Deezen

APRIL 8, 2024

Tianfu Museum of Chinese Medicine's curved structure is topped with an undulating roof clad with perforated aluminium panels, which links up with the circular walkway. At the front of the building is a landscaped plaza with paved walkways, designed to host outdoor activities as well as connect the museum to the surrounding streets.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The interior features a C-shaped plan An exterior staircase – shaded by a black partition lattice made of local purple rosewood – leads up to a roof terrace with 360-degree views. The client named the house Casa que Da (House that Gives) to reference the act of "giving" in a culinary context.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Irregularly placed square openings puncture the thick concrete exterior of SV House in Portugal , recently completed by architecture studio Spaceworkers. Located on a sloping site near the town of Sobrado, the blocky, three-storey home occupies a plot once occupied by the home of the client's grandfather.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Along with curling exterior walls that span the length of the houses's perimeter, they were created using a technique in which concrete is poured slowly into fabric formwork supported by a plywood rib structure. The team covered the structure with berms, which rise out of the flat landscape of the surrounding agricultural fields.

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Deezen

APRIL 26, 2024

It is designed around a courtyard The exterior of Harriet Hardy House is enlivened with areas of textured brickwork at the ground and roof levels, while the balconies are topped by arched concrete lintels. "[The All of the flats have been designed as "care ready" and can be fitted with telecare and assistive technology if required.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Set in a small town named Somers on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, the home was designed to offer a place of retreat for the client's family and features earthy colours chosen by the studio to evoke a sense of peace. The spatial arrangement supports privacy and separation but makes coming together effortless and celebrated."

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The idea was to take the existing house and give it new life—one that met the needs and aesthetics of our designer clients. We chose to utilize a dark cedar exterior to ground the home within the surrounding dunes and a contrasting natural cedar to accentuate the point of entry. The client described it as living inside a tree.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Photo is by Alan Tansey To create visual continuity, the team aligned the roof ridges of all six volumes. The roof planes vary, however, contributing to the home's sculptural look. Photo is by Alan Tansey Roofs and outer walls are clad in a grey rainscreen made of charred accoya wood.

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Deezen

MARCH 2, 2023

US studio CLB Architects has designed a cedar-clad home and barn in Wyoming for clients who love horses and wanted to return their property to its historic roots as a working ranch. CLB Architects gave the home a long, low roof To design the project, the team drew upon the site's history as a working cattle ranch.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

After years of living in a larger family residence, the clients desired a home with an efficient use of space and "right-sized for their current lifestyle". The buildings are topped with tall, pyramidal hipped roofs. Large skylights at the tip of each roof capture daylight.

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Deezen

JANUARY 12, 2024

Brazilian architect Marcelo Couto and landscape designer Rodrigo Oliveira have created a cantilevering house with multiple courtyards and an interior staircase with a slide attached in Fazenda da Grama, São Paulo. The roof of the bedroom bar is also planted. The photography is by Maíra Acayaba.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2024

The building will also incorporate a roof garden with expansive views of the surrounding mountains. A covered arcade will wrap around the building Around the development, the public realm will integrate three landscaped public squares interspersed with patches of greenery and water features. Project credits: Architect: C.F.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

Partly because the client was a Japanese brewer who mainly makes sake, we also incorporated 'Japanese-ness' into the design." and the landscape as an intermediate area, but also gently welcomes visiting guests." We have created a Japanese-style porch design that not only continues the interior space for tasting drinks, etc.

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Deezen

JANUARY 19, 2024

Global architecture studio SOM has designed a terminal for the Kempegowda International Airport in Bangalore, India , that draws on the city's heritage and landscape. Inside, the studio adorned the terminal's engineered bamboo structure with hanging plants and greenery, creating bright and airy interiors lit by roof openings.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The project consists of a main house, guest house and writer's studio The main house was "conceived as a geologic remnant in the landscape, located on the edge between field and forest". The roof is undulating, and the facades are clad in burnt wood. Each building responds to its immediate setting.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In West Chester, Pennsylvania, a striking all-black barn perches gently on the rural landscape. Among the rolling hills of eastern Pennsylvania’s Brandywine Valley, MaMo Architects was called upon to design a home for their formerly nomadic clients. A standing seam metal roof, also by ATAS, completes the striking monotone envelope.

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Deezen

MARCH 13, 2023

Eola Hills Residence has sweeping views of the landscape The property is set in a location with sweeping views of the landscape – to the west are the city and mountains, and to the east is wine country. The clients use this space to decompress and enjoy the views with music and wine," the team said.

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Deezen

MARCH 10, 2023

"The design was generally inspired by the vernacular language of the agricultural landscape based on the origins of the site and its surroundings," the studio said. The vertical, white-wood cladding and standing-seam metal roof reference regional agrarian buildings, but with contemporary refinement. The photography is by Josée Marino.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

London studio Coffey Architects has completed Modern Barn, a home in Dorset, UK , that mimics a cluster of timber-clad barns in order to blend in with the surrounding landscape. Oak panelling on the interiors is intended to reflect a warm light from the home's skylights, as well as provide space for the client's print collection.

