Deezen

MAY 10, 2024

Hidden within a densely wooded area, the Lone Oak House is located in a river region in southern Chile. However, the owners began telecommuting for work and decided to make the house their full-time residence. Exterior walls consist of cypress wood screens and large stretches of glass.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

acres From the Agent : " Michael Kornley, a then-25-year-old aerospace engineer, designed this 1955 midcentury-modern house for himself and his family. Overall, this house is perfectly sited on a private, beautifully wooded plot with an in-ground pool. The private, rural oasis is less than two hours from Manhattan.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion 0 qpurcell Thu, 09/28/2023 - 10:37 Office Buildings IMEG's Edwin Dean, Joe Gulden, and Doug Sweeney, share seven key focuses for structural engineers when planning office-to-residential conversions. faces a housing deficit of 3.8 million units.

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ArchDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In its modern form , however, solar heating first developed in the 1920s, when European architects began experimenting with passive solar methods in mass housing. In Germany, Otto Haesler, Walter Gropius , and others designed schematic Zeilenbau flats that optimized sunlight, and following the import of “ heliotropic housing ” to the U.S.,

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Deezen

JANUARY 16, 2023

The Apple Tree House is a modernist-style glass residence. Glass walls throughout the public areas of the home give sightlines of the tree and the other living areas from a variety of different positions. Structural engineer: Poincaré – Paul-Henry Boutros. ACDF Architecture arranged the structure around an apple tree.

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Dwell

MARCH 19, 2023

Expertly engineered by NanaWall, a 12-foot bifold glass wall floods the ADU with natural light and fresh air while remaining energy-efficient when closed. The 12-foot bifold glass wall that NanaWall created for the Dwell House allows a harmonious relationship with its surroundings and provides ample light and ventilation.

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Deezen

MARCH 17, 2023

Designed as an extension to the neighbouring headquarters of Swiss publishing group Tamedia , the office takes over a prominent site on the banks of the river Sihl and leaves its timber skeleton exposed for all to see, sheathed only by the building's glass skin.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. In order to avoid impacting the ground too much, the house was built on columns, to prevent earth from moving. Due to a limited budget, the house was very simple in terms of finishing.

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Archinect

APRIL 21, 2022

I get in the car, turn the keys, listen to the noisy symphony coming from the engine and hit the road to reach my house in the town of Amieira, next to Marinha Grande, land of glass and the mold industry in Portugal.

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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 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

APRIL 14, 2024

New York architecture studio HGX Design has created a linear, glass-fronted home in the Hudson Valley informed by the "individual notes of a music composition". The house meets the sky in a very minimal way, while remaining lightly seated on the ground," said HGX Design founder Hal Goldstein.

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Deezen

MAY 1, 2024

Located along the Kona Coast on the island of Hawaii , the house was designed for a family who wanted a functional and beautiful retreat that was minimalist in spirit. The project, called Hale Kiawe, is a phrased combining the name of the trees and the Hawaiian word for house.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

The glass lift rises up through the chimney before emerging from its top to where visitors will have 360-degree views through its walls. The lift has glass walls. The redevelopment of the site has been widely criticised for the low percentage of affordable housing. Audiovisual hardware design and engineering: Sysco.

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Deezen

JULY 21, 2022

Architecture studio SPF Architects has completed a sports facility in Los Angeles consisting of two separate buildings that were built using pre-engineered metal structures in order to not disrupt activity at the site. The complex consists of two pre-engineered metal buildings. Civil engineer: Tetra-Tech.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Jenny Peysin Architecture has completed a house in the Hamptons with a poured-in-place concrete envelope and a glazed living space. The common area volume – or what we came to call 'the cube' as the design progressed – is a lofty open space that is enclosed on three sides with operable full-height glass," Peysin said. Kitchen: Team 7.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

US studio Robert Gurney Architect has completed a beachfront house in Delaware consisting of "simple and pure forms" wrapped in white cedar, salvaged barn wood and fibre-cement panels. Named after the community where it is located, the Cotton Patch Hills House sits on an oceanfront site in Bethany Beach, Delaware.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Oliver Leech Architects transforms a West London townhouse using reeded glass that suffuses the family home with natural light while maintaining privacy. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners.

