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MAY 10, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Clad in New Zealand-grown Monterey cypress, a timber that omits a fragrant, spicy scent, the entry nook is a cave-like space. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. On a secluded wooded site, the new structure grounds itself to the earth with its approach to material and form. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

Both buildings also have mass timber frames, wooden interior finishes and brick facades. Structural timber elements were left exposed inside Mills Hall contains four classrooms and 12 faculty offices, all of which are afforded views, daylight and operable windows for natural ventilation. The photography is by Michael Moran.

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Deezen

MAY 4, 2024

The teaching space is located on the 35-acre estate of the charity Harmeny Education Trust, which provides specialist education for children who have experienced severe trauma. The vocational spaces have been designed to mimic workshop or creative environments to familiarise the students with potential types of future workplaces," they added.

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Deezen

APRIL 20, 2024

The materials aim to complement local architecture Bury Gate Farm has a stepped plan, with living spaces positioned to the south and organised linearly along the colonnade. "The challenge was how to craft sensitive contemporary design that responds to and enhances this protected landscape without resorting to historic mimicry," he continued.

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

Prioritising natural light, Oliver Leech Architects expanded the ground floor with an open living, dining and kitchen space, which meets the existing building with a large skylight and a window seat overlooking a small courtyard. We saw this central skylight as the central anchor to the new house, surrounded by all the key spaces," he added.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

This home at the foot of Camelback Mountain in Arizona has been thoroughly renovated by 180 Degrees Design + Build and CBTWO Architects with updated finishes and a new double-height living room. The team completely re-clad the exterior of the 4,930-square-foot (458-square-metre) home in a white stucco finish.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

A large stairwell takes up a third of the living space in Light-Filled Stair Hall, a compact family home designed by Tokyo -based Kiri Architects. Kiri Architects principal Keisuke Kiri decided to expand the staircase so that it could become a social space for occupants, rather than just a route between the home's two storeys.

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Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2024

It is an addition to a Long Island home The team conceived a two-storey addition that contains a painting studio on the upper level and an exhibition space down below that doubles as a garage. Interior finishes include birch plywood , which was used for flooring, walls and cabinetry. The ground floor also has a powder room.

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Dwell

MAY 1, 2024

They enclosed a balcony to create a larger living area, finished it in cedar and Douglas fir, and then peppered in beloved furnishings. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Built in 1905 in the Edwardian style, Lea Bridge Library in Waltham Forest backs onto a large green space called Friendship Gardens, which the new community wing overlooks through a fully-glazed facade. Hybridised public spaces combine and maximise collective resources, and are unexpected engine rooms for community connection," he continued.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The limestone-clad facades are decorated by perforated metal screens "The stonework has both honed and textured finishes to minimise strong surface reflections and allow building facades and edges to recede and not overwhelm the townscape," architect Chris Ravenscroft told Dezeen. The photography is courtesy of John McAslan + Partners.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The chambers are enclosed by sandstone-clad walls of varying heights and designed by BDR Architekci to provide space for "peaceful reflection" without religious references. We wanted to build a place open to people, full of greenery, with its own structure and order," Basan added. There is also an opening leading to the central chapel.

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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. Interior finishes include ash cabinetry, large-format porcelain floor tiles, and ceramic tiles around the fireplace.

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Deezen

MAY 18, 2022

A mix of textured timber cladding animates walls throughout the Creative Centre teaching space, which London studio Tate+Co has created for York St John University in England. Tate+Co has completed a teaching space for York St John University. Tate+Co has completed a teaching space for York St John University.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

To protect the library from the summer sun, Atelier WOA wrapped the top of the building with a white aluminium screen, which is finished with small angular perforations. It has a timber structure According to Atelier WOA, this design acts as "an invitation to enter".

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2024

New York firm RKTB Architects has completed One Sullivan Place, a mixed-income apartment building that rises 12 storeys and cantilevers in two directions over the rooftop of an adjacent structure. Appearing as two distinct buildings, the structure has a front facade along Sullivan Place and a front facade along Washington Avenue.

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Dwell

JANUARY 4, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Tom and Amandine were keen to create a five-bedroom home that maximized living space, a sense of height, and access to nature for their growing family. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

JANUARY 2, 2024

The ADU is part of a family estate During the design process, they looked to farm structures that dot Sonoma Valley, many of which are dilapidated and have "their own strange elegance", the team said. It was also designed to appear demure yet dynamic upon approach One volume is square-shaped and holds an open-plan communal space.

