Five Glass-Wrapped Homes Living Life on the Edge
ArchDaily
DECEMBER 18, 2023
The following homes show how prized nearby waterbodies can be better utilized with great architecture and design. Read more »
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ArchDaily
DECEMBER 18, 2023
The following homes show how prized nearby waterbodies can be better utilized with great architecture and design. Read more »
Dwell
MARCH 11, 2024
In central Tokyo, a family of four sought to trade high-rise apartment living for a home with more space and tranquility—while staying within the heart of the city. "We Accordingly, Nakamura and team sought to create a transcendent home centered around nature. 87 pieces of optical glass—each measuring 13.1 feet tall and 3.3
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Deezen
JULY 17, 2022
For our latest lookbook , we've chosen 10 residential glass extensions that create airy, light-filled and modern additions to homes. Glass is a popular material for house extensions as it is durable, weather-resistant and – thanks to its transparency – adds light and brightness to a space. Photo is by Will Pryce.
Deezen
JANUARY 16, 2023
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. Inside, a minimal palette of materials defines the home.
ArchDaily
JANUARY 23, 2024
Fast forward to the present day, and contemporary architects and designers in Brazil continue to embrace the challenge of creating indoor-outdoor homes that nod to the country's tropical climate.
designboom
MARCH 10, 2024
casa mendoza' is a renovated home by la base studio in buenos aires, shaped as a glass box wrapped in a timber screen. The post la base studio designs ‘casa mendoza’ as a glass box in a private garden appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
ArchDaily
JUNE 1, 2023
Courtesy of Western Window Systems Incorporating indoor-outdoor living into a home isn’t just limited to warm climates and beach front properties. Connecting homes to nature through copious amounts of glass creates serene environments while maintaining stable home temperatures.
Archinect
JANUARY 19, 2024
Foster + Partners has completed a new home for Greenville County administrators in South Carolina. The new Greenville County Administration Building spans four stories and is designed with a glass curtain wall that “symbolically removes the boundary between the public and government officials.”
Dwell
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Photo by Wiebke Martens Photo by Wiebke Martens See the full story on Dwell.com: In New Jersey, a 1960s Home With a Heart of Glass Lists for $995K Related stories: Emma Stone Lists Her Pastel-Filled Los Angeles Pad for $4M In Boulder, a Slate Gray Mountain Home With a Snow-White Interior Seeks $2M South of Big Sur, an ’80s Home Packed With Handcrafted (..)
Dwell
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
From prefab tiny houses and modular cabin kits to entire homes ready to ship, their projects represent some of the best ideas in the industry. In 2012 they launched Connect Homes with fifteen designs as part of its original Design Series. California prefab builder Connect Homes’ units span between 460 and 3,200 square feet in size.
Deezen
NOVEMBER 24, 2022
Local studio Geddes Ulinskas Architects has completed an expansive home in Cow Hollow, San Francisco with indoor-outdoor spaces, a cast glass staircase and stone detailing. The Bay Area studio designed the 12,000-square foot (1,114-square metre) home on a vacant 0.26 The Cow Hollow home is defined by indoor-outdoor spaces.
Dwell
AUGUST 15, 2022
acres From the agent : " An icon of ’80s modern architecture, this 1986 home in Portland Heights was originally designed by celebrated Portland architect Robert Thompson, founding principal of TVA Architects. Architect Robert Thompson built the home in 1986, just before he began the Nike World Campus project the following year.
Avontuura
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Studio ZOZO says MAE-AN-GEO means the home of Maesan-ri, where you can rest comfortably with plum blossoms. The post This village community center in South Korea is built in modules with glass towers appeared first on Åvontuura.
Deezen
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Local architecture firm La Base Studio has renovated a glass and concrete home, wrapping it in a delicate privacy and shading screen on a lush site in Buenos Aires , Argentina. The location exposes the home to onlookers, so the design responds to views differently between the levels. The photography is by Cristóbal Palma.
