The Architecture Designs

MAY 8, 2024

While a set of decisions is involved in it, one of the most powerful decisions includes window placement. A blend of historic charm and modern living takes place in San Antonio, Texas, which gives the placement of windows a significant role for enhancing interior and exterior aesthetics.

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Archinect

JANUARY 26, 2024

The Preston Hollow House blurs the lines between indoors and out. A floating pavilion roof hovers over the interior and exterior spaces while sliding glass panels and corrugated concrete walls define its courtyards. The house is open and light-filled yet provides seclusion from the street.

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Deezen

JUNE 19, 2022

Architecture studio Taller Héctor Barroso has fully revamped the decades-old DDH House in Mexico City for a family of five, including new facades clad in dark brown stucco that looks black. The DDH House sits on an irregularly shaped lot in the Lomas de Chapultepec neighbourhood in Mexico City.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Irregularly placed square openings puncture the thick concrete exterior of SV House in Portugal , recently completed by architecture studio Spaceworkers. Internally, these openings focus on framing pieces of the distant landscape, or even the sky, avoiding the surroundings punctuated by houses."

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Westeck News

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Westeck’s “Full Finish” Windows and Doors. Alluring and awe inspiring, Westeck’s Full Finish painted window frames and patio doors in black or anthracite look fabulous in a contemporary custom built home. The “Full Finish” refers to the frame being painted on the interior and the exterior.

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Archinect

MARCH 21, 2023

A façade of smooth plaster and cedar siding bundle the interior rooms with strategically placed exterior spaces, producing long sightlines throughout the interior. Telescoping doors and windows extend the living, dining, and kitchen seamlessly out to the entry garden and the interior pool terrace.

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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 bedrooms and bathrooms are stacked on the opposite end with windows that look out east and west. The primary suite cantilevers slightly out from the perimeter of the foundation with a glazed corner.

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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. It is naturally fireproof along with steel-plate window frames."

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Called Peninsula House, the dwelling is located near the town of Flinders, overlooking the Bass Strait and surrounded by farmland. Peninsula House has a curved form crafted from rammed earth Instead of designing an orthogonal volume, Wood Marsh took cues from the shape of the coastline and the meandering paths leading to the site.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Local studio Hopson Rodstrom Design placed a sawtooth roof on top of this black-clad apartment building with an interior courtyard in southern California. Its facade is interspersed with many skinny windows The seven-storey structure has a ground-level podium clad in green-painted concrete interspersed with steel gates.

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Deezen

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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Deezen

JUNE 7, 2023

Occupying a corner plot, the house appears as a solid block with only a recessed doorway and garage breaking the solid white walls. HW Studio creates austere white home in Mexico to evoke "sense of security" "Pretty intense spaces" Readers were unsure about the house, especially due to its few windows. Yawn," they continued.

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Deezen

JANUARY 8, 2024

The building is part of an industrial complex that produces animal feed The office and meeting spaces were distributed along the internal perimeter, with one side abutting floor-to-ceiling windows that span the exterior and the other, a central passageway. Large windows extend along its side.

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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. Settled on the edge of a meadow surrounded by spruce trees, the massing of the two-bedroom, rectangular house follows the natural grade, never rising more than 15 feet (4.5

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Deezen

MAY 21, 2023

From a plant-enclosed terrace in Mexico to a large rooftop garden set beneath a metal pergola in Tokyo, Dezeen's latest lookbook highlights eight interiors with impressive balconies and terraces. For more inspiration see previous lookbooks featuring cave-like interiors , gallery interiors , and garden swimming pools.

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

Spanish studio Plantea Estudio has completed a cafe and bakery inside an early 20th-century building in Madrid , contrasting the original dark tones of the interior with modern steel surfaces. The interior space was quite dark, only connected to the exterior part by two openings in a structural wall," Morán recalled. "So

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Dezeen's latest lookbook explores eight interiors – from bright, airy residential spaces to cool, open-plan offices – illuminated by perforated brick walls. This lookbook highlights their effect on the lighting and shading of interior spaces and how they can be used to create a playful, light atmosphere.

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Architecture Ideas

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

When it comes to designing the exterior of your home, choosing suitable materials can make all the difference. Exterior house stone is a popular choice for homeowners looking to add elegance and durability to their home’s exterior. Let’s see types of exterior house stone.

