Deezen

AUGUST 30, 2022

A void punctures the centre of this compact concrete home, which Japanese studio Noriaki Hanaoka Architecture has elevated over a sloping site in Chiba Prefecture. Torus House sits on a steeply sloping site in Chiba Prefecture. Torus House is elevated on four large columns. "It It sits level with the road to the north.

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Deezen

APRIL 25, 2024

Canadian studio Omar Gandhi Architects has completed a cedar-wrapped house "inspired by the scattered boulders" that trail down the seaside property in Hubbards, Nova Scotia. The house presents as two interlocked, stacking boxes – that are meant to weather over time to match the pale grey of the sky – perched on a hillside.

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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

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. This is "an old technique", said Thorns, but one that opens up a lot of opportunities to use smaller trees.

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2022

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. The project's name comes from the old Alemannic German word for house, hüüs. This attitude is a perfect reflection of the couple who lives in the house.".

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Architizer

APRIL 30, 2024

They can be material structures that connect two (or more!) Beyond spanning from point A to B, architects are designing bridges as inhabitable structures to build connections between people and places. With a nod to nearby engineering legacies, new cross-bracing and aluminum siding celebrate its heritage.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Architecture firm Alterstudio has completed a tower-like house in Texas that rises up from a steep, wooded site that was long overlooked "as a possible home site". Built for a married couple in Austin , the house feels immersed in the wilderness but is, in fact, surrounded by "very ordinary, suburban conditions".

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2022

Fletcher Crane Architects has completed a two-bedroom house on a brownfield plot in west London featuring grey-brick walls that are left exposed throughout the living areas and sunken bedrooms. Fletcher Crane Architects has completed a grey-brick house in London. It occupies the site of an old garage. metres below street level.

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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. Known as DNA Alpine, the 4,000-square foot (372-square metre) home was completed in 2022 and designed to "disappear into or somehow become" the 75-acre site in San Miguel County.

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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

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. Previous projects by the studio include a barrel-vaulted barn conversion in West Sussex and a narrow house slotted into a disused alley in Peckham.

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Deezen

MARCH 17, 2023

Continuing our Timber Revolution series, we look at the Tamedia Office Building by Shigeru Ban – Switzerland's first seven-storey mass-timber structure that was barely legal at the time of its completion in 2013. And engineers were incredulous that such a large wooden structure could function without steel connections."

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The Spaces

MARCH 30, 2022

The artwork has long been a local landmark, but the council’s new heritage site designation, celebrating the sculpture’s ‘special contribution to the community is simultaneously lampooning its anti-establishment message – and drawing criticism from the artist’s family. Photography: The Shark House.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Envisioned as a home that embraces the outdoors, the residence is composed of four structures housing the home’s separate functions. Only six trees were removed to build all four structures.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

UK architecture firm Studio Egret West has shared its plans to create housing within two concrete 1960s buildings in London , which were formerly the headquarters of food company Heinz. Studio Egret West has received planning permission to create 124 apartments across the two office buildings while preserving their external concrete frames.

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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

APRIL 5, 2024

Called Cité Angus II, the structure is part of Technopôle Angus, an urban revitalization project that its developers say is a "full-scale sustainable development". Local architecture studio Ædifica has created a residential apartment building outside Montreal with an interior courtyard and a metal-mesh second skin on the facade.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It also features landscaped spaces Inside, the lower buildings house 60,000 square metres of retail space, while the tower holds 100,000 square metres of office space. The project's design is informed by Hong Kong's legacy of textile manufacturing and draws on different aspects of tailoring.

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Deezen

JANUARY 25, 2024

UK architecture studio DaeWha Kang Design has designed a pavilion and courtyard for The OWO hotel at the site of the former Old War Office in Whitehall, London. The pavilion is located in front of the 1906 Grade II*-listed building, designed by architect William Young, that was once used by the British government's military departments.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2024

New York firm RKTB Architects has completed One Sullivan Place, a mixed-income apartment building that rises 12 storeys and cantilevers in two directions over the rooftop of an adjacent structure. Appearing as two distinct buildings, the structure has a front facade along Sullivan Place and a front facade along Washington Avenue.

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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. The roof extension is built in a timber frame structure with exposed beams. Have one to share? Post it here.

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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 elevated site provides sweeping views of the undulating terrain and the distant ocean. Different treatments were used on the facades. The photography is by Mike Kelley.

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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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Deezen

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It also features landscaped spaces Inside, the lower buildings house 60,000 square metres of retail space, while the tower holds 100,000 square metres of office space. The project's design is informed by Hong Kong's legacy of textile manufacturing and draws on different aspects of tailoring.

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Dwell

MARCH 12, 2024

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. The house is a succession of rooms divided by two patios. The central double-height space contains the vertical circulation of the house.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Development company Human Nature has received planning approval to transform a former industrial site in Lewes into a sustainable 685-home neighbourhood that will be the UK's largest made from timber.

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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. The scenic area is known for its red-coloured rock formations, outdoor activities and arts scene.

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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. The two accommodation wings of the house were rotated and overlook the courtyards," said Jassal.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

GO'C has created the City Park Mini Mart art centre in Seattle Initially attempting to renovate an existing structure, GO'C realised it did not provide enough space. The structure was built on the site of a former gas station Using references from the era, the structure features classic signage, an overhanging roof and divided metal windows.

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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

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. He felt strongly that this building should be singular, much like its site.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2023

The clients hired Texas-based Specht Architects to build a 2,000-square-foot (186-square metre) minimalist house with floor-to-ceiling glass walls that afforded views of the surrounding meadow and large old-growth trees. The axial approach includes replanted natural grasses The roof extends to create a 15-foot (4.5-metre)

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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

MAY 16, 2024

Local studio Forge Craft Architecture + Design has created affordable apartments for people transitioning out of homelessness in Austin that feature a breezeway to encourage rest and preserve heritage trees on the site. Affordable housing and solutions to homelessness have seen a resurgence.

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Architizer

MAY 11, 2022

The distinctly modern forms contrast with the organic surrounds they occupy but the materiality and scale of the structures make them ‘of the landscape’… like they fit right in. ″ spacing of the vertical and horizontal slats set the basis for all structural and finish alignments. © Feldman Architecture.

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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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Architizer

JANUARY 13, 2023

Tucked away in Los Altos Hills, the aptly named Round House is a geometrically unique structure; one of a few similarly shaped homes built in California in the 60s. The clients fell in love with this quirky circular house and initially planned a modest remodel. Text description provided by the architects. © Feldman Architecture.

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