Deezen

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Gridded fibre-cement cladding and a swimming pool with underwater windows feature at the East Van Residence in Vancouver by Canadian firm SMStudio. The project's swimming pool features underwater windows The studio conceived a 251-square-metre, three-storey house that was designed to be a "bold yet friendly addition to the neighbourhood".

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2024

Old Rectory Farm has been extended and adapted to enable the family's father, who uses a wheelchair for mobility, to continue living in the home "with ease and dignity". A kitchen sits at the heart of the house and adjoins a large open-plan living and dining space offering views through the large rear windows down Glaven Valley.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2023

Studio Symbiosis has completed a villa in Delhi, India , that rises up from its landscaped grounds, forming a terraced roof that is covered with plants to maximise the site's green area. Villa KD45 is a concrete home in India that was designed by Studio Symbiosis. The home rises from the ground. "In

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Deezen

MAY 14, 2024

Collective Works has expanded the home, which it said was previously "run down", with two adjoining pitched-roof volumes at the rear and a full dormer to expand its loft. It is topped by skylights in its wood-lined pitched ceilings and overlooks the garden from a large window box with a seat.

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2024

California studio TW Ryan Architecture has completed a wildfire-resistant house in the American West that features a Corten steel exterior and pyramidal roofs that allude to the mountainous terrain. Four Roof House features a Corten steel exterior Their chosen site was a bluff overlooking a lake near the town of Helmville. "The

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2024

Geneva-based architect Stef Claes took cues from mid-century and local architecture to create House in the Fields, a low-lying home in the Belgian countryside. Set within a wide agricultural landscape, the home has white-painted walls and black accents, which Claes said draws on mid-century modern buildings in the United States.

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Dwell

MARCH 12, 2024

A patio complete with infinity pool, firepit, spectacular mountain views, and a seriously-cool outdoor heater makes this mountainside home a dream for year-round entertaining. The clients are here throughout fall, winter, and spring and they entertain frequently and spend a lot of time outside."

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Deezen

MAY 12, 2024

OFIS Arhitekti has added a looping extension to a villa in Slovenia "The clients were looking to extend the house into the huge garden at the front to extend their inside-outside living," OFIS Arhitekti told Dezeen. Photo by Tomaz Gregoric Ring House's extension follows the site's topography, sloping gently to the south, away from the home.

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Dwell

JUNE 15, 2022

The boxes themselves work as dividers of shared and private space, yet small windows created in the boxes allow other family members to sense their presence, sometimes seen and sometimes unseen. Having consulted with a structural engineer, these structures were placed within a comfortable distance from each other.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Brooklyn-based Home Studios has renovated a bar and restaurant in Montauk , using materials like white-washed plaster, glazed tiles and reclaimed timber for a "deliberately minimal approach". Formerly known as Bird on the Roof, the establishment reopened as The Bird earlier this year with refreshed interiors by Home Studios.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Architect Odile Decq has completed a house in France with walls of translucent glass, to create the optimal lighting conditions for a client with vision impairment. The tilted shape allowed for the optimisation of the orientation of the glazed surfaces on the roof," she explained. The house has walls of translucent glass.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Belgian architecture studios Mamout and Stéphanie Willocx have refurbished a 1960s home in Hoeilaart, stripping away previous extensions to celebrate the "spirit and quality" of its original design. Located in a wooded area, the Belgian home was originally designed in 1962 for a group of musicians.

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Dwell

MARCH 2, 2023

Big Windows and White Interiors Punch Up a Gloomy ’60s California Beach House Fuse Architects took a 1960s-built home in Pajaro Dunes, California, and renovated it as a retreat for their clients, a family of five. Oh, and one new build, a cabin in Denmark that a passerby could mistake for a library, is one for the books.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Architecture practice THISS Studio has reconfigured the dark interior of an interwar house in east London, adding an extension characterised by timber joinery and a curved aluminium roof. The extension has a curved aluminium roof Sunny Side Up expands the home's ground floor by three metres and contains a light-filled dining space.

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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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Deezen

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Rich hues and curving geometries feature throughout Somers House, an L-shaped coastal home that Australian studio Kennedy Nolan has added to a coastal site in Victoria. Coated in ochre-toned render, the rounded stairwell connects the levels of the home and is perforated with small rectangular windows.

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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. Built as a second home for a family of four, the building sits on a ribbon of land between a golf course and Copake Lake in Upstate New York.

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Dwell

APRIL 25, 2023

The cabin is situated on the edge of the plot and the access road, where its gable smoothly transitions into the entrance gate and fence, which, like the facade of the house, is made of rough-cut roof battens. The curved roof was something extra we wanted to add to the simple cabin from the beginning.

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Deezen

JUNE 16, 2023

Raw, tactile materials including clay tiles, earthenware pots and compressed earth bricks define this courtyard home near Chennai, India , designed by local practice Rain Studio. The post Rain Studio combines raw and reclaimed materials for "native yet contemporary" home appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

JULY 5, 2023

Australian studio Dane Taylor Design has completed Butterfly House, an accessible coastal home in New South Wales that is informed by Japanese aesthetics. Butterfly House is spread across two rectangular volumes topped with sloping roofs, after which the home is named.

