Design Thoughts Architects

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Two Contrasting Successful Stories After Completion Of Their New House. I recently had the opportunity to explain to one of our new house desired clients what it is that we do as an architectural firm. We have found that the best projects result when we take the time to really figure out what the client is looking for.

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Deezen

MAY 10, 2024

Hidden within a densely wooded area, the Lone Oak House is located in a river region in southern Chile. However, the owners began telecommuting for work and decided to make the house their full-time residence. However, the owners began telecommuting for work and decided to make the house their full-time residence.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Image: © Adrien Williams The project was informed by the client’s deeply-felt connection to a childhood apple tree and relied on a relatively simple combination of glass and wood boxes that house different functions and are centered around a small open interior courtyard that showcases his arboreal inspiration.

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Deezen

JANUARY 16, 2023

The all-black home, surrounded by a boreal forest, is made up of a square surrounding a small courtyard that contains an apple tree that reminded the client of their childhood. The Apple Tree House is a modernist-style glass residence. ACDF Architecture arranged the structure around an apple tree.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The house is arranged in a C-shaped plan, opening toward an outdoor dining patio on the western side shaded by large wooden beams. The house is constructed of concrete block, the most accessible material in the area, and covered on both the exterior and interior with naturally pigmented cement.

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Westeck News

JULY 7, 2023

Content courtesy of Sash Windows London The Origin of Stained Glass Stained glass windows have been around for generations. During the rise of the Gothic, during the 12th century, the art of the stained-glass window flourished exceptionally.

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ArchiDiaries

MARCH 24, 2022

Excerpt: Interconnected Volumes Establish a Dialogue Between the Indoors and the Outdoors at Earth and Glass House, a Weekend Retreat designed by Studio Lotus, located in New Delhi, India. The clients had a fifteen-metre-high compound wall constructed along this fringe to ensure privacy and security. Project Description.

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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

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. Brickwork from the original home has been reused in some areas.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Green Pavilion, a glass pavilion with a pyramidal roof, was designed by architect Odile Decq to evoke historic orangeries and installed in the Jardin des Tuileries as part of the Paris+ par Art Basel art fair. It was designed with a minimalistic structure, the bare minimum to hold the massive glass panels. It has a pyramidal roof.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Welcome to Prefab Profiles, an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. From prefab tiny houses and modular cabin kits to entire homes ready to ship, their projects represent some of the best ideas in the industry. Do you know a prefab brand that should be on our radar? Get in touch!

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2024

Architecture practice Studio Octopi has added a rear extension clad in mint-green metal to The Saddlery, a Georgian house in southeast London. Studio Octopi 's design uses the extension to rationalise the levels between the existing house and the garden and to revamp the fragmented rear elevation.

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Habitus Living

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Through the Looking Glass House is a project that came to Ben Callery Architects not long after the studio was established five years ago. Having previously worked with the clients there was a great amount of trust and understanding, which is of particular note given that the owners are based in Europe. Project details.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Today, gabled architecture can be found worldwide with both simple and elegant profiles for cultural, commercial and housing projects alike. Looking closely at glass gabled roofs across diverse typologies, we’ve gathered a collection that showcases novel and iconic designs. Not all glass gables are meant to be enclosed.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Birds, butterflies and trees are considered co-owners of Labri, a glass house in Vietnam designed by local studio Nguyen Khai Architects & Associates. The 55-square-metre home, which is shortlisted in the Urban house category of the Dezeen Awards , was commissioned by a couple for a site beside a large pond in the city of Hue.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Image: © Adrien Williams The project was informed by the client’s deeply-felt connection to a childhood apple tree and relied on a relatively simple combination of glass and wood boxes that house different functions and are centered around a small open interior courtyard that showcases his arboreal inspiration.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Tailored family home The clients, a blended family with five children, wanted a home tailored to their family situation, where each family member has their own space. They also desired an age-friendly home, allowing the parents to live on one floor indefinitely, and avoiding a sense of an empty house when the children leave home.

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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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Dwell

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Oliver Leech Architects transforms a West London townhouse using reeded glass that suffuses the family home with natural light while maintaining privacy. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners.

