovated a glass and concrete home, wrapping it in a delicate privacy and shading screen on a lush site in Buenos Aires , Argentina. The location exposes the home to onlookers, so the design responds to views differently between the levels. The photography is by Cristóbal Palma.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 24, 2023

REX designed a performance centre in Rhode Island According to REX founder Joshua Ramus, the brief for the project was to combine small performance spaces with student facilities and a home for the Brown University Orchestra. "We We had these two diametrically opposed needs, which historically have never been combined," Ramus told Dezeen. "I

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Dwell

JUNE 15, 2023

Landscape is interwoven into the plan, with integrated planter boxes, cuts in the built form, and carefully curated openings establishing a strong dialogue and connection with the garden. Compositional simplicity, bold materiality, and intricate detailing define the Glen Iris House.

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Deezen

MAY 22, 2023

The five-bedroom house was conceived as a series of connected rock masses, oriented to maximise views of the surrounding landscape and arranged to create thermally protected communal zones on the interior. Drawing colours and textures from the landscape, Fort 137 uses native and regionally sourced materials that will patina over time.

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e-architect

JULY 4, 2023

images courtesy of architects practice Bristol Zoo Gardens Clifton homes in southwest England Developed through extensive public consultation, the mixed-use masterplan restores and re-purposes the iconic site as a residential-led development with significant public realm, offering free public access to the gardens for the first time.

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Deezen

MAY 16, 2024

Read: "Tiny homes are not the big solution to homelessness that we need" "Recognizing that individuals transitioning out of homelessness may have certain anxieties associated with feeling unwelcome in public, we sought to support a sense of security, comfort, and choice through the design and organization of the property," he said.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

FROM THE NOVEMBER 2021 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. At my side were Paul Mills, ASLA, and David Tuch, who designed the landscape that has brought the place back to life. The area has always been a gathering place, even as the landscape has changed dramatically through the centuries. BY BRIAN BARTH.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Architects John Friedman and Alice Kimm have stacked a concrete mass with sinuous cutouts into a hillside as a home for their family in Los Angeles , complete with a crane in the kitchen and an accessory dwelling unit. The studio said that "functional domesticity" was a key requirement for the home.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 18, 2024

The nonprofit’s new home is a light-flooded learning laboratory on the Oregon State University-Cascades (OSU) campus providing state-of-the-art facilities for STEM education, research, and teacher training serving K-12 students and teachers of Central Oregon. Low-flow plumbing fixtures and native landscaping minimize on-site water use.

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e-architect

JULY 24, 2023

Situated on an extraordinary estate with several existing traditional-style buildings, including an adjoining pool house, the 18,194-square-foot home was designed to extend the contact between living space and landscape through transparency and erosion of mass.

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Dwell

MAY 12, 2023

This new home in the hamlet feels obliged to honor the area’s historical context. A negative volume forms around these stacks, comprising a landscape of open living spaces that are interconnected vertically and horizontally. This ‘stacking’ creates a sculptural interior, a positive spatial volume within the building.

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Deezen

MAY 5, 2023

Totalling 1,350 square feet (125 squre meters), the dwelling is sensitively scaled and relates to the "vocabulary and materials of the main home while maintaining a distinct identity". The rectangular building holds a main living area and two bedrooms. Bohlin Cywinski Jackson clad the house in Douglas fir and cedar.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The friend, a landscape architect, said her office had vied for the project during a 2014 competitive solicitation, but, obviously, didn’t get it. It is the longtime home of a noted independent botanist, Lilla Leach, and her husband, John Leach, who was a pharmacist. They also loved plants of the southeastern United States.

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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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Deezen

MAY 15, 2023

Above: Leah Botanical Garden is in Portland, Oregon In 2015, Land Morphology – a Seattle-based landscape architecture practice – embarked on developing a strategic master plan for the botanical garden, established nearly a century ago by a local couple, John and Lilla Leach, who once lived on the property. Top: photo is by Aaron Leitz.

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