Deezen

MARCH 13, 2024

Vancouver studio Laura Killam Architecture has created a beachside cabin in British Columbia with a slanted roof that responds to the site's climate. The 650-square-foot (60-square metre) cabin is organised into two offset volumes that are connected by an interior passageway while a tilted, cedar-shingled roof covers the structure.

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Deezen

JANUARY 27, 2024

Green terrazzo is teamed with concrete and clay-toned plaster at Terzetto, a London flat extension that architecture studio ConForm Architects has modelled on bay windows. Externally, these distinct materials have been combined to evoke the components of a bay window – which are a plinth, column and pediment.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The idea was to take the existing house and give it new life—one that met the needs and aesthetics of our designer clients. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

APRIL 1, 2024

Located on the northern shore of Lake Constance in the Radolfzell district, the timber building contains sports courts and a stage for events, unified by a cantilevered roof overhead. With its tranquil appearance, timber construction blends in with the traditional settlement landscape around Lake Constance," she continued.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Lime-washed bricks and a black overhanging roof characterise this house that Dutch studio Chris Collaris Architects has completed in a verdant garden near Eindhoven , the Netherlands. The garden organisation is connected to the structure of the house," said Collaris. It can be accessed from four points on the ground floor.

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Deezen

MARCH 11, 2024

Tokyo-based studio Klein Dytham Architecture has designed a bookstore wrapped with an undulating steel roof resembling "outstretched arms" in Nagano, Japan. Named Karuizawa Commongrounds Bookstore, the 495-square-metre bookstore is an extension of a two-storey building previously used as a seminar house by Tokyo's Aoyama Gakuin University.

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Dwell

MARCH 12, 2024

The desert city of Scottsdale, Arizona, is set within the sprawling Sonoran Desert and overlooked by the majestic McDowell Mountains, so it’s no surprise that this spectacular landscape plays a pivotal role in shaping much of the area’s architecture. Modern Sunset House is located on 14 acres of hillside.

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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. Settled on the edge of a meadow surrounded by spruce trees, the massing of the two-bedroom, rectangular house follows the natural grade, never rising more than 15 feet (4.5

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Local studio Hopson Rodstrom Design placed a sawtooth roof on top of this black-clad apartment building with an interior courtyard in southern California. Located in West Los Angeles on a busy thoroughfare, the project is called The Jagger – named after the massive sawtooth roof that tops it.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Toronto-based StudioAC has completed a residence east of the city, in a landscape characterized by an “intricate coastline and a bourgeoning wine-making industry.” ” The home, named Cherry Valley House, sits on a steep ridge that descends to the lakeshore.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Irregularly placed square openings puncture the thick concrete exterior of SV House in Portugal , recently completed by architecture studio Spaceworkers. From the outside, they are an important element in the composition of the elevations and in the perception of the occupation of the house, but without revealing too much," the studio said.

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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. The bungalow is intended to fit into the existing neighbourhood, which comprises detached houses built alongside a series of manmade waterways.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Architecture studio Ingenhoven Architects has created a series of buildings topped with large, overhanging thatched roofs for the Lanserhof Sylt health resort on the Germany island of Sylt. Its building is topped with a thatch roof that measures 7,100 square metres – making it the largest in Europe.

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Deezen

MARCH 18, 2022

Mexico City -based Lopez Gonzalez Studio has carved a terrace into a gabled rooftop on a black house in Xalapa, Veracruz. Designed for a growing family, the House in Xalapa is a three-storey structure set against a backdrop of lush vegetation. The House in Xalapa was designed as an abstracted version of a typical gabled home.

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Deezen

MARCH 31, 2024

The 19th-century villas in the suburbs of Paris informed the arched windows and sloping roofs of this social housing block in France , completed by local studio SOA Architectes. Previous projects by SOA Architectes include the 21-storey mixed use Aya Tower in Beirut, for which the studio drew on traditional Arabian houses.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Architecture studio NWLND Rogiers Vandeputte has built a pool house from red concrete within the wooded garden of a home in Flanders, Belgium. Solid red concrete pavilion walls contain the swimming pond and pool house. The Refuge has a curved concrete roof that spans across the length of the pavilion.

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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. An opening in the wall offers access to the garden, where a stepped patio leads to the house.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Its shaping is subordinated to the unique scenario of the family living in the house. The original shape of the house in the longitudinal direction does not have a clear distinction between walls and roof, being associated with the natural landscape - the outcropping of rocks near the Dnipro River.

