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Inter-Generational Homes: Addressing Diverse Needs Under One Roof

ArchDaily

© Andre J Fanthome Designing a home is always a significant challenge. In the abundance of personalities, preferences, and quirks, residential architecture needs to mediate intentions and embrace diversities. Stacked House / Studio Lotus. Read more »

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StudioAC plays with gabled forms for an ‘unapologetically contemporary’ Toronto home

Archinect

Toronto-based Studio AC has offered a look inside their “unapologetically” residential scheme in the Canadian city. The three-story home reads as a series of stacked boxes from the outside with echoes of traditional residential forms.

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BIG and Barcode complete cantilevering residential building on Amsterdam waterfront

Archinect

Work has been completed on Sluishuis, a residential project in Amsterdam by Bjarke Ingels Group and Barcode Architects. The scheme, which comprises 442 homes, a public green roof garden, and maritime jetties, is defined by a cantilevered form meeting at a high corner.

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Eco-Friendly Roofing Materials

Aric Gitomer Architect

Every homeowner must replace their roof shingles at some point. You must keep this in mind if you are building a new home. Roofs are the “guardians” of your home. Their primary job to withstand harsh weather makes it necessary for you to select a high-quality roof for your home. Solar Power Roof.

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Atelier Bow-Wow’s first U.S. home features a large ‘umbrella’ roof in the Sierra Nevadas

Archinect

The acclaimed Japanese firm Atelier Bow-Wow has completed its first and only home built in the United States.

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Proctor & Shaw tops London home extension with serrated zinc roof

Deezen

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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Britsom Philips reconfigures Belgian home with minimalist interiors and thatched roof

Deezen

Belgian studio Britsom Philips has completed Villa VD, a timber-clad extension to a small rural home in Flanders with minimalist, light-filled living spaces. The home was also designed to be run predominantly from sustainable sources, with heating provided by a geothermal heat pump and solar panels.

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