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

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

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.

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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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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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Architizer

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The shape of the gable, how it is detailed, and its style depends on the structural system used, which reflects regional aesthetics, climate and material availability. Today, gabled architecture can be found worldwide with both simple and elegant profiles for cultural, commercial and housing projects alike. Summerhouse Lagno?.

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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. Its unique shape adds an element of modernity and sophistication to the structure." The photography is by Richard Chivers.

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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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Archinect

AUGUST 29, 2023

As well as housing new work spaces, the building aims to provide a space of interaction and communication between the company and its network of suppliers, partners and clients. The resulting visual effect is that of a roc.

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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. The solid structure looks like it is floating." "The solid structure looks like it is floating." The photography is courtesy of IGArchitects.

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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.". The cabin was constructed out of timber and granite.

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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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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

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. Vertical wood slats wrap the base The arrangement creates makes the structure appear balanced atop a slate staircase that provides a rustic base for the home's clean white lines.

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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

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

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Maine studio Elliott Architects has created a seaside house that includes a dramatic, cantilevered volume on stilt that stretches towards the ocean and the tree line. House on a Bay is a twisted residence overlooking the sea. Elliott Architects created the house with two distinctive bars.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2023

House, the home sits on a farmland site and is covered with a series of berms, while multiple trumpet-shaped pillars of varying heights create wave-like levels along the expanse of its footprint. The team covered the structure with berms, which rise out of the flat landscape of the surrounding agricultural fields.

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Zinc cladding and large stretches of glass feature in a holiday home bridging a creek that was remodelled and enlarged by American studio Fougeron Architecture. The Suspension House serves as a weekend dwelling for a couple and their child. The Suspension House by Fougeron Architecture bridges a creek in California.

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Archinect

JANUARY 6, 2022

Minimal details and neutral finishes anticipate an evolving composition of the client’s art and design collection. The courtyard, once closed off from the house, is now its undisputed heart.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2024

Ateno drew on the red brick used for traditional village houses in China's Fujian region – where the station is located – for the renovation of Wuyuanwan station, which is clad entirely with panels of red concrete. Additional touches include strip floor lighting that follows the structure's curves. The photography is by Sui Sicong.

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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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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Who are the clients and what’s interesting about them? During the pandemic they seized an opportunity to buy a larger house which ticked all of these boxes, but there was one problem. During the pandemic they seized an opportunity to buy a larger house which ticked all of these boxes, but there was one problem.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

SMStudio designed the concrete-clad home to replace a "tired, 1950s bungalow" The home replaces a "tired, 1950s bungalow" that did not accommodate the client's needs, said SMStudio , a local firm led by Simon Montgomery. The concrete wraps the lower level and consists of thin strips that give the appearance of wood.

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Deezen

AUGUST 7, 2023

US architecture studio GBBN designed three brick buildings that allow social housing to both "fit in and stand out" in Cincinnati, Ohio. The team selected red brick for all of the facades to draw on Cincinnati's masonry vernacular and to highlight both the commonalities and differences between the structures.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Following Norman Foster 's unveiling of the Foster Retreat holiday home , here are 12 houses featured on Dezeen that were designed by the world's most famous architects, including Zaha Hadid , Mies van der Rohe and David Adjaye. Farnsworth House, USA, by Mies van der Rohe. Find out more about Farnsworth House ›.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 8, 2022

The brief for the home, named Sky Lantern House, involved preserving the character of the existing building while making its interior more suitable for modern living. An existing staircase at the centre of Sky Lantern House was replaced with a stair arranged around a three-storey triangular void that allows daylight to reach each level.

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Deezen

MARCH 24, 2023

The CH73 House is located in the Bosques de las Lomas neighbourhood and occupies a long, slender site that slopes down toward a ravine. The house extends 20 metres over the site Designed for a retired couple, the full-time residence is meant to stand in contrast to the prevailing architecture in the area.

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ArchiDiaries

JUNE 8, 2022

Excerpt: Mirror House is a pair of holiday homes designed by the architectural firm Peter Pichler Architecture. The volume opens towards the east with a big glass facade that fades with curvilinear lines into the black aluminium shell. . . (“Text as submitted by the Architects”). Architect Peter Pichler designed them.

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2022

Located in an inner suburb of Raleigh, HUUS house sits in a leafy neighbourhood with homes built between the 1940s and 1970s. Part of the HUUS house is sunken in the ground. The project's name comes from the old Alemannic German word for house, hüüs. This attitude is a perfect reflection of the couple who lives in the house.".

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A4 Architects

MARCH 4, 2024

The William Watts-Sherman House is an architectural landmark set amongst the opulent mansions of Newport, Rhode Island. The house holds a significant place in American architectural history, heralding the dawn of the Shingle Style and influencing succeeding generations of architects. The impact of the design was notable.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

A Japanese house and restaurant are contained within this mud-covered building by architect Junya Ishigami , which was crafted by pouring concrete into holes in the ground. Junya Ishigami has hidden a house below ground level in Japan. Junya Ishigami has hidden a house below ground level in Japan. Structural engineer: Jun Sato.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Named the JArzm house – using the first initial of each family member – the home is set into a 60-foot slope in Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighborhood. John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (JFAK) completed the house – and 540-square foot (50-square metre) accessory dwelling unit (ADU) – in November 2021.

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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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e-architect

DECEMBER 29, 2022

BRM House Brazil, Curitiba Real Estate Design, Brazilian Modern Concrete Architecture Images. BRM House in Santo Inácio Curitiba. The lower floor houses the social area, the service block and the master suite, while the upper floor houses the children’s bedrooms. Client: Biselli Katchborian Arquitetos Associados.

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