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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. Roughly rectangular in plan, the dwelling has cutouts, cantilevers and multiple sloped roofs that combine in a sculptural way. Windows provide framed views.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 28, 2023

On the boards in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood is a new house for a three-peat client of Faulkner Architects. It is to replace an existing 1904 house that had lost its historic integrity due to renovations over the last 120 years. A photovoltaic array on the roof deck earns a planned net-zero annual energy usage.

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Deezen

MAY 1, 2024

American studio Walker Warner Architects has completed Hale Kiawe, a family retreat with simple, gabled forms are set within an undulating landscape dotted with chunky lava rocks. The project, called Hale Kiawe, is a phrased combining the name of the trees and the Hawaiian word for house.

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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. Cabin Above Town was designed by Byró Architekti Taking inspiration from the local landscape, Prague studio Byró Architekti designed the home to have a sweeping form following the curves of the surrounding landscape.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

After Junya Ishigami unveiled a kilometre-long art museum that emerges from an artificial lake , Dezeen rounds up 10 recent Chinese architecture projects that play with arresting landscapes. A giant semicircular window sits on the edge of a pool of water, reflecting on it when illuminated to create the shape of a full moon.

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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. Named Madrone Ridge, the 4,920 square-foot (460 square-metre) house sits within the watershed of northern California's Russian River. the studio said. "By

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The house is arranged in a C-shaped plan, opening toward an outdoor dining patio on the western side shaded by large wooden beams. The bedrooms and bathrooms are stacked on the opposite end with windows that look out east and west. The primary suite cantilevers slightly out from the perimeter of the foundation with a glazed corner.

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Dwell

MARCH 21, 2024

Designed by architect Pascal Truffaut, the countryside home has colorful interiors, a wave-like roof, and a bedroom suspended above the living area. Arranged in double height, it is designed as the central space of the house and offers an airy and bright volume. A tree house–like retreat is suspended above the stove.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2023

House, the home sits on a farmland site and is covered with a series of berms, while multiple trumpet-shaped pillars of varying heights create wave-like levels along the expanse of its footprint. The team covered the structure with berms, which rise out of the flat landscape of the surrounding agricultural fields.

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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. The roof is covered in standing-seam metal. Softer light flows in through the courtyard on the north.

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Deezen

MAY 14, 2023

A single concrete column supports the walls and roof of this house by Japanese studio IGArchitects, creating a flexible interior that can be opened up to the surrounding landscape. Like an opened umbrella, the roof and walls [of the home] are extended from the only column," explained IGArchitects.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Local architecture studio Goiva has renovated a white brick house and added a pub -like social space to its basement in São Paulo , Brazil. Goiva renovated the white brick Casa Yuji Architects Karen Evangelisti and Marcos Mendes from Goiva completed the renovation of the 40-year-old house in 2023.

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MARCH 6, 2024

This house, situated in the Kujawy region of Poland, seizes all the opportunities provided by the lake plot. A building, composed of two former barns, was arranged on the plot by Exterio studio architects, seamlessly fitting in with the surrounding landscape and rural buildings. The whole house is covered with European larch boards.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Spanish studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos has created a minimalist white house in Alicante , which winds through the landscape to enhance its relationship with the outdoors. Named Sabater House, the Spanish dwelling unfolds through a series of intersecting, elongated forms that ascend upwards over its 780-square-metre site.

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Deezen

JANUARY 6, 2024

London studio Delve Architects has transformed a Victorian house in Camberwell with a cork-clad extension that introduces a bright open-plan kitchen and dining space for entertaining. The studio added an extension clad in cork Camberwell Cork House's dining room now extends out into the garden, enclosed by large triple-glazed windows and a 2.4-metre-high

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Deezen

MAY 19, 2023

Girona-based Arquitecturia , led by Josep Camps and Olga Felip, designed House 016 to foster a close connection to both its site, which is surrounded by lawns and trees, and the internal garden. This is fully glazed on one side to overlook the courtyard and on the other to look out at the landscape.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The house offers a chance to spend time in the countryside and enjoy the nearby preserved forest and lakes. The house has a simple floor plan with a curved wall that creates privacy toward the road.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Mole Architects fleshed out a prefab timber frame with passive house design principles, and placed living areas on the second level to provide its retiree-owner with great views. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share?

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Deezen

JANUARY 19, 2024

Ecuadorian architect Juan Alberto Andrade has completed an extension to a multifamily housing complex with rammed earth walls in Guayaquil. Housing is an activity, a built process." A square wooden window – protected by sliding metal shutters – looks across the street to a community park.

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