Archinect

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Tadao Ando, the house features a concrete exterior in keeping with the acclaimed architect’s streamlined brutalist ethos. In the couple of dozen months that Ye has owned the property, the music performer and designer removed the home’s interiors, leaving it essentially gutted.

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Deezen

JULY 13, 2022

Japanese practice Nori Architects has completed Minimum House in Toyota, Japan , as a "new prototype of urban housing" designed to reduce construction waste and be easily repaired or adapted in the future. Minimum House was designed by Nori Architects. The interior of the home was lined with wood.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Dutch studio Francois Verhoeven Architects has completed Villa K340, a house in The Hague formed of interlocking blocks finished with contrasting timber and plaster. The garage at the front of the home is topped by a green roof. The studio also completed Villa SG21, a blackened wood home with a turfed roof in Rotterdam.

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The Architecture Designs

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Exterior finishes are like the protective armor and the beautiful coat for our homes. They do two important jobs: shield our homes from tough weather and make them look pretty. If we ignore the outside of our homes, it can cause big problems and expensive fixes. But that’s not the end of the story.

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Deezen

APRIL 24, 2024

Planted balconies surround open living spaces at this house in Bangalore , designed by Indian studio 4site Architects for a nature-loving family. Named House of Greens, the four-bedroom home is informed by Bangalore's history of green spaces and parks, which have earned it the moniker of the "garden city" of India.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 7, 2022

RIBA has announced a winner in this year’s House of the Year contest via the final episode of the Grand Designs: House of the Year program, which aired on the BBC’s Channel 4 earlier today.

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Deezen

APRIL 30, 2024

Architecture studio Unknown Works has renovated a terraced London house called Oasis, adding a side and rear extension to create a flexible interior and maximise natural light. Its other recent projects include CLT House , which also features modular furniture on wheels, and an "otherworldly" music studio in a garden.

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Avontuura

APRIL 1, 2024

The proximity to the sea influenced the choice of exterior finishes. The post Ivo Tavares Studio captures house with three volumes by Rui Rosmaninho Arquiteto in Ria de Aveiro appeared first on Åvontuura. Concrete, corten, and ceramic ensure low maintenance of the building.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Named Clinic in Anif, the two-storey project by Steiner Architecture houses a ground-floor respiratory clinic along with two individual apartment units on the upper floor. The home interiors offer a similarly subtle material palette with off-white walls and black steel detailing, though complemented instead with pale wooden flooring.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2022

Exposed, white-painted concrete contrasts a delicate, skylit metal staircase at this minimalist house in Mataró, Barcelona , designed by local practice Vallribera Arquitectes. Vallribera Arquitectes has created a three-storey row house in Barcelona. We envision the courtyard as another room in the house, without a roof," it added.

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Habitus Living

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The Curated Finishes Collection highlights a range of both new and established finishes by Phoenix. Designed for versatility and sophistication, The Curated Finishes Collection explores connection through organic form, textural depth, and light. Browse The Curated Finishes Collection here. Phoenix phoenixtapware.com.au

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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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Deezen

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Presented at this year's Designblok festival in Prague , Cake Houses is a modular home concept that allows clients to design bespoke homes via an online configurator. Above: the first Cake Houses project was completed this year. Above: the first Cake Houses project was completed this year.

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Deezen

APRIL 23, 2024

"The North Fork is a place of simple barns, farms and quaint harbors, and it is from there that we drew our inspiration for the buildings of the house," said Texas-based Lake Flato Architects , the founders of which recently received the AIA Gold Medal. In the winter, the house can be buttoned up and protected from harsh coastal weather.

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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

MARCH 21, 2024

Architecture studio Fala Atelier decked out the angular spaces of the 087 house in Lisbon with oversized spots and stripes, which also feature on its bold marble facade. Designed by Porto-based studio Fala Atelier , 087 is a three-storey home in the Portuguese capital with a rectilinear facade decorated with chunky marble shapes.

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Deezen

MAY 24, 2023

Promotion: an office with plaster walls that looks like rammed earth and a hotel bar with ombre walls, which fade from fiery red to burnt orange feature in this roundup of interiors finished in custom plaster walls by British brand Clayworks.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

An angular black volume sits atop a cork-clad ground floor to form Casa 9, a home that Italian studio LCA Architetti has added to a valley on the border between Italy and Switzerland. A paved walkway runs along the front of the home's ground floor, which has a rectangular footprint designed to match the forms of the surrounding buildings.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In doing so, we unified the house across one level, transforming the ease with which you move through the house and ensuring generous ceiling heights." The studio used natural materials and simple interior finishes throughout the property. The photography is by Lorenzo Zandri.

