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"Bomb blast" window cut into world war two bunker holiday home

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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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Oliver Leech Architects adds skylit extension to London home

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Prioritising natural light, Oliver Leech Architects expanded the ground floor with an open living, dining and kitchen space, which meets the existing building with a large skylight and a window seat overlooking a small courtyard. The extension features a window seat overlooking the rear courtyard Oliver Leech Architects was founded in 2016.

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Workshop Architecture Inc creates "raw and unvarnished" prefabricated home in Ontario

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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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Big Windows and White Interiors Punch Up a Gloomy ’60s California Beach House

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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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Omar Gandhi Architects balances cedar house on rocky Nova Scotia coastline

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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. Approaching the building from the public side, a sense of privacy and shelter welcomes visitors," the team said.

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Tomás de Iruarrizaga bridges concrete forms with wooden structure for Chile holiday home

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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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Proctor & Shaw tops London home extension with serrated zinc roof

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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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