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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. In order to avoid impacting the ground too much, the house was built on columns, to prevent earth from moving. Due to a limited budget, the house was very simple in terms of finishing.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

US studio Robert Gurney Architect has completed a beachfront house in Delaware consisting of "simple and pure forms" wrapped in white cedar, salvaged barn wood and fibre-cement panels. Named after the community where it is located, the Cotton Patch Hills House sits on an oceanfront site in Bethany Beach, Delaware.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The house is arranged in a C-shaped plan, opening toward an outdoor dining patio on the western side shaded by large wooden beams. The house is constructed of concrete block, the most accessible material in the area, and covered on both the exterior and interior with naturally pigmented cement.

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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. Lofty ceilings and large stretches of glass provide an airy feel. The roof is covered in standing-seam metal.

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APRIL 14, 2024

New York architecture studio HGX Design has created a linear, glass-fronted home in the Hudson Valley informed by the "individual notes of a music composition". The structure's horizontal form was informed by the vernacular architecture of the surrounding farmland. HGX Design has created a linear home in the Hudson Valley.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Oliver Leech Architects transforms a West London townhouse using reeded glass that suffuses the family home with natural light while maintaining privacy. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The Stradella Ridge house sits on a steep, triangular property in Bel Air, an affluent neighbourhood in the foothills of the Santa Monica mountains. The house has two main levels, a basement and a rooftop terrace Roughly V-shaped in plan, the building has an angular form that was driven by the site's orientation and geometry.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Local studio Splyce Design has designed a light-filled, angled house with glazed corners and a sculptural staircase overlooking the Burrard Inlet in Vancouver , British Columbia. Settled in a quarter-acre site, the house sits 17 feet (five metres) above the sidewalk, lifting it up from the street's sightlines. "How

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JANUARY 24, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. To reduce this volume without sacrificing the desirable qualities of its light-filled open plan, we inserted two ‘tree houses’ connected by a self-supporting spiral stair. Have one to share?

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JULY 12, 2022

Will Gamble Architects also reconfigured part of the existing house to rationalize the previously disjointed arrangement of rooms and provide a more symmetrical floor plan that is true to Georgian design principles. It is conceived as an ancillary ‘pavilion type’ structure connected to the main house via a glazed link.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

American firm Studio of Metropolitan Design Architects has renovated a stone Tudor Revival house and added a pavilion-like concrete extension in Wilmington, Delaware. The modern addition is an interpretation of the existing traditional elements of the house," the studio said.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Brazilian practice Studio KUNZ has created a compact gabled house that cantilevers from a sloped site in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. 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.

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

House, the home sits on a farmland site and is covered with a series of berms, while multiple trumpet-shaped pillars of varying heights create wave-like levels along the expanse of its footprint. Read: Omer Arbel Office films concrete tree-like forms that will become House 75.9 Concrete floors run throughout the project.

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MARCH 26, 2023

Architecture studio SDA has completed the Floating House, a concrete-framed home on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City that is elevated above ground to mitigate the impacts of flooding. It is elevated above ground to mitigate the impacts of flooding "We composed the house as three slabs floating above the ground," explained SDA.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

The Rambla Climate House is meant as a model for reversing the scourge of nearby suburban developments by collecting rainfall and gray water to nurture the land. 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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JULY 5, 2023

The Rotating House is set across two levels and was a self-build project for the couple, who had no previous experience building or designing. After creating the blueprints, their design was reviewed by structural engineers, the Johnstones told CNN in 2012. vila Melvina Selfani of Century 21.

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OCTOBER 8, 2022

The brief for the home, named Sky Lantern House, involved preserving the character of the existing building while making its interior more suitable for modern living. An existing staircase at the centre of Sky Lantern House was replaced with a stair arranged around a three-storey triangular void that allows daylight to reach each level.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

Maine studio Elliott Architects has created a seaside house that includes a dramatic, cantilevered volume on stilt that stretches towards the ocean and the tree line. House on a Bay is a twisted residence overlooking the sea. Elliott Architects created the house with two distinctive bars. Structural engineer: Thorton Tomasetti.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

US studio Klopf Architecture has completed the Sonoma Hilltop New Residence, a horizontal house in wine country that takes cues from mid-century modern architecture and has dangling chains that collect rainwater. Rectangular in plan, the 4,068-square-foot (378-square-metre) house has a flat roof and low profile.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

Named the JArzm house – using the first initial of each family member – the home is set into a 60-foot slope in Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighborhood. John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (JFAK) completed the house – and 540-square foot (50-square metre) accessory dwelling unit (ADU) – in November 2021.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

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. The home features stained glass elements. Mechanical engineer : Monterey Energy Group.

