Atelier Bow-Wow’s first U.S. home features a large ‘umbrella’ roof in the Sierra Nevadas
Archinect
OCTOBER 5, 2023
The acclaimed Japanese firm Atelier Bow-Wow has completed its first and only home built in the United States.
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Archinect
OCTOBER 5, 2023
The acclaimed Japanese firm Atelier Bow-Wow has completed its first and only home built in the United States.
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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Deezen
MAY 10, 2024
Chilean studio Hebra Arquitectos has completed an elevated home with steel pilotis and a V-shaped roof, aiming to create a building that "floats in the middle of the forest". It was commissioned during the pandemic as a second home for the client The design team had multiple goals for the project.
Deezen
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Architecture studio Wallmakers has reimagined a traditional roof by adding skylights that double as seating for an arts centre and home in Kerala, India. Nisarga Art Hub is topped with a large roof Indian studio Wallmakers punctured skylights into the roof to draw natural light into the communal space below.
Archinect
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
The first project in the world to be registered LEED for Homes International Pilot, Blue Pool Road introduced a new residential typology to the city of Hong Kong: the townhouse. The low-density residential scheme provides a compelling alternative to the tower living that typifies the rest of the Hong Kong residential environment.
designboom
JANUARY 9, 2023
trees growing along the coastal site are invited to grow through the lightweight rooftop's many skylights. The post victor ortiz designs malibu home with a sinuous and porous roof plane appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
Deezen
MARCH 7, 2023
An oversized roof lined with terracotta tiles shelters this home in the centre of a walled garden in Quang Yen, Vietnam , designed by local studios Ra.atelier and Ngo + Pasierbinski. Photo is by Duc Ngo Inside, House in Quang Yen has plain white walls and ceilings, teamed with pale wooden furniture to bring a minimal feel to the home.
Deezen
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An inverted-pitch roof and angular brick cladding characterise the Butterfly House extension, which architecture studio The DHaus Company has added to a terraced home in north London. The DHaus Company has created an extension with a butterfly roof "The butterfly roof is visually striking," The DHaus Company told Dezeen.
Deezen
AUGUST 12, 2022
An enormous thatched roof structure with open sides covers the communal areas of this home perched on a rocky cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Mexico by Zozaya Arquitectos. Zozaya Arquitectos completed a cliffside home in Zihuatanejo. Zozaya Arquitectos completed a cliffside home in Zihuatanejo.
Deezen
JANUARY 18, 2023
Local practice Platform 5 Architects has completed NW10 House, a family home on an infill site in north London with exposed concrete interiors and a textured brick exterior. Centred around a skylit, concrete spiral stair, the home's spaces fan out to fill the triangular site, overlooking a paved terrace that wraps its eastern edge.
Deezen
AUGUST 22, 2023
A zero-emission holiday cabin and a triangular house with underground bedrooms feature in this roundup of A-frame homes. Glazing at the gable ends and along the sides of the sloped walls lets natural light into the home, and rainwater is collected and reused from the steeply-pitched roof.
Deezen
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
US architecture studio Schaum/Shieh has embedded a Virginia house with irregularly shaped volumes into the contours of a steep site. The one-story home unfurls in a 120-foot-long (36-metre) horizontal line that runs parallel to the topography, with its front elevated to meet wooden terraces, and portions of the back sitting flat on the slope.
Deezen
JANUARY 20, 2024
In this lookbook , we feature nine residential projects that demonstrate unique ways of interacting with a site's history by weaving existing ruins into their designs. According to the studio, the steel insertions add another layer to the home's visible "memory" and draw attention to the historic building fabric.
Deezen
MAY 6, 2024
Peach-toned walls and arched openings define Baia Villas, a set of six holiday homes in Goa that Mumbai studio Jugal Mistri Architects has designed to evoke local vernacular. Arched windows and openings punctuate the facades at Baia Villas A large veranda sits in front of the pool at the centre of each home, dividing them into two wings.
