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Cometa House is nestled within trees on coastal site in Oaxaca

Deezen

A pair of stone towers and a thatched -roof palapa are among the features at a nature retreat in southern Mexico designed by architects Mauricio Rocha and Gabriela Carrillo. It sits at the edge of a nature preserve on Punta Cometa, or Comet Point, a peninsula that juts into the Pacific Ocean and was once the site of an Aztec fort.

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Gabion Walls Made of Volcanic Rock Flank a Flat-Roofed Farmhouse in Australia

Dwell

The homeowners created the structures using stones collected on-site to connect their rural residence to the land. The clients erected and filled the gabion walls themselves. To support the client's busy lives as farmers and parents the space needed to feel calm, light-filled, and uplifting. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Surreal Sites: 8 Rural Retreats Set in New Zealand’s Cinematic Landscape

Architizer

The following rural retreats also seek to make the most of the country’s rich and surreal landscapes. Compact bedrooms for adults and kids are located at opposite ends of the house while a tarpaulin-like roof strings them together, providing luminous social spaces in between. Photos by Russell Kleyn Photographs. Castle Rock House.

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Timeless lines framing the landscape

Habitus Living

Simplicity – in the most complimentary sense – is the quality that carries all the way through from the clients’ brief to the finished object. “Initially we explored other locations on the site for the house, but we kept coming back to the thought of the reflections, light and movement that the water would provide,” he adds.

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Noe Valley by Faulkner Architects

Archinect

On the boards in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood is a new house for a three-peat client of Faulkner Architects. The new design respects the site’s long-standing use as a multi family house with an embedded accessory dwelling unit at the garden level.

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In Situ Studio cuts "hoop" opening in cantilevered welcome centre roof

Deezen

Local architecture firm In Situ Studio wrapped an art museum visitor centre in Raleigh, North Carolina with darkened steel and cantilevered a roof with an aperture over its patio. The roof features a rounded triangle roof opening made of aluminium.

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Villa KD45 is a concrete house in Delhi with a plant-covered roof

Deezen

Studio Symbiosis has completed a villa in Delhi, India , that rises up from its landscaped grounds, forming a terraced roof that is covered with plants to maximise the site's green area. A stepped walkway built into the ramp-like roof form leads up from the entrance to a shaded outdoor living space.

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