Deezen

JUNE 1, 2024

Balancing structural integrity while still appearing as delicate as possible required meticulous planning and collaboration with engineering and construction teams," he said. The balance between simple and complex can quickly lurch into banal or complicated, and the whole composition falls apart. The photography is by Nick Glimenakis.

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Dwell

APRIL 2, 2024

Bushy plants camouflage the extension, but the interiors are bright thanks to a series of skylights. A new tw0-story structure on the rear lane contains the bike and garden storage, laundry area, bathroom, and a studio space. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

APRIL 29, 2024

dMFK Architects renovated Voysey House The team aimed to revive the structure's original character reversing a series of renovations over the past 100 years following its conversion into offices after a fire in 1928. The photography is by Jack Hobhouse.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 17, 2024

Photo © Rasmus Hjortshõj Spanning 22,000 m², the main timber structure, made of glulam and cross-laminated timber, forms three striking tree-trunk-like columns, fanning out to carry the entire load of the roof – enveloping visitors in a welcoming forest-like canopy.

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Dwell

MAY 3, 2023

The clients had worked with another architect on a first floor addition and realized for the cost of the building, they were adding potentially unused space for a very high cost. The clients came to me wondering if they could achieve the bare minimum for their family, which would then allow for the quality items within those spaces.

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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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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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Deezen

OCTOBER 17, 2023

"Using steel as the load-bearing truss-like-carcass minimised the building size – important for transporting modules – helped achieve a cantilevered structure, resulted in a system of modules for quick assembly on site, and could be done by the client, a metal manufacturer, in-house," Timofejev explained. "At

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Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Along with curling exterior walls that span the length of the houses's perimeter, they were created using a technique in which concrete is poured slowly into fabric formwork supported by a plywood rib structure. The team covered the structure with berms, which rise out of the flat landscape of the surrounding agricultural fields.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 18, 2022

London studio Crawshaw Architects has transformed a former cow shed in Dorset into a library and office , organised around a wooden, barrel-vaulted arcade that references the client's collection of books on classical Palladian architecture. This plan references classical architectural forms, which are the focus of many of the client's books.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Inspired by the client's Larry Poons paintings, the bricks are choreographed to convey movement. PARTISANS laid out the home for a fluid interior experience The undulations don't stop at the facade, but reappear in the wavy wooden door. The box-shaped homes are in a Tudor revival style and feature a centre hallway plan.

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Deezen

APRIL 5, 2024

Local architecture studio Ædifica has created a residential apartment building outside Montreal with an interior courtyard and a metal-mesh second skin on the facade. Called Cité Angus II, the structure is part of Technopôle Angus, an urban revitalization project that its developers say is a "full-scale sustainable development".

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2024

Neutral hues define the interior The entrance side, on the northwest, contains a mudroom and garage. While the daylight is welcome, it needed to be carefully managed in order to protect the client's art collection from harmful UV rays.

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Deezen

MAY 4, 2024

To the north, the classrooms, meditation spaces and two art workshops are housed in the main timber-framed, larch-clad structure that will silver over time to "camouflage" with the trees. The Harmeny Learning Hub comprises two buildings set atop a paved patio. The photography is by Jim Stephenson.

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Deezen

JANUARY 30, 2023

Vancouver-based studio BattersbyHowat Architects has completed a parallelogram-shaped, mountainside home clad in standing seam metal that includes a detached sauna structure in Whistler , British Columbia. It was a simple way to deal with two issues," David Battersby, co-founder of BattersbyHowat , told Dezeen.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2024

The chapel has an exposed concrete structure "The simple chapel volume, set in the vast nature, is constructed as a lifted box, signifying a separation from the secular world," explained Eunsok. "It Equipment engineer: Jusung Eng. Mechanical engineer: Jusung Eng. Electrical engineer: Hangil Eng.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Field Architecture has created a house in Sonoma Valley with copper-clad roofs Dry in the summers with heavy rainfall in the winter, the area's geography informed the design, as did the client's desire to co-inhabit the land with the region's plants and animals. "We

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Balancing a tight budget and brief, the clients tasked Unknown Works with adding space for their young family’s creative pursuits, ensuring the layout could be adapted for hosting parties and intimate family gatherings. The studio designed a kit of prefabricated structural panels in spruce CLT which were assembled on-site in just four days.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 15, 2023

Photo © Koichi Torimura By necessity, the detached building housing a two-car garage and guest room is situated on the east side, where the elevation gap is smallest, but the client requested that the main house weave around the difficult site conditions. Source by Takeshi Hirobe Architects.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

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. This conjunction of materials and shapes gives to Trapezium House the feel of a country house," the studio said. The photography is by Ezequiele Panizzi.