Deezen
AUGUST 23, 2023
Belgian studio Notan Office has completed Duchesse, a series of homes positioned around a communal garden on an old industrial site in Brussels. Duchesse's design also aims to preserve the site's historic significance by retaining existing elements while revamping others with new tiled volumes.
Deezen
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Chinese practice Arch Studio has renovated and extended a courtyard home called Mixed House on the outskirts of Beijing , China, by inserting a timber structure topped by a wavy roof. Arch Studio has renovated a courtyard home near Beijing. Arch Studio has renovated a courtyard home near Beijing.
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. When he bought the site on Manda Island, he decided to track down the architects behind these 1970s villas. We had to resort to sleeping on the roof for relief."
Architizer
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
The eight examples listed below represent the brave and the bold who believe art is made to be enjoyed and, to make art more accessible, have turned their homes into beautiful gallery spaces. The Gallery House is a unique and creative design, blending the functionality of a family home, the comfort of a hotel and the beauty of an art gallery.
Deezen
MARCH 8, 2024
Large rocks from the surrounding area are suspended in a gabion wall around The Infinite Rise, a holiday home in southern India by local architecture practice Earthscape Studio. The Infinite Rise is located near the village of Anaikatti on an elevated, rocky site that provides expansive views across the surrounding mountain ranges.
Dwell
JANUARY 19, 2024
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. Brian Abramson founded Method Homes in 2007 with the intention of using modular construction to streamline building—without sacrificing on good design or craftsmanship. Get in touch!
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".
Deezen
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Tasked with doubling the usable space of the site as well as bringing its environmental performance up to modern standards, Stanton Williams reconfigured the building's layout while retaining its historic character. The post Stanton Williams updates historic home of the Rhodes Trust in Oxford appeared first on Dezeen.
Dwell
MARCH 21, 2023
The roof extension is built in a timber frame structure with exposed beams. The roof extension is built in a timber frame structure with exposed beams. Clay plaster and rammed earth from the waste soil of Brussels building sites are used for finishing. Straw bales from a nearby farm were chosen as the insulation material.
Deezen
JUNE 4, 2023
An undulating green roof and timber cladding help this Suffolk house by MAP Architecture and Jon Broome Architects, which was designed to Passivhaus standards, blend into the surrounding wetland. The internal ceiling battens are made using an Ash facing piece with a softwood core to allow the battens to follow the roof curve," said Mawson.
The Spaces
MARCH 25, 2024
Inspired by the king of geodesic design, Buckminster Fuller , this high desert dome home is designed to capture 360-degree mountain and valley views. acre site dotted with boulders and otherworldly cacti. The dome home was built in 1983 and has been fully renovated as an Airbnb , popular with musicians thanks to its unique acoustics.
Deezen
JUNE 16, 2023
Raw, tactile materials including clay tiles, earthenware pots and compressed earth bricks define this courtyard home near Chennai, India , designed by local practice Rain Studio. The post Rain Studio combines raw and reclaimed materials for "native yet contemporary" home appeared first on Dezeen.
Deezen
AUGUST 16, 2023
Named Haringey Brick Bungalow, the 66-square-metre home is accessed through a one-metre-wide passageway hidden between the high street's commercial premises. This was a very tricky backland site, but the key message is that with careful planning, you can succeed," said Satish Jassal Architects founder Satish Jassal.
Deezen
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Surman Weston has self-built a "characterful family home" in London The nature of the self-build project meant the duo was not guided by a client brief and instead largely free of parameters, requiring them to set their own. There is a greenhouse on the roof It was also critical that Peckham House felt "rooted in its context", Surman said. "We
Deezen
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Informed by the greenhouses that once occupied the site, local architecture studio Hayhurst and Co added bamboo planting behind polycarbonate screens to the facade of a family home in London. An atrium at the centre of the home lets natural light into the interior and naturally cools the house by stack ventilation.
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. Located in Tiny, the Unfinished House is a 1,400-square-foot (130 square metre) two-bedroom, two-bathroom home with additional flexible spaces that double as accommodations for visitors.
