Deezen

AUGUST 30, 2022

A void punctures the centre of this compact concrete home, which Japanese studio Noriaki Hanaoka Architecture has elevated over a sloping site in Chiba Prefecture. Torus House sits on a steeply sloping site in Chiba Prefecture. Torus House is elevated on four large columns. "It It sits level with the road to the north.

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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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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

JANUARY 22, 2022

Fletcher Crane Architects has completed a two-bedroom house on a brownfield plot in west London featuring grey-brick walls that are left exposed throughout the living areas and sunken bedrooms. Fletcher Crane Architects has completed a grey-brick house in London. It occupies the site of an old garage. metres below street level.

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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. Dallas Pierce Quintero has completed a cluster of houses in London.

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ArchDaily

APRIL 29, 2024

Courtesy of Feldman Architecture and Western Window Systems When it came to designing a nature-embracing modern home in Palo Alto, California, USA, architect Tai Ikegami took his responsibility to protect and venerate the magnificent trees on the lot seriously.

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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

MAY 26, 2024

A red-hued extension built from brick and pigmented concrete has been added to a Victorian house in the suburbs of Norwich by local architecture studio Grafted. The new extension was a way to celebrate the best details of the house through reinterpretation," she continued. The previous extension was low-key but poorly built.

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Deezen

APRIL 21, 2024

Walls of exposed concrete define this skinny house in Saitama, Japan , which local studio IGArchitects designed with a width of just 2.7 Named 2700, the home is designed for a young couple on a long and thin site left over following a road expansion in the city, which is close to Tokyo. The home has a width of 2.7

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Archinect

MARCH 25, 2022

Tucked away in Los Altos Hills, the aptly named Round House is a geometrically unique structure; one of a few similarly shaped homes built in California in the 60s. The clients fell in love with this quirky circular house and initially planned a modest remodel.

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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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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. Known as DNA Alpine, the 4,000-square foot (372-square metre) home was completed in 2022 and designed to "disappear into or somehow become" the 75-acre site in San Miguel County.

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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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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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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

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

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

MAY 28, 2024

Weathering steel and accoya wood wrap the exterior of the Alta House, which was created by US studio Lever Architecture to embrace the "sublime mountain landscape". Located in the small Wyoming town of Alta, the house serves as a holiday home for an outdoor-loving couple from Portland, Oregon. Situated on a half-acre (0.2-hectare)

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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. The two accommodation wings of the house were rotated and overlook the courtyards," said Jassal.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Scottish studio Fraser/Livingstone has completed a mass-timber tenement-style housing development in Edinburgh named Simon Square. Comprising six flats, the housing block replaces an old builder's yard on a site closely bordered by 19th-century stone tenements, in Edinburgh's Southside.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Called House in Ancede, the house sits on the site of a former stone ruin that it was required to roughly match in terms of its footprint and volume. Atelier Local has created House in Ancede "The house is a reconstruction of sorts," said the studio's co-founders Maria Rebelo and João Paupério.

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Deezen

APRIL 8, 2024

Scalloped facades featuring tones of cream and red brick define a U-shaped housing block by Bell Phillips in Marylebone in central London. London studio Bell Phillips wanted to create a contextual and contemporary addition to the Georgian and late Victorian architecture that surrounds the site.

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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." Dailly is arranged around two courtyards and features colourful spaces filled with reclaimed materials.

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Dwell

MAY 16, 2022

Floor-to-ceiling windows slide open to connect the living areas to the outdoors. "It’s an alpine landscape with lush valleys and pastures that make the location magical.even fairytale like." Photo by Linda Kl?tniece

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Santa Cruz Architect

JUNE 10, 2023

Window flashing is an essential component of any home’s building envelope. Understanding the key aspects of window flashing is crucial for homeowners to ensure the longevity and integrity of their windows and overall structural integrity. It features a slope that encourages water to drain down and out.

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Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2023

Local practice Platform 5 Architects has completed NW10 House, a family home on an infill site in north London with exposed concrete interiors and a textured brick exterior. NW10 House was designed by Platform 5 Architects. The home was built on an infill site. It has a textured brick exterior.

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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

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

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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Deezen

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A staggered arrangement of windows and patterned sections of brickwork form the facade of 19 Waterloo Street, a house that Australian studio SJB has added to a small site in Sydney. It has been shortlisted in the Urban House category of the Dezeen Awards 2023.

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Deezen

MARCH 5, 2024

The first case study in our Social Housing Revival series looks at a housing block in Vienna organised around a central "common heart" that harks back to the city's golden age of municipal construction.

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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

MARCH 21, 2024

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. When not staying at the house, the clients rent it out. It is naturally fireproof along with steel-plate window frames." The photography is by Jason Roehner.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Brazilian practice Studio KUNZ has created a compact gabled house that cantilevers from a sloped site in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Located on the urban edge of the town, the house caters to the client's love of the countryside with warm wood accents that reference the araucaria trees that frame the sloping site.

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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

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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