Dwell

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The British Columbia company’s gable-sided residences start at $290 per square foot and prioritize finishes that are toxin-free. Geordie and Jess graciously show their home to many of our future clients, so in many ways, it feels like it is part of the Blend family. The siding is darkened with a low-VOC, formaldehyde-free stain.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 3, 2022

DUNN HOUSE – The project transforms the typical morphology of sloping roofs to create a new language, with overhanging overhangs, marked slopes and intermediate extractions. The tension lines generated by the roof and the horizontality of the base, create a new face-to-face support in the environment. Size: 3000 sqft – 5000 sqft.

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Deezen

JULY 1, 2022

The clients also requested that the new spaces include natural materials, which informed the use of douglas fir for the exposed structure, exterior cladding, internal joinery and fittings. The clients requested the use of natural materials in the extension. Wooden finishes are used throughout.

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Materials Nature Renovation Home 105

Deezen

MAY 29, 2022

Architecture firm LOHA used "material layering" to create a light-filled workspace in California for photographers, videographers and other creatives involved in brand imaging for sportswear brand Nike. Now everything is under one roof, enabling Nike to streamline their brand imaging operations," said local firm LOHA. Client: Nike.

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Utilities Materials Building Finishes 111

Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Moxon Architects converted a collection of farm buildings in the Scottish Highlands According to the studio, three material choices defined the design: expressed oak in the guesthouse interior, Douglas Fir timber for the glasshouse and frameless glazing inserted into apertures throughout existing wall structures.

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Deezen

JULY 31, 2022

US studio Desai Chia Architecture designed a highly sculptural, waterfront home wrapped in concrete and charred cypress that has vaulted roofs resembling wings. Roughly rectangular in plan, the dwelling has cutouts, cantilevers and multiple sloped roofs that combine in a sculptural way. Desai Chia created "winged" roofs for the house.

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Roofing Housing Civil Engineering Restoration 111

Deezen

MARCH 29, 2024

Mumbai-based architecture studio Sanjay Puri Architects has designed a swirling community centre with a sloping green roof in Rajasthan, India. The community centre's internal spaces also receive natural light through a set of "scooped recesses" that were arrayed around the roof garden and extend underneath the grassy mounds.

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Information Architect Roofing Education 125

Deezen

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

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. We wanted this approach of simplicity to be reflected as well in the very materiality, not just the spaces itself. The photography is by Biderbost Photo.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 24, 2024

This new complex is an integral part of the many innovations on the site, where approximately 500 clients live and recreate amidst a green environment. All areas are equipped with various aids to optimally support clients with mobility limitations or behavioral problems.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 7, 2022

Designed by MVRDV, the 29-metre-high platform makes the roof of the museum accessible via a 143-step external staircase. The designers were inspired by the panoramic view from the roof of Het Nieuwe Instituut, and by the building’s design by Jo Coenen, with its characteristic pergola. Photo © Ossip van Duivenbode.

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Roofing Installation Sustainability Cities 85

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. Its proportions, the slope of the roof as well as the basis for the facade's composition was set from the beginning," they told Dezeen. "In

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Housing Architecture Finishes Windows 131

Deezen

APRIL 10, 2023

The studio analyzes both the physical context of the site and the economic situation, demonstrating to the client the tangible and intangible influences that affect a project. The materials were selected because they were both affordable and effective. "We can assist them via pictures on the cell phone and verbal assistance."

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Development Developer Housing Roofing 111

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. The roofs – composed of two triangular planes each that slope toward the centre – collect rainwater and redirect it to river-rock basins.

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Civil Engineering Housing Architecture Engineering 144

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. Top image: render courtesy of Cake Houses The project was conceptualised as a pitched-roof house that can be adapted to suit different needs.

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Home Housing Architecture Client 132

Habitus Living

MARCH 10, 2024

The former accommodates the client’s need for a home suitable for hosting and conducive to the contemporary lifestyle of a family of four. WOWOWA collaborated with the clients to weave the stories and narratives that resonate with them into the fabric of their interiors. The latter is perhaps more aesthetically oriented.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Modern Barn is located in Dorset In order to have a minimal impact on views of the area, which is designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Coffey Architects designed Modern Barn to have a pared-back profile finished with simple materials. The existing house was falling apart," said director Michael Henriksen. "It

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Home Architect Masterplanning Client 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? for $2.4M

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IT Exterior Client Clients 103

Deezen

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Named Green House, Hayhurst and Co created the home as an example of low-cost, low-energy housing, with a cross-laminated timber (CLT) structure and repurposed materials used for cladding and flooring. An atrium at the centre of the home lets natural light into the interior and naturally cools the house by stack ventilation.

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Home Design Contractor Site 140

Deezen

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Set in a small town named Somers on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, the home was designed to offer a place of retreat for the client's family and features earthy colours chosen by the studio to evoke a sense of peace. Textural materials including cork, raw brass, and earthy tiles feature across the walls of the hallways and bedrooms.

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Home Exterior Landscape Housing 133

Deezen

MAY 21, 2023

Arranged across three floors including a rooftop level, the cafe was designed by architecture studio Sukchulmok to resemble European public squares in reference to the client's time spent in Italy. It was simply based on the idea that the distance from the height of the door and window to the ceiling finish is 600 millimetres."