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2022

The site formerly held a run-down, 1940s dwelling that was owned by the clients. The new house needed to have plenty of space to accommodate frequent visits from the clients' grown kids, who live out of town. The same brick found on the facades is used for interior surfaces. They opted to raze the old building and start anew.

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Deezen

JANUARY 9, 2024

The IFEA headquarters comprises two structures in a narrow, rectangular infill property. The second structure is completely new Along the street edge – set off from the sidewalk by a small entry courtyard – the administrative office building is in a preserved monumental house characterised by pink stonework.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Elliott Architects demolished the main house and relocated the other two structures to start the design with a clean slate. The client was not beholden to the prevailing style of houses in the area, most of which are traditional, vernacular, New England wood-framed structures," the studio said. "He

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Deezen

JUNE 22, 2022

Local studio Oliver Leech Architects and interior designer Juliet O'Caroll used a palette of pale pink colours and materials for this extension and refurbishment of a Victorian terrace in London. Interior design: Oliver Leech Architects & Juliet O'Carroll. Structural engineer: Momentum Structural Engineers.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The entrances are finished with the same dark grey natural stone as the boulevard, intended to offer a seamless transition between the interior and exterior spaces. South of Amsterdam Central Station, Dutch studio Wurck has also created an underwater parking garage for 7,000 bicycles with glossy white interiors.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 22, 2024

The square shape of the gallery, covered with an exposed concrete structure, resonates with the orthogonal geometry of the original project, offering a large exhibition space that can be subdivided. Working within the material and conceptual constraints of a building requires discipline and restraint.

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Dwell

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Project Details: Location: Brooklyn, New York Designer: TBo / @ tbo_architecture Footprint: 2,260 square feet Architect of Record: Enthink Engineering Builder: Prestigne Renovation Group Inc. Delivering light into the house was a paramount concern for the clients.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2023

The clients hired Texas-based Specht Architects to build a 2,000-square-foot (186-square metre) minimalist house with floor-to-ceiling glass walls that afforded views of the surrounding meadow and large old-growth trees. The axial approach includes replanted natural grasses The roof extends to create a 15-foot (4.5-metre)

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 3, 2024

Image © MVRDV Stairs and footbridges connect all shared spaces, from the main hall on the ground floor to the urban window at the heart of the structure and the communal rooftop garden offering residents panoramic views of the city.

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2024

It was designed to provide an "enhanced" residential experience for occupants The interior floors are defined by the tilted glass facades, which angle upwards or down depending on the unit. "In that giving the occupants a lot more than what you might get in a more conventional design." All the floors are identical," explained Nagele.

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Dwell

JUNE 15, 2022

To fit in synergistically with the residential area surrounding the client’s house, one of the requirements was that the exterior should look like a ‘conventionally shaped house’. Having consulted with a structural engineer, these structures were placed within a comfortable distance from each other.

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2023

The site's central building is an open-sided, timber -framed structure with a thatched roof known as a palapa. A second timber-framed structure that contains bedrooms and a den Near the palapa, and running perpendicular to it, is a second timber-framed structure that contains bedrooms and a den.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Helsinki-based JKMM Architects used glulam and black spruce cladding to relate the Chappe Art House to surrounding timber structures in the coastal town of Tammisaari, Finland. It has a glued laminated (glulam) timber structure and was clad in black-stained spruce as a nod to the nearby timber buildings.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

Partly because the client was a Japanese brewer who mainly makes sake, we also incorporated 'Japanese-ness' into the design." According to the team, it was informed by the Engawa, an element of Japanese architecture that resembles a veranda or porch that runs along the perimeter of a structure.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2024

When not staying at the house, the clients rent it out. The interior features dark-toned finishes, which serve as a "welcome respite for the eyes in the desert". Telescope House offers framed views of Sedona The 1,600-square-foot (149-square-metre) cabin is a nature retreat for a couple who ultimately plan to live there full-time.

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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. Today, we’re excited to feature Averra Developments in our Client Spotlight with their Mount Pleasant Modern | Single Family Home.

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