Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Irregularly placed square openings puncture the thick concrete exterior of SV House in Portugal , recently completed by architecture studio Spaceworkers. Located on a sloping site near the town of Sobrado, the blocky, three-storey home occupies a plot once occupied by the home of the client's grandfather.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Architecture firm Alterstudio has completed a tower-like house in Texas that rises up from a steep, wooded site that was long overlooked "as a possible home site". Built for a married couple in Austin , the house feels immersed in the wilderness but is, in fact, surrounded by "very ordinary, suburban conditions".

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Archinect

AUGUST 10, 2022

Los Angeles' historic Hollyhock House will reopen to the public on Aug. During this time, LA's Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) embarked on “significant transformations” at the Hollyhock House and Residence A, a guest house (also designed by Wright) located at the same site. 18, city officials announced.

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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.

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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

APRIL 25, 2024

Canadian studio Omar Gandhi Architects has completed a cedar-wrapped house "inspired by the scattered boulders" that trail down the seaside property in Hubbards, Nova Scotia. The house presents as two interlocked, stacking boxes – that are meant to weather over time to match the pale grey of the sky – perched on a hillside.

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Archinect

MARCH 21, 2023

Sited on a private coastal California hillside street lined with five tightly stacked homes, the 3000 square foot residence optimizes a compact footprint, resulting in an experience that maximizes outdoor living, without compromising the privacy of the family. Additionally, a guest quarters open.

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Dwell

MAY 16, 2022

"We grew up here near Lake Constance and the Alps, where it’s mainly grassland and forest—we love our region, and we want to give people the ability to get to know the landscape and its beauty." The dwelling connects to its pastoral landscape, and it lives larger than its 516 square feet of interior space. Photo by Linda Kl?tniece

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. A corner terrace with decades of architectural detritus had engulfed the site with a never-ending cascade of additions and lean-to’s with the odd weed surviving between the cracks of the concrete path.

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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

MARCH 21, 2024

Wendell Burnette Architects used Corten steel to clad a cabin in Arizona designed to capture views while disappearing into the landscape like a "dark shadow". Telescope House offers framed views of Sedona The 1,600-square-foot (149-square-metre) cabin is a nature retreat for a couple who ultimately plan to live there full-time.

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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

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

OCTOBER 21, 2022

London studio Hayhurst & Co has completed the Edith Neville Primary School near King's Cross, with pockets of landscape and external play spaces wrapped by a filigree screen of white aluminium mesh. Edith Neville Primary School is a school in King's Cross that was designed by Hayhurst and Co. It was designed as a school in a park.

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2023

Named O Lofos, or The Hill, the holiday home is located in the foothills of Mount Thryptis, a mountain on the eastern side of the Greek island, and is designed by Block722 to blend in with the surrounding landscape. So our design of this house is an ode to this reverent relationship between nature and architecture."

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Located in the Echo Park neighbourhood, the Grafton House sits on a sloped site with views of the surrounding hills and city skyline. The designer sought to create a peaceful sanctuary on a busy street While designing the house, Nilsson drew upon his experience working on high-density, mixed-use projects.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Called Peninsula House, the dwelling is located near the town of Flinders, overlooking the Bass Strait and surrounded by farmland. Peninsula House has a curved form crafted from rammed earth Instead of designing an orthogonal volume, Wood Marsh took cues from the shape of the coastline and the meandering paths leading to the site.

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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

APRIL 28, 2023

From Germany to the Bahamas, rural dwellings designed to embrace their natural surroundings make up Dezeen's top five houses of the month for April 2023. This roundup is the latest in our Houses of the month series, which collects five of the most popular residences featured on Dezeen every month, from all around the world.

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Deezen

JANUARY 24, 2024

A curvy canopy with a rooftop reflecting pool is among the standout features at a Long Island house designed by US studios Steven Harris Architects and Rees Roberts & Partners to embrace its sand-dune setting. Similarly, all windows were specified to be marine stainless."

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Deezen

JANUARY 11, 2023

Occupying a site formerly used by Plymouth University , the project involved the construction of a new teaching building and the refurbishment of the adjacent Owen Theatre, the two of which are connected by a glass link bridge. Read: Stride Treglown places "sinking" Monopoly-style house in River Avon ahead of COP26.

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Dwell

MAY 17, 2024

Welcome to Prefab Profiles , an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. 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. The large window is meant to make people feel connected with the outside.

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Deezen

JANUARY 17, 2024

Located at the edge of the hospital's campus, the site sits between the Rue de l'Erminage, a main entrance to the town of Draveil and the Sénart Forest, of which Vallet de Martinis Architectes wanted the housing to act as a "direct extension". An additional green space is inserted in between.

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Deezen

JULY 20, 2022

London-based architecture firm Blee Halligan has created Derwent Valley Villa, a family home in Derbyshire, UK, that was informed by the surrounding landscape. The existing house was a dilapidated and badly planned 1970s bungalow," the studio told Dezeen. acres.". "The

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Mexican studio Taller Héctor Barroso has used concrete, wood and brick to create a series of holiday homes that merge with the wooded landscape and "allow nature to act in the intimacy of the home". The architecture studio designed the homes to integrate with the tree-studded landscape and to enable nature to flow indoors.

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Deezen

JULY 6, 2023

Architecture studio Ballman Khapalova has renovated a 1980s ranch house in Saugerties, New York , to make it a contemporary home with maximised views of the surrounding landscape. Ballman Khapalova extended Pine Lane House by 300 square feet and added a steel standing seam roof, external wood cladding and an outdoor deck.

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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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Architizer

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

From rainforests in the most unlikely transport hubs to event spaces hanging preciously over world heritage sites and remote rest stops for desert travelers, each of the blueprints below proves that our planet is the ultimate creative force.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Architecture practice Ann Nisbet Studio has created a timber-framed house, named Cuddymoss, within a stone ruin in Ayrshire, Scotland. A gabled extension adjoins to the former ruin The 171-square-metre house is formed of two gabled structures situated perpendicular to one another, connected by a glass corridor.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Instead, the studio decided to create a 1,500-square-foot (139-square-metre) structure on the site that consists of a gallery and gathering space and a utilities area, separated by a courtyard. Also important was the remediation of the contaminated site, often referred to as a brownfield site.

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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 18, 2023

A grassy mound conceals this brick pool house, which architecture studio Knox Bhavan has designed to be "virtually invisible" within the grounds of a Georgian home in Kent. Viewed from above, it is subsumed into the landscape and virtually invisible," it continued. The photography is by Knox Bhavan.

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Deezen

APRIL 3, 2024

Thick walls of local stone shelter Caochan na Creige, a home in Scotland 's Outer Hebrides by local practice Izat Arundell designed to "sit respectfully in the landscape". The site's remote nature informed the simple material choices, as well as making it more viable to construct the timber frame on-site rather than prefabricating it.

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Habitus Living

JANUARY 28, 2024

In the heart of the rural South Australian landscape, a residence seamlessly integrates with its surroundings. Blending architectural form and a carefully selected material palette, the house is strategically positioned on the site’s gradient.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A sculptural facade defines the Allan & Geraldine Rosenberg Residences, a housing block with affordable senior apartments in Freeport, New York , designed by German architecture firm Studio Libeskind. Senior housing isn't just about accommodation; it's about people," said Libeskind.

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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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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

More than mere passing places, these structures house a swimming pool, fitness facilities, a café and a gallery. Thermally insulated glazing is braced by an intricate steel structure — inside, the intersections of the geometric struts frame viewing windows, capturing snapshots of Prague’s breathtaking topography. The post Look Up!

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