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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JULY 17, 2022

For our latest lookbook , we've chosen 10 residential glass extensions that create airy, light-filled and modern additions to homes. Glass is a popular material for house extensions as it is durable, weather-resistant and – thanks to its transparency – adds light and brightness to a space. Find out more about Tower House ›.

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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. The floors throughout the home are polished concrete, which contrasts the stark black colour of the building's exterior.

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APRIL 17, 2024

Located in the beach town of Encinitas, just north of San Diego , the house was designed to replace a family's existing ranch-style home that no longer fit their needs. Its design was informed by the surrounding California climate Roughly square in plan, the new house rises two levels and totals 3,223 square feet (299 square metres).

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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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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Read: Foster + Partners reveals plans for Greece's tallest skyscraper Informed by classic Greek columns, the exterior will be clad in off-white glass-reinforced concrete with a fluted surface pattern. The post BIG reveals stepped housing overlooking Aegean Sea appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The five-level house is delicately stacked along a steep slope in a densely vegetated site. The dining room was finished with a plank ceiling made of Cumaru wood On the top floor, the kitchen, dining, and living room are finished with a plank ceiling made of Cumaru wood and granite floors, which translate f comfort and lightness. "In

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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 building's beige exterior was replaced with black, vertical cedar siding that adds a sense of gravitas, the studio said.

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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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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. The upper four levels are wrapped in exterior insulation finishing systems (EIFS), often referred to as synthetic stucco.

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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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Deezen

AUGUST 31, 2023

Steeply-pitched roofs animate two of the homes in this roundup , which spotlights Dezeen's top five houses of the month for August 2023. Also on the list is a dwelling decorated with shiny green tiles, a trapezoidal concrete home and a beach house clad in blackened wood.

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Deezen

MARCH 11, 2024

Promotion: architect Ben van Berkel has created an apartment block in Munich featuring a pixelated exterior clad in ivory-hued concrete panels made by manufacturer Rieder. Its exterior is defined by asymmetrical projections, including large windows and balconies that have been lined with copper-coloured metal.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Local studio Geddes Ulinskas Architects has completed an expansive home in Cow Hollow, San Francisco with indoor-outdoor spaces, a cast glass staircase and stone detailing. The structure is pulled back from the exterior walls," the studio said. Sliding glass doors continue throughout the home. "We

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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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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The countryside residence favors simple, sustainable moves over square footage, and strategically captures views without walls of glass. The house sits near a highway, but robust insulation and windows help minimize noise, as does a foyer and hallway fronting the building. Sliding glass doors help bring the outside in.

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Deezen

MARCH 22, 2024

The Palm Springs Art Museum has unveiled the reconstructed Aluminaire House in California, a modernist house originally designed in the 1930s by architect Albert Frey and editor A Lawrence Kocher. The three-storey house has a boxy frame with an entry program that is pushed back and framed by pilotis.

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

Vancouver-based McLeod Bovell Modern Houses designed the 10,940-square foot (1,016-square metre) Liminal House in 2022. The home overlooks the Pacific Ocean The steep site overlooks the Pacific Ocean, so the team used the house's organisation to choreograph movement toward the shoreline.

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JULY 12, 2022

Local practice GinnerupArkitekter has designed a stone-clad house atop a concrete plinth on the coast of a small island in Denmark. GinnerupArkitekter has created a house on the coast of a small Danish island. GinnerupArkitekter has created a house on the coast of a small Danish island. "[It Stones clad the exterior.

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Deezen

JANUARY 24, 2024

A curvy canopy with a rooftop reflecting pool is among the standout features at a Long Island house designed by US studios Steven Harris Architects and Rees Roberts & Partners to embrace its sand-dune setting. On the ground level, one finds multiple guest bedrooms, back-of-house spaces and an indoor basketball court.

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Deezen

JANUARY 28, 2023

Glossy ceramic tiles in shades of green and blue cover the twisting form of Villa BW, a house in the Dutch village of Schoorl designed by architecture studio Mecanoo. Here, glass doors lead out to a stepped wooden terrace that wraps the northern end of the home. The photography is by Ossip Architectuurfotografie.

