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ACFD Architecture wraps glass home around apple tree in Quebec

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Montreal studio ACDF Architecture has designed a low-slung, modernist -style home with massing shaped to surround an apple tree and provide lines of sight through the living areas. The Apple Tree House is a modernist-style glass residence. ACDF Architecture arranged the structure around an apple tree.

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This Wood, Glass, and Metal Cabin Hovers Above the Forest Floor in Chile

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Secondly, the entire facade in this segment is made of glass, even above the sliding glass doors. The exterior facade was covered in cypress in a natural tone, while the same wooden plywood used as a part of the wall structure was kept on the interior walls and ceiling. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Glass and steel form rooftop Cascada House apartment in Mexico City

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The apartment encompasses 140 square metres, and connects to the existing home below via an open stairwell. o de Buen and Young placed the small home's services at the lowest point of the roofline, to allow for taller and brighter living areas at the front and back of the property. Structural engineering: CAFEL Ingenieri?a.

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A Wall of Books Puts the Finishing Touch on This Rough-Hewn Backyard Home in Austin

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Rather than add an addition to the original structure, their plan was a complementary new companion house: a ruggedly modern home capable of coexisting in balance with the existing house, offering the potential for dual occupancy or future use of either building. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Apollo Architects & Associates designs Tokyo home that blurs indoor and outdoor spaces

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Japanese studio Apollo Architects & Associates has completed Esprit House, a home in Tokyo with a blocky concrete form elevated on piloti above a garage space. Apollo Architects & Associates has completed a home in Tokyo. "In Structural engineer: Motoi Nomura Structures. metres wide.

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Inaba Williams creates mirrored stucco-clad residences in California

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The two structures are mirrors of each other and are divided by a courtyard with a privacy wall in the middle Set on 40-foot (12-metre) wide lots, the linear homes measure only 20 feet (6 metres) at their widest, leaving plenty of space for outdoor areas on either side of the house for residents to enjoy.

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Robert Gurney clads gabled Delaware house with cedar shingles

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Robert Gurney Architect has completed a beachfront house in Delaware Robert Gurney Architect , a studio based in Washington DC, took cues from the local vernacular to conceive a holiday home for an empty-nester couple. The house acts as "a modern retreat" with an emphasis on views and indoor-outdoor living.

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