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JANUARY 3, 2022

Cascada House is topped with two sloping roofs. The apartment encompasses 140 square metres, and connects to the existing home below via an open stairwell. Its profile is defined by two roof slopes, which drain towards a central gutter running along the main axis of the addition. Structural engineering: CAFEL Ingenieri?a.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

The home collects pooled rainfall from its roofs and gray water from its showers and sinks to spray onto the rambla’s remains and regenerate their former ecologic and climatic constitution. Post it here.

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Deezen

JUNE 6, 2022

Francois Verhoeven Architects has completed a house in a Dutch village featuring a roof with three sloping sections that incorporate skylights , sedum and concealed solar panels. Villa K2 features a multi-pitched roof. The home is designed to complement its surroundings. It was clad in vertical timber slats. "At

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Curved ceilings create a cozy feel, but wall-height windows throughout the L-shaped plan keep the home connected to its courtyard. The lower flat roof hangs above the connecting section. The gardens gradually divide the residence and create harmony for the environment both at home and from the outside.

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Dwell

JANUARY 2, 2024

Rather than add an addition to the original structure, their plan was a complementary new companion house: a ruggedly modern home capable of coexisting in balance with the existing house, offering the potential for dual occupancy or future use of either building. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

JUNE 21, 2023

Local architecture firm In Situ Studio wrapped an art museum visitor centre in Raleigh, North Carolina with darkened steel and cantilevered a roof with an aperture over its patio. The roof features a rounded triangle roof opening made of aluminium. The photography is by Estudio Palma. Cabinetry: Xylem, Inc.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

CLB Architects designed a Japanese-influenced home in Wyoming. Locally based CLB Architects noted that the design — influenced by both Japanese architecture and California modernism – is a departure from the mountain modernism typical of vacation homes built in the region. The facade of the home is simple and linear.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

It’s slotted in a row of brick residences but connects with the outdoors via the screens, glazing at the rear, and a skylight roof. The site now sits between two-story brick houses with pitched tile roofs built in the 2000s and already sub-divided into flats. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

JULY 31, 2022

US studio Desai Chia Architecture designed a highly sculptural, waterfront home wrapped in concrete and charred cypress that has vaulted roofs resembling wings. Built as a second home for a family of four, the building sits on a ribbon of land between a golf course and Copake Lake in Upstate New York.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2023

Japanese studio Apollo Architects & Associates has completed Esprit House, a home in Tokyo with a blocky concrete form elevated on piloti above a garage space. Apollo Architects & Associates has completed a home in Tokyo. "In There is a large roof terrace. Structural engineer: Motoi Nomura Structures.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Robert Gurney Architect has completed a beachfront house in Delaware Robert Gurney Architect , a studio based in Washington DC, took cues from the local vernacular to conceive a holiday home for an empty-nester couple. The house acts as "a modern retreat" with an emphasis on views and indoor-outdoor living.

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Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2023

Cedar cladding and large stretches of glass feature in a weekend house called Sonoma Wine Country, which has been enlarged by US studio Feldman Architecture. The original home, completed a few years ago, was designed by San Francisco's Feldman Architecture – and the studio was tapped to expand the dwelling.

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Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2024

Architectural studio Worrell Yeung has completed a two-storey, black-coloured home extension called Springs Artist Studio that is meant to offer the "experience of being perched in the trees". Their home is located in Springs, a hamlet in East Hampton that is popular with artists. The ground floor also has a powder room.

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Deezen

JUNE 8, 2022

The home was designed to achieve three main goals – to make the most of the natural setting, provide ample space for visitors, and accommodate the client's impressive art collection, which features work by artists such as Richard Serra, Deborah Butterfield and Roy Lichtenstein. Windows open the home to the mountains beyond.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Designed for a family of four, the multi-storey home sits on a sloped site in Santa Monica. The central fireplace is made of limestone Exterior walls consist of light-toned stucco and vast stretches of glass. Several areas are lined with patios and balconies shaded by anodized-aluminium louvres.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

Fougeron Architecture reconfigured the residence with floor-to-ceiling glass that enhances views of the stream and a backyard waterfall. The goal was to reconnect this structure with the environment while best utilizing the exceptional site for the clients. "In Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The 6,557-square-foot (609-square-metre) home has two main levels, a basement and a rooftop terrace. Along the street elevation, the base of the home is concrete, while the upper portion consists of vertical screens made of white aluminium. Large stretches of glass break up the cladding and bring in natural light.

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Deezen

MARCH 6, 2023

While the renovation did not expand the footprint, unused attic space was extended from the top floor to the sloped, charcoal-coloured standing-seam metal roof. Ménard Dworkind maximised daylight within the home The design is centred around the curved central block clad in lime plaster. The photography is by David Dworkind.