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APRIL 7, 2022

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. The project's name comes from the old Alemannic German word for house, hüüs. This attitude is a perfect reflection of the couple who lives in the house.".

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MAY 22, 2023

Daniel Joseph Chenin settled the 7,800-square foot (725-square-metre) house on an acre rock outcrop near government-protected land in Las Vegas Valley, looking out to Red Rock Canyon. Fort 137 is characterised by its stone facade The house is heralded by a 28-foot tall (8.5

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MAY 3, 2023

Architecture firm RO_AR caps a cavernous glass residence in the Czech Republic with a shrub-covered undulating roofline that echoes the nearby terrain. 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. It’s a Hill?

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JULY 28, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Two cubic masonry structures anchor the house. Between these forms, interior spaces are laid out around a sheltered courtyard, under an engineered-timber roof plane. "The Post it here.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

A Japanese house and restaurant are contained within this mud-covered building by architect Junya Ishigami , which was crafted by pouring concrete into holes in the ground. Junya Ishigami has hidden a house below ground level in Japan. Junya Ishigami has hidden a house below ground level in Japan. Structural engineer: Jun Sato.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The idea was to take the existing house and give it new life—one that met the needs and aesthetics of our designer clients. Have one to share? Post it here.

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MAY 12, 2023

Fuller Overby completed the 2,750-square foot (255-square metre) Nebo House in McDowell County in 2022, for a retiring couple. Fuller Overby clad the house in blackened wood Set on Lake James, the narrow one-acre site drops 100 feet (30 metres) from the top of the driveway to the water's edge. The photography is by Paul Warchol.

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JUNE 20, 2023

Local studios Mary English and Xavier Vendrell Architects have lined up three courtyards on a linear suburban plot for a white stucco house in San Antonio , Texas. The 1,970-square foot (183-square metre) house, centred on a quarter-acre lot, was completed in July 2022.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

US architecture studio GBBN designed three brick buildings that allow social housing to both "fit in and stand out" in Cincinnati, Ohio. The team selected red brick for all of the facades to draw on Cincinnati's masonry vernacular and to highlight both the commonalities and differences between the structures.

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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. The bungalow is intended to fit into the existing neighbourhood, which comprises detached houses built alongside a series of manmade waterways.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Local studio Oliver Leech Architects has extended a Victorian terrace house in south London, introducing a four-metre-wide skylight at its centre that offers views of a wildflower meadow roof. Here we used the light to draw you into the house through the darker hallway and towards a huge fixed skylight in the centre of the house." "We

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Evelop Arquitectura drew inspiration from the work of Mexican architect Luis Barragán for this wood-and-stone house in San Miguel de Allende, which is interspersed with lush garden courtyards. The house sits within a lush garden. Evelop Arquitectura built the house around courtyards. "A Structural engineer: Ing.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

During the pandemic they seized an opportunity to buy a larger house which ticked all of these boxes, but there was one problem. Despite the purchase and early design stages taking place at the height of the Covid pandemic, Katherine and James were able to buy the house and commission the architects! The garden faced North.

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MARCH 18, 2022

London studio Nimtim Architects has redefined the interior of a 1920s house in Southwark using multifunctional partitions that are built from plywood joinery and feature a repeating arch motif. Nimtim Architects has updated a 1920s house in London. This theme is continued with the use of glass panels within the carpentry walls.".

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FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Chinese studio FOG Architecture has turned a courtyard house in Beijing into a flagship store for fragrance brand ToSummer with exposed wooden roof trusses and columns. Located within a 500-square-meter Siheyuan complex, the store occupies a 280-year-old courtyard house that are common in the region.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Mews House Deep Retrofit Building Project, London Home Refurb, English Low Carbon Architecture Photos. Mews House Deep Retrofit. Retrofitted mews house shortlisted for RIBA House of the Year 2022. Mews House Deep Retrofit by Prewett Bizley Architects, in London, south east England: photograph © Tom Graham.

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