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Dwell

MARCH 21, 2022

Thinking they’d stick around a while, Stuart and Melody Coleman partnered with Oliver Leech Architects to redesign their interwar home so it included open living areas where they could spend quality time with their two young children. We named it Hipped House for the striking roof form," says founder and firm director Oliver Leech.

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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. Clay plaster and rammed earth from the waste soil of Brussels building sites are used for finishing. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

APRIL 21, 2024

Walls of exposed concrete define this skinny house in Saitama, Japan , which local studio IGArchitects designed with a width of just 2.7 Named 2700, the home is designed for a young couple on a long and thin site left over following a road expansion in the city, which is close to Tokyo. The home has a width of 2.7

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Deezen

APRIL 17, 2024

A large tree lies at the heart of a cedar-clad residence in southern California designed by US studio Brett Farrow Architect, which used various tactics to "meld nature into the home's ethos". The design of the home is a reflection on the natural environment and climate of coastal southern California," the studio said.

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Deezen

APRIL 3, 2024

Thick walls of local stone shelter Caochan na Creige, a home in Scotland 's Outer Hebrides by local practice Izat Arundell designed to "sit respectfully in the landscape". Looking to blend the home in with its dramatic surroundings, Izat Arundell finished the simple, timber-frame structure with blocks of local stone called Lewisian Gneiss.

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Deezen

MARCH 6, 2024

Japanese studio Akio Isshiki Architects has updated a house in Osaka by adding a multi-level void designed to maximise light and encourage play. Named House in Hattori-Tenjin, the 30-year-old dwelling is located on a dense residential street in the port city and previously had a dark, "standardised" interior.

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Deezen

APRIL 20, 2024

A "classical" two-storey colonnade characterises this family home in the South Downs National Park , completed by London studio Sandy Rendel Architects. 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.

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Deezen

JANUARY 2, 2022

Hacker Architects has renovated a 1970s house in central Oregon , removing walls to create a more spacious layout and preserving original design features that lend the home a "retro spirit". The home enjoys stunning natural surroundings, which the team sought to highlight throughout the renovation.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Mexican studio Taller Héctor Barroso has used concrete, wood and brick to create a series of holiday homes that merge with the wooded landscape and "allow nature to act in the intimacy of the home". Taller Hector Barroso has created a series of holiday homes in Mexico. Each house faces a central courtyard.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Architecture studio NYAWA has restored and updated a traditional timber home in Toyama, Japan , to create a pared-back holiday home where visitors can "feel the passage of time". However], we thought that simply leaving the old things and cleaning them up would not complete what is comfortable for people today," he added.

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2024

Geneva-based architect Stef Claes took cues from mid-century and local architecture to create House in the Fields, a low-lying home in the Belgian countryside. Set within a wide agricultural landscape, the home has white-painted walls and black accents, which Claes said draws on mid-century modern buildings in the United States.

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Deezen

JANUARY 7, 2024

Textured concrete designed to withstand the Mediterranean climate defines Shift House, a tiered holiday home by Nomo Studio on the island of Menorca. Shift House is formed of displaced rectangular volumes built into the hillside, finished with a facade of alternating striated concrete walls and continuous window bands.

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2024

A lattice facade and tropical plants wrap around the walls of this home , which local studio Wallflower Architecture + Design has created alongside Singapore Botanic Gardens. Named Touching Eden House, the home was designed to celebrate the surrounding greenery and is enveloped in a dark timber lattice.

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Dwell

APRIL 8, 2024

If you’ve always dreamed of owning a home by the legendary architect, here are three properties ranging from $790K to $899K. Given how cherished his homes are, it’s not every day that one pops up on the market, let alone at a price point of less than $1,000,000. The Burleigh House (J.J.

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Deezen

JANUARY 2, 2024

A zigzagging plan was used to bring "spatial depth" to the small site of House in Fujiidera, a family home in Osaka , Japan , designed by local studio FujiwaraMuro Architects. Previous projects by the studio include another home near Osaka with "maze-like" concrete walls and The photography is by Katsuya Taira.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Raw finishes and "as found" materials informed by brutalist architecture are used throughout this home , which Portuguese studio Atelier Local has created on a nature reserve near Porto. 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.

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The Architecture Designs

APRIL 5, 2024

Flooring is often ignored in house decor projects. The Power of Floor Painting Paint your flooring to add depth, character, and uniqueness to your home. The Power of Floor Painting Paint your flooring to add depth, character, and uniqueness to your home. These natural components can calm any room.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

A slide that doubles as a bookshelf in a South Korean house and a swooping mirrored tunnel that descends the four levels of a New York apartment feature in our latest lookbook of homes with interior slides. The back-lit slides drop down to the home's underground level.

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