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Westeck News

APRIL 1, 2022

Our Client Spotlight explores the latest projects from Custom Home Builders, Architects, Designers and Renovation Specialists. This is a great way to learn how together we’re creating homes that move the world forward. Structural Engineer | Chiu Hippmann Engineering Inc. Interior Design | Laura Vroom.

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Deezen

MARCH 2, 2023

US studio CLB Architects has designed a cedar-clad home and barn in Wyoming for clients who love horses and wanted to return their property to its historic roots as a working ranch. CLB Architects gave the home a long, low roof To design the project, the team drew upon the site's history as a working cattle ranch.

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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. Built into a hillside, the home is U-shaped in plan, with gabled volumes organised around a central courtyard.

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Deezen

JANUARY 21, 2022

The earthen tone of this off-grid holiday home in Northern Mexico was selected to match the rock formations of the nearby Cumbres de Majalca National Park, which is known for its dramatic landscapes. OAX Arquitectos completed this remote home as a vacation getaway for a large family. Structural engineer: Manuel Jezzini.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The home's glazed front features a deep triangular covering Nigel Parish, founder of the Vancouver-based Splyce Design , described the topography and the home's relationship to the street as a defining challenge of the project. A concrete retaining wall with a cantilevered stair defines the pedestrian path to the entry.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Rectangular in plan, the 4,068-square-foot (378-square-metre) house has a flat roof and low profile. Rectangular in plan, the dwelling includes a flat roof The design was influenced by a mid-century modern home owned by the client, said San Francisco's Klopf Architecture. The photography is by Mariko Reed.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Although the shape and form of the remodeled home remains relatively unchanged from its original design, we closely collaborated with our clients to take advantage of the ocean’s proximity by opening up the walls and providing framed views of the coast line. "We The client described it as living inside a tree.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Spiegel Aihara Workshop (SAW) has completed the transformative architectural and landscape design of a 1962 home in Mill Valley for a couple and their two young children. The project, known as The Middle Half, dramatically reconfigures the home’s core to create an open, light-flooded interior and direct connection to the landscape.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Canadian designer and lighting brand Bocci founder Omer Arbel has created a home in British Columbia with expressive pillars made from concrete poured into fabric. Mature trees, which were planted in the hollow interiors of the columns, spring out of the roof line. Interior planting beds were also installed in the gathering space.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Completed in 2022 in the municipality of David Canabarro, Casa Trapézios – or the Trapezium House – is formed by two juxtaposed trapezoidal sections arranged back-to-back in a "reinterpretation of the gabled roof archetype". In the dining area, a glass door opens to a wooden pergola that supports climbing plants.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Architects John Friedman and Alice Kimm have stacked a concrete mass with sinuous cutouts into a hillside as a home for their family in Los Angeles , complete with a crane in the kitchen and an accessory dwelling unit. The studio said that "functional domesticity" was a key requirement for the home.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2023

Studio Schicketanz has completed a renovation of the former seaside home of modernist architect Henry Hill. Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California , the cedar house was originally constructed in 1961 and expanded in 1969 and again in 1971, with unusually shaped rooms, rounded seating spaces and colourful glass accents.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Built from dry pressed bricks, gray ironbark, stone, concrete, steel and glass, the dwelling is built to endure and weather beautifully over time. Double-glazed windows with hardwood frames, highly insulated floors and roofs and the raw concrete slab provide a solar passive section heated by northern highlight windows.

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Deezen

JULY 31, 2023

Stirling Prize-winning studio Niall McLaughlin Architects has completed a prefabricated steel-framed home with a pyramidal copper roof overlooking a tidal saltmarsh on the Isle of Wight. The award-winning home is located in a conservation area to the north-east of the island, in the gardens of an 1860s Grade II listed Victorian house.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

US architecture studio GBBN preserved and expanded a 19th-century home in Erie, Pennsylvania into an educational facility with a glass bridge connection and metal-clad, barn-like structure. A glass bridge is included in the design. The barn form was modernized with the use of a standing seam infinity roof.

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Deezen

MAY 12, 2023

New York-based studio Fuller Overby has created a North Carolina home clad in charred cypress that cascades down a hill to a lake in North Carolina. Inside, the rooms are fractals of spaces The angled roof lines direct rainwater toward an internal gutter and tapered scupper that outline the distinct forms of the structure.

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Deezen

MARCH 3, 2022

Knotty cedar and galvanised steel were used to form a two-storey, floating home by US firm Olson Kundig that draws upon cabin architecture. It serves as a full-time residence for a client who previously rented a floating house in the area and decided to build his own home there when a lot became available. square-metre) terrace.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

The home was thoroughly tested and proven over 30 years of family use, and the clients wanted to retain its easy function and utilitarian materiality while adding further accommodation for the evolution of family life. Only two houses remain, including this one, which is located on a prominent corner location.

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MARCH 15, 2023

The yakisugi-clad home’s downhill facade is floor-to-ceiling glass that opens onto decking with a plein-air vista. There home has two entrances. 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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