Deezen

MAY 22, 2023

Daniel Joseph Chenin settled the 7,800-square foot (725-square-metre) house on an acre rock outcrop near government-protected land in Las Vegas Valley, looking out to Red Rock Canyon. Fort 137 is characterised by its stone facade The house is heralded by a 28-foot tall (8.5

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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

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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e-architect

AUGUST 12, 2023

Upon entry, a vertical slot window unveils a striking three-story-high view perfectly aligned with Barham Boulevard to the north, forging a seamless connection between earth and sky. The middle level comprises porous, semi-autonomous spaces, housing the entry, living room, kitchen, dining room, lounge, and office.

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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 all-white houses have simple materials to accentuate their forms, with stucco on the exterior.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The brief is one familiar to the practice: balance the heritage constraints of an original house (in this case, Edwardian-era) with the needs of a growing family. Have one to share? Post it here.

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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

JULY 31, 2022

Based on a series of facade studies, overhangs and windows were strategically placed to reduce solar heat gain and promote cross-ventilation. Windows provide framed views. On the second level, windows provide framed views "while not distracting from the vaulted, winged forms of the roof", the team said.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Gehry Partners has created a building for Warner Bros in Burbank Second Century Burbank is divided into two large blocks connected by a two-storey volume that is topped by a landscaped courtyard. There are landscaped areas outside Beyond these references, the different facade types also indicate the interior programmes.

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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

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 By including affordable units, the developer was able to construct a taller and denser building, while also helping address the city's housing crisis.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Its facade is interspersed with many skinny windows The seven-storey structure has a ground-level podium clad in green-painted concrete interspersed with steel gates. These aspects are set back slightly from the primary envelope, a massing clad in black-painted plaster with many long windows spread across it.

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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

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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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

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. The low-lying building is located just south of Iowa City's downtown district, near a recreational area and a future housing development. A 12-foot (3.6-metre)

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Deezen

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Jenny Peysin Architecture has completed a house in the Hamptons with a poured-in-place concrete envelope and a glazed living space. 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.

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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. Floor-to-ceiling windows lead out to a covered terrace, which is only slightly smaller than the interior living room.

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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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Dwell

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Most importantly, the new home had to follow the exact outline of the existing house and decks. Have one to share? Post it here.

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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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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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Architizer

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

With Hudson Valley Residence, our goal was to express a ‘New York’ character while using materials that echo the surrounding landscape. Perched high on a hill, this country house in Westchester, New York overlooks the family’s property, wooded hills, and neighboring reservoirs. Jim Olson, FAIA, Design Principal. © Olson Kundig.

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Deezen

JUNE 28, 2022

American architecture studio Thomas Phifer and Partners has built a concrete structure at the Glenstone Museum in Maryland to house an artwork by sculptor Richard Serra. The building houses a collection of four cylindrical steel sculptures called Four Rounds: Equal Weight, Unequal Measure, which was created in 2017.

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Deezen

APRIL 18, 2022

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. The building's main corner is rounded and marked with a tall window. Large windows and a simple palette characterize the interior.

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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

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 13, 2023

ZGF – working with development group Wexford Science & Technology – reimagined the 224,866-square foot (20,890-square metre) factory to house state-of-the-art research labs, collaborative spaces,and community amenities. MEP engineers + lighting: Affiliated Engineers, Inc. Structural engineer: Thornton Tomasetti.

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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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Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2023

To improve the seismic design, the team added shear walls on three sides of the building and replaced out-of-date windows. The building's main entrance was replaced to include a landscaped plaza. The library is now fronted by a plaza with landscaping and benches. Landscape: Ground Workshop. Structural engineer: KPFF.

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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. Vaulted arches were fitted with large windows. Civil engineer and landscape architect: Land Design. hectares) Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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

Stretching across a flat site, the house consists of intersecting, gabled volumes and a flat-roofed, pavilion-like volume in the rear. Large window openings are screened with wood slats to provide seclusion from the neighbours and admit filtered light into interior spaces," the team said. Windows open the home to the mountains beyond.

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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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Architizer

APRIL 20, 2022

The footprint of Queen’s Lane was determined by a guest house that had previously occupied the site. When viewed from a distance, it tempers the glass expanses and helps integrate the building into the landscape. Inside, the pavilion’s airy larger volume is defined by floor-to-ceiling windows on the north and south sides.

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