Dwell

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Today, our most exciting projects are when a client’s house looks like a beautiful, completed midcentury steel-and-glass home from the moment it’s craned on site. Connect Homes also says it can work with clients on providing additional structures, like a covered deck or a carport.

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Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2023

Local practice Platform 5 Architects has completed NW10 House, a family home on an infill site in north London with exposed concrete interiors and a textured brick exterior. Centred around a skylit, concrete spiral stair, the home's spaces fan out to fill the triangular site, overlooking a paved terrace that wraps its eastern edge.

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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. This proximity challenged the architects to introduce light into the property and provide smoother access to the small garden, without compromising the clients’ privacy.

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2022

US studio Heliotrope Architects has minimized site disturbances while creating a cedar -clad holiday home on a wooded hillside in the Pacific Northwest. The clients initially tapped Seattle's Heliotrope Architects to consult on the site selection and then hired the firm to design the dwelling itself. "We

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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. These drawings not only tell a story of materials and assembly but also of structure and how a person will experience the space. Summerhouse Lagno?.

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Deezen

MARCH 31, 2024

Located in the suburb of Highgate, the home replaces an existing cottage on the site that had been occupied by the clients for several years. The project is the first of two terrace houses envisaged for the site, with the second a mirror image in plan."

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Situated on Maluan Mountain, the centre by Line+ Studio was wrapped by glass openings – "maximizing transparency" to offer expansive views of the landscape, nearby seaport and Shenzhen city. Steel structure subcontractor: Shenzhen Special Zone Construction Steel Structure Co.

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Desai Chai Architects chose an uphill spot for the home's siting "The clients wanted flexibility to use their home as an extension of their gallery and leave portions of the site open for rotating and site-specific outdoor installations," the studio said. The team was mindful of managing rainwater on the site.

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Dwell

JULY 29, 2023

With idyllic Carnegie Lake as their backyard, the serene residential site offered an alluring opportunity to be surrounded by nature on all sides. With views of trees, sky, and water, the home’s all-glass living and dining space is enveloped by the landscape. Glass, brick, and wood converge at the home’s central volume.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 23, 2022

Hidden in the bucolic landscape of Northern Vosges Natural Park, Site Verrier de eisenthal is a publicly funded active cultural center in a historic glass factory dating back to the 18th century. An undulating poured-in-place concrete surface alludes to glass production as it unites the buildings. Photo © Iwan Baan.

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Deezen

JANUARY 21, 2024

Located near the coast of Gangwha County, the chapel sits at the top of a site that slopes down towards the sea, hugged from behind by dense forest and mountains. On the opposite wall, an organ is built into the exposed concrete, while narrow stained-glass windows are set within deep, faceted reveals on the southeast side.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The extension is designed to contrast the old building The industrial site, officially named Shanghai Zhangjiang Cement Factory, was once one of largest cement factories in Shanghai, the studio said. MAD's intervention focuses specifically on the Wanmicang warehouse, which occupies the south side of the site.

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Architizer

APRIL 24, 2022

The day when I stood on the site, facing the vast ocean, the complex feeling I had in that moment inspired me. As this is an all-glass box with no dead space, the biggest challenge was to hide the pipework and structure. The architects and structural engineers worked together to achieve an overhang of 8 meters.

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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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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. In elevation, the Glass House built in Baakline doubles up, resulting in two floors, stacked one on top of the other and separated by a very thin plate. I seek to always listen.

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Dwell

MAY 15, 2024

Blue Sky Building Systems makes steel structures to your specifications, whether for a suburban dwelling or Joshua Tree retreat. The main structure of the home was constructed within a four-day period. Welcome to Prefab Profiles , an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses.