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Deezen

MARCH 9, 2024

Pine shingles wrap the exterior A naturally dense insulation material, the wood also efficiently stores the heat inside the cabin, while regulating the moisture generated from the sauna. Wood has also been used for the structure, with large timber modules forming its frame. This was chosen to help minimise the embodied carbon of the project.

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Deezen

APRIL 23, 2024

This was then encased by an exterior shell clad with decorative cedar shingles. Over time, these materials naturally age and grey, enhancing the structure's beauty and blending it further with the landscape, much like the enduring designs found in aerospace and automotive constructions that are designed to last and evolve over time."

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MARCH 22, 2024

Image © MAD Covering 2,267 hectares of land with a maximum fill height difference of nearly 100 meters, the airport adopts a large silver-white overhanging roof resembling a white-feathered bird ready to soar. Image © MAD A central landscape path in the sunken parking lot further enhances connectivity of passenger and the space.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2022

A narrow passageway divides this cottage with a metal roof by Naturehumaine , marking the entrance to the home and providing privacy to a detached guest suite and atelier. The building's exterior was inspired by the vernacular constructions of the area, a region of Quebec known as the Eastern Townships.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

The complex comprises two interior pools and their infrastructure; in the 2nd phase of the project, an exterior Olympic-size pool is to be added. The building’s subdued appearance in the space is achieved by the low floating roof, under which the surrounding landscape is allowed to flow across the pool.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

DB Arquitetos and Marina Salles completed the holiday home on a forested site in Brazil The home was completed in 2023 by the Brazilian team of DB Arquitectos , which is lead by architect David Basto, and Marina Salles Arquitectura e Interiores , which previously renovated the interior of the client's primary residence in downtown São Paulo.

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Deezen

JULY 6, 2023

"The 24-acre property had been neglected for more than a decade, so our work involved refreshing finishes, opening under-lit spaces to the landscape, solving sources of water damage, and shaping a landscape to unify the domestic complex," said In Situ Studio founder Matt Griffin. The photography is by Cristóbal Palma.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

We could do whatever we want, and we did in fact integrate some ideas and elements that other clients turned down for their particular houses." The ground floor includes a multipurpose family room that leads out to the pool deck, which is set at the same height as the roof of the pink accessory dwelling unit (ADU).

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Deezen

JANUARY 9, 2023

Local practice Brown & Brown has nestled Spyon Cop, a black timber-clad home , into the rolling green landscape of the Cairngorns National Park in the Scottish Highlands. All timber used was responsibly sourced, and the roof is covered in sod and grass seeded from the hill on which the house sits," he continued.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Denizen Works has lowered the house into a hollow in the landscape, making it appear as though it emerges out from the ground on the north and south elevations. Its rough exterior is clad in recycled TV screens. Our client is also not keen on TVs, so there was an element of playfulness in their use.".

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Westeck News

APRIL 1, 2022

Welcome to Westeck’s Client Spotlight! Our Client Spotlight explores the latest projects from Custom Home Builders, Architects, Designers and Renovation Specialists. Today, we’re excited to feature Averra Developments in our Client Spotlight with their Mount Pleasant Modern | Single Family Home.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Tall roof monitors lend a sculptural look to the Gradient House and Studio, which was designed by Oregon studio Linden Brown Architecture for the founders of a shoe design company. The building's roof pitches and eave heights were influenced by the original house and residential context. The yard is designed to help manage rainwater.

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Deezen

JANUARY 21, 2024

Unlike the coloured glass of medieval churches that tried to concretely express the contents of the Bible, here, they fill the interior and exterior with the abstract motif of greenery, enabling visitors to continuously perceive nature," he continued. It is illuminated by a skylight that projects from the southeastern side of the building.

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Deezen

JANUARY 8, 2022

A cluster of wood-clad buildings surround a central courtyard at this Minnesota residence by US firm Salmela Architect that was designed for clients who formerly lived in Japan. The house rests on a fifty-acre (20-hectare) parcel, the majority of which the clients granted to the Minnesota Land Trust for permanent conservation.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2023

A steep, pine-clad roof shelters this simple timber cabin in the Swedish mountains, designed by London-based architect Tina Bergman. It is nestled in the forested landscape of Tänndalen in western Sweden. The Hat House was designed by Tina Bergman. "I The interior of the cabin was clad in wood.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Set atop a steel catamaran hull, the timber structure has a distinctive bow-shaped roof that sweeps downwards to cover a central, glazed sauna room. Intended to blend in with the many surrounding forests, the exterior of the Big Branzino is clad in pine planks and opens onto two areas of decking through fully-glazed ends at the bow and stern.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The stone-clad Connecticut retreat is surprisingly advanced with a steel frame, glass sliders, geothermal heating and cooling, and a motorized roof hatch to the deck. Once inside, the initial space compresses, the ceiling low, exterior fieldstone becomes interior. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

JANUARY 24, 2024

Steven Harris Architects and Rees Roberts & Partners designed the beach house and adjacent structure to embrace the setting "The clients, New York executives, desired architecture in the midcentury modern tradition that showcased the dune-filled landscape and created space to enjoy time with friends and family," the team said.

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