Deezen

MAY 22, 2023

Daniel Joseph Chenin settled the 7,800-square foot (725-square-metre) house on an acre rock outcrop near government-protected land in Las Vegas Valley, looking out to Red Rock Canyon. Fort 137 is characterised by its stone facade The house is heralded by a 28-foot tall (8.5

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Deezen

APRIL 14, 2024

HGX Design created the house to host the owner's visiting family and it now stands as the main dwelling on the 35-acre property, which is dotted with agricultural buildings and another residence. The structure's horizontal form was informed by the vernacular architecture of the surrounding farmland.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The idea was to take the existing house and give it new life—one that met the needs and aesthetics of our designer clients. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Dwell

APRIL 23, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Wrapped in black, corrugated metal, the house disappears into the trees and serves as a backdrop for the breathtaking natural landscape. The height also prepares the house for rising water.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 2, 2024

Extension of the National Swedish Museum of Technology, housing a visualization dome, a spherical space where visualization technology achieves an immersive audiovisual experience, along with a café and an exhibition hall. The roof mediates between the tall dome and the low facades of the one-story building, spanning 26x48m across the dome.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The Stradella Ridge house sits on a steep, triangular property in Bel Air, an affluent neighbourhood in the foothills of the Santa Monica mountains. The house has two main levels, a basement and a rooftop terrace Roughly V-shaped in plan, the building has an angular form that was driven by the site's orientation and geometry.

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Deezen

JUNE 20, 2023

Local studios Mary English and Xavier Vendrell Architects have lined up three courtyards on a linear suburban plot for a white stucco house in San Antonio , Texas. The 1,970-square foot (183-square metre) house, centred on a quarter-acre lot, was completed in July 2022.

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2023

Architecture studio SDA has completed the Floating House, a concrete-framed home on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City that is elevated above ground to mitigate the impacts of flooding. It is elevated above ground to mitigate the impacts of flooding "We composed the house as three slabs floating above the ground," explained SDA.

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Dwell

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The owner’s request was to increase the volume of the house while maintaining its original DNA as defined by angular geometries, redwood interiors, and exterior courtyards.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Named the JArzm house – using the first initial of each family member – the home is set into a 60-foot slope in Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighborhood. John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (JFAK) completed the house – and 540-square foot (50-square metre) accessory dwelling unit (ADU) – in November 2021.

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2022

Glazed brick and charred cypress wrap the exterior of a partly sunken North Carolina home designed by architecture firm In Situ Studio. Located in an inner suburb of Raleigh, HUUS house sits in a leafy neighbourhood with homes built between the 1940s and 1970s. Part of the HUUS house is sunken in the ground.

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Deezen

MAY 12, 2023

Fuller Overby completed the 2,750-square foot (255-square metre) Nebo House in McDowell County in 2022, for a retiring couple. Fuller Overby clad the house in blackened wood Set on Lake James, the narrow one-acre site drops 100 feet (30 metres) from the top of the driveway to the water's edge. The photography is by Paul Warchol.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This strategy, combined with the slim proportion of the construction, allows for an increased perimeter of the dwelling’s contact with the exterior, creating a system of courtyards that seems limitless. The building unfolds through a very clear geometry, deviating from the concept of compact architecture.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

When Mark Derenthal couldn’t find an architect or builder to take on his ambitious concept, he worked directly with an engineer to create the treetop retreat. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Bright white plaster clads the exterior of a 1960s concrete building that has been turned into the self-designed studio of Baldridge Architects, which acted as the designer and contractor. On the exterior, crisp-white plaster was added to the original concrete masonry. Baldridge had the table built for his new studio.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Mork-Ulnes Architects has completed the Silver Lining House, a crisp, gabled home clad in black-stained cedar that was designed for an architectural photographer and interior designer. Half-polished chrome slats bounce reflections around the stairwell, an effect meant to "mimic the experience of walking through a disco ball".

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

US studio Inaba Williams Architects has created two mirrored houses with courtyards in Santa Monica , California that are clad in white stucco and have net-zero energy use, according to the studio. The white of the exterior continues inside A bedroom suite, garage, and a secluded zen garden hold the southern edge of the site.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Bay Area studio David Baker Architects has completed 145 units of social housing using modular construction and a weathering steel facade in San Francisco , California. Modules make up the social housing in San Francisco. The six-storey project stacks 87 two-unit boxes. The raked facade is clad in weathering steel.

