Deezen

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Japanese studio Unemori Architects has used cypress wood to create Father & Son House, an extension constructed above and around a self-built annexe in Saitama. The old building, a two-storey annexe, workshop and warehouse built by the carpenter father of the current owner, was also renovated as part of the project.

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Santa Cruz Architect

JANUARY 7, 2024

Renovating or remodeling your home is a thrilling endeavor that allows you to breathe new life into your living space. This article aims to provide practical advice and inspiration for homeowners seeking cost-effective and stylish solutions to renovate or remodel their homes. Setting a budget is equally important.

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Dwell

MARCH 28, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Our client purchased the house in 2017, and sought modern amenities, more interior light, and an expanded living area into the garden. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

San Francisco-based Studio Terpeluk has renovated and expanded Redwood House in Noe Valley with redwood interiors and terraces. Studio Terpeluk renovated an interior in Noe Valley. Studio Terpeluk renovated an interior in Noe Valley. The renovation expanded the home.

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Dwell

JUNE 29, 2022

Design firm Architensions tops a house with another house, subverting the notion of a traditional second-story addition. On the exterior, the striking geometry of the cylinder appears subtracted from the square volume to create a street-facing, semi-circular outdoor patio, which extends from the second-floor bedroom.

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2022

Glazed brick and charred cypress wrap the exterior of a partly sunken North Carolina home designed by architecture firm In Situ Studio. 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.

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Dwell

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. A simple and regular concrete structural grid creates a variety of interior and exterior spaces with views across the Eubean Sea. Have a project to share? Post it here.

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Dwell

MARCH 24, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Claire and Brent are camping enthusiasts, and in response their house is a love letter to the outdoors: a rich, durable environment infused with the grounded ambience of being in nature. Post it here.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

A residential extension wrapped in galvanised metal is positioned over a garden and attached to an old carriage house in this project by Montreal studio Thomas Balaban Architecte. The Berri House is located on a short street in Montreal. The extension is attached to the old carriage house above a garden.

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e-architect

JANUARY 24, 2023

Interior renovation included re-designing the bathrooms and the kitchen / dining area, creating airy relaxed spaces featuring natural materials and playful accents. The classic features of the house were expressed further by modern brass fixtures by Vola and brass light switches by Forbes and Lomax.

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Deezen

JUNE 26, 2023

A terraced landscape and dusty pink surfaces help to brighten Pigment House, a north London residence that has been renovated by local studio Unknown Works. Inside Pigment House, the studio aimed to open up the interior by joining the kitchen and living room, moving away from its original separated Victorian layout.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Mork-Ulnes Architects has completed the Silver Lining House, a crisp, gabled home clad in black-stained cedar that was designed for an architectural photographer and interior designer. Half-polished chrome slats bounce reflections around the stairwell, an effect meant to "mimic the experience of walking through a disco ball".

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Deezen

MAY 16, 2024

Called Zilker Studios, the structure includes 110 affordable apartments operated by local housing organisation Foundation Communities. The mid-rise housing complex consists of a long volume on a narrow site, flanked by outdoor public spaces with a breezeway and an open-air staircase on the far end.

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Deezen

JULY 6, 2023

In Situ Studio has renovated and expanded the mid-century modern childhood home of musician James Taylor in Chapel Hill, North Carolina , into a multi-building complex for two art collectors. The basement level has two bedrooms and a den that opens to the pool deck. The original pine floors were refinished and new paneling was added.

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Dwell

JANUARY 2, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Their vision was to create a modern house nestled in the backyard while preserving the charm of their existing 1940s, 850-square-foot Arts and Crafts bungalow. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

JANUARY 3, 2022

o de Buen and Luis Young have used a green metallic frame to form the structure of an airy apartment built atop an existing building in Mexico City. The Cascada House was designed by Mexican architects Nun?o Cascada House is topped with two sloping roofs. Structural engineering: CAFEL Ingenieri?a.

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e-architect

APRIL 12, 2023

When altering both the interior and exterior, a sensitivity to the existing structure was observed. The siting of the project was influenced by local zoning regulations, however the new mass also yields to the existing house along the north elevation to celebrate the different periods of construction.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2022

Architecture studio SAW incorporated curved elements and multiple staircases in its renovation of a 1930s dwelling that is meant to reconsider the "notion of groundedness". The Wraparound House is located in the Marina District, which stretches along the San Francisco Bay. The Wraparound House is in San Francisco.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Situated between two traditional gable residences, its rectangular plan is fronted with a steel structure that gives it a slick, institutional feel. 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

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

AUGUST 21, 2023

A Cold War-era building designed to withstand nuclear blasts is among the structures that have been renovated by Elkus Manfredi Architects at the newly established Children's National Research & Innovation Campus. The 12-acre (4.8-hectare)

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Completed in April 2022 for Pennsylvania State University Behrend, the Federal House Renovation & Addition project saw the conversion of the oldest brick building in the Harborcreek Township into a modern educational facility. GBBN preserved and expanded a 19th-century house into an educational facility.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Bright white plaster clads the exterior of a 1960s concrete building that has been turned into the self-designed studio of Baldridge Architects, which acted as the designer and contractor. On the exterior, crisp-white plaster was added to the original concrete masonry. Baldridge had the table built for his new studio.

