Archinect

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Frame House transforms the existing barn house typology into a contemporary dwelling, redefined by strategic compositions of window frames on each new elevation and new structure extending from the existing gambrel roof construction.

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Archinect

APRIL 5, 2024

Late SCI-Arc founder Ray Kappe ’s Keeler House design has hit the market in Pacific Palisades, California, for $12 million. A pleasing layered effect composes the interior, with glass inlay floor and ceiling blocks included to further incorporate the presence of natural light deeper into the structure via a vaulted skylight.

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Habitus Living

JULY 9, 2023

The captivating union of architecture and nature often yields breathtaking outcomes. 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.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This project is a weekend house in the mountains of the Sierra de Arteaga, in the state of Coahuila in northern Mexico. The house is laid out on the slope of an old orchard in mountainous surroundings, with the intention of having minimal impact on the site and natural vegetation.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The entirety of a terraced Victorian property in Stoke Newington was redesigned and extended, keeping only the building’s bare tectonic skeleton, due to the lack of structural integrity. The rear part of the house is extended to fit a large kitchen and dining area, with generous circulation space and a seating area where the.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The house is a superposition of full volume on a reading of emptiness. Generously glazed, this level allows an almost natural relationship between inside and outside. In this relationship, a summer kitchen is an extension of the one located inside the house. Inside, a long wall at the back of the stage structures the space.

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Archinect

MAY 30, 2022

With this project, however, the aim was to create a gym allowing indirect natural light suitable for indoor exercises and blocking strong direct sunlight to afford a feel for the outside environment. To achieve this goal, four structural “tubes” were designed around the perimeter of the arena.

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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.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

series, we've collected 10 recently completed and upcoming buildings that show the potential of structural stone as a modern construction material. Among the experts to share insights on the material was Aurore Baulier, an ACAN Natural Materials Group co-ordinator, who called on architects to embrace stone's natural qualities.

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Habitus Living

JANUARY 23, 2024

Situated in the picturesque beachside town of Punta Fuego, Philippines, the FR House is a notable architectural feat by Carlos Arnaiz Architects (CAZA). At the heart of FR House’s architectural approach is integrating the structure with its steep, narrow site and focusing on natural ventilation as a primary cooling method.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Designed for a young family, this house in Wellesley, Massachusetts is a contemporary response to the white clapboard vernacular so prevalent in the neighborhood and across New England. Built as a 100-year structure, the house was designed to meet the changing needs of a growing family.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

US studio CLB Architects has created a retreat in rural Wyoming that has three wood-clad structures, with a creek running underneath the primary residence. Located on a 35-acre (14-hectare) property near the town of Wilson, the home was envisioned as a series of "tectonic structures" set within a diverse ecosystem.

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Deezen

JULY 25, 2023

An intricate screen designed to encourage plant growth wraps around the walls of Woven House, which British practice Giles Miller Studio has raised above a sloped site in Kent. The placement of the screen on a deep support structure offsets it from the main walls of the home and gives the plants more space to grow.

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Architizer

APRIL 30, 2024

They can be material structures that connect two (or more!) Beyond spanning from point A to B, architects are designing bridges as inhabitable structures to build connections between people and places. Architects: Want to have your project featured? Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters.

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Archinect

JUNE 21, 2022

Embarking on a new project type for the first time in the history of the practice, Ma Yansong’s MAD Architects recently unveiled photos for a social housing scheme located near Beijing’s central business district called Baiziwan. million-square-feet). In a press statement, MAD also said space.

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2024

Named Tor Alva , or White Tower, the building will become the world's "tallest 3D-printed structure" once complete in Mulegns later this year, according to Hansmeyer and Dillenburger. ETH Zurich has commenced the 3D printing process and so far created eight out of 32 structural columns. This saves mass and material."

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designboom

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

the final structure celebrates the beauty of natural shapes yet adopts an introverted character, limiting the visual contact to neighboring houses. The post niko architect’s futuristic membrane house in russia is informed by natural motifs appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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designboom

JULY 16, 2022

the open character of the structure and the integrated climbing plants make it appear as if it is effectively disappearing into the landscape. The post nature becomes the protagonist of taliesyn’s weekend house design in rural india appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

ACAN Natural Materials Group co-ordinator Aurore Baulier calls on architects to embrace stone 's natural qualities and reintroduce the material into their toolkits in this Stone Age 2.0 Top: Aurore Baulier is calling on architects to use structural stone. Above: she believes stone should be embraced for its natural qualities.

