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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Glass Home Civil Engineering Architecture 102

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. Civil engineering: Federico Guerra.

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Materials Home Civil Engineering Roofing 98

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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Home Civil Engineering Remodeling Structural Engineering 98

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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Architect Civil Engineering Exterior Housing 118

Dwell

JANUARY 13, 2023

Architect couple John Friedman and Alice Kimm brought a playful attitude to their Silver Lake home, including the industrial arm and a hot-pink ADU. For themselves and their three children, Friedman and Kimm created a home nestled into a hillside in Los Angeles’s Silver Lake neighborhood. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Dwell

MARCH 19, 2024

An acronym of the clients’ names, and a reference to their native bee hive, House for BEES is a moniker that encapsulates the client focused, collaborative design process and outcome for a family of four to their Federation home and garden in Mosman.

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Dwell

MARCH 6, 2023

Project Details: Location: Sa Pobla, Mallorca, Spain Architect: Nora Studio / @ nora.studio Footprint: 2,238 square feet Civil Engineer: HAC23 Photographer: Ricard López / @ ricard.lopez From the Architect: "In Sa Pobla we find this single-family house, built on an elongated plot between party walls. Have one to share? Post it here.

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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.

Civil Engineering 145

Civil Engineering Structural Engineering Engineering Engineering 145

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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Home Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering 105

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. This solution is now completely concealed.” I think we have managed to achieve this.”

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Deezen

MARCH 18, 2024

Studio VARA wrapped the home in metal "This legacy was top of mind when the couple visited the seemingly undisturbed lands of Healdsburg, which served as a reminder of the rolling hills of his childhood days," said Studio VARA , an architectural firm based in San Francisco. The home is designed to operate off the grid.

Housing 110

Housing Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering 110

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. While the roof is designed as a continual and leveled line in the horizon, the floor surfaces conform to different layers at the ground, which configure a series of dynamic spaces with varied ceiling heights.

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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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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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Home Civil Engineering Landscape Engineering 72

Deezen

APRIL 17, 2023

The studio gutted and expanded the 4,650-square-foot (430-square metre) rectangular home into an L-shaped plan with overlapping roofs. The home's multi-layered gabled forms engage the site, interact with each other and frame interior spaces, studio co-founder Jejon Yeung said.

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Renovation Building Civil Engineering Engineering 145

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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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.

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Housing Civil Engineering Contractor Renovation 97

Deezen

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A sloping fibreglass roof and a glass facade characterise New York studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro 's first completed single-family residential project, which has been photographed officially for the first time by Iwan Baan. It is really surreal and magical in the whole; the whole roof just feels like it's floating."

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Black brick and lye-washed wood are among the materials used to build a family home in a coastal Washington forest for a founding partner at architectural studio GO'C. The home is designed to be rooted to the landscape. The Rambler house is located on a wooded site Rectangular in plan, the home is horizontally oriented.

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Santa Cruz Architect

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Choosing to renovate your home is a significant undertaking, one that comes with many considerations. They can often be built to Code without having to structurally retrofit much if any of the existing home. A ground-level addition on a flat property is quite often the least expensive square footage you can add to your home.

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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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aasarchitecture

MAY 24, 2022

The Home Building is the central hub at Thaden School, a new high school in Bentonville, Arkansas, where students learn by doing. Beyond the physical centrality of its location, the Home Building serves as both the social and spiritual center for students. The roof plane enshrouds the simple gable form of the dining hall.

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Deezen

AUGUST 23, 2022

Engineered wood and steel were used for the structural frame. Perimeter windows were carefully placed to prioritise vistas of the terrain and avoid views of neighbouring homes. The home is simultaneously a base camp for adventure and a serene escape from the urban sprawl.". The home's primary bedroom suite is found on the west.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The cabins were prefabricated and assembled on-site The steep black metal roofs give way to warm vertical cedar boards. The panelized structure of the 475-square foot (44-square metre) cabins was prefabricated by Plant Prefab in Los Angeles and then assembled on-site.

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Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering Structure 120

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. Under the cross-laminated timber (CLT) arch, the majority of the home's rooms are placed on the ground floor.

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Housing Regulation Civil Engineering Roofing 109

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

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." Connectivity within the home, despite the size, was important," the studio said.

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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. Post it here. Compositional simplicity, bold materiality, and intricate detailing define the Glen Iris House.

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IT Home Civil Engineering Exterior 52

Deezen

MAY 8, 2023

Wood and cement wrap the exterior of a hillside, family home designed by California studio Feldman Architecture to feel like a "space of serenity". The Rau Haus was built for a couple with a young daughter that desired a more spacious home after years of living in dense San Francisco.

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Architecture Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering 126

Deezen

JUNE 22, 2023

Called Sheerness Dockyard Church, the grade II*-listed building has been upgraded with a new roof and interior spaces designed by Hugh Broughton Architects to replace ones gutted by fire in 2001. This includes the church's parapets and its roof, which is animated by steel and timber flitch trusses. It features steel link bridges.

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Masterplanning Architect Civil Engineering Restoration 106

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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Dwell

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

However, from the water or the beach, its silhouette is evocative of a harbor marker, upright on the dune, guiding its seafaring clients home. However, from the water or the beach, its silhouette is evocative of a harbor marker, upright on the dune, guiding its seafaring clients home.

Civil Engineering 91

Civil Engineering Renovation Zoning Foundation 91

aasarchitecture

MARCH 18, 2024

Sensitively composed in response to both its location and an extensive multi-stakeholder design process, WCMA’s new home will facilitate a unique ecology of social, programmatic and educational exchange in direct dialogue with its natural surroundings. The museum’s design adheres to the rigorous Living Building Challenge 4.0/Core

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Art Civil Engineering Consulting Education 59

Deezen

JUNE 18, 2023

Located in a "conservative-minded" Winnipeg suburb, Veil House is wrapped in a steel structure with long panels that reflect the deep hip roofing styles of the neo-Gothic houses in the neighbourhood. Structural engineer: Lavergne Draward & Assoc. The photography is by James Brittain Photography.

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Deezen

JULY 11, 2023

To maintain a discrete profile, the team created a "clean roof line" with a sculpted edge. Hutton created a "clean roof line" with a sculpted edge On the southeastern edge of the building, the roof cantilevers over the site and visibly disappears when viewed from a distance. The photography is by Brad Feinknopf.

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Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering Consulting 106

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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Building Civil Engineering Structure Roofing 133

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.

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