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. Wooden finishes complement the tactile brickwork.

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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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Deezen

MAY 26, 2024

A red-hued extension built from brick and pigmented concrete has been added to a Victorian house in the suburbs of Norwich by local architecture studio Grafted. The new extension was a way to celebrate the best details of the house through reinterpretation," she continued. The previous extension was low-key but poorly built.

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Architizer

MAY 6, 2024

Shipley and Bates accomplished this feat through site-responsive design that blurs the line between interior and exterior. The client had passed through this part of the country during his time in the Navy and fell in love with it. The client was also based in Dallas at the time. We were squishing, our boots were squishing.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Raw finishes and "as found" materials informed by brutalist architecture are used throughout this home , which Portuguese studio Atelier Local has created on a nature reserve near Porto. 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.

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Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2023

Local practice Platform 5 Architects has completed NW10 House, a family home on an infill site in north London with exposed concrete interiors and a textured brick exterior. NW10 House was designed by Platform 5 Architects. The home was built on an infill site. It has a textured brick exterior.

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Deezen

APRIL 21, 2024

Walls of exposed concrete define this skinny house in Saitama, Japan , which local studio IGArchitects designed with a width of just 2.7 Named 2700, the home is designed for a young couple on a long and thin site left over following a road expansion in the city, which is close to Tokyo. The home has a width of 2.7

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Deezen

JULY 1, 2023

British studio Ström Architects has completed a minimalist home in Cheltenham, UK , which references modernist Case Study Houses in California. Aptly named Case House, it is defined by pared-back finishes and forms, and layers of walls and gardens that buffer its light, airy interiors from the adjacent busy road.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Australian studio Retallack Thompson has constructed a steel extension for a heritage-listed stone terrace in Sydney and added a second house on the same plot to create a multi-generational family home. These rooms were relocated to the centre of the floorplan, with the disused chimneys serving as risers for the plumbing."

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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

APRIL 17, 2024

Located in the beach town of Encinitas, just north of San Diego , the house was designed to replace a family's existing ranch-style home that no longer fit their needs. Its design was informed by the surrounding California climate Roughly square in plan, the new house rises two levels and totals 3,223 square feet (299 square metres).

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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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Deezen

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

A grassy mound conceals this brick pool house, which architecture studio Knox Bhavan has designed to be "virtually invisible" within the grounds of a Georgian home in Kent. A grassy mound conceals the building The pool house sits beside a paved area that surrounds a rectangular swimming pool at the centre of the garden.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Brazilian architecture studio DB Arquitetos has completed a holiday home surrounded by a wooden screen in a forested site outside of São Paulo , Brazil. The five-level house is delicately stacked along a steep slope in a densely vegetated site. The two-tiered roof is supported by round concrete columns.

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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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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2024

Telescope House offers framed views of Sedona The 1,600-square-foot (149-square-metre) cabin is a nature retreat for a couple who ultimately plan to live there full-time. When not staying at the house, the clients rent it out. A lacquer finish was added in high-use areas. The photography is by Jason Roehner.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Recycled TV screens cover the walls of the seven-bedroom Hundred Acre Wood house , which architecture studio Denizen Works has created on a site overlooking Loch Awe in Scotland. Denizen Works has created the Hundred Acre Wood house. The form responds to the environmental context, key views and the site's topography.".

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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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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Vertical louvres adorn the facades of The H Residence, a mixed-use housing complex completed by architecture studio Tariq Khayyat Design Partners in Dubai. With the complex being located on a sloping site, TKDP designed each townhouse with a small front yard and back garden raised above ground level.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Presented at this year's Designblok festival in Prague , Cake Houses is a modular home concept that allows clients to design bespoke homes via an online configurator. Founded by Matyáš Švejdík, Pavel Špringl and Šimon Marek, the team behind the Cake Houses project describes it as an "architectural recipe for modular wooden houses".

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Deezen

MARCH 10, 2023

Living spaces snake around trees and rocks at the Chuzhi house , which architecture studio Wallmakers has created on an overlooked site in the village of Shoolagiri, India. The spiralling home is partly embedded in a steep and rocky site that had previously been overlooked as a "waste space" and considered unsuitable for a building.

