Dwell

MARCH 21, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The roof extension is built in a timber frame structure with exposed beams. Clay plaster and rammed earth from the waste soil of Brussels building sites are used for finishing. Have one to share?

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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. Local firm In Situ Studio was charged with designing a contemporary residence for a couple – the husband is an electrical engineer, and the wife is a German and history teacher.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2022

Named Tree House, the dwelling was designed by London studio Fletcher Crane Architects for a former garage site in a conservation area in Chiswick that is bounded by rear gardens. It occupies the site of an old garage. Read: Phillips Tracey squeezes brick-clad Jupp House onto site of a former garage.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Satish Jassal Architects designed Haringey Brick Bungalow The 110-square-metre site and narrow passageway was "like building through a straw", dictating many design and construction decisions. Two green roofs top the building, characterised by their asymmetrical pyramid shapes topped with rooflights.

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Deezen

APRIL 25, 2024

Known as Rockbound, the 4100-square foot (380-square metre) home sits on a rocky, sloped three-acre site overlooking a bay that connects the property to Peggy's Cove, a national historic site that can be seen across the water. The photography is by Ema Peter.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The 117,150 square foot office building will transform an underutilized site into a vibrant setting with creative offices above 7,960 square feet of restaurant and/or retail space on the ground floor. Architizer: What inspired the initial concept for your design? Our architecture is designed with care for the context.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Czech architecture studio Chybik + Kristof has designed a mixed-use tower with cascading floors clad in red concrete for the New Boulevard in Tirana , Albania. All apartments will have loggias "This project showcases an extraordinary fusion of innovative design and visionary urban planning," Pashako added.

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Dwell

MAY 17, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. In 2018, the new owners of the house approached Florian to design a small addition—a multi-purpose space and private art gallery. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Architect Eric Owen Moss describes the design and engineering approach to constructing the (W)rapper office building in Los Angeles in this exclusive film produced by Dezeen in collaboration with MATT Construction. The (W)rapper expresses how it's made, the structural engineering behind it and how the building performs.

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Deezen

MARCH 19, 2024

US architecture studio Cannon Design has referenced the local landscape and "prioritized inclusion", drawing on the Native American heritage of the site for its design of a university student centre in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The roof is designed to accommodate solar arrays in the future.

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Deezen

MAY 5, 2023

The property has a main residence designed by Pennsylvania-based Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in 2012. Photo is by Benjamin Benschneider The site is reached by boat, and a winding path leads from a dock through a wooded area and into a sunlit meadow. Built into a gentle slope, the guesthouse partly cantilevers over the site.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Local studio Splyce Design has designed a light-filled, angled house with glazed corners and a sculptural staircase overlooking the Burrard Inlet in Vancouver , British Columbia. Settled in a quarter-acre site, the house sits 17 feet (five metres) above the sidewalk, lifting it up from the street's sightlines.

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Architizer

JANUARY 26, 2023

The Chicago Park District asked Valerio Dewalt Train to design an environmental center that serves as an education hub and a gateway to eco-recreation opportunities throughout the region. The design responded to the park’s past by marrying the industrial with the natural. miles from the site.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 23, 2022

Hidden in the bucolic landscape of Northern Vosges Natural Park, Site Verrier de eisenthal is a publicly funded active cultural center in a historic glass factory dating back to the 18th century. They are also included a multidisciplinary cultural space hosting art installations, happenings and concerts are sited at varying floor levels.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The identical 28-square-metre structures were designed by Feste to offer a rest stop where people can enjoy the beauty of their surroundings in warmth and comfort. All 25 cabins have an identical design Fjågesund and colleague Sigurd Aanby led the Agder cabins project, supported by landscape architect Tone Telnes.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 16, 2023

"Marco came to us with a brief for a refurbishment to a lower-ground space within an existing building, which – under previous management – was flagged for demolition," said Brad Wray, co-founder of Branch Studio Architects and the project's design architect.

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Dwell

APRIL 30, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Project Details: Location: Yarraville, Victoria, Australia Architecture and Interior Design: OOF! Every inch of space on this small site—indoors and out—is precious. Have one to share?

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 7, 2024

The Park and Center will be inclusive of a diverse community of users, accessible, flexible in use, and thoughtfully designed. The Mosswood Park Master Plan and new Community Center will create a vibrant destination for civic, cultural, social, educational, and recreational activities.

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Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2024

hectare site near Maastricht to commemorate soldiers who died in the second world war. Concrete blocks provide seating at the building's front "Many wars and struggles for freedom are commemorated, all designed and built in a very solid manner with the intention of preserving these sacrifices for eternity," added Panhuysen.