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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

MARCH 9, 2023

A jagged metal roofscape shelters large open terraces at the Lateral Verandah House, a dwelling near Pune , India, designed by local studio Malik Architecture. The house is built on a stone plinth "Everywhere, there are allusions to the surroundings and to the past," the studio continued.

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JANUARY 22, 2022

As glass bricks are experiencing another renaissance, our latest lookbook features ten projects that showcase how glazed masonry can illuminate any interior – even cramped bathrooms and hallways. Optical Glass House, Japan, by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP. Find out more about Optical Glass House ›.

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2023

Concrete walls wrap around the exterior of the house "The Courtyard Residence resembles a rectangular origami of concrete and glass. Despite its heroic elements, the house transcends its gallery-like scale and functions as a series of beautifully proportioned living spaces," described the practice.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Brooklyn studio Elizabeth Roberts Architects has completed a cedar alpine house in the Catskills Mountains that connects two gabled forms underground. Located on a mountainside in Windham, New York , the 3,500-square-foot (325-square-metre) house sits on a 1.4 acre site with a steep drop-off. The photography is by Chris Mottalini.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The house was built for herself and her family "Located in the central sector of the land, with its long side facing north, it appears as a white prism, levitating over the mountain and getting lost in the clouds," said the architectural studio. Water is provided by rainwater that is stored in cisterns below the house.

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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. Others are formed of brickwork finished in lime plaster.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A dwelling overlooking a Scottish loch like a modern-day castle and a tiny home in Switzerland converted from a rustic wood store are among Dezeen's Houses of the month for November. Read on to find out more about Dezeen readers' favourite houses this month: Photo is by Iñaki Bergera. Find out more about LR House ›.

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Deezen

MARCH 2, 2024

Prague studio Byró Architekti has renovated a 19th-century house in the Czech town of Kutná Hora, adding unexpected openings and colourful joinery that create a playful contrast with the original interior. The house's main feature is a spiral staircase that forms a vertical circulation core at the centre of the plan.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Materials from a dismantled warehouse were used to build this courtyard house named Dailly, which local studio Mamout has nestled between two buildings in Belgium. The concept is therefore to have a low, long house lit by patios." Dailly is arranged around two courtyards and features colourful spaces filled with reclaimed materials.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Recycled TV screens cover the walls of the seven-bedroom Hundred Acre Wood house , which architecture studio Denizen Works has created on a site overlooking Loch Awe in Scotland. Denizen Works has created the Hundred Acre Wood house. Its rough exterior is clad in recycled TV screens. The hall is the home's centrepiece. "We

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Deezen

MARCH 9, 2023

An elevator is found within a multi-level house in Michigan by DMAC Architecture & Interiors, which was designed to accommodate "people of all ages and mobilities". Located in the small beach town of Union Pier, the Lake House sits on a dune overlooking Lake Michigan. Special attention was paid to the home's entry sequence.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

Architecture studio Balbek Bureau has revamped a house in Ukraine using stainless steel and concrete to create a modern interpretation of a log cabin. The stairs have cantilevered steps that appear to float In order to lend itself to a more industrial finish, the studio trimmed the interior of surplus logs and timber.

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AUGUST 2, 2023

The U-shaped is located just outside of Mexico City The shallow 455-square-metre, U-shaped house was arranged so that all of the recreational areas are along the perimeter and the house can be opened in four cardinal directions to bring in light, air and views of the surrounding golf course.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

Next up in our review of the year , we look back at the houses that grabbed Dezeen readers' attention in 2022, including a dwelling hidden below ground, a pink holiday home and a cantilevering cabin. House and Restaurant in Yamaguchi, Japan, by Junya Ishigami. Dezeen's most popular house of 2022 was also the most unusual.

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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. Located on the urban edge of the town, the house caters to the client's love of the countryside with warm wood accents that reference the araucaria trees that frame the sloping site.

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