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

MARCH 21, 2024

When not staying at the house, the clients rent it out. Roughly rectangular in plan, the house sits on a gently sloping site and was built atop the footprint of a former building. It is naturally fireproof along with steel-plate window frames." Sustainability was a guiding concern for the team.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

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". Each window frames a view of the prairie and Teton Range beyond," the team said.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Project Details: Location: Melbourne, Australia Architect: MRTN Architects / @ mrtn_architects Footprint: 86 and 235 square feet Builder: Rod Greaves Structural Engineer: C. The site was a fairly typical suburban backyard but with more of a bush feeling to it rather than a mowed lawn. "It

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Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2023

House, the home sits on a farmland site and is covered with a series of berms, while multiple trumpet-shaped pillars of varying heights create wave-like levels along the expanse of its footprint. 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 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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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2023

The home occupies a verdant site in the Thu Duc district that is often flooded by a nearby river, requiring Vietnamese studio SDA to elevate its lowest level above ground by one metre. This house focuses on the active outdoor life in Vietnam, with a new frame and structural design to realise it," it continued.

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Habitus Living

OCTOBER 15, 2023

My driver pulls over while I look through the taxi’s windows, trying to pair the reference images I’d been sent for Cabin House with the actual Cabin House. Cabin House was designed as a tranquil retreat, something immediately sensed by the home’s orientation towards the landscape and its compact placement on the southern side of the site.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

A discreet door provides access inside, with the cladding layer peeled back to reveal the metal structure supporting the impressive cantilever. Both the leg and the accommodation modules above act as large steel trusses—made in-house by the client, metal manufacturer Levstal Group. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Dwell

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The goal was to reconnect this structure with the environment while best utilizing the exceptional site for the clients. "In Therefore, there were strict guidelines on how to use the existing structure as the basis for design. Post it here. Rather than hide this support system, it is exposed on all the floors.

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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. Ground Floor Plan A full-size window allows visitors to look into the experimental hall and watch research in progress.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2022

The client's functional needs are strategically distributed inside two independent volumes connected by a walkway forming a breach through the house," said the Montreal -based architects. "The 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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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

AUGUST 26, 2022

It is also used to demonstrate the benefits of Passive House construction to prospective clients. As the existing home functioned well for the clients already, preference was given to create a new self-contained addition and use the budget to create moments of delight across the site," the architect added. "As

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aasarchitecture

JANUARY 9, 2024

Set at 8,900 feet, the short construction window necessitated an innovative approach. Photo © Boone Speed Employing modular and prefabricated construction, enabled the construction timeline to be compressed into a brief five-month window.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

"The goal of the project is to maintain and enhance the public and free character of the site, seeking not to impose, but to gently uplift it," explained Kéré Architecture. Kamwokya Community Centre is raised on a stepped concrete platform, protecting the site from the frequent flooding that occurs after heavy rainfall.

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aasarchitecture

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Outward-facing windows are limited to horizontal slits to preserve privacy and increase security. Because the living room, study, and bedrooms all face onto this courtyard, the clients and their dog can enjoy outdoor time as they please. Photo © Masao Nishikawa. Source by APOLLO Architects & Associates. Photo © Masao Nishikawa.

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The building is volumetrically oriented to the geometry of the site and also widens out in the direction of the shore. The shape of the building is stepped with sweeping curves, which structure the volume visually. The rear-ventilated wood construction made of rhombus strips in glazed ash structures the façade vertically.

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Dwell

MARCH 28, 2023

Our client purchased the house in 2017, and sought modern amenities, more interior light, and an expanded living area into the garden. The site abuts an open parkland and gardens to the north, which lend generous canopies of shade from deciduous trees. A lifetime of exquisite mementos, artifacts, and books round out the new work.

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Deezen

JUNE 8, 2022

The dwelling, which serves as a retreat for a Chicago family, is sited in a way that maximizes views while retaining privacy. Stretching across a flat site, the house consists of intersecting, gabled volumes and a flat-roofed, pavilion-like volume in the rear. Windows open the home to the mountains beyond.

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Home Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering 111

Deezen

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The new building's first floor has floor-to-ceiling windows and is topped with a wooden canopy that extends over the street, while the upper floors were clad in grey brick. The structure was built using a mass-timber frame fabricated in Minnesota, while locally sourced brick and concrete were used throughout the rest of building.

