Westeck News

JUNE 15, 2023

Content courtesy of The Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance (FGIA) FGIA Conference Participants Learn How to Leverage Window Replacement Rebates in British Columbia with Qualified Installers. Available rebates payable direct to contractors include window and door rebates up to $9,500 CAD.

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Westeck News

JULY 7, 2023

Content courtesy of Sash Windows London The Origin of Stained Glass Stained glass windows have been around for generations. During the rise of the Gothic, during the 12th century, the art of the stained-glass window flourished exceptionally. Glazing and Leading Glazing i s important for stained glass windows.

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Westeck News

JUNE 2, 2023

Content courtesy of Energy Star Energy-Efficient Window Terms Explained. Updating or installing new windows for a new residential or commercial build requires a bit of a learning curve to understand the “science” behind an energy-efficient window. It is used as insulation between double-pane and triple-pane windows.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2024

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. When not staying at the house, the clients rent it out. It is naturally fireproof along with steel-plate window frames."

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JANUARY 20, 2023

Passive houses are now considered to be the highest energy efficiency standards. Passive houses require strict design standards. To achieve a passive house certification, a building must have less than 0.6 It requires quality assurance from the level of contractors to administrators. air changes per hour.

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2024

California studio TW Ryan Architecture has completed a wildfire-resistant house in the American West that features a Corten steel exterior and pyramidal roofs that allude to the mountainous terrain. Four Roof House features a Corten steel exterior Their chosen site was a bluff overlooking a lake near the town of Helmville.

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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. Atelier Local has created House in Ancede "The house is a reconstruction of sorts," said the studio's co-founders Maria Rebelo and João Paupério.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

David Kohn Architects has completed a house in southwest England with exaggerated features that include oversized eaves, patterned brickwork and acid-green details. Located in rural Dorset, Red House is a two-storey house for a couple and their young daughter. Red House takes its cues from Arts and Crafts architecture.

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The Architecture Designs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Now that you have finally decided on your new windows, it is time to prepare for the installation. You will also want to make sure that there is enough space in the room for your contractor to work comfortably. Confirm Details With Your Contractor. Move Items Away From Windows. Give Your Contractor a Rundown.

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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. The bridge would span the lush front garden and connect to the house between the top and middle stories. The photography is by Joe Fletcher.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Italian architect Antonino Cardillo has completed a house near Lake Garda featuring steep ceilings, arched doorways and a palette of textured plaster and marble. This room features marble walls and textured plaster ceilings The layout centres around a grand first-floor living room described as "the soul of this house".

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

US studio CCY Architects has clad a mountainside house in patinated copper panels and tilted the roof to adhere with the topography of its site in Colorado. Settled on the edge of a meadow surrounded by spruce trees, the massing of the two-bedroom, rectangular house follows the natural grade, never rising more than 15 feet (4.5

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Portholes and semi-circular motifs characterise this colourful renovation and extension of a Victorian terrace house in Hackney, London , by architecture studio Gundry & Ducker. Gundry & Ducker drew on the palette of 1950s American kitchens when creating the rear extension and renovated basement in this London house.

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Deezen

APRIL 8, 2024

Scalloped facades featuring tones of cream and red brick define a U-shaped housing block by Bell Phillips in Marylebone in central London. The fluted facade motif echoes the circular columns and arched windows of a nearby Grade II* listed church and is repeated at different scales across the building.

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Architecture Ideas

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Window shades serve both practical and aesthetic purposes in your modern household. This blog looks into various window shade design ideas suitable for your home. Window shades bring color and structure into your living space, offering light control, privacy, and energy conservation. It fits nicely within your window.

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DECEMBER 11, 2021

New windows can make a dramatic difference in any home, whether you want to improve its appearance, open up a spectacular view or simply replace worn units that seem to let in more wind and rain than they keep out. Some windows also free you from periodic painting. Still others rival fine cabinetry in eye appeal. Material Choices.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Architecture studio Unknown Works has extended a semi-detached house in east London , adding vibrant yellow-rendered forms to its front and rear. Unknown Works has extended a semi-detached house in east London. The kitchen and diner are housed in the bright yellow rear extension that opens onto the garden's brick-paved patio.

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Deezen

MARCH 31, 2024

The Portal House was designed for a couple who had wanted to refresh their home for 10 years, but have very different aesthetic tastes. This theme continues to the living room millwork: a bookcase is filleted at the corner and meets the wall at an angle, while a built-in sofa beneath the window also softly angles inward.

