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. Large windows and skylights illuminate the upper level. The largest window is 11 feet wide and 10 feet tall (3.3

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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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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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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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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. During the project's inception, designers from Manhattan's Desai Chia Architecture visited the site in different seasons to understand the climate and terrain.

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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. The buildings have canopy-style roofs to protect the structures from the rain seasons. The post Fanned and sawtooth roofs top Sanand Factory in India by Studio Saar appeared first on Dezeen.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 22, 2022

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. The soothing macrocarpa interior, the central stone fireplace and broad windows beautifully complement the tranquil exterior. Seascape Retreat. Island Retreat.

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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. spoke to every tile company in England to find something bespoke, and ended up looking to the Danish company Petersen for the grey roof tiles," he continued.

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Deezen

JULY 15, 2022

Rather than opting for a new-build house like so many of the other properties nearby, the owners asked A202 Arhitekti to develop a proposal that would retain the character of the existing pitched-roof dwelling while adapting it for modern living. They also worked with a specialist to restore the existing windows. Architektura d.o.o

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Its position on the site means it gets ample sunlight all through the year. The overhanging butterfly roof provides solar shading to south facing high level windows in summer. The client enjoys very low energy bills due to the high levels of insulation and the solar panels that power her home.

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Dwell

JANUARY 25, 2024

The eastern and western edges of the site are pinned in by fairly nondescript two-story residential houses. Our clients came to us with an initial concept for a concrete house for themselves and their two teenage children. Our clients have a vintage car which they wanted to become a spectacle within the house.

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Habitus Living

MARCH 10, 2024

Sited on Wurundjeri Country, the design approach of Hermon fell into two separate camps. The former accommodates the client’s need for a home suitable for hosting and conducive to the contemporary lifestyle of a family of four. A staircase was erected to the roof cavity, that serves as a ‘relaxation zone’. Ventech veneers.

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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. Irregularly placed square openings puncture the thick concrete exterior of SV House in Portugal , recently completed by architecture studio Spaceworkers.

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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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Deezen

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Natural materials and large windows overlooking a garden are used to create an atmosphere of warmth and comfort at this dental clinic in Japan, designed by local studio TSC Architects. The clinic's examination rooms sit off a central corridor that zig-zags across the site to make room for the existing planting.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Branching generously across its rural site, Peninsula House is intended to appear as a "windswept, weather-beaten form" derived from its coastal surroundings. Free of a client brief, co-founders Tom Surman and Percy Weston chose to draw on nearby architecture and the personalities of their families to set the project parameters.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

Jun Mitsui & Associates and Pelli Clarke & Partners have converted a grocery store into a sake brewery The site contains three buildings – the brewery, housed in the shell of a former Stop & Shop grocery store, a small rice polishing building and a wastewater treatment facility.

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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

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.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Architecture studio Ductus has designed an apartment complex coated with a monochrome red plaster facade into a sloping site in Schwarzenburg, Switzerland. On the exterior, untreated copper was also used for downpipes, while red-toned window frames and mechanical shutters match the plaster's colour.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Called House in Ancede, the house sits on the site of a former stone ruin that it was required to roughly match in terms of its footprint and volume. Its proportions, the slope of the roof as well as the basis for the facade's composition was set from the beginning," they told Dezeen. "In

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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. Located on the urban edge of the town, the house caters to the client's love of the countryside with warm wood accents that reference the araucaria trees that frame the sloping site.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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. On the ground floor, the living room and kitchen open through large windows toward the southern and northern woods.

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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 17, 2023

The 55-square-metre home, which is shortlisted in the Urban house category of the Dezeen Awards , was commissioned by a couple for a site beside a large pond in the city of Hue. To prevent overheating, several openable doors and windows were used to facilitate natural ventilation, while the greenery helps to shade the interiors.

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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. The photography is by Yash R Jain.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It has a deliberately simple design, intended to echo the form of an old 20-square-metre tool shed that previously occupied the site. The clients asked BABELstudio for a place where they could stay the night as well as work, leading it to create a cabin that is divided in half lengthways. A bed occupies the darker end of the cabin.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Architect Melissa Shin works alongside her client to create a tiny backyard house in Silicon Valley with vivid green tile and a bright pink door. The client and architect became close friends over those four years, which enhanced Shin’s vision for the design. The upside?

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Named Sabater House, the Spanish dwelling unfolds through a series of intersecting, elongated forms that ascend upwards over its 780-square-metre site. Its slim volumes adapt to the site's natural topography, navigating existing large trees and framing a series of terraces and courtyards. The photography is by Fernando Guerra.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

US studio Fuse Architects added cedar cladding, expanded the windows and brightened the interiors of the Plover House on the coast of California. Totalling 1,500 square feet (139 square metres), the house came with an irregular, pyramid-like roof and cedar-shingle cladding, both inside and out. The team raised the roofline.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The roof is undulating, and the facades are clad in burnt wood. The writer's studio rises two stories while the guest house is rectilinear in form The ground floor includes public spaces, the primary bedroom suite, a garage and a gym, along with "an expansive mudroom for the client's Irish wolfhounds".

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aasarchitecture

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Reuse was also critical – the slab, walls, bricks, many steel windows and doors and some roof trusses were all recycled. We wanted to respect the layers of history of the site – the park setting has a rich period of occupation by the Burramatta clan of the Darug people and ongoing connection for the Indigenous community.

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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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Deezen

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The clients, described by Pozna?-based Due to the sloping site, the upper pair of containers have been shifted slightly northwards, creating a 25-square-metre roof terrace looking out over a nearby river on the roof of the lower containers. The shipping container doors were replaced with large glass windows.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Architecture studio Kompas has completed a house and art gallery in Chiba, Japan, featuring a sawtooth roof and a facade clad in black tiles that are angled to create louvred openings. The building features a sawtooth roof. The dwelling is positioned at the back of a plot owned by the client's parents. It is clad in black tiles.

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Deezen

MAY 27, 2023

Named The Recipe, the home sits between a farm and a henhouse on a rural site close to the French border and is designed as a place of retirement for the parents of a large family. 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

OCTOBER 20, 2023

California studio Field Architecture designed this Sonoma Valley house out of a trio of fanning copper-clad pavilions with butterfly roofs. The roofs – composed of two triangular planes each that slope toward the centre – collect rainwater and redirect it to river-rock basins.

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