Dwell

JUNE 15, 2022

Having consulted with a structural engineer, these structures were placed within a comfortable distance from each other. See the full story on Dwell.com: An Offset Roof Isn't the Only Off-Kilter Thing About This Home in Japan Related stories: An Architect Couple Hand Built (and Then Rebuilt) a Bahamian Escape This $1.2M

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Dwell

APRIL 21, 2023

We utilized stone from both the site and neighboring farms to anchor the building into the site, with rough-sawn timber cladding talking to the lost bush land, and a galvanized steel roof that is a nod to the vernacular Australian farmhouse. Have one to share? Post it here. The clients erected and filled the gabion walls themselves.

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Dwell

MARCH 28, 2024

It is built with conventional stud walls, sits on the same slab-on-ground, and is topped with the same trussed roof. Like them, it offers four bedrooms, a two-car garage, and a second living room.

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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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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. Photo is by Alan Tansey To create visual continuity, the team aligned the roof ridges of all six volumes. hectare) lot with an historic farmhouse. "The

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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 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

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

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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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 roof is changed and, in the process, the materials are recovered and transformed into the interior furnishings. "In Home for Three Generations of Family

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Dwell

APRIL 20, 2023

Inspired by the history of grand architectural spaces and ship-building techniques, a vaulted roof was developed so that head heights could be increased beyond the standard sloped side extension and still fall within the planning constraints of eaves and roof heights set by the local authority.

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Dwell

APRIL 4, 2023

Project Details: Location: Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia Architect: MRTN Architects / @ mrtn_architects Landscape Design: SBLA Studio Builder: J & S Contracting Structural Engineer: W.J. The materials were also chosen to be recessive, including a dull silver roof, black sheets, and ironbark timber.

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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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Deezen

MARCH 24, 2022

Studio MK27 , which is led by architect and filmmaker Marcio Kogan, completed the 8,343-square-metre home in early 2020. Studio MK27 designed Vista House with a smaller envelope nested under a long gabled roof. The home is made up of a low-slung, gabled roof that is roughly 15 metres wide, 3.5

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

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Deezen

JUNE 21, 2023

Local architecture firm In Situ Studio wrapped an art museum visitor centre in Raleigh, North Carolina with darkened steel and cantilevered a roof with an aperture over its patio. The roof features a rounded triangle roof opening made of aluminium. The photography is by Estudio Palma. Cabinetry: Xylem, Inc.

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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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Deezen

JULY 31, 2022

US studio Desai Chia Architecture designed a highly sculptural, waterfront home wrapped in concrete and charred cypress that has vaulted roofs resembling wings. Built as a second home for a family of four, the building sits on a ribbon of land between a golf course and Copake Lake in Upstate New York.

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Dwell

APRIL 14, 2023

The ADU has a simple gable roof to mimic the existing main house at the front of the property. "All When cut out, urban views like electrical lines and slivers of the neighboring roofs can become interesting views. It is one of Bunch Design’s prototype designs with one bedroom and one bathroom.

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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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Dwell

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. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Landscape Designer: Michal Marcinov Structural Engineer: Katarína Kyselová Steel Constructions: Samuel Šimonovi? Photographer: Maxime Delvaux / @maxdelv From the Architect: " Villa Bôrik is set within a neighborhood of relatively homogenous homes with private gardens that form a continuous landscape.

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Deezen

MAY 24, 2023

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. Top: The home is located in the mountains west of Mexico City. Above: It is one of three independent structures. The home features various communal areas.

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JULY 17, 2023

More than 75 years later, a former radar station bunker near Ringstead Bay finds new life as an unusual holiday home. The Grade II-listed military building is one of the best-preserved examples of a Chain Home station in southwest England – a ring of early warning radar stations built around 1941.

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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.

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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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Dwell

JULY 15, 2022

The house also has a strong materiality externally, with a singular cladding and roofing material of warm cedar shingles, which has the added benefit of being low maintenance. The result is a relaxing and stylish home away from home for this jet-setting family."

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Dwell

MARCH 31, 2023

Project Details: Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia Architect: State of Kin / @stateofkin Footprint: 3,509 square feet Structural Engineer: Forth Engineering Photographer: Jack Lovel From the Architects: " The original home was a fitting example of the typical ’70 and ’80s suburban development in the area.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2023

Japanese studio Apollo Architects & Associates has completed Esprit House, a home in Tokyo with a blocky concrete form elevated on piloti above a garage space. Apollo Architects & Associates has completed a home in Tokyo. "In There is a large roof terrace. Structural engineer: Motoi Nomura Structures.

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Dwell

MARCH 24, 2023

The common area space is the central axis of the house, while the rest of the programmatic elements (bedrooms, bathrooms, laundry, and roofed parking area) are distributed in the two volumes perpendicular to them. For the exterior cladding, a vertical grid of brushed pine was designed, which functions as a lattice in the roofed parking area."

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Deezen

JANUARY 31, 2022

Wood, stone and lime plaster pervade the minimal interior of this energy-saving home in Muswell Hill that Architecture for London has created for its founder, Ben Ridley. The interiors of the home are finished with natural materials. The house's original timber roof has been preserved. Services engineer: Green Building Store.

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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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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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Dwell

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Project Details: Location: Northcote, Victoria, Australia Architect: Ben Callery Architects Builder: Keenan Built Structural Engineer: Richard Rees From the Architect: "Raw and honest locally sourced materials are used throughout. Hand-made craft of great builders is expressed throughout.

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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

JULY 6, 2023

In Situ Studio has renovated and expanded the mid-century modern childhood home of musician James Taylor in Chapel Hill, North Carolina , into a multi-building complex for two art collectors. The team has experience refurbishing mid-century modern homes in North Carolina, having overhauled a 1959 brick ranch-style home in Raleigh in 2017.

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JULY 13, 2023

Part of the ‘Chain Home’ Radar system during WW2, the bunker, along with several others on the clients’ land, and a perimeter of aerial arrays dotted along the English coast, were designed to detect incoming enemy aircraft, and signal their position. This solution is now completely concealed.” I think we have managed to achieve this.”

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