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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. Mature trees, which were planted in the hollow interiors of the columns, spring out of the roof line.

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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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Deezen

JANUARY 27, 2024

Local practice NAAW Studio has converted a former Soviet railway workers' housing block into the Fika restaurant in Almaty, Kazakhstan , retaining original features of 1950s building. We wanted to make it an extension of the city through a lack of unnecessary walls, an open bakery, spacious seating and large windows." "To

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Architecture Ideas

MARCH 15, 2022

That is the reason why many prefer to go with shades of this in-between color, which can be the case when choosing exterior house colors as well. Are Grey House Exterior Color Schemes Suitable for Houses? That is where grey house color schemes might seem to hold back. Source: optimainmobiliaria.com.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Called House in Ancede, the house sits on the site of a former stone ruin that it was required to roughly match in terms of its footprint and volume. Atelier Local has created House in Ancede "The house is a reconstruction of sorts," said the studio's co-founders Maria Rebelo and João Paupério.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Mexican architecture studio Lucio Muniain has created Casa HMZ, a brutalist house with raw board-formed concrete walls in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. The house was entirely constructed in raw, grey concrete The heavy rectangular house sits on a golf course, where its solid appearance contrasts with its surroundings.

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Deezen

JANUARY 25, 2024

D'Arcy Jones added a subterranean garage to the Canadian house Built in 1910, the residence is located on a sloped property. While many houses in the area back up to laneways, this home is sandwiched between two streets. The garage's exterior is meant to blend with the rest of the house. The photography is by Ema Peter.

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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

JANUARY 3, 2024

Michael Hsu Office of Architecture renovated an early 20th-century house in Austin Originally constructed in 1912, the home was once a brothel and had many renovations, becoming the first building south of the city's Colorado River to have power. The ground floor consists of multiple indoor and outdoor gathering spaces.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Dutch architecture office Studio Prototype has built a house with a hexagonal footprint in an area of Amsterdam with relaxed planning regulations. Edge House is located in Route 1066, an area in Nieuw Sloten where landowners have the greater freedom to build as long as houses meet certain criteria.

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Dwell

APRIL 13, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The house is situated on a typical grazing meadow in the region—a blank canvas that allowed the project to start from scratch. These are the elements that connect the house to the land."

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Deezen

JANUARY 23, 2024

The simple, 450-square foot (42-square metre) structure, known as Tonalli House, was completed in 2023 in Jocotepec, Jalisco, minutes from Lake Chapala, the country's largest lake. From the outside, the house is a solid white cube, punctuated with strategic openings. A solar heater provides hot water for the house.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Brazilian studio Bloco Arquitetos has used prefabricated elements to create a house with two stacked, perpendicular volumes clad with screens in Brasília. Known as the 350 House, the 500-square metre residence can be completely opened to light and views or closed for privacy because of the many screens along its side.

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Architecture Ideas

JUNE 1, 2023

You may not know this, but Crittall windows and doors got their start in the 1880s. Sure, they’re still immensely popular as windows and internal doors, but they’re also used for everything from room dividers to shower screens. Why Are Crittall-Style Windows and Doors So Popular?

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Deezen

JANUARY 27, 2024

Paris-based lifestyle brand Kitsuné has opened a cafe next to its boutique in Silver Lake, Los Angeles , both with minimalist interiors featuring white oak and stainless steel. Back in 2017, French designer Mathieu Lehanneur designed the Kitsuné store interior in New York's Soho , adding snaking metal rails for displaying garments.

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Deezen

MARCH 31, 2024

The 19th-century villas in the suburbs of Paris informed the arched windows and sloping roofs of this social housing block in France , completed by local studio SOA Architectes. Previous projects by SOA Architectes include the 21-storey mixed use Aya Tower in Beirut, for which the studio drew on traditional Arabian houses.

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Deezen

APRIL 8, 2024

Scalloped facades featuring tones of cream and red brick define a U-shaped housing block by Bell Phillips in Marylebone in central London. The fluted facade motif echoes the circular columns and arched windows of a nearby Grade II* listed church and is repeated at different scales across the building.

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Dwell

MARCH 21, 2024

Designed by architect Pascal Truffaut, the countryside home has colorful interiors, a wave-like roof, and a bedroom suspended above the living area. Arranged in double height, it is designed as the central space of the house and offers an airy and bright volume. A large, separate kitchen served by two doors has exterior access.

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