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Deezen

JUNE 22, 2022

Oliver Leech Architects ' introduced a pair of brick extensions to the side and rear of the ground floor, creating a large skylit living, dining and kitchen space overlooking the garden and two planted courtyards. Green finishes have been used in the bathrooms. Structural engineer: Momentum Structural Engineers.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 20, 2023

"We looked to the bush – those forested, undeveloped areas of nature that surround the house – while allowing the built structures to adapt to the natural terrain," the studio said. The roof planes fold down along the perimeter of each pavilion, turning to copper screens that create shadow patterns on the interior spaces.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

The main living spaces are located on the top floor, with private spaces below "Deep recesses in the otherwise unmitigated building envelope allow for framed views," the architecture studio said. The top floor contains an open-plan living room, dining area and kitchen, along with a mud room and storage space.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Its space are connected by a central space "These materials are intended to be durable and sustainable," the team said of the exterior cladding. The interior spaces have stark white walls and ceilings The ground level contains a garage, storage space, gym, bathroom and small kitchen. The photography is by Jennifer Hughes.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2023

The home, called Wabi Sabi Residence and completed in 2020 is a 4,000-square-foot (370-square metre) structure on a nine-acre lot in the Wasatch Range. The south volume holds public gathering spaces. It uses a blackened stained finish on its facade. Civil engineer: McNeil Engineering. Photo is by Lucy Call.

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Deezen

JANUARY 30, 2023

Vancouver-based studio BattersbyHowat Architects has completed a parallelogram-shaped, mountainside home clad in standing seam metal that includes a detached sauna structure in Whistler , British Columbia. The home's texture is created by a custom staircase that serves as a screen between the circulation and seating spaces.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Bright white plaster clads the Burnet Road Offices Dating to 1961, the complex, which consists of three semi-connected structures, had served a range of functions over the years. That space won multiple design awards, but it no longer met the firm's needs. "As The material palette includes maple flooring and premium drywall.

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Dwell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Architecture studio Raumus applied flattering finishes and created flexible spaces for work, play, and family living. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners.

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Home Housing Renovation Structural Engineering 135

Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2024

An open-tread staircase has been added to the hallway Alterations to the 198-square-metre home's interior are first seen in its entrance, where a stair with open treads and a white-steel balustrade replaces a solid timber structure that previously restricted light from a skylight above. The photography is by Tom Ferguson.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The structure stands on one ‘leg,’ suspended over a terrace to create an open-air ‘living room’ sheltered from rain and snow. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The house balances above a wooden terrace It features a large cantilever that elevates the living spaces 4.25 metres above ground and creates a sheltered outdoor space. Finished in white-washed oak, with vertical timber panelling to also reference treehouses, it has one main space with views out to the forest.

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Architizer

AUGUST 7, 2022

It was important for the design team to create exterior spaces for the clients that would highlight and expand access to the landscape, while also considering the need for private refuge and comfort. How have your clients responded to the finished project? © Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture. Telegraph Hill Residence Gallery.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The interior spaces are generous and airy Within the home, one finds generous, airy rooms that engage with the natural environment. The spaces draw in the surrounding landscape The ground level holds an open-plan kitchen, living room and dining area. Large stretches of glass break up the cladding and bring in natural light.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

IJBoulevard delivers new public space, bringing bicycles underground to free up space at street level whilst providing a new living room for the city," said the studio. Three prefabricated hollow elements were transported to the site by river and placed onto 72 concrete piles to form the internal spaces and the boulevard above.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Vertical wood slats wrap the base The arrangement creates makes the structure appear balanced atop a slate staircase that provides a rustic base for the home's clean white lines. The primary suite contains a balcony forming the cantilever and an extension to the east to give the suite more space.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Partition walls and tables are mounted on castors for flexibility "The goal was to create a workspace that leaves zero waste in its wake, constructed entirely from readily available materials without applied finishes," he stated. Rolls of denim form a semi-circular reception desk The colour blue is a recurring theme throughout the space.

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The Spaces

JULY 5, 2023

After creating the blueprints, their design was reviewed by structural engineers, the Johnstones told CNN in 2012. The circular volume is the primary living space, with floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room, kitchen and four bedrooms.

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Architizer

MAY 11, 2022

The design sensitively accommodating the need for more space and program for a young family without detriment to the surrounding landscape. The distinctly modern forms contrast with the organic surrounds they occupy but the materiality and scale of the structures make them ‘of the landscape’… like they fit right in.

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