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OCTOBER 8, 2022

Situated between two traditional gable residences, its rectangular plan is fronted with a steel structure that gives it a slick, institutional feel. Landscape Designer: Michal Marcinov Structural Engineer: Katarína Kyselová Steel Constructions: Samuel Šimonovi? It is also independently accessible from the exterior."

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

The ground floor hosts an expanded living, dining and kitchen space While the layout of the home's front rooms remains largely the same, they now open into the large new living area, creating an axis through to a concrete and brick patio garden accessed through full-height, sliding glass doors. The photography is by Jim Stephenson.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Inside, the home is totally transformed from a pokey back room to an area filled with light and open space. 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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Dwell

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This structure was to be very strong, be as fire resistant as possible and require as little long term exterior maintenance as possible. My engineer designed the foundation, stair system, container platform, balcony and lower deck. Have one to share? Post it here. Every detail of the Cab (container) design was done by me.

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Dwell

JULY 26, 2022

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners.

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Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2024

A private roof terrace enclosed by greenery features in Hidden Garden House, a Sydney home reconfigured by Australian studio Sam Crawford Architects. Situated within a conservation zone, the home has been updated by Sam Crawford Architects to brighten its dark interior and transform it into an urban "sanctuary".

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Dwell

MAY 15, 2024

Blue Sky Building Systems makes steel structures to your specifications, whether for a suburban dwelling or Joshua Tree retreat. 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. Do you know a prefab brand that should be on our radar?

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Dwell

MARCH 28, 2024

Homeowner Julie Park ordered the home’s components from the prefab company Blue Sky Building Systems, and she hired architect Andrew Goodwin to assist with structural engineering and permits. Photo by John Park Julie had the wooden front door custom made and set on a pivot.

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Dwell

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. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share?

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Dwell

MARCH 28, 2024

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. Beyond its site, it is from this economic context that Vasse House suggests an alternative. Four rooms, two bathrooms, and two nooks symmetrically flank one large room.

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Deezen

APRIL 29, 2024

dMFK Architects renovated Voysey House The team aimed to revive the structure's original character reversing a series of renovations over the past 100 years following its conversion into offices after a fire in 1928. Recently, Voysey's Winsford Cottage Hospital in Devon was converted into a holiday home by Benjamin + Beauchamp Architects.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A cantilevered form with thatched surfaces defines Summer House, a holiday home designed by architecture studio RAPA on the shores of Lake Balaton in Hungary. It aims to capture the essence of those small vacation homes on the southern shore." Summer House has been shortlisted in the rural house category of the Dezeen Awards.

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Bustler

JANUARY 28, 2024

The results of this year’s Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel (IDEAS²) Awards have been shared by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) as part of the competition’s 64th edition. A total of six projects were honored by the 2024 edition.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

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

APRIL 11, 2024

Toronto studio Workshop Architecture Inc has created a prefabricated home in Ontario with an exposed structure and blue-painted element on the interior. The home has an "unfinished" look The main entrance leads into a small mudroom, with the primary bedroom, a bathroom and a laundry room on either side.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Architecture studio Proctor & Shaw has topped a home extension with a steeply-angled roof clad with red pigmented zinc in East Dulwich, London. Home to a family of seven, Proctor & Shaw designed the project as an extension to an existing Edwardian house, extending the ground-floor kitchen and dining room.

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Dwell

MAY 22, 2024

From the moment they moved into their semidetached Victorian home in London in 2006, Nicola and Patrick Kendall dreamed of renovating their kitchen—but life and more pressing home improvements got in the way. I really wanted a curved wall," says Nicola. "It Photo by Henry Woide Before: The original garden was underutilized.

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Dwell

AUGUST 4, 2022

Project Details: Location: Toronto, Ontario Architects: Rostami Atash Atelier Structural Engineer: Haijun Li Footprint: 2,100 square feet From the Architect: "Shared housing in cities seems inevitable to provide multigenerational homes and affordable models of ownership for millennials.

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Deezen

JANUARY 12, 2024

A sawtooth roof, blue ceramic tiles and corrugated steel panels define this home in Madrid , Spain , designed by Ignacio G Galán and OF Architects. A sequence of cascading gardens wrap around the home, providing outdoor seating along with a small pool. A roof terrace provides additional gardening and outdoor space for the couple.

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

Open-air bedrooms and terraces are raised above the treetops at this holiday home designed by Italian architecture studio PAT on Kenya 's Manda Island. PAT teamed up with fellow Italian architect Ferdinando Fagnola on the project, which involved renovating a 2oth-century "white house" and adding a series of elevated, pavilion-like structures.

