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

APRIL 30, 2024

Including a skinny house in Japan, a home in Canada that is deliberately unfinished and a lonely cottage in the Outer Hebrides, here are Dezeen's houses of the month for April. To help the home blend in with the dramatic landscape, architecture studio Izat Arundell used a timber-frame structure and thick blocks of local stone.

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Deezen

MARCH 10, 2023

The design was generally inspired by the vernacular language of the agricultural landscape based on the origins of the site and its surroundings," the studio said. As a result, the home becomes in symbiosis with nature and landscape." The original house was later demolished. The photography is by Josée Marino.

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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

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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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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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

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 architects used red concrete both to contrast with the green landscaping and to reference the nearby brick house.

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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

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. Proving a connection to the forested, hilly landscape was a guiding concern for the team. The photography is by Adam Rouse.

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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. The studio drew from the historic villas found nearby to create a structure that would "stand out" while also respecting its parkland setting.

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Deezen

JANUARY 21, 2022

The clean geometry of Dieter Rams ' industrial designs informed Winter House, a virtual residence by digital artist Andrés Reisinger and architect Alba de la Fuente that exists in a pink-hued winter world. Designed as a hideaway in a snowy forest, the two-storey house is characterised by floor-to-ceiling glass windows and rectilinear volumes.

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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 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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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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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 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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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

These complex feats of engineering offer passage between buildings, supported in their entirety by the structures they connect. More than mere passing places, these structures house a swimming pool, fitness facilities, a café and a gallery. Suspended high above the urban sprawl, skybridges seemingly defy the laws of gravity.

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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 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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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

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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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion 0 qpurcell Thu, 09/28/2023 - 10:37 Office Buildings IMEG's Edwin Dean, Joe Gulden, and Doug Sweeney, share seven key focuses for structural engineers when planning office-to-residential conversions. faces a housing deficit of 3.8 million units.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Canadian studio 25:8 Architecture + Urban Design has added a cedar-clad extension with a shape informed by birds in flight to a house in Ottawa. When practicing yoga upstairs, the residents can look through a floor-level window down to the basketball game, and a sliding battened screen protects the glazing from damage.

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Deezen

JANUARY 23, 2024

The simple, 450-square foot (42-square metre) structure, known as Tonalli House, was completed in 2023 in Jocotepec, Jalisco, minutes from Lake Chapala, the country's largest lake. From the outside, the house is a solid white cube, punctuated with strategic openings. A solar heater provides hot water for the house.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Ryan Leidner Architecture completed the 2,500-square-foot (230-square metre) Hosono House in 2021, cladding the house in charcoal-stained cedar siding with a copper, standing seam roof. The bridge would span the lush front garden and connect to the house between the top and middle stories. The photography is by Joe Fletcher.

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Deezen

MAY 13, 2024

Canadian practice Studio North has wrapped a wooden screen around the curved corners and cantilevers of a Calgary house near a winding river. Studio North has completed a screen-wrapped house in Calgary "The Elbow House looks to the immediate and the macro landscapes for inspiration," the studio told Dezeen.

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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. The solid structure looks like it is floating." "The solid structure looks like it is floating." The photography is courtesy of IGArchitects.

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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

APRIL 14, 2024

HGX Design created the house to host the owner's visiting family and it now stands as the main dwelling on the 35-acre property, which is dotted with agricultural buildings and another residence. The structure's horizontal form was informed by the vernacular architecture of the surrounding farmland.

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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

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

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Japanese studio Kurosawa Kawara-Ten has used local and recycled materials to transform a vacant house into a workspace named Ichihara Life and Work Commission Office. It has a timber structure "The outshape of the building was almost the same as the building before," said Kurosawa.

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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.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Ring of Bjólfur By ESJA Architecture , exa nordic , Okarheima , ANNA Landscape architect , Arkibygg arkitekar , Seydisfjordur, Iceland Jury Winner, 2023 A+ Awards, Unbuilt Landscape If you’ve even glanced at Iceland from a passing plane window you’ll know the country doesn’t do much that isn’t packed with awe.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 6, 2023

S-AR completed the Glamping Concéntrico project in Mexico Collectively, the structures measure 2,270 square feet (210.75 The project works to create multiple levels of connections: between people and nature, among structures in a specific landscape, and between the buildings and the forest.

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Habitus Living

JULY 9, 2023

Aireys House, a coastal residence conceived by Nicholas Burns, is an example of this synergy. The house is placed snugly between dense eucalyptus and blackwood trees, which renders a mesmerising perspective between the sea and the sky. The captivating union of architecture and nature often yields breathtaking outcomes.

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