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Finishes Client Clients Interior 144

Architizer

AUGUST 22, 2022

Their design responds to the Grade I-listed landscape, with sustainable materials and traditional craft techniques creating simple, functional forms. What drove the selection of materials used in the project? This kiosk takes the fundamental DNA of the rest of the kiosks and heightens its own sense of nobility through its materials.

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Technique Sustainability Materials Design 93

Deezen

JANUARY 11, 2024

Will Gamble Architects designed the external colonnade to create a new connection to the rear garden The external colonnade, flanked by deep brown ash slats, was conceived to frame a visual link to the rear garden and finished in a textured microcement to reference the rough cast render of the local vernacular.

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Home Architect Visualization Finishes 122

Deezen

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The brief was for a family home for our clients and their six children – as well as an increasing number of grandchildren – that would reflect their personalities and provide a lasting legacy for the family," project architect Andrew Ingham told Dezeen. Our client is also not keen on TVs, so there was an element of playfulness in their use.".

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Housing Client Clients Finishes 131

Deezen

JULY 1, 2023

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. Paved pathways connect either end of the site and are sheltered by overhanging sections of Case House's large flat roof.

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Housing Architect Client Clients 145

Architizer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

CasaTresAguas – An architects dream to build your own house, comes with a lot of unforeseen challenges, such as millions of ideas one wants to make reality, the restricted budget, the small plot of land and probably the family which could become your worst client ever. What drove the selection of materials used in the project?

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Materials Construction Construction Design 73

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? It is always about purposeful material usage and clean transitions.

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Modern Home Architect Client 98

Deezen

JULY 5, 2023

Each one is finished with a warm material palette and is informed by the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, which celebrates imperfections and changes that come with the passage of time. Butterfly House is spread across two rectangular volumes topped with sloping roofs, after which the home is named.

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Home Design Client Clients 134

Deezen

MARCH 1, 2024

Meanwhile, more traditional elements including a terracotta tile roof are designed as nods to other agricultural buildings found in the region. Black accents feature throughout the home House in the Fields has a brick-infilled, cross-laminated timber (CLT) frame, chosen to reflect the client's background in the lumber industry.

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Modern Home Architecture Housing 141

Deezen

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Completed in 2022 in the municipality of David Canabarro, Casa Trapézios – or the Trapezium House – is formed by two juxtaposed trapezoidal sections arranged back-to-back in a "reinterpretation of the gabled roof archetype". This conjunction of materials and shapes gives to Trapezium House the feel of a country house," the studio said.

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Housing Structural Engineering Roofing Site 129

Dwell

AUGUST 4, 2022

Bizna Estudio combines passive house principles with a few regional materials to keep one family cool while on vacation. The interlocking ceramic tiles on the roof provide ventilation, encouraging dispersal of hot air. It sounds like a high-tech miracle, but its actually the result of low-tech vernacular wisdom.

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Home IT Roofing Finishes 122

Dwell

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In Sonoma County, Studio Plow turns a 1955 residence into a retreat with an open floor plan, luxe finishes, and skylights and picture windows that peer out into the treetops. The original low ceiling was opened to the roof structure above.

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Renovation Client Clients Finishes 105

Deezen

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Located on a 195-square-metre site in Mexico City 's Hipódromo Condesa neighbourhood, the project serves as a full-time residence for a client who is a social entrepreneur and collector of Mexican craftwork. Moreover, a small storage room on the roof was replaced with a 43-square-metre studio building.

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Cities Housing Architecture Restoration 126

Deezen

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

After years of living in a larger family residence, the clients desired a home with an efficient use of space and "right-sized for their current lifestyle". The buildings are topped with tall, pyramidal hipped roofs. Large skylights at the tip of each roof capture daylight.

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Home Roofing Site Exterior 126

Deezen

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Photo is by Alan Tansey To create visual continuity, the team aligned the roof ridges of all six volumes. The roof planes vary, however, contributing to the home's sculptural look. Photo is by Alan Tansey Roofs and outer walls are clad in a grey rainscreen made of charred accoya wood.

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Project Home Roofing Structural Engineering 130

Deezen

AUGUST 26, 2022

It is also used to demonstrate the benefits of Passive House construction to prospective clients. Built to the international Passive House standard, sustainability is at the core of the project – embodied between the natural material palette, high performance design and strong biophilic connection," said Symes.

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Housing Structural Engineering Sustainability Finishes 128

Dwell

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We asked Zanda Zālīte, the marketing manager at MyCabin, about the differences between what the company provides to clients in the U.S. Our client for this project is LNK Properties, a real-estate developer dedicated to creating high-quality, sustainable living spaces. and the E.U. and houses 520 square feet across two levels.

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Home IT Real Estate Utilities 128

Deezen

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Nieby Crofters Cottage was in a dilapidated state when Jansen and Blecher 's clients, a couple from Hamberg, asked the Copenhagen-based architects to plan the renovation. We decided to rebuild it as much as possible but to also extend it with a discrete living room tucked under the eave of the straw roof at the back," he said.

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