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. The one-storey concrete home was completed in 2021. The home is named for its distinctive concentric shape. Práctica Arquitectura used colourful concrete for El Aguacate.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

US studio CCY Architects has clad a mountainside house in patinated copper panels and tilted the roof to adhere with the topography of its site in Colorado. 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.

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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. A thin steel shed roof pitches up to open the interior to the south sun and frame views to the ski runs on the mountain.

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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. A double-tiered roof plate floats above the cube. Local gravel serves as ballast for the roof of the cube. Landscape: The Bayberry.

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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

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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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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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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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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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

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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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

APRIL 3, 2024

Read: Eight brutalist homes in Latin America "There are a handful of Welsh modernist structures that have been listed and recognised for what they are, but so many have been dismissed, neglected, forgotten and even demolished," he continued. The structure employs 13,850 feet of galvanised locked coil three inch wire rope.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Built near the village of Aldbury, the home is set within the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. With a grass-topped, arched roof it was designed to be both contemporary and integrated into the landscape. Ashraya stands next to a historic house and walled garden. It is sunken into the ground.

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Dwell

MAY 12, 2023

A saltbox roof and wood cladding give way to a blend of concrete and plaster at the rural address in Zurich. This new home in the hamlet feels obliged to honor the area’s historical context. A pitched roof was designed in the same vein, with tile roofing typical to the local architecture. Have one to share? Post it here.

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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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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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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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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Immersing guests in the natural landscape of the wooded site along the Fraser River, the project touches lightly on the land with elevated cabins and a network of boardwalks that maximise interaction with the mountain site while preserving the trees and natural watershed.

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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 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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Dwell

JUNE 15, 2023

Terracotta bricks, laid vertically and on a 45 degree angle, reference the tiled roofs of the adjacent houses and create a dynamic backdrop for the dappled light—filtered through the established street trees—to dance across. Compositional simplicity, bold materiality, and intricate detailing define the Glen Iris House.

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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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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The structure was built on the site of a former gas station Using references from the era, the structure features classic signage, an overhanging roof and divided metal windows. The building includes a courtyard To expand the space for outdoor activities, a landscaped park was created to the side of the structure. "By

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

US studio Jensen Architects has created a tall hillside home featuring expansive views and an elevator that will enable the owners to stay in the home as they age. Rising five levels, the house was designed for a couple who wanted a home with a peaceful atmosphere and views of San Francisco. The home has a multi-level backyard.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

US architecture studio GBBN preserved and expanded a 19th-century home in Erie, Pennsylvania into an educational facility with a glass bridge connection and metal-clad, barn-like structure. The barn form was modernized with the use of a standing seam infinity roof. Dark grey zinc panels reference the colour of the original roof.

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e-architect

DECEMBER 22, 2021

VAVA House Seattle, Modern Washington Real Estate, Contemporary Home WA, US Property Photos. In contrast, the 3,643-square-foot home is designed to open onto an expansive front patio with multiple gathering areas which then cascades down to a small park across the street. Contractor: RW Andersen Homes. December 22, 2021.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

A roof-mounted landing pad allows the drone to land on the vehicle when it's moving. A roof-mounted landing pad allows the drone to land on the vehicle when it's moving. Located next to a river, its site often floods, so the studio lifted the structure one metre above ground to reduce the risk of water entering the home.

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e-architect

JANUARY 2, 2022

Barrow House Lincolnshire Property, English Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Home, Building Photos. Our Clients approached ID Architecture with this previously farmed arable site in the open countryside, to create a family home for their young family. M&E Engineers: EB7. Principal Contractor: CLS Civil Engineering.

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e-architect

AUGUST 12, 2023

Gracefully cascading down the steep terrain from the south, the home creates an inviting entry courtyard through the strategic separation from the adjacent slope, featuring descending terraced gardens that lead visitors to the glass-enclosed foyer.

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aasarchitecture

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Claremont McKenna College, one of the nation’s top liberal arts colleges, has broken ground on the Robert Day Sciences Center, a 135,000 SF home for the College’s next-generation Kravis Department of Integrated Sciences – a powerful, multi-disciplinary, computational approach to advance gene, brain, and climate knowledge.

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e-architect

JULY 5, 2023

The podium level is visually connected with an inner courtyard to the ground floor and childcare activities below as well as a 7th story and roof space above, dedicated to urban agriculture and food production for residents. The project features a rooftop photovoltaic array and solar hot water array, targeting a LEED Gold rating.

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2022

Local firm Marlon Blackwell Architects designed five structures for the school and oversaw the restoration and relocation of Thaden's historic childhood home, which was moved from a site in Bentonville to the school campus. The structure will feature landscaping and a 400-foot-long (122-metre) canopy.

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e-architect

JULY 7, 2023

The three program spaces all reside under one large, heroic low-sloped roof. The continuous roof provides overhead protection from rain and snow in-between the two buildings and at the exterior fuel island. The complex is wrapped in a perforated, rusted metal screen with washing and fueling functions hidden from public view.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 23, 2023

The light-filled reception building has a large extended roof sweeping up to create an iconic, open, easy-to-find entrance. A civic space, it provides a secure and welcoming environment, with clear directions and circulation, ‘homely’ viewing rooms for potential pets, and a function area for educational events.

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Deezen

APRIL 6, 2023

Most of the historic civic buildings celebrate their height with 'crowning' features at the top and we saw the requirement for roof light shading on our building as an opportunity to give it a crowning feature – one that is practical but also expressive and sculptural, paying homage to Georgian-era traditions."

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aasarchitecture

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The reimagined home of Cougar Baseball at Washington State Universityincludes a state-of-the-art team facility offering a wide range of amenities aimed at enhancing student-athlete development and wellbeing.

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