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Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2024

The visitor centre houses a display space and auditorium Inside, the wood-lined auditorium and visitor facilities sit at the centre of the space behind poured concrete walls that mirror the appearance of the exterior. Project credits: Architect: Kaan Architecten Landscape designer: Karres + Brands landschapsarchitecten B.V.,

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

During the pandemic they seized an opportunity to buy a larger house which ticked all of these boxes, but there was one problem. Despite the purchase and early design stages taking place at the height of the Covid pandemic, Katherine and James were able to buy the house and commission the architects! The garden faced North.

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aasarchitecture

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This totally electric “Net Zero” 100% affordable housing project is certified LEED Platinum and has an astounding pEUI of 6.6, Photo © Brooks + Scarpa More than any other multi-dwelling housing, courtyard apartments, “make you feel like you belong to a place.” 4850 sqm), 49 units (0.57 acres) 86du/acre.

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aasarchitecture

AUGUST 9, 2022

This residential project involved the construction of three distinct structures, creating additional interior space and forming a private courtyard for an existing house that remains in place. The largest new structure, the Art House, is designed to house a burgeoning art collection, and accommodate occasional guests.

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Deezen

JANUARY 3, 2022

o de Buen and Luis Young have used a green metallic frame to form the structure of an airy apartment built atop an existing building in Mexico City. The Cascada House was designed by Mexican architects Nun?o Cascada House is topped with two sloping roofs. Project credits: Contractor: Ricardo Villa.

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Dwell

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. A simple and regular concrete structural grid creates a variety of interior and exterior spaces with views across the Eubean Sea. Have a project to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Home to a family of seven, Proctor & Shaw designed the project as an extension to an existing Edwardian house, extending the ground-floor kitchen and dining room. Architecture studio Proctor & Shaw has topped a home extension with a steeply-angled roof clad with red pigmented zinc in East Dulwich, London.

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e-architect

APRIL 12, 2023

When altering both the interior and exterior, a sensitivity to the existing structure was observed. The siting of the project was influenced by local zoning regulations, however the new mass also yields to the existing house along the north elevation to celebrate the different periods of construction.

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2022

They carved away parts of the housing block – including a sizable cut in the main facade – to create a sense of openness and to connect the building to its surroundings. "11 The building has a white exterior that helps enhance natural light and reduce heat gain – the latter being an important consideration given the area's hot climate.

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Deezen

JANUARY 8, 2022

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. It is comprised of a collection of volumes which house living and sleeping areas. Structural engineer: Meyer Borgman Johnson. Contractor: Cates Fine Homes.

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Deezen

JANUARY 2, 2024

Schwartz and Architecture has completed an accessory dwelling unit in Sonoma The property has a main house and several outbuildings, each of which competes for attention, said San Francisco-based Schwartz and Architecture. Exterior walls are wrapped in Alaskan yellow cedar with a weathered finish. The photography is by Bruce Damonte.

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e-architect

APRIL 28, 2023

The house that was previously on the lot included a rather deep basement; earth movement is often in the forgotten list of construction phases, and we decided to start right there. The garage-top deck West wall increases privacy from the driveway and alley, while defining the deck space and its relationship with the interior of the house.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

This residential project involved the construction of three distinct structures, creating additional interior space and forming a private courtyard for an existing house that remains in place. The largest new structure, the Art House, is designed to house a burgeoning art collection, and accommodate occasional guests.

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Six Square House is an irregularly shaped dwelling that sits on a verdant, two-acre (0.8-hectare) Six Square House was constructed on a verdant site. Young Projects created a swimming pool The house, which totals 2,600 square feet (242 square metres), consists of six gabled forms, each 24 by 24 feet (7.3

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SW Oregon Architect

AUGUST 8, 2021

The Birch Fircrest House I had the good fortune this weekend to enjoy a tour of a remarkable work of architecture currently under construction: the Birch Fircrest House designed by Speranza Architecture + Urban Design. He would not only serve as its designer but its general contractor as well.

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Dwell

JUNE 15, 2022

Each of its three structures—a residence, artist’s studio, and bath house—features a catchment with a reservoir system that purifies harvested rainwater. The main residence takes the form of a pavilion that allows for outdoor use year-round, with over two-thirds of the building footprint dedicated to covered exterior space.

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Deezen

JULY 31, 2022

For the exterior walls, the team used a mix of concrete and cypress boards that were charred using the ancient Japanese technique of Shou Sugi Ban , helping bolster the wood's resistance to insects and rot. Three additional bedrooms are located upstairs, including one housed in a volume that cantilevers 15 feet (4.6

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Dwell

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Situated between two traditional gable residences, its rectangular plan is fronted with a steel structure that gives it a slick, institutional feel. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners.

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