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Deezen

APRIL 17, 2024

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has created a pavilion from paper tubes, wood and milk crates to mark the 75th anniversary of US architect Philip Johnson's Glass House in Connecticut , USA. metres) structure was built within the site of Johnson 's historic house. foot by 13.5 meters by 4.1

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Deezen

JUNE 12, 2024

Handel Architects has completed a skyscraper in Boston with Passive House -certified office spaces, which its developers say is the largest office to reach that certification in the world. This is the first time a developer has applied the Passive House approach to an office building of this size and scale," it continued.

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Deezen

MARCH 9, 2023

A stadium by Zaha Hadid Architects and housing by Adjaye Associates feature in this roundup of upcoming wooden buildings , curated as part of our Timber Revolution series. They also help to bring a natural aesthetic to buildings, supporting the principles of biophilia that can boost occupant wellbeing.

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Deezen

JUNE 7, 2024

Danish maritime architecture studio MAST has revealed plans to build a hotel formed of houses on stilts in a Portuguese lagoon formerly used for salt production. The project also involves turning a large section of the 50-hectare site into a nature reserve.

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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. Weathered copper piping on the shower is one of the few rustic touches within the large Costa Rican house, designed by Zürcher Arquitectos and Taller KEN.

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

Studio Bark developed the Shingles project to find structural uses for otherwise unusable bits of timber Spindles began when the studio was hired to build a family home on a wooded site in Buckinghamshire in the southeast of England. "We We were there in midsummer. That posed the question of what to do with the felled trees.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2024

Indian architecture studio Nowhere has renovated a house in Hyderabad called Mayalogili, coating it with a rough red-brown plaster made with brick and marble dust produced during the project. Walls of shutters can be opened to overlook the landscape and an adjacent bamboo structure containing a bathroom.

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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. "It

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Deezen

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A green wall and a charred-timber extension define House of the Elements, a Victorian home in London renovated by local studio Neil Dusheiko Architects. Intended to mimic a "spa-like retreat", the Peckham home was remodelled to brighten its dark, closed-off interior and help bring nature in.

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Architizer

APRIL 4, 2024

Nestled in the heart of America, Arkansas is rich in natural beauty and cultural heritage. Known for its picturesque landscapes, including the majestic Ozark Mountains and the winding Arkansas River, the state’s architecture is grounded in its natural surroundings. acre raw industrial brownfield block in south Fayetteville.

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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

APRIL 30, 2023

An undulating concrete roof topped with grass covers this house in the Czech Republic, designed by local architecture studio RO_AR. Located alongside a wildlife corridor at the edge of the Hlubocepy district in Prague, the family home is designed to be a "bridge between the urban and the natural".

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Deezen

MARCH 10, 2023

The exterior is covered in white wood cladding "Accordingly, the light monochromatic home helps to emphasize and appreciate the natural colours 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.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A kind of manual for designing nature without ecology is found in the series of artful drawings that reveal a strategy for working with plants through quantity, species, spacing, and cultivar. Each tome is a reminder that Oudolf’s prolific publishing career is as profuse as his “nature-like” style. © Piet Oudolf. © Piet Oudolf.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Indonesian practice Stilt Studios has completed a series of "nature-centric" villas for the Grün Uluwatu resort in Bali , which are elevated on steel columns to sit among the tree canopy. This approach allows for a more sustainable and harmonious coexistence between the built environment and nature,” he added.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Envisioned as a home that embraces the outdoors, the residence is composed of four structures housing the home’s separate functions. Only six trees were removed to build all four structures.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Next in our Designing for Disaster series, we spotlight Pop Up, Danish studio Tredje Natur's bold proposal for cities to build floating car parks on top of flood-preventing reservoirs. Taking these two and putting them together is just much more societally sound, and construction-wise, the budgets of the two structures are overlapping."

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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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