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

JANUARY 4, 2023

Studio Symbiosis has completed a villa in Delhi, India , that rises up from its landscaped grounds, forming a terraced roof that is covered with plants to maximise the site's green area. In urban settings, there is disconnect between the user and nature," Studio Symbiosis pointed out. The studio covered the roof in plants.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The SV house is located in a rural context surrounded by the typical traditional houses with sloped roofs, small windows, and wrapped by anonymous architecture. The plot for the house is where once was the owner grandparents house, it’s small in scale but huge in stories and memories for the whole family.

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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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Deezen

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Brooklyn-based nARCHITECTS has designed a nature centre and exhibition space that produces as much energy as it consumes on the New York coastline. The cedar -clad Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center overlooks the Atlantic Ocean. It is topped by a sawtooth mass-timber roof. A cedar trellis wraps around the exterior.

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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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Aric Gitomer Architect

AUGUST 22, 2022

How can homeowners and residential architects help to reduce this natural crisis? Sustainable houses are now the talk of the town. Let’s look at some essentials that can make your houses sustainable. Insulation makes the house more comfortable because it traps heat inside. Install Double Glazed Windows.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The Hasselt-based practice designed House Be to provide a distinctive but harmonious counterpoint to its extensively landscaped surroundings, with internal courtyards and a covered kitchen terrace that allow the garden to "extend into the building.". House Be was designed by A2o architecten. The photography is by Stijn Bollaert.

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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. Its previous projects include a library built within an existing traditional barn and a crystal-like house made from board-marked concrete.

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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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Archinect

OCTOBER 26, 2023

” The home, named Cherry Valley House, sits on a steep ridge that descends to the lakeshore. Image credit: Felix Michaud Image credit: Felix Michaud The house is sunken into the ridge, “protected at its back and providing a vantage point below the trees,” according to the team.

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Deezen

JUNE 14, 2022

Danish architect Sigurd Larsen has designed a cabin for hospitality start-up Raus featuring furniture built into "cave-like" niches and panoramic windows that frame views of nature. The cabin's height and the inclusion of large windows help to enhance the sense of spaciousness. Large windows overlook the surroundings.

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Deezen

APRIL 23, 2023

A grotto-like house in Hawaii, a brutalist surfer's refuge and a Swedish villa feature in this list of projects that demonstrate different approaches to the outdoor shower. Tropical flora and the thatched roofs overlook the pale concrete walls and pebbled terrazzo floor.

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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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Deezen

MAY 14, 2024

Terracotta-coloured facades and warm wood-lined interiors define Mid Terrace Dream, a terraced house in north London renovated and extended by local studio Collective Works. Collective Works has expanded the home, which it said was previously "run down", with two adjoining pitched-roof volumes at the rear and a full dormer to expand its loft.

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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

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

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Materials from a dismantled warehouse were used to build this courtyard house named Dailly, which local studio Mamout has nestled between two buildings in Belgium. The concept is therefore to have a low, long house lit by patios." The sloping roof considerably increases the feeling of space," said Busana.

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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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MARCH 6, 2024

This house, situated in the Kujawy region of Poland, seizes all the opportunities provided by the lake plot. The owners of the plot situated by a picturesque lake in the central-northern part of Poland, have long been dreaming of building a permanent residence with a summer house. The whole house is covered with European larch boards.

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Deezen

APRIL 23, 2024

"The North Fork is a place of simple barns, farms and quaint harbors, and it is from there that we drew our inspiration for the buildings of the house," said Texas-based Lake Flato Architects , the founders of which recently received the AIA Gold Medal. During the summer, windows can be opened up to bring in cool breezes from the bay.

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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

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

JULY 15, 2023

Installing huge floor-to-ceiling windows is a no-brainer when a house is set in a prime location, whether overlooking Lake Tahoe or Chile's craggy coastline. But the real key is to create pared-back interiors that don't detract from the natural vistas, using minimal furnishings and a natural material palette that brings the outside in.

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The Architecture Designs

MARCH 21, 2023

The right roofing style and material will help complete the home’s overall look. Let’s take a closer look at some of the most popular architectural styles for homes in the USA and explore which roofing types work best with each. When it comes to roofing, Colonial homes traditionally feature either wood shingles or asphalt shingles.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a summer house on the coast of Norway, the weather will change fast, often changing during the day, creating both inside and outside hours," studio founder Erling Berg told Dezeen. The roof's shape and placement was designed to offer shading from the sun, as well as to allow light into the central atrium.

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Deezen

MAY 1, 2024

Located along the Kona Coast on the island of Hawaii , the house was designed for a family who wanted a functional and beautiful retreat that was minimalist in spirit. The project, called Hale Kiawe, is a phrased combining the name of the trees and the Hawaiian word for house. The photography is by Matthew Millman.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Granary House is a two-storey guesthouse featuring a slate roof, a roof terrace and a slatted timber facade that integrates sliding panels. Granary House is a two-bedroom guesthouse in Arouca. The house has a dynamic facade of sliding wooden screens and glass doors. The house smells like wood a lot," she continued.

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Deezen

JANUARY 31, 2022

The interiors of the home are finished with natural materials. "It It was also quite dark as the orientation of the property isn't ideal – the rear reception room in particular had very little natural light.". The house's original timber roof has been preserved. A rear extension offers views of the garden.

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Deezen

MARCH 17, 2022

A hipped roof covered in stepped tiles tops this extension to a home on a suburban estate in Epsom, Surrey , designed by London-based studio Oliver Leech Architects. Hipped House is a home in Epson, Surrey that was designed by Oliver Leech Architects. The studio covered the roof in stepped tiles. Photography is by Ståle Eriksen.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 17, 2022

guò bàn ér design agency adds natural daylight and comfort to an ordinary rural house. Located around 60 km north of Beijing’s city center at the foothills of the Great Wall of China, the architects were given to add a modest extension to a vacant rural house. Text description provided by the architects. ??? guò bàn ér.

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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. The principle of the house-fence is reinforced by the consistent use of red colour, inspired by the foundation red colour that appears on most fences and cottages in the area," Holub explained.

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Dwell

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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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

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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Architecture Ideas

MAY 25, 2023

A popular trend in architecture is the construction of buildings topped with flat roofs. Specialized windows for flat roofs are a solution dedicated to buildings of this type, improving their functionality. The issue of meeting the functional conditions also applies to glazing in the form of windows for flat roofs.

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