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Omer Arbel balances nature and form in this award-winning Canadian Pacific Northwest house

Archinect

A demonstration column had to be constructed on the site in order to get the clients' final approval. The result is an aesthetically pleasing four-volume arrangement recovered by the landscape that blends process and material into a singular modern and bucolic harmony.

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Hebra Arquitectos tucks Lone Oak House within wooded site in Chile

Deezen

It was commissioned during the pandemic as a second home for the client The design team had multiple goals for the project. It was elevated to avoid humidity and provide greater views and more illumination The architects conceived a two-storey house that is partly lifted above the site by steel piers.

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MU Architecture’s lakeside Quebec residence is an ‘ode to the beauty of nature’

Archinect

Built on the shores of Lake Revdor, the three-level Break Residence was commissioned to fulfill the client’s wish of building a home on the land of his ancestors and is described by the design team as “a place of welcoming and gathering” for the small surrounding community.

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Magpie House extension is a "personal museum" for client's furniture collection

Deezen

Architecture practice DGN Studio has extended a terraced home in east London with spaces and materials that form a backdrop to the client's mid-century furniture collection. It is designed as a backdrop to the client's furniture collection. DGN Studio has extended the Magpie House in London. The kitchen features wooden joinery.

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Habitable Form creates vertical house for woodsy site on South Carolina island

Deezen

Habitable Form has created a timber-clad house on Kiawah Island in South Carolina The site conditions drove the design by architecture studio Habitable Form , which has an office nearby, on Johns Island. The post Habitable Form creates vertical house for woodsy site on South Carolina island appeared first on Dezeen.

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Marrowstone Island Residence: A Masterclass in Site Responsive Architecture

Architizer

Nowhere else in North America does nature feel so powerful, otherworldly and sublime than the Pacific Northwest. Shipley and Bates accomplished this feat through site-responsive design that blurs the line between interior and exterior. The client was also based in Dallas at the time. So how does one build in a place like this?

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Schaum/Shieh "gently" conforms house to contours of steep Virginia site

Deezen

US architecture studio Schaum/Shieh has embedded a Virginia house with irregularly shaped volumes into the contours of a steep site. Our clients knew many hilly sites from growing up in the area and their time in Greece. We focused on the hill, the seasons, the distant view, and the intimate life of the site."

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