Deezen
SEPTEMBER 30, 2023
Iranian architecture studio Olgoo has completed a subterranean holiday home near Tehran , topped by a green roof that merges with the surrounding landscape. It is topped by a green roof Intended to be used by multiple families, the pentagonal plan of The Inside Home is split into three exposed concrete blocks.
Deezen
JANUARY 11, 2024
Named Family House Dolní Malá Úpa, the home is located within the mountainous Krkonoše National Park, which required Mar.s Using an approach common to the area, a plinth made from local stone creates a level base for Family House Dolní Malá Úpa on its sloping site. The post Traditional Czech dwellings inform mountain home by Mar.s
Deezen
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Rich hues and curving geometries feature throughout Somers House, an L-shaped coastal home that Australian studio Kennedy Nolan has added to a coastal site in Victoria. Coated in ochre-toned render, the rounded stairwell connects the levels of the home and is perforated with small rectangular windows.
Deezen
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
River Bend Residence overlooks the Guadalupe River Respecting the natural setting was a guiding concern for the design team, as the home sits on a wooded perch overlooking the Guadalupe River. The buildings are topped with tall, pyramidal hipped roofs. A portion of the dwelling is lifted above the site by concrete piers.
Deezen
MAY 8, 2024
California studio TW Ryan Architecture has completed a wildfire-resistant house in the American West that features a Corten steel exterior and pyramidal roofs that allude to the mountainous terrain. Four Roof House features a Corten steel exterior Their chosen site was a bluff overlooking a lake near the town of Helmville.
Deezen
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Montreal architecture studio Nós has completed a multi-generational home in Vermont 's Green Mountains named Three Summits, which is made up of three pitched-roof structures connected by one-storey walkways. The connecting walkways, entrances to the house and undersides of overhanging roofs were clad in timber.
Deezen
APRIL 30, 2023
An undulating concrete roof topped with grass covers this house in the Czech Republic, designed by local architecture studio RO_AR. Located alongside a wildlife corridor at the edge of the Hlubocepy district in Prague, the family home is designed to be a "bridge between the urban and the natural".
Deezen
MAY 12, 2022
From a giant staircase running the height of a house and beyond to a flight of steps that can't be stepped on at all, here is a roundup of 10 statement residential staircase designs from the Dezeen archives. The black metal "staircase" at the centre of this Madrid home designed by Spanish studio Beta Ø Architects is not to be stepped on.
Deezen
DECEMBER 24, 2022
Architecture studio Dallas Pierce Quintero has completed a cluster of houses in London with sawtooth roofs and corrugated-metal cladding that nod to the site's former use as a builders' yard. The Forest Houses have sawtooth roofs and corrugated-metal cladding. Their design references the site's former use as a builders' yard.
Deezen
MAY 4, 2023
A curved roof tops Byró Architekti's Cabin Above the Town, a red timber-clad cabin informed by the surrounding Czech hills. Situated on the border between the city and the countryside, the cabin is nestled into the side of Svatobor Hill, a forested site in the foothills of the Czech Republic's Šumava mountains.
Deezen
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Architecture studio Core Design Workshop has remodelled a 1980s home outside Kuala Lumpur called Introverse, transforming its compartmentalised interiors into a large garden room. Described by Core Design Workshop as "introverted", the house is designed to look inward at its main garden rather than out towards views surrounding the site.
Deezen
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In this lookbook , we've collected eight homes from Vietnam to the USA that are kept ventilated and illuminated by central courtyards. One or more courtyards were dispersed along the footprints of the eight homes below, for interiors that are relaxing, open and bright.
Dwell
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Architect Bryan Cook of Develop Architecture and Citizen Robotics built a two-bedroom home on an empty lot in Detroit by combining 3D-print technology with conventional methods. They presented the home at Detroit Month of Design as a possible solution to adding affordable housing stock to the city.
Deezen
DECEMBER 27, 2023
Indian studio Blurring Boundaries has used organic forms and natural materials throughout Asmalay, a curvaceous home that wraps around trees in a forest near Mumbai. In response to the surrounding canopy of trees, Blurring Boundaries designed the home to have a curving form, which wraps around five of the existing mango trees on the site.
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