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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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

MARCH 22, 2022

Kite-like canopies and geometric roofs shelter the spaces of this factory by Studio Saar , which sits atop a seasonal lake in Sanand, India. Four individual buildings housing an entrance area, utility bay, factory hall and canteen space set in a natural landscape comprise the development. The interiors have a brutalist look.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The following rural retreats also seek to make the most of the country’s rich and surreal landscapes. Compact bedrooms for adults and kids are located at opposite ends of the house while a tarpaulin-like roof strings them together, providing luminous social spaces in between. By Cheshire Architects , Kaiwaka, New Zealand.

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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. Roughly rectangular in plan, the dwelling has cutouts, cantilevers and multiple sloped roofs that combine in a sculptural way. Windows provide framed views.

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Archinect

AUGUST 15, 2023

RIOS led the architecture, landscape, and masterplanning for the 11-acre campus to meet this client’s goals for blending the neighborhood’s rich legacy with modernness for today’s leading creative companies. The four-story, 130,000-square-foot creative office building is owned by Hudson Pacific Properties.

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Architonic

OCTOBER 31, 2021

As light flows through large windows as well as through circular openings in the roof. The client wished to live largely in the open ai… The kind of relaxed living where you subconsciously anticipate where everything is. The natural flow of the daylight is most important.

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Deezen

JULY 20, 2022

London-based architecture firm Blee Halligan has created Derwent Valley Villa, a family home in Derbyshire, UK, that was informed by the surrounding landscape. The studio aimed for its design to highlight the late client's favourite views across the Derwent Valley countryside surrounding the home. The photography is by Henry Woide.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Located on a sloping site near the town of Sobrado, the blocky, three-storey home occupies a plot once occupied by the home of the client's grandfather. Internally, these openings focus on framing pieces of the distant landscape, or even the sky, avoiding the surroundings punctuated by houses." The photography is by Fernando Guerra.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A key ambition for the project was to make the most of the flat fenland landscape, which means you can see for miles. The overhanging butterfly roof provides solar shading to south facing high level windows in summer. To get those stunning views, the concept of an upside-down house with the living space upstairs was developed.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 7, 2023

House Dokka comprises a stack of two timber-clad volumes, supported by large wooden stilts drilled into the rocky, tree-lined landscape. According to Snøhetta and Dokka, who was also the client for the project, it is intended to resemble a "floating treehouse". The photography is by Robin Hayes.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The bedrooms and bathrooms are stacked on the opposite end with windows that look out east and west. The interior features a C-shaped plan An exterior staircase – shaded by a black partition lattice made of local purple rosewood – leads up to a roof terrace with 360-degree views.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2024

Our clients came to us with an initial concept for a concrete house for themselves and their two teenage children. The frontage of the house was designed as a conceptual ‘hill’ to create a formal continuity with the landscape. Our clients have a vintage car which they wanted to become a spectacle within the house.

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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." and the landscape as an intermediate area, but also gently welcomes visiting guests." We have created a Japanese-style porch design that not only continues the interior space for tasting drinks, etc.

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2024

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. Meanwhile, more traditional elements including a terracotta tile roof are designed as nods to other agricultural buildings found in the region.

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Deezen

JANUARY 21, 2024

A horizontal window frames views of the ocean in the main chapel In the Sea Chapel, pews face an altar that stands in front of a large horizontal window, framing a view out over the ocean and distant mountains. On the roof is the Sky Chapel, which offers 360-degree views of the surrounding landscape to create a "complete sense of awe".

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Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Located on a farm in Canada, the house was covered with berms that rise out of the landscape The technique allows the concrete to continuously cure during the installation process, reducing the risk of pressure at the base and weaknesses at the column's joints. Interior planting beds were also installed in the gathering space.

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Deezen

MARCH 10, 2023

"The design was generally inspired by the vernacular language of the agricultural landscape based on the origins of the site and its surroundings," the studio said. The vertical, white-wood cladding and standing-seam metal roof reference regional agrarian buildings, but with contemporary refinement. The photography is by Josée Marino.

