Architizer

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The soothing macrocarpa interior, the central stone fireplace and broad windows beautifully complement the tranquil exterior. The burnt black exterior façades gives way to austere yet cozy interiors, with large windows framing the surrounding grassy hills. By Cheshire Architects , Kaiwaka, New Zealand. Seascape Retreat.

Landscape 101

Landscape Site Firms Architecture Firm 101

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.

Housing 127

Housing Architecture Roofing Site 127

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.

Housing 131

Housing Exterior Windows Landscape 131

Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2022

Scandinavian firm CF Møller Architects has completed a house where all the exterior surfaces match, thanks to a combination of dark red bricks and tiles. The exterior combines matching tiles and bricks. With varying shades of red, they match up with two brick entrance staircases and a series of exterior terraces.

Exterior 98

Exterior Roofing Materials Utilities 98

Deezen

MARCH 31, 2024

Located in the suburb of Highgate, the home replaces an existing cottage on the site that had been occupied by the clients for several years. The project is the first of two terrace houses envisaged for the site, with the second a mirror image in plan."

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Finishes Home Client Clients 89

Architizer

JULY 17, 2023

If there is one thing that architects and their clients can agree on, it’s that architecture should always work in harmony with nature. Paul Keskeys: How did the client brief and the project’s unique site help to shape your initial concept for Silver Residence? David Strand: This was a truly unique site.

Modern 98

Modern Home Architect Client 98

Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Called House in Ancede, the house sits on the site of a former stone ruin that it was required to roughly match in terms of its footprint and volume. These were informed by descriptions of an old brutalist house belonging to the client's family. Somehow, the project began and tried to reconstitute the seductive brutalism of this house."

Housing 131

Housing Architecture Finishes Windows 131

Deezen

MAY 23, 2024

So Architect has extended a cottage in Tasmania As the site of the cottage is overlooked on both sides, So Architecture designed the extension as a "sanctuary" sandwiched between thick walls of pale brick. The fine corbeling around the windows and red brick datum reference the cottage's formal Georgian facade."

Architecture 113

Architecture Finishes Client Clients 113

Deezen

MARCH 21, 2024

When not staying at the house, the clients rent it out. Roughly rectangular in plan, the house sits on a gently sloping site and was built atop the footprint of a former building. Bedrooms feature surrounding views Exterior walls are wrapped in weathering steel , which helps protect the home against wildfire.

Housing 119

Housing Exterior Engineering Engineering 119

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JUNE 14, 2024

Initially completed by CLB in 2003, the 2,400 square-foot home straddles both spatial and budgetary constraints on a picturesque site with a small buildable area. Photo © Matthew Millman A continuous band of glazed clerestories demarcate the high ceilings from exterior walls and filter sunlight into the interior.

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Architect Exterior Finishes Technique 59

Architizer

JANUARY 26, 2023

The exterior is clad in a rain screen of weathered steel that recalls the site’s steel mill history, with an exposed mass timber interior. miles from the site. The cost of bringing a sanitary sewer to the site was $2.0M – threatening the viability of the entire development.

Site 74

Site Permits Engineering Engineering 74

Deezen

JUNE 15, 2024

Italian studio Messner Architects has extended and reconfigured a house in South Tyrol to create three apartments , each with a contrasting exterior finish of plaster, wood and metal. While the existing structure was left largely unchanged, Messner Architects removed its gabled roof to create an expanded second floor.

Architect 57

Architect Roofing Windows Exterior 57

Deezen

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Rich hues and curving geometries feature throughout Somers House, an L-shaped coastal home that Australian studio Kennedy Nolan has added to a coastal site in Victoria. Coated in ochre-toned render, the rounded stairwell connects the levels of the home and is perforated with small rectangular windows.

Home 133

Home Exterior Landscape Housing 133

Dwell

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Architect Melissa Shin works alongside her client to create a tiny backyard house in Silicon Valley with vivid green tile and a bright pink door. The client and architect became close friends over those four years, which enhanced Shin’s vision for the design. The upside?

IT 91

IT Exterior Client Clients 91

Deezen

JANUARY 21, 2024

Located near the coast of Gangwha County, the chapel sits at the top of a site that slopes down towards the sea, hugged from behind by dense forest and mountains. On the opposite wall, an organ is built into the exposed concrete, while narrow stained-glass windows are set within deep, faceted reveals on the southeast side.

Engineering 127

Engineering Engineering Glass Windows 127

Deezen

JUNE 19, 2023

Located near Melbourne in the city of Werribee South, the house is surrounded by a large expanse of farmland that is also owned and worked by the client. A large courtyard with swimming pool sits at the northern end of the site, divided into seasonal areas and wrapped by a verandah defined by large white timber columns.

Architecture 138

Architecture Exterior Zoning Windows 138

Deezen

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Branching generously across its rural site, Peninsula House is intended to appear as a "windswept, weather-beaten form" derived from its coastal surroundings. Free of a client brief, co-founders Tom Surman and Percy Weston chose to draw on nearby architecture and the personalities of their families to set the project parameters.

Housing 121

Housing Site Zoning Exterior 121

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. They are fluted at the base before extending upwards into an expansive "lilypad" shape.

Housing 132

Housing Technique Exterior Consulting 132

Dwell

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Melbourne designer David Noordhoff had already established a rhythm with clients James and Zara McGuffie long before he designed their home. The house sits near a highway, but robust insulation and windows help minimize noise, as does a foyer and hallway fronting the building. We kind of just kind of stuck to our guns."

