Archinect

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

TM House is a T4 typology house, located in the parish of Lamelas - a predominantly rustic area - located on the south side of Santo Tirso. The house seeks a deliberate connection between all its spaces, with respect to the functional relationship of interior and exterior areas and experiences.

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Deezen

MARCH 11, 2024

Chinese studio Wutopia Lab has used wave-shaped roofs of blue aluminium and translucent fabric to transform an industrial yard in Shanghai into a mixed-use cultural space. Wutopia Lab focused on a former service yard and duty office at the site, transforming it into a multipurpose square with bold red concrete surfaces.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2023

Belgian studio Notan Office has completed Duchesse, a series of homes positioned around a communal garden on an old industrial site in Brussels. Commissioned to create two houses and six apartments, Notan Office designed the complex to create the feeling of being in a small village or "micro-city".

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Deezen

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Architecture studio Dallas Pierce Quintero has completed a cluster of houses in London with sawtooth roofs and corrugated-metal cladding that nod to the site's former use as a builders' yard. Dallas Pierce Quintero has completed a cluster of houses in London. The living rooms are houses in cross-laminated timber pods.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Architecture studio Proctor & Shaw has topped a home extension with a steeply-angled roof clad with red pigmented zinc in East Dulwich, London. Home to a family of seven, Proctor & Shaw designed the project as an extension to an existing Edwardian house, extending the ground-floor kitchen and dining room.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Architecture studio Wallmakers has reimagined a traditional roof by adding skylights that double as seating for an arts centre and home in Kerala, India. Nisarga Art Hub is topped with a large roof Indian studio Wallmakers punctured skylights into the roof to draw natural light into the communal space below.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Located at the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas in California, the Mountain House sits as a “meticulously designed and thoughtfully crafted residential structure” in sixty acres of forest, according to the property’s realtors, Sotheby's.

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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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designboom

MARCH 24, 2022

occupying a beachfront site on amami oshima island, the two story villa is designed with traditional proportions. The post ryosuke ono designs beachfront house in japan with pyramid hip roof appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

JANUARY 25, 2024

UK architecture studio DaeWha Kang Design has designed a pavilion and courtyard for The OWO hotel at the site of the former Old War Office in Whitehall, London. The pavilion is located in front of the 1906 Grade II*-listed building, designed by architect William Young, that was once used by the British government's military departments.

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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. The location of the trees around the edges of the plot informed the house's positioning at the northeast corner.

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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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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

House BC is in a post-war suburb on a tight lot by Raleigh’s Hebrew Cemetery. The house is solid from the street, with only a deep entry and hint of green roof suggesting what is within. The entry void leads to a front door in the middle of the house, by a courtyard. Every space in the house opens to the courtyard.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Mexican architect Cesar Mancillas used high concrete walls while creating a linear house with spaces focused on relaxation in the often-changing urban landscape of Ensenada, Mexico. The high walls isolate the home from prevailing winds The high walls isolate the house from the prevailing winds of the Valle de Guadalupe.

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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

APRIL 7, 2022

Located in an inner suburb of Raleigh, HUUS house sits in a leafy neighbourhood with homes built between the 1940s and 1970s. Part of the HUUS house is sunken in the ground. The project's name comes from the old Alemannic German word for house, hüüs. This attitude is a perfect reflection of the couple who lives in the house.".

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The Spaces

MARCH 30, 2022

In Headington, on the outskirts of Oxford , a 25-ft fibreglass shark by Bill Heine crashes through the roof of a suburban terrace – a 35-year-long protest against censorship, state warfare and planning restrictions. They installed it on site on 9 August – the 41st anniversary of the US’s atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

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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 29, 2024

From a zigzagging minimalist home in Spain to a compact self-build project in the UK, here are the most popular houses featured on Dezeen this month. Also on the list is a Y-shaped house in Canada, a blocky concrete dwelling in Portugal and a sprawling residence among Australian farmland.

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Deezen

MAY 31, 2023

A sweeping, grass-topped concrete roof creates an artificial hill to conceal the Gurdau Winery in the Czech Republic , which has been designed by local practice Aleš Fiala Studio. Where the sloping roof meets the ground, it blends with a series of winding concrete walls supporting planters around a paved patio.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Located near the city of Malibu , the 4/Way House sits on a southeast-facing ridge in the Santa Monica Mountains, in a community called Topanga. acre site there feasible for the young couple. 4/Way House sits on a mountainous slope in California. Structurally, the house is supported by a complex web of steel trusses.

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Deezen

AUGUST 26, 2022

There are practically no doors in this Hawaii retreat by Craig Steely Architecture that has a triangular inner courtyard , massive skylight and a cantilevered roof. The house earned its nickname, Musubi, from one of the builders who remarked that its triangular shape resembles the popular Japanese rice snack also known as onigiri.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Satish Jassal Architects designed Haringey Brick Bungalow The 110-square-metre site and narrow passageway was "like building through a straw", dictating many design and construction decisions. Two green roofs top the building, characterised by their asymmetrical pyramid shapes topped with rooflights.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

US studio Robert Gurney Architect has completed a beachfront house in Delaware consisting of "simple and pure forms" wrapped in white cedar, salvaged barn wood and fibre-cement panels. Named after the community where it is located, the Cotton Patch Hills House sits on an oceanfront site in Bethany Beach, Delaware.

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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. During the project's inception, designers from Manhattan's Desai Chia Architecture visited the site in different seasons to understand the climate and terrain.

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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 25, 2024

Spanish architecture studios SelgasCano and Diego Cano used multi-coloured tubes made from recycled aluminium to clad a house on a steep site in Los Angeles. This covering makes a powerful impact on the house, wraps completely around it, and frames the view in the large terrace."

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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 7, 2023

An oversized roof lined with terracotta tiles shelters this home in the centre of a walled garden in Quang Yen, Vietnam , designed by local studios Ra.atelier and Ngo + Pasierbinski. Completed for a family that has owned the garden for generations, House in Quang Yen transforms the site into a space suitable for large gatherings and sleeping.

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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. In the winter, the house can be buttoned up and protected from harsh coastal weather.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Anji Culture and Art Center will be defined by a series of curving canopy roofs that were designed to look like scattered bamboo leaves. Its roofs were designed to look like scattered leaves The interior will be arranged beneath the overlapping metal roofs and organised around a central corridor that divides the main event spaces.

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Architonic

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

<p>This is a house for a couple living in a suburban residential area. </p> <p>The site is surrounded by houses and apartments, and the front road has a significant amount of traffic. .</p> The roof blocks the view from the surroundings while bringing the sky into the interior.

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Deezen

JANUARY 31, 2024

Dezeen's top five houses of the month for January include an "unyielding" travertine-clad holiday home on the Danish coast and a fluted concrete villa built into a Spanish hillside. This is not a utilitarian building on a laneway, but one that has presence and enlivens the laneway as a traditional home does a street."

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Deezen

JULY 19, 2023

British studio Hopkins Architects has added an indoor tennis centre with an undulating timber-coated roof to the All England Lawn Tennis Club at Wimbledon , UK. It has an undulating timber-coated roof The building contains six indoor courts within a partially timber-clad structure punctuated by white, Y-shaped columns.

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Deezen

MAY 29, 2023

Chinese practice Wang Chong Studio used rustic stone walls and a sloping roof to help this art museum blend into its rocky site in China's Henan Province. Named Taihang Xinyu Art Museum, the museum is built around an old warehouse on the site, which backs onto Taihang Mountain and sits alongside the Cangxi River.

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