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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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. Meanwhile, the roof is lined with traditional tiles called bobrovka. The photography is by Fredrik Frendin.

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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

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. This projection helped us to minimize the impact on this natural site and reduce excavation.".

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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. "Tom Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

MAY 24, 2023

Robert Hutchison Architecture and Javier Sanchez Arquitectos include an extensive system for capturing and reusing stormwater for a family nature retreat in a mountainous region of Mexico. The Rain Harvest Home, or Casa Cosecha de Lluvia, is located in the rural town of Temascaltepec, which lies about 140 kilometres west of Mexico City.

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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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OCTOBER 5, 2022

Ben Callery Architects performs an epic renovation at the rear of a bungalow that maximizes a nature-loving family’s connection with the outdoors. Victoria ash lining boards, Tasmanian oak flooring, and silvertop ash slats bathed in natural light express the warmth inherent in this place.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Instead of putting everything under one roof, architecture firm Lake|Flato created a network of smaller volumes to minimize impact on the forested plot. Envisioned as a home that embraces the outdoors, the residence is composed of four structures housing the home’s separate functions. Have one to share? P ost it here.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2023

California studio Field Architecture designed this Sonoma Valley house out of a trio of fanning copper-clad pavilions with butterfly roofs. 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.

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Dwell

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A man-made object in nature may exist in harmony or disparity. The goal was to reconnect this structure with the environment while best utilizing the exceptional site for the clients. "In In this part of California, it is no longer legal for homes to be suspended over a creek.

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Dwell

JULY 28, 2023

Its low-slung form and green roof give it a low profile that lets the alpine setting shine. The spaces are sited between two natural mounds in the surrounding tussock. Two cubic masonry structures anchor the house. This plane carries a planted tussock green roof and is shaped to marry into the natural landforms.

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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. Nature and natural light are the piece de resistance," the studio said. Binational studio Montalba Architects used ample glazing and a clever siting strategy to provide the best vistas at Canyon Terrace House in southern California.

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Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

Located in Washington’s Kitsap Peninsula, the rambler-style home utilized the trees for the roof and a coffee table, too. The house is 1,700 square feet, and reaches into the landscape with a sheltering roof and screen walls to create usable outdoor spaces on all sides. Have one to share? Post it here.

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JULY 13, 2023

Located on a working dairy farm within the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, this forgotten historical artefact has been brought back into use, recently opening its doors to guests. 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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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. From the road, the home appears relatively conventional," the team said. The photography is by Bruce Damonte.

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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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Dwell

JANUARY 13, 2023

We began designing the home for our clients who were expecting their first child and looking to build their family home. The brief for the 5,381-square-foot block was to create a four-bedroom, two-bathroom home with multiple living spaces. Our client Sam shared memories of his grandparents midcentury home growing up.

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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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Dwell

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Delve Architects’ approach was to match the context of the street and the butterfly roof of the house with a pitched design, choosing to use cork, a regenerative material, to add that all important character to the design as well as improving environmental performance.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Named Ferndale Flightdeck, the 400-square foot (37-square metre) extension holds a recreation room, yoga studio, home office and a rooftop observation deck that allows the owners to watch birds in the surrounding diverse and ecologically rich landscape. Great effort was taken to translate that as a window to frame views," the team said.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2023

The axial approach includes replanted natural grasses The roof extends to create a 15-foot (4.5-metre) metre) wide porch that wraps around the entire house and shades the interior spaces, reducing the home's heating and cooling load. Replanted natural grasses will create a dramatic ground plane when fully grown.

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2022

Designed as a rental property for studio founder James Macdonald Wright, the two-storey home was built on a four-metre-wide plot, which was previously used as a junkyard adjacent to the listed Clapton Library. Read: Architecture for London uses natural materials to renovate studio founder's home. Quantity surveyor: GQS Services.

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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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Dwell

MAY 10, 2023

A soaring roof in exposed Monterey cypress and wood floors in a matching hue emphasize a view of the seaside setting. Here, generous views to the ocean draw the interiors outward and natural light is plentiful; it is lofty and dignified yet the feeling is understated and inviting. "As Have one to share? Post it here.

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JULY 20, 2022

The concrete-and-steel home by Faulkner Architects gives one family a refined escape in the mountains of Northern California. The site sits on a north facing slope and looks down to the Martis Valley and up to Lookout Mountain through a natural screen of 100-year-old Jeffrey pine trees.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

US studio CCY Architects has clad a mountainside house in patinated copper panels and tilted the roof to adhere with the topography of its site in Colorado. Known as DNA Alpine, the 4,000-square foot (372-square metre) home was completed in 2022 and designed to "disappear into or somehow become" the 75-acre site in San Miguel County.

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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

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The studio headed by designer Piet Hein Eek and architect Iggie Dekkers designed House R for a family who wanted a simple home containing large social areas along with opportunities to spend time alone. The house is situated next to woodland in a neighbourhood where the majority of the homes are designed as basic white volumes.

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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

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

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Canvas House features a rolling brick facade The 2022 design is a contemporary alternative to the yellow brick Georgian homes of the neighbourhood – which were popularised in Toronto from the 1920s to 1940s by Canadian architect John MacIntosh Lyle. The box-shaped homes are in a Tudor revival style and feature a centre hallway plan.

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Dwell

JULY 14, 2023

Project Details: Location: Betty's Bay, South Africa Architect: KLG Architects / @ klgarchitects Footprint: 1,787 square feet Builder: Quali Projects Structural Engineer: Karl Hvidsten Timber Work: Herbert Robinson Land Surveyor: Diesel & Munns Inc.

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Dwell

DECEMBER 13, 2022

An existing double-story masonry structure is integrally linked to the adjoining home of the same proportion through a party wall. Subsequently, a portion of the original structure is retained to maintain this relationship. The design intent benefits from the client’s honed craft as both a concreter and structural engineer.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2024

British architecture practice Studio Bark has worked with students from the University of East London to devise a roof-supporting column with otherwise unusable timber at a site within ancient English woodland. If you were to draw a force diagram, you'd need more material in the middle, so naturally it's a win-win," she said.

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