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Deezen

JANUARY 16, 2023

The Apple Tree House is a modernist-style glass residence. This exterior area, in turn, leads back to the main living and dining area, forming a continuous circulation around the tree. The floors throughout the home are polished concrete, which contrasts the stark black colour of the building's exterior.

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aasarchitecture

AUGUST 16, 2022

Wraparound House is an expansive architectural renovation and landscape of a 1930s home in the Marina neighborhood, for a couple with three children. In excavating the top layer of soil, it became feasible to lift the entire house, and to modernize the entire foundation with a relatively thick mat slab. Photo © Paul Dyer.

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Dwell

MARCH 31, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The home had great potential to transform into a more contemporary, streamlined, and noteworthy presence in the area whilst respecting the existing structure and surrounding neighborhood. Post it here.

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Deezen

AUGUST 28, 2022

North River Architecture designed Gallatin Passive House as an extension to an 18th-century farm in upstate New York , repurposing the existing barn as a double-height play space for the owner's three children. The Gallatin Passive House was designed and built by North River Architecture , a firm based in the nearby town of Stone Ridge.

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e-architect

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Berri House, Montréal Building Extension, Québec Real Estate Development, Canadian Architecture Photos. Berri House Building Extension in Montréal. Berri House, Montréal. The cadastral transaction left the new lot with only a small side yard and an boxed-in exterior space at the back. 1 Feb 2022. Photos: Adrien Williams.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Thin wooden slats cover the entire home, drawing cues from historical structures that are meant to provide shelter and natural ventilation at once. The wooden slats that make up the exterior were repurposed from old fences. Two buildings are found on site, a residence and a pool house. A pool house is included on the site.

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aasarchitecture

AUGUST 12, 2022

The project is located in an ordinary village on the outskirts of Beijing, a typical plain-based northern Chinese village mainly composed of one- and two- storey courtyard houses. Most houses in the village face south, and feature red bricks and tiles. The project is the transformation of a courtyard house in the village.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A traditional housing typology with simple row houses facing a linear patio in Mexico City is re-interpreted as a new apartment building for young families," the studio added. Zeller & Moye chose simple, durable finishes for the interior and exterior of the building. Structural engineering: Ricardo Camacho.

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aasarchitecture

AUGUST 2, 2023

The house disengages from the earth, ascends, and relies on a pre-existing structure on which it ultimately leans, becoming its rebellious counterpart. An unanticipated connection with the surrounding landscape is revealed, the house embracing the openness of the atmosphere and the expanse of the sky.

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Deezen

JANUARY 13, 2022

Brooklyn studio CO Adaptive Architecture has renovated an industrial building in the New York borough's Gowanus neighbourhood to create bright and spacious theatre rehearsal spaces. Original brick walls were left in the renovated design. Project credits: MEPS engineers: ABS Engineering. The photography is by Naho Kubota.

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Deezen

JANUARY 13, 2023

American studio ZGF Architects has adapted a historic Ford Motor Company factory in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania into a biomedical research laboratory by renovating existing structures and creating a cantilevered terracotta-clad addition. The Assembly is a renovated factory in Pittsburgh. Structural engineer: Thornton Tomasetti.

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aasarchitecture

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Following that, the firm renovated an office building at 1010 West Lynn, a space which garnered multiple design awards. Photo © Casey Dunn To fuel growth and to provide amenities lacking in prior space, new space was needed which led to the purchase of a set of structures on Burnet Road, a principal Austin commercial arterial.

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Deezen

JUNE 30, 2022

Wheeler Kearns Architects used wood-clad volumes to house functional spaces. In mixed-use living and dining area, the exterior glass is completely clear, offering views of the surrounding farm. The circular shape with aluminium exterior and wood interiors was designed for use for programs such as a farm camp for children.

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e-architect

JANUARY 6, 2022

Venice House, LA Pool, Los Angeles Building Design Project, Californian Real Estate, Interior Architecture Photos, USA. Venice House in Los Angeles. Venice House, LA. The Venice House creates a garden sanctuary in the city. The house roof has been planned for future photovoltaic panels and hot-water solar panels.

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