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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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Deezen

JUNE 21, 2023

In Situ Studio wrapped the visitor centre in dark-coloured steel In Situ Studio's addition to the site is located on the south edge of the park near a tapering brick smokestack – left over from a demolished children's prison – and shelter, grab-and-go concessions, bathroom facilities, and visitor information. Cabinetry: Xylem, Inc.

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BD+C

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

With the right approach, passive house strategies can help our clients serve their market, while leading us to efficient, healthy, and resilient multifamily dwellings. We are excited to help our progressive and ambitious client to target Passive House International certification. The change is substantial.

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Habitus Living

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The residence is positioned on what was the site of an Ampol petrol station, which the clients owned and operated for 30 years. Having decommissioned the site, a corner parcel was retained for the owners to build on.

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Deezen

JULY 6, 2023

The basement level has two bedrooms and a den that opens to the pool deck The main 1952 split-level house was gutted and rebuilt with new windows, interior and exterior windows, building systems, stucco soffits, porch planter and an additional deck and a staircase on the east end. The photography is by Cristóbal Palma.

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Home Exterior Renovation Modern 105

Deezen

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Product display areas are arranged around the courtyards Glass windows were installed at the storefront, inviting visitors on the street to observe the complex layout of the old courtyard house, while glass walls were used to divide the space. The well-preserved brickwork of the well echoes the delicate crafts of the roof tiles.

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Housing Architecture Restoration Roofing 95

Deezen

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The design is organized to maximize the potential of the small site," said Safdie Architects. A simple move suddenly unlocks the potential of the site and creates a rich variety of double height corner terraces, with views in multiple directions.". It is located opposite La Carolina Park.

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Architizer

AUGUST 2, 2022

Big Sky views and natural light peek through the clerestory windows, while nearly every space overflows into an outdoor patio or deck. Meant as a second home for quiet retreats as well as larger gatherings, eventually the clients moved in permanently to take advantage of the scenery, outdoor activities, and remoteness of the rural site.

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Technology Technology Sustainability Construction 66

Deezen

JANUARY 8, 2022

A cluster of wood-clad buildings surround a central courtyard at this Minnesota residence by US firm Salmela Architect that was designed for clients who formerly lived in Japan. The house rests on a fifty-acre (20-hectare) parcel, the majority of which the clients granted to the Minnesota Land Trust for permanent conservation.

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Deezen

AUGUST 28, 2022

Located on a narrow infill site in Brunswick, Terrace House is a six storey "ethical housing" building containing 16 apartments and three ground-level shop units. The homes are designed to offer qualities that typically wouldn't be affordable in inner-city apartments, such as high ceilings, large windows and access to outdoor space.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Local studio Jensen Architects designed the house to both embrace and defy its difficult site conditions – a hilly parcel in the Cole Valley neighbourhood, near the city's famed Sutro Tower. The site's complex geology and the clients' desires inform a composition of shifting volumes that de?ne c Ocean," the studio said.

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Habitus Living

JUNE 6, 2023

The revised building form maximises the elevation on the small site, achieving views to both the city and the bay, while offering privacy and flexibility for the grown-up family that lives here.

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Deezen

JANUARY 28, 2024

The building is set in a fir forest in Arcadia, a mountainous region of Greece "The client's ambition was to reinterpret the concept of a sanctuary in the mountains with contemporary terms," reads K-Studio's design statement. Concrete was used to replace the old sills, while the new timber roof was installed over rendered brickwork.

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Zoning Consulting Roofing Structural Engineering 122

Deezen

APRIL 19, 2022

American firm CookFox Architects has completed a pair of tall, connected buildings with gridded facades for a Williamsburg site that once held an iconic sugar factory. The site's original name has been retained. Read: SHoP completes first building at Brooklyn's Domino Sugar Factory site. Client: Two Trees.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 29, 2023

The distinctive yellow brick building features narrow windows between closely paired piers. The project will start on site in 2023 with completion expected in 2026. Image © Ben Adams Architects Ben Adams Architects’ design will transform the building’s relationship with the river Thames. Source by Ben Adams Architects.

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