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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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Dwell

JUNE 15, 2022

To fit in synergistically with the residential area surrounding the client’s house, one of the requirements was that the exterior should look like a ‘conventionally shaped house’. Having consulted with a structural engineer, these structures were placed within a comfortable distance from each other.

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2022

Glazed brick and charred cypress wrap the exterior of a partly sunken North Carolina home designed by architecture firm In Situ Studio. The site formerly held a run-down, 1940s dwelling that was owned by the clients. Large windows and skylights illuminate the upper level. The largest window is 11 feet wide and 10 feet tall (3.3

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Site Housing Structural Engineering Client 144

Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

Partly because the client was a Japanese brewer who mainly makes sake, we also incorporated 'Japanese-ness' into the design." A covered walkway leads into a tasting room Floor-to-ceiling windows line the front of the building, which leads into a tasting room for visitors.

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Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering Windows 133

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.

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Roofing Exterior Structural Engineering Windows 126

Deezen

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

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. The living room has views in all four cardinal directions including east through a transverse corridor through the private half of the house.

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Housing Structural Engineering Roofing Site 130

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.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

Set at 8,900 feet, the short construction window necessitated an innovative approach. Photo © Boone Speed Employing modular and prefabricated construction, enabled the construction timeline to be compressed into a brief five-month window. Unpretentious and inviting, the exterior is expressed in reclaimed wood.

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Deezen

JULY 6, 2023

The basement level has two bedrooms and a den that opens to the pool deck The main 1952 split-level house was gutted and rebuilt with new windows, interior and exterior windows, building systems, stucco soffits, porch planter and an additional deck and a staircase on the east end. The photography is by Cristóbal Palma.

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Home Exterior Renovation Modern 105

Dwell

MARCH 28, 2023

Emblematic of its style, the house, set on a sandstone foundation, retains its Federation character to the street: An asymmetrical, white-painted weatherboard exterior maintains the civic optimism of the period through fine timber details and fretwork.

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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 exterior facade is made of concrete panels. The exterior panels were maximised in width as much as possible to reduce the number of joints," the studio said.

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Building Architect Civil Engineering Exterior 105

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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Information Housing Architect Architecture 143

Deezen

JUNE 26, 2023

Down one side, a series of steps finished in the same pigment offer outdoor seating and leads to open spaces at the top of the garden, where softer landscaping accommodates safer play for the client's children. The open living space extends towards the front of the house, where a bay window frames views of the front garden.

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aasarchitecture

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The simple exterior design comprised of two massive volumes piled on top of each other takes advantage of the corner lot, with a façade of exposed concrete imprinted with cedar formwork. Outward-facing windows are limited to horizontal slits to preserve privacy and increase security. Photo © Masao Nishikawa. Photo © Masao Nishikawa.

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Architect Structural Engineering Residential Client 96

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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Deezen

MARCH 13, 2023

The client's brief was simple – create a comfortable home for their family that takes advantage of the site's spectacular views and that serves as a refuge from work life," the studio said. The clients use this space to decompress and enjoy the views with music and wine," the team said. Sustainability was a key concern for the team.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2023

Designed for a client who works in landscaping, the three-storey dwelling was created by local practice Apollo Architects & Associates to explore the home as somewhere that is both private and "open to the public sphere". Structural engineer: Motoi Nomura Structures. Facility engineer: Naoki Matsumoto.

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Space Home Architect Structural Engineering 116

Deezen

MARCH 26, 2023

SDA has created the Floating House on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City Floating House is distinguished by its exposed concrete frame, designed to balance the client's desire for a feeling of openness to the site's lush gardens with the need for protection from the elements. The photography is by Hiroyuki Oki.

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Deezen

JANUARY 11, 2023

acres and was inspired by the visual language of the neighbouring warehouses such as punched windows and linear massing. The central pathway is marked by small gathering spaces that trail into the building, creating a "living room" that bridges interior and exterior zones. "A Slanted structural columns animate the groundscape.

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Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering Exterior 104

Habitus Living

OCTOBER 15, 2023

My driver pulls over while I look through the taxi’s windows, trying to pair the reference images I’d been sent for Cabin House with the actual Cabin House. This was a key factor in Taliesyn’s initial brief from the nature-loving clients, whose primary residence is situated in close proximity to Bangalore’s famous Cubbon Park.

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Cities Windows Client Clients 98

Deezen

APRIL 29, 2023

Oak floors throughout the building match those found in Phillips' other international locations This side of the building also includes a tall, narrow window through which Phillips can move large artworks in and out. With a ceiling over 15 feet (4.5 metres) tall, this gallery is used for displaying larger artworks and sculptures.

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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." Large windows open the various rooms to the forest-like landscape The ADU sits atop an embedded garage and is topped by an urban roof garden with a sinuous aluminium sunshade structure.

