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

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. The home's circulation follows the metaphorical flow of water, with copper-clad pavilions connected by glazed corridors. the studio said.

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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

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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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In a collaboration between Portland Community College (PCC) and Home Forward (a public corporation contracted with the federal government to administer housing programs), Hacker recently completed the design of a four-story, 87,742-square-foot housing development providing 84 economically- and family-friendly apartments. Source by Hacker.

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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. Clerestory windows enclose the triangular space between the roof and concrete walls.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Metal siding, cantilevers and a rolling window supported by counterweights that slides into the floor characterise Caddy Shack in Austin by Olson Kundig. Located in Austin, Texas , the r usted steel-clad home was completed for a retired professional golfer. The home is clad in rusted-steel siding. "My

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Dwell

JANUARY 11, 2023

Set on eight-foot stilts, this highly insulated island home provides a Buenos Aires couple with an off-grid escape. Photo by Leonardo Finotti Erica is the owner and founder of the interior design studio Solsken, and Eduardo is a civil engineer and the vice president of Data IQ.

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Deezen

JUNE 28, 2022

Read: Richard Serra sculpture finds permanent home inside charred timber LX Pavilion. It is made of stacked-concrete blocks with floor-to-ceiling glass windows oriented around a marshy central pond. Structural engineer: Structural Engineer: Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, LLP. MEP engineers: Mueller Associates.

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Deezen

MAY 16, 2024

The internal common areas on the ground floor have surfaces painted with bright colours and internal windows to help spread light. The building is all-electric, and windows have been placed strategically based on positioning to handle the intense Texas sun. The photography is by Casey Dunn.

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Having far fewer windows, the buildings reduce heat gain and energy use, while allowing residents to enjoy indoor outdoor living," the studio told Dezeen. 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

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. Floor-to-ceiling windows line the majority of the exterior, with the remainder clad in a vertical cedar siding.

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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. 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.

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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 was informed by vernacular agricultural buildings Clad in a dark metal roof and custom dark green stained cypress in a varied batten pattern, the main house references and updates agrarian vernacular.

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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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Dwell

MAY 12, 2023

This new home in the hamlet feels obliged to honor the area’s historical context. Operable windows are concealed behind wooden shutters, while generous fixed glazing is fronted by wooden sliding doors that provide sun protection and privacy. A raw steel beam serves as a gutter, jutting out beyond the base of the roof.

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Dwell

MAY 15, 2023

Similarly, north-facing clerestory windows permit abundant light while their obscure glazing conceals views of the neighboring two-story house that would otherwise loom over the property. Both influences have been formative in the design of our clients’ new home." In this way, retiring for the evening is a more considered ritual.

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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

Operable windows on either side of the pavilion provide for excellent cross ventilation whilst hard wearing, raw materials are used throughout, ensuring the house ages gracefully and requires little maintenance. Post it here. Compositional simplicity, bold materiality, and intricate detailing define the Glen Iris House.

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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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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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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Located at number 1819 Pico Boulevard, one of the most important streets in the Californian city of Santa Monica, is a building of 48 homes designed by the architecture studio Brooks + Scarpa. This totally electric “Net Zero” 100% affordable housing project is certified LEED Platinum and has an astounding pEUI of 6.6, 4850 sqm), 49 units (0.57

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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.". Structural engineer: CFBR Structural Group.

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Deezen

JUNE 18, 2023

The house is oriented around a central courtyard "Where the veil tightly wraps windowed facades, the panels are perforated entirely to permit light to pass in both directions, as opposed to light entering through gaps between panels," said the studio. Structural engineer: Lavergne Draward & Assoc.

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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

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. Inside the structure, the restored wooden rafters were left exposed and pivoting windows were included to help expand the space.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Tall triangular windows under the eaves bring natural light into the interiors and direct views toward mountain vistas. 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. A historic saloon building holds the corner of the site.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 2, 2024

A series of undulating tectonic structures set against an aspen grove near Wilson, Wyoming, this mountain home serves as a creative retreat for a California based couple. Each window frames a view of the prairie and Teton range beyond.

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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

APRIL 6, 2022

The Desert Palisades home – located in a gated community of the same name in Palm Springs – serves as a family weekend retreat for designer Brett Woods, who leads Woods + Dangaran with architect Joseph Dangaran. A glazed corridor links the two parts of the Desert Palisades home. Their studio is based in Los Angeles.

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Deezen

AUGUST 12, 2022

Polycarbonate walls and a row of tall window boxes bring diffused sunlight into the Iowa City Public Works building by US firm Neumann Monson Architects. Additional daylight is provided by a rhythmic series of tall, projecting windows with integrated colour-changing LEDs. Structural engineer: Raker Rhodes Engineering.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The main highlight is the huge window / skylight paired with the generous hammock mezzanine—a place to feel suspended mid-forest, with nothing but the panoramic view ahead and the gentle sway of treetops above. Post it here. Finally, the directionality of the timber cladding accentuates Piil’s unique form.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Framed around views of the fourteen-acre site, the design of this weekend home is based on classic proportions while incorporating modern elements suitable to its rural East Coast setting. This integration of tradition and modernity lends a stately balance to the home, which is presented as an elegant object surrounded by expansive lawns.

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Deezen

MAY 22, 2023

A shaded courtyard features a 75-ton excavated boulder From the rotunda, residents transition to an internal, shaded courtyard featuring a 75-ton excavated boulder and continue through a blurred transition into the home's shared spaces. Two heavy, sand-coloured stone walls run the length of the house, dividing the plan into three volumes.

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Deezen

JUNE 23, 2022

Gehry designed the structure to serve as the first-ever home for The Children's Institute – a 116-year-old organisation that helps families in the Los Angeles area. Punched windows feature on the facade. The primary structure has clerestory windows. Structural engineer: Workpoint Engineering, Ben Varela, Ben John, Katie Chuh.

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