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Deezen

APRIL 24, 2023

Local architect Tomás de Iruarrizaga has designed Casa Granic, a holiday home located on a hillside by Riñihue Lake in Chile that is meant for "year-round living". Iruarrizaga designed the 500-square-metre house with a timber-clad upper level that bridges two rectangular concrete structures. The photography is by Cristóbal Palma.

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Dwell

JUNE 22, 2023

Project Details: Location: Antwerp, Belgium Architect: Studio Contekst / @ studiocontekst Footprint: 2,852 square feet Builder: Smart Interior Structural Engineer: Kurt Laeremans Landscape Design: Daan Vangeel Photographer: Evenbeeld / @ evenbeeld.be The former superintendent’s office was reworked into a home office.

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Dwell

APRIL 23, 2024

Point Your Home in Two Directions at Once Like This Alabama Cabin Related stories: Before & After: This Accessible Catskills Retreat Brings Together Three Generations of Family She Built a 330-Square-Foot Cabin in One of Washington’s Biggest Outdoors Destinations It Was Travel the World or Make a Family Home. Have one to share?

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Deezen

APRIL 25, 2024

Known as Rockbound, the 4100-square foot (380-square metre) home sits on a rocky, sloped three-acre site overlooking a bay that connects the property to Peggy's Cove, a national historic site that can be seen across the water. The photography is by Ema Peter.

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Deezen

JULY 13, 2023

UK studio Corstorphine & Wright has converted a world war two bunker in Dorset, UK, into a holiday home with a blast-shaped window cut in its front. Overlooking the English Channel near the village of Ringstead, the two-bedroom holiday home occupies a bunker built as part of the Chain Home radar detection system in 1939.

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Dwell

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 gardens gradually divide the residence and create harmony for the environment both at home and from the outside. The lower flat roof hangs above the connecting section.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The form of a traditional rural Czech dwelling is contrasted with modern pine-lined interiors at Casa de mi Luna, a home designed by architecture practice Studio Circle Growth. We decided to negotiate an arched collar tie out of plywood with our structural engineer, which we could then clad in a more seamless way," explained Zizka.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The project involved the adaptive reuse of a small commercial complex Baldridge Architects, which was founded in 2005 by architect Burton Baldridge, was formerly housed in an Austin office building it had renovated on West Lynn Street. That space won multiple design awards, but it no longer met the firm's needs. "As

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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. Sparano + Mooney created the cantilevered home near Salt Lake City. The home is topped with a green roof. Builder: Living Home Construction.

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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

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. Glass walls throughout the public areas of the home give sightlines of the tree and the other living areas from a variety of different positions.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The home, built in the ’70s as a summer house, had no insulation of any kind, nor did it establish any kind of direct relationship with the landscape or surroundings. The home, built in the ’70s as a summer house, had no insulation of any kind, nor did it establish any kind of direct relationship with the landscape or surroundings.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 6, 2022

London-based studio Clementine Blakemore Architects has renovated a series of derelict 19th-century agricultural buildings in Dorset to create the Wraxall Yard holiday homes. Converted from 19th-century stone and brick barns, the holiday homes were designed by Clementine Blakemore Architects to reflect the site's agricultural character. "The

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2023

Based in New York City, Ryall Sheridan Carroll Architects designed the 2,500-square-foot (230-square-metre) home, called the Tree Farmer's House, for a one-acre lot. The exterior walls were clad in cedar wood The three-bedroom home "creates a sense of containment and release in the landscape." The photography is by Keith Scott Morton.

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Dwell

APRIL 20, 2023

Have one to share? Post it here. The owners of this property were operating on a tight budget and needed more space but the site was extremely constrained. By creating two distinct volumes, it was possible to build up and out to the rear, and therefore provide a generous and flexible space for communal gatherings.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A cluster of wood-clad, gabled volumes form a sculptural home by architectural studio Young Projects that nods to historic Long Island architecture while reimagining the barn typology. The roof planes vary, however, contributing to the home's sculptural look. Located in Bridgehampton , an upscale hamlet on the island's South Fork.

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JULY 13, 2023

The brief was to celebrate the enormous historical significance of the structure whilst ensuring a habitable and commercially viable space for the client. The design for the bunker is deeply rooted in the structure’s history and retains as much of the original fabric and ‘feel’ of the space as possible.

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