Housing 113

Housing Mining Architecture School Glass 113

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. Above ground, a study, kitchen and living space are flanked by two bedrooms and bathrooms.

Landscape 145

Landscape Housing Architecture Exterior 145

Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

acre site with a steep drop-off. Cedar cladding covers the home's exterior From the exterior, the house appears to be two simple gabled buildings wrapped in vertical western red cedar, connected by a slate-coloured walkway. Our clients asked for a modest house, a house that was decidedly not 'ski-lodge-like'," the team said.

Housing 145

Housing Building Exterior Environment 145

Architizer

JANUARY 16, 2024

Each participant seamlessly incorporated LaCantina’s exquisite doors and windows into their projects in inventive ways. The client desired to be close to the city center and wanted something drastically different form the more conventional housing styles in the area.

Architecture 100

Architecture Exterior Remodeling Concept 100

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 crossbar gable – with an arcade of large windows on either side – contains the family spaces with an open plan kitchen, dining and living space under a vaulted ceiling.

Structure 134

Structure Roofing Windows Landscape 134

Deezen

APRIL 17, 2024

It rises two stories and is clad in panels of Western red cedar "Exterior finishes were used on the interior to create a pleasant confusion upon entry and a questioning of where the outside ended and the inside began," the studio said. The clients opted to plant another tree in its place, and the original design was kept intact.

Housing 129

Housing Design Interior Exterior 129

Deezen

JANUARY 23, 2024

The starting point for the design came from a "run-down and mould-infested" house that stood on the site previously. The living room boasts a double-height ceiling Atelier ST's clients previously lived in the city, in a converted school auditorium with a barrel-vaulted ceiling.

Housing 115

Housing Exterior Innovation Foundation 115

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.

Civil Engineering 128

Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering Windows 128

Deezen

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Michael Kendrick Architects has completed a woodland retreat and holiday let in East Sussex, England , featuring timber-clad facades and large windows that allow views right through the building. The building is set on a sloping site in the grounds of the client's family home. The lodge sits on a nature reserve.

Glass 145

Glass Site Foundation Client 145

Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2023

Located on an elevated site in Carovigno with views of the nearby sea, the house was influenced by the forms and colours of villas along the coast of Puglia. Each room has large windows. An additional covered area features a bench that runs along an exterior wall and a long table for outdoor dining.

Exterior 145

Exterior Client Clients Housing 145

Deezen

APRIL 4, 2022

The client's functional needs are strategically distributed inside two independent volumes connected by a walkway forming a breach through the house," said the Montreal -based architects. "The A modern window is cut into the rustic facade. The corner window of the main living space looks out into the foilage.

Roofing 126

Roofing Exterior Structural Engineering Windows 126

Deezen

APRIL 30, 2022

In our latest lookbook , we spotlight 10 homes with living rooms enclosed by floor-to-ceiling glazing and window walls that create seamless connections to their natural surroundings. Mary Arnold-Forster Architects designed two floor-to-ceiling windows for the lounge of Nedd, a house built from cross-laminated timber in the Scottish Highlands.

Windows 137

Windows Exterior Glass Finishes 137

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. Located on the urban edge of the town, the house caters to the client's love of the countryside with warm wood accents that reference the araucaria trees that frame the sloping site.

Housing 119

Housing Structural Engineering Roofing Site 119

Deezen

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It has a deliberately simple design, intended to echo the form of an old 20-square-metre tool shed that previously occupied the site. The clients asked BABELstudio for a place where they could stay the night as well as work, leading it to create a cabin that is divided in half lengthways. A bed occupies the darker end of the cabin.

Regulation 145

Regulation Finishes Roofing Windows 145

Deezen

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Architecture studio Ductus has designed an apartment complex coated with a monochrome red plaster facade into a sloping site in Schwarzenburg, Switzerland. On the exterior, untreated copper was also used for downpipes, while red-toned window frames and mechanical shutters match the plaster's colour.

Roofing 101

Roofing Exterior Finishes Client 101

Deezen

MARCH 6, 2024

Sited on the Las Vegas Strip, the ballpark was designed by BIG in collaboration with engineering firm HNTB for Major League Baseball team the Athletics (The As), which is moving from Oakland, California, following the 2024 season. All direct sunlight is blocked, while all the soft daylight is allowed to wash the field in natural light."

Glass 144

Glass Design Engineering Engineering 144

Deezen

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

US studio Fuse Architects added cedar cladding, expanded the windows and brightened the interiors of the Plover House on the coast of California. Working closely with the clients, the architects set out to brighten up the interior and improve the views. In the dining room, a new window offers a "portrait view" of the oceanscape.

Renovation 145

Renovation Housing Architect Remodeling 145

Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The writer's studio and guesthouse are tucked into the woods "Working in concert with the landscape, this dynamic quality further through the building's charred Shou Sugi Ban exterior, tugged and carved to create overhangs and openings." Each window frames a view of the prairie and Teton Range beyond," the team said.

Structure 114

Structure Architect Civil Engineering Client 114

Deezen

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The clients, described by Pozna?-based Apart from this green paint, the exterior of the shipping containers has been left as-found, "to show the sincerity of the raw construction material," said the practice. On the sides of the containers, a series of small, mid-level windows are positioned to allow for a variety of interior layouts.

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Home Client Clients Transportation 145