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Deezen

JANUARY 24, 2022

Salt Lake City architecture studio Imbue Design has built a house outside Zion National Park in Utah with sweeping views of one of the USA's most renowned landscapes. Imbue Design built the house outside Zion National Park. Engineer: Epic Engineering. Interior spaces offer views of the landscape. Geotech: AGEC.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The house is arranged in a C-shaped plan, opening toward an outdoor dining patio on the western side shaded by large wooden beams. The house is constructed of concrete block, the most accessible material in the area, and covered on both the exterior and interior with naturally pigmented cement.

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Archinect

JANUARY 5, 2024

Located in a vast area in the west of Hangzhou, it houses state of the art academic facilities, laboratories, offices, sports facilities, canteens, and housing for an international body of students and faculty. The School of Life Science, the School of Science and the School of Engineering are housed in separate buildings.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Maine studio Elliott Architects has created a seaside house that includes a dramatic, cantilevered volume on stilt that stretches towards the ocean and the tree line. House on a Bay is a twisted residence overlooking the sea. Elliott Architects created the house with two distinctive bars. Structural engineer: Thorton Tomasetti.

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Dwell

JANUARY 24, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. To reduce this volume without sacrificing the desirable qualities of its light-filled open plan, we inserted two ‘tree houses’ connected by a self-supporting spiral stair. Have one to share?

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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. "How

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Deezen

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Among the earliest examples is the famous Bridge of Sighs in Venice, which was completed in 1600, but skybridges have become increasingly common and ambitious in recent years thanks to advances in engineering technology. Between them, the bridges house a health centre, a library, a running track and a full-sized basketball court.

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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. Lofty ceilings and large stretches of glass provide an airy feel. The roof is covered in standing-seam metal.

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Archinect

APRIL 7, 2023

The gift is meant to house local families that have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict. The two-bedroom units come fully furnished and are set to be delivered later in the month in an effort to alleviate the burden on local workers – all doctors, nurses, teachers, and engineers, respectively.

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Dwell

JULY 12, 2022

Will Gamble Architects also reconfigured part of the existing house to rationalize the previously disjointed arrangement of rooms and provide a more symmetrical floor plan that is true to Georgian design principles. It is conceived as an ancillary ‘pavilion type’ structure connected to the main house via a glazed link.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 8, 2022

The brief for the home, named Sky Lantern House, involved preserving the character of the existing building while making its interior more suitable for modern living. An existing staircase at the centre of Sky Lantern House was replaced with a stair arranged around a three-storey triangular void that allows daylight to reach each level.

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Architizer

JUNE 30, 2022

Architectural Engineering Consultants. The building integrate glass, stone, screens and intricate metal detailing, to form contextual textures and patterns. © Architectural Engineering Consultants. The building integrate glass, stone, screens and intricate metal detailing, to form contextual textures and patterns.

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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 Concrete floors run throughout the project.

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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

MARCH 12, 2024

Rough-and-ready finishes merge with refined touches like marble trim and glass-orb pendants. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The house is a succession of rooms divided by two patios. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2023

Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California , the cedar house was originally constructed in 1961 and expanded in 1969 and again in 1971, with unusually shaped rooms, rounded seating spaces and colourful glass accents. The home features stained glass elements. Mechanical engineer : Monterey Energy Group.

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Deezen

AUGUST 7, 2023

US architecture studio GBBN designed three brick buildings that allow social housing to both "fit in and stand out" in Cincinnati, Ohio. The 5,770-square foot (535-square metre) building on Vine Street "features an undulating brick wall that floats above a glass storefront."

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

American firm Studio of Metropolitan Design Architects has renovated a stone Tudor Revival house and added a pavilion-like concrete extension in Wilmington, Delaware. The modern addition is an interpretation of the existing traditional elements of the house," the studio said.

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