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Deezen

JANUARY 9, 2023

Local practice Brown & Brown has nestled Spyon Cop, a black timber-clad home , into the rolling green landscape of the Cairngorns National Park in the Scottish Highlands. Spyon Cop is a home in the Scottish Highlands designed by Brown & Brown. It was designed as a rural getaway home. The home contains three bedrooms.

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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. When it came to Silver Residence, a stunning modern home located in Minneapolis, nature wasn’t just a consideration — it was the starting point for developing the architectural concept.

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Deezen

JUNE 21, 2023

Local architecture firm In Situ Studio wrapped an art museum visitor centre in Raleigh, North Carolina with darkened steel and cantilevered a roof with an aperture over its patio. The roof features a rounded triangle roof opening made of aluminium. Project credits: Client: North Carolina Museum of Art Contractor: Frank L.

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Deezen

JANUARY 11, 2024

British studio Will Gamble Architects has completed an extension and refurbishment to a family home in Croydon, London , defined by a contemporary colonnade spanning across the rear facade. The home] lacked a significant visual or physical connection to this natural outlook," Kelsey explained. "A

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Deezen

MARCH 29, 2023

Named Hampstead House, the 1960s home has been overhauled by Coppin Dockray to transform it into a spacious and thermally-efficient residence suited to the needs of its owners' growing family. The home was originally designed by British architect Trevor Dannatt. Coppin Dockray has overhauled Hampstead House in London.

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Deezen

MARCH 17, 2022

A hipped roof covered in stepped tiles tops this extension to a home on a suburban estate in Epsom, Surrey , designed by London-based studio Oliver Leech Architects. Hipped House is a home in Epson, Surrey that was designed by Oliver Leech Architects. The studio covered the roof in stepped tiles.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

The old building was previously used as a wood store, shed and rabbit hutch, so it had few windows and no connection between its two floors. Lugano-based Sassi has overseen a refurbishment that transforms these utilitarian spaces into a 14-square-metre micro home. Walls were repaired and a new roof was installed.

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Deezen

JULY 15, 2022

The owners of House MM decided to retain the shell of the property, which dates from the beginning of the 20th century and was one of few remaining traditional homes in the neighbourhood. The studio removed everything bar the home's structural elements. Read: Arhitektura builds two six-metre-wide family homes. Architektura d.o.o

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Cool Ranch is a conversion of a 1930’s home in the hills of Silverlake. On the lower level, the music studio’s large wood windows create a connection with the tiered garden and pool beyond. The reimagined home is clad with cedar siding and topped with a new copper roof meant to patina through the seasons.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Architect Dan Gray has upgraded his own 19th-century house in Brighton, England, adding a loft extension lined with birch plywood that makes the most of the angular roof space. Studiotwentysix's co-founder added a plywood-lined extension to his Brighton home. An additional beam supports the mid-span of the roof on the front elevation.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Above: Práctica Arquitectura split the red infill home with a courtyard. By using these outdoor spaces to divide the house into different zones, it was possible to create an open and inviting atmosphere that would provide the clients with a sense of connectedness and harmony." Top photo is by Dove Dope.

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Westeck News

APRIL 1, 2022

Welcome to Westeck’s Client Spotlight! Our Client Spotlight explores the latest projects from Custom Home Builders, Architects, Designers and Renovation Specialists. This is a great way to learn how together we’re creating homes that move the world forward. “An exceptional four bedroom primary residence.

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Deezen

JANUARY 21, 2023

Transformed from the client's existing houseboat , the 60-square-metre home by is moored in Berlin and features a series of interlinked, adaptable spaces. A set of solar panels covering the entire roof, as well as one additional panel on each side, make the boat self-reliant from March to November," said Lenhardt.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Weathering-steel accents break up the massing of the all-white Badlands Home that BLDG Workshop designed in a rural area outside of Toronto. BLDG Workshop created an all-white home in Ontario. BLDG Workshop , a Toronto-based design studio, was approached by a client requesting an all-white home, "including roof, walls, and windows".

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Deezen

JULY 23, 2022

Dogs and humans live side-by-side in specially designed spaces at this home and dog hotel in Thailand , completed by local practice EKAR Architects. Short concrete columns at the bases of the roofs support the structures and are accessible to dogs. Sheets of corrugated plastic and metal form the roofs.

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Deezen

JULY 12, 2023

Architecture practice Studio Onu has blended local craft and materials with an agricultural aesthetic to create this home on a working farm in Poland. Many of the existing homes are either run-down, abandoned, or soon to be replaced with new developments," he added. "I

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Deezen

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The clients, described by Pozna?-based based Wiercinski Studio as "a couple of brave people interested in searching for difficult to adapt spaces", wanted a structure that would serve as both a home and office that could be relocated. The shipping container doors were replaced with large glass windows.

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