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Architizer

JANUARY 26, 2023

miles from the site. The cost of bringing a sanitary sewer to the site was $2.0M – threatening the viability of the entire development. Working with our civil and plumbing engineers, we developed a design for an on-site black water treatment system where the outflow was clean water.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The structure will be built from concrete and recycled steel The Kyklos building by UNStudio and HYP Architects will form the "centrepiece" of the Belval masterplan – a redevelopment project led by development company Agora that has transformed an old industrial site into an urban centre.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Built following the restoration of the owner's main house in a hillside settlement in the Cairngorms National Park, the completion of the trio of buildings marks the end of a decade-long undertaking by the studio to reoccupy the site. undertaken with great care and precision in the detail," said Addy.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Immersing guests in the natural landscape of the wooded site along the Fraser River, the project touches lightly on the land with elevated cabins and a network of boardwalks that maximise interaction with the mountain site while preserving the trees and natural watershed. A historic saloon building holds the corner of the site.

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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? David Strand: This was a truly unique site.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Designed for the Greenwich Enterprise Board and backed by the Greater London Authority , the building is intended as a model for high-density, affordable industrial space on compact sites, which challenges traditional "ugly, cold metal sheds", dRMM said. The building has a CLT structure.

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

Informed by lotus plants in the nearby West Lake, One Future features facades of aluminium and glass panels lined with bronze fins that taper at the building's base. Architecture studio Aedas has designed a pair of round-edged, 150-metres-high skyscrapers , named One Future, in Hangzhou , China. The photography is by DONG Image.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Completed in the spring of 2021, the 6,060-square-foot (563-square-metre) House on a Bay is composed of two distinct bars that sit atop a steep site overlooking a bay in Southport, Maine. Elliott Architects demolished the main house and relocated the other two structures to start the design with a clean slate.

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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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Dwell

MAY 31, 2023

Project Details: Location: Ophir, Central Otago, New Zealand Architect: NOTT Architects Builder: Down to Earth Builders and Shamrock Builders Structural Engineer: Paula Hugens Photographer: Biddi Rowley / @ biddirowley From the Architect: " We worked closely with the clients to form a raw house for a raw landscape.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Completed in 2014, Gehry’s landmark building is undoubtedly an architectural icon, but manages to retain a reference for both its site in the heart of Paris’s beloved park and for the city as a whole. When I walked the site for the first time, I cried imagining the history of the Jardin de Climitation.

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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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Deezen

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

It comprises a brick and glass pavilion and a concrete blockwork garage, which step down its gently sloping site. By removing extensions to the home, the original frontage was restored with full-height, sliding glass doors. Located in a wooded area, the Belgian home was originally designed in 1962 for a group of musicians.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 24, 2024

The Opticum is an interdisciplinary research building for Leibniz University of Hanover currently under construction on the Science Park site located in the urban district of Marienwerder. In the conference rooms, large expanses of glass provide vistas of the green surroundings.

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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 goal was to reconnect this structure into the environment while best utilising the exceptional site for the clients.".

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Deezen

MARCH 2, 2023

US studio CLB Architects has designed a cedar-clad home and barn in Wyoming for clients who love horses and wanted to return their property to its historic roots as a working ranch. CLB Architects gave the home a long, low roof To design the project, the team drew upon the site's history as a working cattle ranch.

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Deezen

JUNE 16, 2023

Named Karai, the house was created as a weekend retreat for its clients on a coastal site surrounded by fields that lead directly onto a nearby beach in the coastal town of Kuvathur. The structure was built from a combination of reclaimed and regional materials, which were left raw wherever possible.

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Dwell

JUNE 30, 2022

This project is in the Glen Ellen region of Sonoma Valley in California and comprises three prefab structures—a Connect 6L model main house, a detached 400-square-foot, two-module prefab garage/playroom, and a 640-square-foot Connect 2 guest house.

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Deezen

MARCH 25, 2024

The DHaus Company reconfigured and extended the ground floor of the home to improve its dining area while providing more private living spaces for the client's teenage children. Its unique shape adds an element of modernity and sophistication to the structure." The photography is by Richard Chivers.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The facade facing the slope is radically open with floor-to-ceiling glass sliders, porous walls, and patio with a net for lounging among leafy branches. After 20 years away from their home of Sydney, the clients wanted to embrace the local landscape on their bushland site. Have a project to share? Post it here.

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