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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. Like an opened umbrella, the roof and walls [of the home] are extended from the only column," explained IGArchitects.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Conceived as a "21st-century factory", the London College of Fashion (LCF) building is defined by its gridded concrete structure and a rectilinear facade lined with tall warehouse-style windows. Further circulation spaces and services are provided in the building's core, where there are lifts, staircases and restrooms.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

ivoklátsko, a protected landscape area. The rules determine the slope of a gable roof, the orientation of the roof ridge, and even demand a lateral entrance into the building, vertical timber cladding, and so forth. The large window in the southern facade can fully slide into the wall, merging the outer and inner living space.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 20, 2023

California studio Field Architecture designed this Sonoma Valley house out of a trio of fanning copper-clad pavilions with butterfly roofs. By surrendering the manmade environment to the same natural forces that shape the land, the house collaborates with the natural hydrological systems that nurture the landscape." the studio said. "By

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The project consists of a main house, guest house and writer's studio The main house was "conceived as a geologic remnant in the landscape, located on the edge between field and forest". The roof is undulating, and the facades are clad in burnt wood. Each window frames a view of the prairie and Teton Range beyond," the team said.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Spanish studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos has created a minimalist white house in Alicante , which winds through the landscape to enhance its relationship with the outdoors. Meanwhile, the middle floors contain an open-plan kitchen, dining and living area with floor-to-ceiling windows framing views out to the garden and outdoor swimming pool.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Will Gamble Architects has extended and refurbished a Grade II-listed home Nodding to the clients' ties to California, Will Gamble Architects took cues from both the forms and material palettes of desert modernism for the project. A living space now spans the old and new portions of the ground floor.

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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. All timber used was responsibly sourced, and the roof is covered in sod and grass seeded from the hill on which the house sits," he continued.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Ryan Leidner Architecture completed the 2,500-square-foot (230-square metre) Hosono House in 2021, cladding the house in charcoal-stained cedar siding with a copper, standing seam roof. A large opening in the lounge leads to the lower courtyard, which was reimagined by landscape architect Stephen Design Studio.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Set in a small town named Somers on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, the home was designed to offer a place of retreat for the client's family and features earthy colours chosen by the studio to evoke a sense of peace.

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Deezen

MAY 27, 2023

A participatory workshop brought together the craftsman, the client, and the architect around the shaping of this new skin, which is expressed as an honest and raw coating," it continued. The picturesque orchard to the east responds to the twilight of the sun setting over the barn roofs to the west," it continued.

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Deezen

MARCH 9, 2024

It is divided in two by a narrow corridor Visitors are encouraged to take a plunge into the icy waters before gathering in the hot room, which is heated by a small woodburning stove and has "breathtaking views" of Oslo's skyline from its panoramic window. The photography is by Marte Garmann.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2022

A narrow passageway divides this cottage with a metal roof by Naturehumaine , marking the entrance to the home and providing privacy to a detached guest suite and atelier. A modern window is cut into the rustic facade. The corner window of the main living space looks out into the foilage.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Inspired by the client's Larry Poons paintings, the bricks are choreographed to convey movement. The rectangular home is well-insulated with triple-glazed windows for efficiency and incorporates hydronic heating and cooling to protect the art. The roof design accommodates a future green roof.

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Deezen

JUNE 26, 2023

A terraced landscape and dusty pink surfaces help to brighten Pigment House, a north London residence that has been renovated by local studio Unknown Works. The transformation of the landscape was essential to unlocking this."

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Responding to the client's request for an unobtrusive structure, Knox Bhavan took advantage of an existing slope and retaining wall on the site to help blend the building into a wider landscape redesign by Lloyd Blunt. Viewed from above, it is subsumed into the landscape and virtually invisible," it continued.

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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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Deezen

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Mamout and Stéphanie Willocx have refurbished a 1960s home in Belgium Over time, numerous additions to the home and its garden had distracted from its original structures and their relationship to the landscape, and so its new owners tasked Mamout and Stéphanie Willocx with restoring this condition.

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