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Deezen

APRIL 3, 2024

Promotion : window manufacturer Velux has highlighted the lessons learned by the partners behind its experimental Living Places housing concept. It aims to establish an affordable, alternative route to building low-carbon housing that prioritises healthy, adaptable and community-oriented design.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Dutch architecture office Studio Prototype has built a house with a hexagonal footprint in an area of Amsterdam with relaxed planning regulations. Edge House is located in Route 1066, an area in Nieuw Sloten where landowners have the greater freedom to build as long as houses meet certain criteria.

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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. Named Madrone Ridge, the 4,920 square-foot (460 square-metre) house sits within the watershed of northern California's Russian River. the studio said. "By

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Granary House is a two-storey guesthouse featuring a slate roof, a roof terrace and a slatted timber facade that integrates sliding panels. Granary House is a two-bedroom guesthouse in Arouca. The house has a dynamic facade of sliding wooden screens and glass doors. The house smells like wood a lot," she continued.

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Dwell

MARCH 25, 2024

In summer 2020, Cynthia Butler was scrolling through Instagram when she spotted a doozy of a house. It was a colossal 15,000-square-foot Classical Revival mansion complete with giant front columns and a carriage house out back. None of this could have been possible without Cheap Old Houses , the popular Instagram account with 2.8

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Deezen

MARCH 28, 2024

US studio Michael Hennessey Architecture has revitalised an ageing suburban house near San Francisco , adding black cladding and bright finishes to form a family home that bridges the past, present and future. The aim was to create a dwelling that supported the family's current needs while being mindful of what might be needed in the future.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Geometric shapes, fossilised stone and English cherry wood characterise this house in Wimbledon, London , overhauled by local architecture studio Gundry & Ducker. Named Wimbledon Villa, the studio renovated and extended the detached early 2000s property with the aim of making it feel like "a country house in miniature".

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Deezen

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Chilean studio WMR Arquitectos has balanced a slanted wooden house with open interiors on a hillside overlooking the sea in Matanzas, Chile. The skeleton of the house functions as a reticulated beam that rests on the most critical part of the terrain."

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Architizer

MARCH 31, 2023

Michael Ingui is a partner at Baxt Ingui Architects and the founder of Passive House Accelerator. The Accelerator is a catalyst for zero-carbon building and a collaborative media platform for practitioners, developers, and manufacturers working to create better buildings through Passive House design and construction.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

US architecture studio Schaum/Shieh has embedded a Virginia house with irregularly shaped volumes into the contours of a steep site. The spaces between each pod create room for gardens, outdoor nooks and wooden terraces along the house, while a parking area was carved out of the hillside at the back.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

US architecture firm Olson Kundig and Canadian designer Erica Colpitts have renovated a mid-century house near Vancouver, warming the modernist structure with natural materials and neutral colours. The staircase is separated from the lounge by a huge bookcase that is original to the house, along with a red-brick fireplace on the other side.

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Architecture Ideas

MAY 15, 2022

Adding or remodelling a kitchen, bathroom, or other living areas, painting or staining the interior or outside of your home, installing new windows, doors, or flooring, and a variety of other jobs are among the most common home improvement projects. A window update in your home is a home repair effort that is sometimes disregarded.

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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. Read: Omer Arbel Office films concrete tree-like forms that will become House 75.9

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Deezen

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Japanese studio Unemori Architects has used cypress wood to create Father & Son House, an extension constructed above and around a self-built annexe in Saitama. This enabled the owner to remain close to his mother, who lives in the main house on the plot. Large windows let the light in.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Canadian studio 25:8 Architecture + Urban Design has added a cedar-clad extension with a shape informed by birds in flight to a house in Ottawa. When practicing yoga upstairs, the residents can look through a floor-level window down to the basketball game, and a sliding battened screen protects the glazing from damage.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Local architecture studio Partisans has completed a house with an undulating yellow brick facade designed to look pixelated in Toronto , Ontario. The top level aligns three bedrooms and a shared bath in the front of the house, while the primary suite holds the back third of the plan. The roof design accommodates a future green roof.

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Deezen

MAY 2, 2024

Aiming to improve the connection between the home and its garden, Mamout drew on the form of an existing bow window on the rear facade to create a glazed seating area for the existing kitchen. We imagine the extension as a response to the existing bow window, which is a typical element of Belgian architecture," she added.

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Deezen

AUGUST 19, 2023

Cape Town -based architect Chris van Niekerk has completed Mountain House, a minimalist retreat in the rugged landscape of South Africa's southernmost city. The house is located in the foothills of Steenberg Ridge, a group of mountain peaks to the south of Cape Town.

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Deezen

MARCH 18, 2022

London studio Nimtim Architects has redefined the interior of a 1920s house in Southwark using multifunctional partitions that are built from plywood joinery and feature a repeating arch motif. Nimtim Architects has updated a 1920s house in London. Sliding doors and windows are built into the partitions.

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