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aasarchitecture

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Photo © Nick McGinn As a housing typology new to Nashville, the design celebrates the congregate housing model’s inherent sense of community, seen in the variety of indoor and outdoor gathering spaces and the facade’s artistic exterior expression.

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Deezen

JANUARY 28, 2024

The building is set in a fir forest in Arcadia, a mountainous region of Greece "The client's ambition was to reinterpret the concept of a sanctuary in the mountains with contemporary terms," reads K-Studio's design statement. Concrete was used to replace the old sills, while the new timber roof was installed over rendered brickwork.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2023

The building, called Mississippi has structural elements made from cross-laminated timber ( CLT ) panels and glued-laminated timber ( glulam ) beams. The rest of the structure – walls decking, and beams – were erected and later clad with the weathering steel exterior. Operable windows were also arranged around the building.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

Facade A playful grid of vertical elements and windows creates various rhythms on the facade. The depth between the structure and the exterior walls provides shadow and reduces the solar heat gain inside the apartments. Source by Mecanoo.

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Housing Diagram Commercial Structural Engineering 78

Deezen

MARCH 3, 2022

It serves as a full-time residence for a client who previously rented a floating house in the area and decided to build his own home there when a lot became available. Olson Kundig added glass windows with sweeping views. Our client wanted to make the best use of every inch.". Structural engineer: Voelker Engineering.

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Glass Roofing Contract Structural Engineering 98

aasarchitecture

MARCH 30, 2023

Photo © Eric Staudenmaier The gray, heavy dash stucco exterior is contrasted against a smooth trowelled plaster at volumetric transitions, conjuring the textures of workaday local building materials in a sculpted manner and lending a distinctly southern California identity to the architectural treatment. Source by Formation Association.

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Deezen

JANUARY 19, 2023

bathroom house pays homage to the clients' Brazilian heritage and serves as a showroom for vintage furniture and artwork that the couple collected through extensive travel. "We Civil engineer: Jorge G. Angel Oaks Residence is located in Miami The five-bedroom, 7.5-bathroom Francisco Cuello, Jr.

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Civil Engineering Design Structural Engineering Materials 128

Deezen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Mork-Ulnes Architects designed the home with a gabled roof "We knew from the outset that this project would be an interesting collaboration, balancing our reductive tendencies with the more exuberant and maximalist impulses of our client/friends, whose style we had always admired and wanted to celebrate," said Casper Mork-Ulnes.

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Housing Home Structural Engineering Interior 126

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The home was commissioned for a client with multiple residences who envisioned a retreat providing scenic views of the surrounding mountains, serenity, and a gathering place for family. At night, or when the weather outside is cooler, warmer tones emerge from the color and material palette.

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Structural Engineering Civil Engineering Residential Engineering 76

aasarchitecture

MAY 10, 2024

Photo © Leonhard Clemens The Student House is also characterized by a fully glazed facade that offers excellent daylight quality for all areas and seamlessly connects the interior and exterior spaces. The building is naturally ventilated via tilt windows and a central skylight dome. Source by Gustav Düsing & Max Hacke.

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Students Structural Engineering Innovation Concept 52

Dwell

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Structural Engineer: Structure Workshop / @ structure.workshop Photographers: Jim Stephenson / @ clickclickjim and Richard Chivers / @ richchiversphoto From the Architect: " Our clients founded Sussex Prairie Gardens, an eight-acre public garden, in 2008. Within a repaired steel structure a timber structure was built.

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Home Structural Engineering Roofing Structure 97

Deezen

JULY 31, 2022

For the exterior walls, the team used a mix of concrete and cypress boards that were charred using the ancient Japanese technique of Shou Sugi Ban , helping bolster the wood's resistance to insects and rot. Windows provide framed views. Structural engineer: David Kufferman. Civil engineer: Crawford Associates.

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Roofing Housing Civil Engineering Restoration 111

Deezen

JANUARY 13, 2023

"When approaching the redesign of this iconic building, we were tasked with a big objective: to breathe new life into a 100-year-old existing structure," ZGF principal Deanna Keil told Dezeen. Preserving the aspects of the original program, the Model T showroom is now a retail cafe, featuring the original octagonal columns and windows.

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Habitus Living

MAY 15, 2022

Raised up on pilotis, the middle level of the home opens up, promising an expansive interior with a monumental exterior. The brief for the clients was thought-provoking for the architect’s Bokey Grant. The home is characterised by three spaces: the ground floor, the first floor and the exterior. Project Details.

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Structural Engineering Exterior Home Engineering 98

Habitus Living

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The residence is positioned on what was the site of an Ampol petrol station, which the clients owned and operated for 30 years. The architectural narrative unfolds with meticulous detailing, for instance in the projections that mirror the iconic Ampol logo; while coloured glass windows evoke the vibrant hues of mid-century branding.

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