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aasarchitecture

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Architect Karim Nader is about to complete the Glass House in Baakline, a town located in Mount Lebanon, Chouf District, 45 kilometers southeast of Beirut. The house is fragmented into independent, interconnected volumes that the floor plan highlights as an aggregate of small units. Plan Section Model

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Deezen

MAY 30, 2022

Promotion: Czech Republic design brand Lasvit has will launch an exhibition featuring a moving glass art installation and newly launched design collections at this year's Milan design week. The exhibition called Sanctums will feature a glass kinetic installation called A:Live created by Serbian Lasvit in-house designer Stefan Mihailovi?

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Mjölk Architekti has renovated a 130-year-old dwelling in the north of the Czech Republic , adding a glass extension , sunken living area and domed skylight. Behind the curtain of the original cabin, a glittering glass extension has sprung up.". This levels off at a 90-degree angle from the steeply pitched existing roof.

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Deezen

MARCH 25, 2024

An inverted-pitch roof and angular brick cladding characterise the Butterfly House extension, which architecture studio The DHaus Company has added to a terraced home in north London. Other recent projects by the studio include a row of six townhouses on the site of a former petrol station and a glazed extension to a house in Hertfordshire.

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Deezen

JANUARY 24, 2022

Salt Lake City architecture studio Imbue Design has built a house outside Zion National Park in Utah with sweeping views of one of the USA's most renowned landscapes. The Watchman Cabin was completed collaboratively with a nature-loving client who was "captivated" by the area's natural surroundings after visiting. Geotech: AGEC.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Fashion house Balenciaga has opened a couture store with smoked-glass-panelled walls in the same building as its original couture salon in Paris. The interior of the store was clad in tinted glass. The post Balenciaga opens tinted-glass couture store beneath historic Paris atelier appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

MAY 14, 2023

A single concrete column supports the walls and roof of this house by Japanese studio IGArchitects, creating a flexible interior that can be opened up to the surrounding landscape. Sliding glass doors open the home to the outside When opened, the northern side of One-Legged House leads out onto a rock-covered patio surrounding the building.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

DB Arquitetos and Marina Salles completed the holiday home on a forested site in Brazil The home was completed in 2023 by the Brazilian team of DB Arquitectos , which is lead by architect David Basto, and Marina Salles Arquitectura e Interiores , which previously renovated the interior of the client's primary residence in downtown São Paulo.

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Dwell

MAY 15, 2023

The client is an established hotel manager. The tonal setting, daylight quality, as well as textures contribute to the ‘mellow’ [palette]," he adds, referring to their naming of the apartment Mellow House. The wall between the living area and study room was demolished and replaced with a wall entirely made from glass blocks.

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Architonic

MAY 21, 2023

The clients engaged Foomann to design an extension to their brick home, with a kitchen, dining, and living area downstairs and a study or guest room upstairs. </p> <p>The entry is now relocated further into the home, accessed via a landscaped garden path along the side of the house. .</p>

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Deezen

JUNE 6, 2023

Architecture studio Brown & Brown has married stone salvaged from a dilapidated farmstead with timber and board-marked concrete to create The Arbor House in Scotland. The remaining masonry was then used to form boundary walls that shelter The Arbor House from the neighbouring road.

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Dwell

JULY 12, 2022

Will Gamble Architects also reconfigured part of the existing house to rationalize the previously disjointed arrangement of rooms and provide a more symmetrical floor plan that is true to Georgian design principles. It is conceived as an ancillary ‘pavilion type’ structure connected to the main house via a glazed link.

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Architonic

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

<p>Toorak House 2 is a home for a client who loves to entertain, and who loves jazz. The house presents a muscular simplicity to the street, a composition of white brick, off form concrete and finer bronze detailing.</p>

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The countryside residence favors simple, sustainable moves over square footage, and strategically captures views without walls of glass. Melbourne designer David Noordhoff had already established a rhythm with clients James and Zara McGuffie long before he designed their home. Sliding glass doors help bring the outside in.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The debris of a demolished 1970s building was repurposed into mud-concrete blocks to create this house in Bangalore, India , designed by local architecture studio CollectiveProject. Balconies are incorporated into the form As Debris Block House is located close to the city centre, the client desired green space at the home.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The idea was to take the existing house and give it new life—one that met the needs and aesthetics of our designer clients. The client described it as living inside a tree. Post it here.

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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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