Archinect
APRIL 7, 2023
A new gift facilitated by the Ukrainian Red Cross has installed 10 new “foldable” modular home designs from Hapi Homes, LLC. The company says: “The prefabricated homes are prebuilt and folded by Hapi Homes and assembled on-site. The homes will be located on a 2.4-acre
Archinect
OCTOBER 10, 2023
MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects has completed an oceanside home on Nova Scotia’s South Shore described as “a prototype for modest living.” ” Image credit: James Brittain Externally, the home features minimally detailed eaves, corners, and openings to “underscore and elevate the architectural simplicity.
Deezen
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Looking Glass Lodge is situated within the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and was developed for a client whose parents established a nature reserve there in the 1960s. The building is set on a sloping site in the grounds of the client's family home. Looking Glass Lodge is clad in timber.
Building and Interiors
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Today, we are going to talk about one such man-made material – glass. Glass is a non-crystalline and transparent solid material that is highly versatile.
Deezen
MARCH 21, 2023
Specht Architects has designed a symmetrical glass pavilion in The Berkshires in Massachusetts that was created as a residence and a place to showcase antiques. metre) wide porch that wraps around the entire house and shades the interior spaces, reducing the home's heating and cooling load. The photography is by Dror Baldinger.
Avontuura
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
The post Ricardo Azevedo Arquitecto designs glass house around garden in Porto appeared first on Åvontuura. Casa de Lavra is the reflection of the relation that architecture can create between the space and the client.
Avontuura
DECEMBER 18, 2023
The project reinterprets and expands on the glass house typology through its dynamic relationship to the native landscape. The post NO ARCHITECTURE design glass house organized as interlocking pavilions around a central courtyard appeared first on Åvontuura.
BD+C
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Style Meets Safety with Fire Rated Glass Fences 1 kcichowicz Thu, 09/21/2023 - 12:53 SAFTI FIRST For homes and developments built near or in wildland-urban interface (WUI) areas and designated fire zones, fire rated glass fences introduce a remarkable innovation that seamlessly combines safety and aesthetics.
Deezen
AUGUST 9, 2023
A blocky pink form and curving glass walls define House R3, a residence by Bangkok studio PHTAA on a compact roadside site in Thailand. Made from concrete, the 400-square-metre home features living spaces across five levels to maximise the available space for a family of five. The photography is by Kukkong Thirathomrongkiat.
Deezen
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Completed in 2019 on the eastern end of Long Island , New York, the 8,300-square foot (770-square metre) home has a board-formed mass with punched windows, natural materials and light-filled spaces. The home has a poolhouse with an outdoor shower. Read: Ten of the best homes in the Hamptons. The photography is by Adam Macchia.
Deezen
MARCH 8, 2024
Large rocks from the surrounding area are suspended in a gabion wall around The Infinite Rise, a holiday home in southern India by local architecture practice Earthscape Studio. Along the more enclosed back of the home to the south is a retaining wall, which is also built using stones sourced from the site and left exposed. "We
Architonic
NOVEMBER 5, 2023
The following homes, for example, taken from the <a href="[link] target="_blank" rel=nofollow">ArchDaily</a> and <a href="[link] target="_blank" >Architonic</a> project archives, show how prized nearby waterbodies can be better utilised with great architecture and design.</p>
Deezen
AUGUST 14, 2023
Designed to help connect the home to its garden, the extension was designed to turn a house that suffered from dark and small spaces into a light-filled home with glass walls that frame views of nature. The floor was dropped one metre below the existing home "The existing kitchen was dark and not large enough for a dining space.
Deezen
JANUARY 24, 2022
The home is sited at the foot of a hill and divided into three volumes that encompass 1,900 square feet (177 square metres). The weathered steel skin provides privacy and protection from the harsh desert climate, while glass volumes in public spaces act as eyes taking in every magnificent vista," said the architects. Geotech: AGEC.
Dwell
MARCH 14, 2024
Latin America is known for iconic midcentury architecture, from Luis Barragán’s Mexico City houses to Lina Bo Bardi’s glass-walled Casa de Vidro in São Paulo. And its primary laboratory, the site of its most audacious experiments, was the home.
