Archinect

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The third round of projects in the mix for the title of RIBA House of the Year has been released by the organization in advance of tonight’s third episode of the BBC Channel 4’s Grand Designs: House of the Year program. A triple-height entrance hall frame.

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Archinect

AUGUST 31, 2023

Pingüino House is a vacation residence conceived to offer a variety of leisure activities in the tourist town of Cariló, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Conversations with the clients focused on the type of activities done in a summer house rather than on a preconceived architectural form.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The next two projects vying for the coveted House of the Year title have been released by RIBA ahead of their appearance on BBC Channel 4’s Grand Designs: House of the Year program this evening.

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Archinect

MARCH 25, 2022

Tucked away in Los Altos Hills, the aptly named Round House is a geometrically unique structure; one of a few similarly shaped homes built in California in the 60s. The clients fell in love with this quirky circular house and initially planned a modest remodel.

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Housing Remodeling Architecture Client 246

Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The house is arranged in a C-shaped plan, opening toward an outdoor dining patio on the western side shaded by large wooden beams. The house is constructed of concrete block, the most accessible material in the area, and covered on both the exterior and interior with naturally pigmented cement.

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Housing Mining Client Clients 144

Archinect

MAY 10, 2022

The client is a young couple and their lovely pets. This gave the opportunity to conceptualise a clean modern intervention into the old structure whilst still achieving an industrial vibe. The front section of the house is extended ou. 16 is located in Damansara Heights, a leafy residential suburb in Kuala Lumpur.

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Housing Architect Residential Client 245

RMJM Architecture

DECEMBER 12, 2023

While 60% of the total property space has been allocated to over 40 open and green spaces, the project houses 240 1–3 bedroom apartments, spread over two low-rise buildings. JVC is a low-density, fully-built residential community containing parks which offer 360 views of lush greenery, schools, F&B venues and a shopping mall.

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2024

California studio TW Ryan Architecture has completed a wildfire-resistant house in the American West that features a Corten steel exterior and pyramidal roofs that allude to the mountainous terrain. Four Roof House features a Corten steel exterior Their chosen site was a bluff overlooking a lake near the town of Helmville.

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Archinect

MARCH 25, 2022

A hidden jewel in Santa Cruz, Surf House brings a polished bohemian feel right up to the edge of one of the state’s best surf breaks. Our clients approached Feldman Architecture to design a family home in an unassuming neighborhood - aware of the feel and scale of the surrounding structures.

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Housing Architecture Client Clients 130

Deezen

MARCH 10, 2023

On the interior, differences in ceiling height help define spaces through various scales, but the white walls and ceilings and warm hardwood floors create continuity throughout the house. The original house was later demolished. Wooden gabled houses are not uncommon in the area, as the pitched roof helps shed snow each winter.

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Structure Roofing Windows Landscape 134

Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

New York studio CAZA has completed a cast-concrete house in the Philippines , aiming to optimise passive cooling and natural ventilation. FR House comprises a series of "concrete cubes" that facilitate cross-ventilation and regulate the building's temperature at the warmest times of the day.

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Housing Regulation Client Clients 132

Deezen

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Top: Aurore Baulier is calling on architects to use structural stone. She advocates for the use of structural stone as part Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN), where she coordinates the Natural Materials Group. "A beam can actually be stone instead of steel, minimising its carbon footprint." It's a whole team. It takes time."

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Deezen

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Local architecture studio Partisans has completed a house with an undulating yellow brick facade designed to look pixelated in Toronto , Ontario. Inspired by the client's Larry Poons paintings, the bricks are choreographed to convey movement. The box-shaped homes are in a Tudor revival style and feature a centre hallway plan.

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Deezen

MAY 10, 2024

Hidden within a densely wooded area, the Lone Oak House is located in a river region in southern Chile. However, the owners began telecommuting for work and decided to make the house their full-time residence. However, the owners began telecommuting for work and decided to make the house their full-time residence.

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Site Housing Roofing Exterior 102

Bustler

OCTOBER 25, 2023

RIBA has announced its shortlist for the House of the Year 2023 competition, highlighting six transformative residential projects that are equally unique and responsive to the building and design industry’s need for change. A winner will be announced on November 30.

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Home Housing Client Clients 105

Deezen

JANUARY 3, 2024

Michael Hsu Office of Architecture renovated an early 20th-century house in Austin Originally constructed in 1912, the home was once a brothel and had many renovations, becoming the first building south of the city's Colorado River to have power. The ground floor consists of multiple indoor and outdoor gathering spaces.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Architecture practice THISS Studio has reconfigured the dark interior of an interwar house in east London, adding an extension characterised by timber joinery and a curved aluminium roof. Its design evolved from the client's original vision of a full-width rear extension.

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Deezen

MARCH 25, 2024

An inverted-pitch roof and angular brick cladding characterise the Butterfly House extension, which architecture studio The DHaus Company has added to a terraced home in north London. Its unique shape adds an element of modernity and sophistication to the structure." The photography is by Richard Chivers.

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Roofing Housing Client Clients 113

Dwell

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The idea was to take the existing house and give it new life—one that met the needs and aesthetics of our designer clients. The client described it as living inside a tree. Post it here.