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Architizer

MAY 11, 2022

Atherton pavilions – The two pavilions nestled in this verdant landscape were a response to the clients’ vision for a deeper engagement with their lovely yard. ″ spacing of the vertical and horizontal slats set the basis for all structural and finish alignments. How have your clients responded to the finished project?

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2023

Architecture studio Tan Yamanouchi & AWGL has created a house and studio with a curved facade for an up-and-coming manga artist in Tokyo , Japan. Named A Japanese Manga Artist's House, the home is located on a narrow site with a rich artistic history and draws upon the storytelling aspect of manga – a type of Japanese comic book.

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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.

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Deezen

APRIL 21, 2024

Photo by Fred Howarth Camberwell Cork House, UK, by Delve Architects A bright forest green paint lines the window frames at Camberwell Cork House, helping to draw focus to the lush planting outside. Find out more about Cork House › Photo by José Campos Bouça Family House, Portugal, by Fahr 021.3

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2023

Architecture studio SDA has completed the Floating House, a concrete-framed home on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City that is elevated above ground to mitigate the impacts of flooding. It is elevated above ground to mitigate the impacts of flooding "We composed the house as three slabs floating above the ground," explained SDA.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Next up in our review of the year , we look back at the houses that grabbed Dezeen readers' attention in 2022, including a dwelling hidden below ground, a pink holiday home and a cantilevering cabin. House and Restaurant in Yamaguchi, Japan, by Junya Ishigami. Dezeen's most popular house of 2022 was also the most unusual.

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Deezen

AUGUST 26, 2022

Architect Alexander Symes has added an angular addition to a house in Unanderra, Australia , featuring wood-lined living spaces that open onto a terrace perched in the canopy of a large tree. Symes designed Pepper Tree Passive House for local builder Adam Souter, whose company Souter Built aims to create high-performance sustainable homes.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2023

The clients hired Texas-based Specht Architects to build a 2,000-square-foot (186-square metre) minimalist house with floor-to-ceiling glass walls that afforded views of the surrounding meadow and large old-growth trees. The axial approach includes replanted natural grasses The roof extends to create a 15-foot (4.5-metre)

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2022

US studio Heliotrope Architects has minimized site disturbances while creating a cedar -clad holiday home on a wooded hillside in the Pacific Northwest. The clients initially tapped Seattle's Heliotrope Architects to consult on the site selection and then hired the firm to design the dwelling itself. "We

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Deezen

JANUARY 24, 2024

A curvy canopy with a rooftop reflecting pool is among the standout features at a Long Island house designed by US studios Steven Harris Architects and Rees Roberts & Partners to embrace its sand-dune setting. On the ground level, one finds multiple guest bedrooms, back-of-house spaces and an indoor basketball court.

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Deezen

MAY 23, 2024

A vaulted ceiling clad in wooden slats features inside Harriet's House, a cottage in Tasmania extended by local studio So Architecture. 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.

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Deezen

APRIL 10, 2023

Mexico City-based architect Manuel Cervantes Estudio has designed DIY housing that relies on passive, vernacular construction strategies to "help families build their living spaces in a better and smarter way." Completed in 2022, Rural Nicolas Housing is a continuation of Manuel Cervantes Estudio's "assisted self-production" in Mexico.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Named Cascade House, the residence in Paddington required minimal renovations but was overhauled by Ellway to create more playful spaces for the family's three children. There is a courtyard with planted trees Cascade House's updated entrance leads onto a long open-plan kitchen and dining space with grey cement-coated walls.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 3, 2023

27 House, which has been overhauled by architecture firm Estudio Estudio in a way that honours the historic building's original character. The house been overhauled to honour the historic building's original character Originally built in the 1930s, the stucco-clad dwelling had endured years of neglect, said local firm Estudio Estudio.

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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."

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AUGUST 17, 2022

The Akko-Tlani house is in the magical town of Tlayacapan located in the State of Morelos, 85 kilometers away from Mexico City and 45 minutes from the city of Cuernavaca. The house has 230 sqm of construction beyond the outdoors areas, composed by the garden and a pool, this includes a roof garden at the 3rd floor. Image © MD Visual.

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