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BD+C

AUGUST 17, 2023

How to design for adaptive reuse: Don’t reinvent the wheel 0 qpurcell Thu, 08/17/2023 - 09:52 Adaptive Reuse Gresham Smith demonstrates the opportunities of adaptive reuse, specifically reusing empty big-box retail and malls, many of which sit unused or underutilized across the country. Take a multidiscipline approach.

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Dwell

MARCH 28, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The surrounding dwellings often cover up to 75 percent of their site area, filling the flat and sandy lots with two-car garages, theaters, primary suites, and al fresco dining areas. Have one to share?

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Home Structural Engineering Permits Engineering 108

Deezen

MAY 24, 2023

Above: It is one of three independent structures. The retreat was designed by Seattle's Robert Hutchison Architecture and Mexico City-based Javier Sanchez Arquitectos (JSa), and was designed for JSa's founder and his family, which plans to make it their permanent residence in the future. The photo is by Jamie Navarro.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Every detail of the Cab (container) design was done by me. In addition, I designed the rooftop deck/solar panel frames and the basket hoist system. Have one to share? Post it here.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 21, 2024

Spiegel Aihara Workshop (SAW) has designed the Kauhikoa Core House on the island of Maui, a two-bedroom home that appears as a tumbling set of forms settling gracefully into the landscape of its site, a former pineapple plantation. Source by SAW Design.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 3, 2024

10 Design (part of Egis’ Architecture Line), has unveiled its design for LA VIE in Muscat, Oman, a modern mixed-use destination delivering business, leisure, wellness, and sports opportunities amidst panoramic views of the Muscat Hills Golf Course.

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Deezen

AUGUST 10, 2022

Located on a shallow hill at the centre of a busy traffic intersection, the pavilion was the winner of a 2017 competition held by the municipality of Tilburg, which invited young designers to propose ways of "restoring" the neglected patch of land. Structural engineer: Rutger Snoek, Transist-or. Client: Municipality of Tilburg.

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Deezen

APRIL 20, 2024

Named Bury Gate Farm, the five-bedroom house replaces a 1950s bungalow on a sloped site on the outskirts of Pulborough, which overlooks fields and woodland. The challenge was how to craft sensitive contemporary design that responds to and enhances this protected landscape without resorting to historic mimicry," he continued.

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Deezen

JUNE 9, 2023

Architecture studios Grimshaw and Architekton looked to natural elements such as rocks and saguaro cacti while designing the Walton Center of Planetary Health at Arizona State University. The centre's design is "rooted in resiliency, site-specificity and inspiration", the team said.

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2024

Located in a remote part of central Montana , the Four Roof House was designed for a couple who wanted a low-maintenance home where they could age in place. Four Roof House features a Corten steel exterior Their chosen site was a bluff overlooking a lake near the town of Helmville. It also helps protect against wildfire.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Steel canopies shade the spaces of the Kamwokya Community Centre in Kampala, Uganda , designed by Berlin studio Kéré Architecture. 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. Structural engineer: AECOM.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Most of its campus was originally designed by American architects Charles Moore and William Turnbull in the early 1970s. Four buildings were designed to complement the existing structures – California modern-style buildings with stucco walls and splashes of colour – and the woodland environment.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 7, 2024

BIG’s design proposal for the Joint Research Centre in Seville inspired by the architectural vernacular of the southern Spanish city, delivers on JRC’s commitment to sustainability, unites the European vision of the New Bauhaus initiative, and establishes a new benchmark for workspace that empowers knowledge sharing, collaboration and co-creation.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2024

One Sullivan Place was designed by RKTB Architects Totalling 60,000 square feet (5,574 square metres), One Sullivan Place contains 52 rental apartments, 16 of which are classified as affordable housing. Of those 16, three are designated for senior residents. The remaining units are market-rate.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Named after the community where it is located, the Cotton Patch Hills House sits on an oceanfront site in Bethany Beach, Delaware. For a sandy site that faces the water, the team created a rectilinear, three-storey building that totals 5,842 square feet (542 square metres). The staircase is made of white oak and steel.

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aasarchitecture

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Image © Graham Baba Architects Recognizing the importance of developing the site to meet the needs of a growing club and sport in the U.S., volunteers and club members pulled together and regraded, irrigated, and actively maintain the most immaculate natural rugby grounds in the Pacific Northwest in preparation for the new development.

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Civil Engineering Architect Structural Engineering Estimating 69

Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

British architecture practice Studio Bark has worked with students from the University of East London to devise a roof-supporting column with otherwise unusable timber at a site within ancient English woodland. We need to look to alternative sources and design buildings that make timber go a lot further," she said.

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Dwell

APRIL 21, 2023

The homeowners created the structures using stones collected on-site to connect their rural residence to the land. 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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