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Windows Interior Housing Client 141

Deezen

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A small triangular site guided the geometric form of Butterfly House, an accessible home that London studio Oliver Leech Architects has added to the corner of a garden in Surrey. However, we wanted to make sure it was visually and practically disconnected from the main house so that it felt truly like a new home."

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Housing Architect Exterior Roofing 131

e-architect

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Architect David Adjaye designed the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi. Architect David Adjaye designed the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi. This remarkable structure is a collection of three religious spaces, including a mosque, a synagogue, and a church, all resting upon a secular visitor pavilion.

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Housing Real Estate Client Clients 114

Deezen

MARCH 6, 2024

Japanese studio Akio Isshiki Architects has updated a house in Osaka by adding a multi-level void designed to maximise light and encourage play. Named House in Hattori-Tenjin, the 30-year-old dwelling is located on a dense residential street in the port city and previously had a dark, "standardised" interior.

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Deezen

MAY 12, 2024

A semi-enclosed, winding extension that aims to facilitate "inside-outside living" defines Ring House, a 1930s villa in Slovenia renovated by local studio OFIS Arhitekti. OFIS Arhitekti achieved this by extending its living spaces with a looping structure, which outlines a garden atrium at the heart of the plan.

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Roofing Renovation Client Clients 112

Deezen

APRIL 5, 2024

Called Cité Angus II, the structure is part of Technopôle Angus, an urban revitalization project that its developers say is a "full-scale sustainable development". Local architecture studio Ædifica has created a residential apartment building outside Montreal with an interior courtyard and a metal-mesh second skin on the facade.

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Housing Residential Exterior Remodeling 119

Deezen

OCTOBER 20, 2023

California studio Field Architecture designed this Sonoma Valley house out of a trio of fanning copper-clad pavilions with butterfly roofs. Named Madrone Ridge, the 4,920 square-foot (460 square-metre) house sits within the watershed of northern California's Russian River. the studio said. "By

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Civil Engineering Housing Architecture Engineering 144

e-architect

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Who are the clients and what’s interesting about them? During the pandemic they seized an opportunity to buy a larger house which ticked all of these boxes, but there was one problem. During the pandemic they seized an opportunity to buy a larger house which ticked all of these boxes, but there was one problem.

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Deezen

MAY 17, 2024

Liverpool studio Smith Young Architects has completed Vestige, a house in northwest England with a brick base built from the remnants of a previous structure on the site. It replaces an old house on the site that was in poor condition. Brickwork from the original home has been reused in some areas.

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Deezen

JANUARY 23, 2024

German studio Atelier ST has completed Duplex, a generous family house near Leipzig that was designed to look like two semi-detached properties. The starting point for the design came from a "run-down and mould-infested" house that stood on the site previously. This led to the use of arches and circles for doorways and windows.

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Deezen

AUGUST 7, 2023

The vernacular building techniques of north and south India combine in Hybrid House, a house with rammed-earth walls designed by Sketch Design Studio. Architecture office Sketch Design Studio designed and built the three-bedroom house in Alwar, a city located beside the Aravalli mountains in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Deezen

JULY 4, 2023

The dwelling is named Pinwheel after its distinctive shape, which was JM Architecture 's solution for the client's "only request" – that it offers views of both the nearby Lake Maggiore and surrounding alpine valleys. Previous projects by the studio include a house in the Swiss Alps designed to look like a "stone in the landscape".

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Landscape Housing Architecture Exterior 145

Deezen

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Brazilian practice Studio KUNZ has created a compact gabled house that cantilevers from a sloped site in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Vertical wood slats wrap the base The arrangement creates makes the structure appear balanced atop a slate staircase that provides a rustic base for the home's clean white lines.

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Deezen

MAY 14, 2023

A single concrete column supports the walls and roof of this house by Japanese studio IGArchitects, creating a flexible interior that can be opened up to the surrounding landscape. The solid structure looks like it is floating." "The solid structure looks like it is floating." The photography is courtesy of IGArchitects.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Maine studio Elliott Architects has created a seaside house that includes a dramatic, cantilevered volume on stilt that stretches towards the ocean and the tree line. House on a Bay is a twisted residence overlooking the sea. Elliott Architects created the house with two distinctive bars. Structural engineer: Thorton Tomasetti.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The polycarbonate-lined Green House that architecture studio Hayhurst & Co slotted into a tight site in London has been named the RIBA 's House of the Year for 2023. It was hailed by the jury of this year's RIBA House of the Year prize as "a true oasis within the city".

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Home Housing Site Exterior 136

Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2023

House, the home sits on a farmland site and is covered with a series of berms, while multiple trumpet-shaped pillars of varying heights create wave-like levels along the expanse of its footprint. The team covered the structure with berms, which rise out of the flat landscape of the surrounding agricultural fields.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Named Nelson Terrace, the renovation and extension in the Colebrook Row conservation area of Islington showcases the contemporary art and furniture collection of its client. Large windows open the space up to the garden The ground floor has also been reimagined to create a dual-aspect atelier, allowing the client to work from home.

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Renovation Architect Client Clients 116

Deezen

APRIL 1, 2024

New York studio Leong Leong has renovated a 1970s ranch house in Los Angeles by adding a large wall, outdoor spaces and a polycarbonate panel-wrapped second storey. Due to local historic preservation guidelines, the team only renovated 50 per cent of the existing house.

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