Dwell
JANUARY 12, 2024
In a celebration of structural steel, the home is held aloft by four heroic columns, minimizing the impact on the site. Less an object in the landscape than a machine that dissolves the boundary between indoors and outdoors, the home is a study in restraint. Fred Hollingsworth’s Midcentury Lantern House Lists for $3.3M
Building and Interiors
OCTOBER 4, 2023
What function do you believe a window has in a home’s curb appeal? These are important components of any structure that allows natural light and air to pass through. The house‘s appeal is boosted by the design and style of the windows.
Dwell
JULY 12, 2022
The redesign by Will Gamble Architects includes a sunken room to overlook the conservation area surrounding the home. The pergola structure provides solar shading to the glazed facade, while triple glazing with solar reflective glass improves the thermal efficiency of the building’s envelope."
Architectural Record
OCTOBER 2, 2023
From shrinking lot sizes to a boon of renovations, smaller homes don’t mean smaller living. Architects are looking at abundant glass and indoor-outdoor living to make the most of every square inch.
Dwell
AUGUST 3, 2022
This 8,500-square-foot home is the creation of well-known architectural firm Leroy Street Studio, Manhattan. The home’s architectural design is a mathematical masterpiece where individual cubes appear to fold into each other in intricate ceiling and window elevations, only to reveal large open spaces that invite nature’s energy inside."
The Architecture Designs
MARCH 27, 2024
Back-painted glass has become popular among people who like interior design because it looks sleek and modern. Today, we will talk about painting on glass and why water-based paint is better for back-painted glass projects. Ease of Application One of the best things about water-based paint is its ease of use.
Dwell
JANUARY 17, 2024
acres From the Agent : " Casa Karina is a modern home in San Miguel de Allende, which perfectly blends contemporary design with eye-catching rustic elements. This stylish home hosts two spacious bedrooms, each with their own private en suite bathroom. Pierre Koenig’s Steel-and-Glass Schwartz House Hits the Market for $4.6M
designboom
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
The post sigurd larsen tops weekend home in german countryside with clear glass gable roof appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. thanks to the large openings and the transparent roof, occupants can gaze out at the changing landscape all year long.
designboom
NOVEMBER 24, 2022
the renovated home offers a new spatial ambiance that bridges reality with virtuality through a poetic arrangement of glass bricks and mirrors. The post a renovated glass-brick volume, ‘coco house’ in vietnam evokes otherworldly nostalgia appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
Habitus Living
NOVEMBER 12, 2023
No wonder, then, that when one of Sydney’s most prestigious interior designers approached some of Australia’s premier glass artists, the result was something special. The aim is to create sculptural objects that, while used at home, can be passed down through the generations.
Dwell
OCTOBER 27, 2022
The brief emerged out of two significant post-lockdown changes for the family: the arrival of another child and a shift to permanently working from home. Cottage a Triumphant Revamp The See-Through Roof of This Brick Home Doubles as a Viewing Deck Craft Guru Amy Tangerine’s Midcentury-Modern Makeover Reflects Her Playful Spirit
The Spaces
JANUARY 19, 2023
Forest bathing reaches new levels at this glass cabin by TNA Architects in Japan’s Nagano Prefecture. Founders of the Tokyo practice, Makoto Takei and Chie Nabeshima, designed the Ring House in 2006, with bands of glass on all four sides.
Dwell
MARCH 18, 2024
Built from stone, cedar, glass, and concrete, the two-story 1975 home is perched above the shore of Lake Ontario. The principal rooms with a 10-foot-6-inch ceiling height and full-height glass are positioned to take advantage of long views of Lake Ontario, creating the feeling of being on top of the water.
Dwell
DECEMBER 4, 2022
Constructed mostly of cinder block & glass, the house is warmly contrasted with oak floors and timbered doors. Centering the house is the dramatic, voluminous, living room and fireplace set against the two-story glass wall embracing the canyon backdrop."
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