Architizer

APRIL 1, 2024

A home’s materials tell a story of how we live. Brought to fruition by Colorado Springs-based architect-engineer Scott Harvey, this mountain home was made to connect with the natural surroundings as an expansive and open retreat. In turn, the project’s redwood cladding reflects a family’s values as they built a home of their own.

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Architonic

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This project was undertaken virtually through all stages of the renovation, in fact, Lara did not meet the clients in person until October of 2022, only a few months before project completion!</p> After some initial meetings to discuss the brief, the scope of works increased (from a smaller interiors focused project) as it…

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Architonic

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This project was undertaken virtually through all stages of the renovation, in fact, Lara did not meet the clients in person until October of 2022, only a few months before project completion!</p> Martyn and Geneva lived offshore, and found Lara Ette through social media. Though the existing…

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Deezen

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This pine-clad home on a forested hillside was designed by US studio Robert Young Architects to provide immersive views of nature and to offer "a sense of optimism" for a family experiencing loss. She lives there with the couple's children. The full-time residence sits within a river valley in Virginia , just outside of Washington, DC.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Villa delivers backyard homes starting at $225K, and you can be involved with every step from design to configuration. 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. Villa homes start at $225,000.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 12, 2023

We've rounded up some of the most imaginative student architecture projects pinned on Dezeen's dedicated School Shows Pinterest board. In this roundup, we celebrate work by graduate and undergraduate students from past School Shows, narrowing the architecture projects down to 10 from our School Show Pinterest board.

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Deezen

APRIL 14, 2023

London practice Archio has completed Citizens House in Lewisham, a block of 11 affordable homes overlooking a new public square and designed in close collaboration with the surrounding community and residents.

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Deezen

AUGUST 3, 2023

Dezeen School Shows: a prototype self-build home kit that provides customisable homes for migrant workers is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at De Montfort University. Our inquiry-led approach fosters critical thinking and problem-solving, empowering students to produce meaningful work.

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Deezen

APRIL 24, 2023

Swedish retailer IKEA marked its 80th anniversary at Milan design week with Assembling the Future Together, an immersive exhibition that charts the furniture company's history and addresses its future. Assembling the Future Together took place at Padiglione Visconti in Milan and explored the brand's progression since the 1950s.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Early childhood educators working at the Friends Center for Children —an organization providing education to children between three months and five years old—are receiving free, employer-provided housing. The initiative’s success kicked off a masterplan to provide free housing to all its educators on a campus.

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Deezen

JUNE 17, 2023

Built in the small town of Jablonec nad Nisou, the project was designed by Prague-based Mjölk Architekti in collaboration with Projektový atelier David. Montessori Kindergarten was designed by Mjölk Architekti "Kindergartens are buildings where small children develop the most fundamental relationships with the world," Mach told Dezeen.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

In the future, the two upstairs bedrooms, which are currently used as children's bedrooms, could be used as guest rooms or studios. Mass, volume, textures and light are key elements that define it." However, its recessed windows – tucked into niches of varying depth – offer the interior spaces wide views of the surrounding landscape.

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Habitus Living

MAY 7, 2023

In a recent residential project for a newlywed couple, Shing Hui sought to address this by devising unique ways to remain connected at home while doing one’s own thing. As it stood, the apartment possessed an efficient layout for the young couple who planned to have children in the near future.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The 46 shortlisted studios , which are in the running for awards in nine different interior project categories, are located across 23 different countries including Poland , Slovakia , India , Mexico and Slovenia. Dezeen Awards 2023, in partnership with Bentley Motors , will reveal all shortlisted projects this week.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

With a limited budget, a couple in Singapore with kids and two sets of parents wanted to build a forever home. They wanted something that was future proof, meaning it had to accommodate the grandparents and children at the same time," says project architect Low Ming Fang, cofounder of local studio Alittlepractice with Lin Huiying.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Rather than creating a building that looks like a disabled person's home, Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt has produced a family home that embraces contemporary architecture. Claywood is home to Jo and husband David Wright, and also accommodates their three grown-up children. The two-storey house is located in Hampshire, England.

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Dwell

MARCH 12, 2024

What if you could build a big house and fill it with your friends, children, grandparents, babysitters, and anyone else who makes your life rich and full and you all owned it together? Here, Jenny and Anda tell us what it means to design such "strange" housing and what this project could mean for the future of cohousing.

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Habitus Living

AUGUST 30, 2022

When a growing family outgrew their double-fronted Victorian terrace in Melbourne’s Carlton North, the owners decided to explore how their much-loved home could be reimagined for the next stage of their lives. Project 12 Architecture’s design looks to maximise every aspect of the site. The wish list was extensive.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Anastasiia Novikova has reinstated stucco inside a 1912 apartment in Kyiv After its previous owners had completely ripped out all of the original stucco, doors and floorboards, Novikova wanted to restore the home's historic charm – particularly in the living room. After that, they made it from plaster."

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

A London-based couple with two young children were determined to stay in the city they loved, so they called on architect Mariia Pashenko to transform a vacant and deteriorating 19th-century terrace house into a bright family home. The home is divided into different zones that are clearly represented in the built form.

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Architizer

JANUARY 5, 2022

Architects: Want to have your project featured? With determination, the practice pledges its proficiencies to projects that encourage the development of future generations, seek to preserve and enhance the natural landscape of the planet and facilitate a physical and emotive response from the spaces we occupy.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

A team led by Rojkind Arquitectos has completed Casa Pasiddhi, an elevated home that winds around a plant-filled garden in Mexico 's Hacienda de Valle Escondido. Rojkind Arquitectos designed the home in collaboration with architects Agustin Pereyra and Inocente Colectivo. Read: Estudio MMX steps Mexico City home down steep site.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Project Status: Built. The preschool, which accommodates 150 children, has been built to meet the requirements of the Swedish Green Building Council’s sustainable building certification. Architizer chatted with Frida Bengtsson from Marge Arkitekter to learn more about this project. Year: 2020. © Johan Fowelin. © Johan Fowelin.

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Deezen

JUNE 24, 2023

Also featured is a kitchen knife and finger guard for children and a wearable healthcare device to support people with Parkinson's disease. They are encouraged to iteratively explore solutions to current and future challenges and develop models and prototypes to both communicate their vision and prove the practical design principles.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

APRIL 21, 2023

This post, appearing on a Friday instead of its regular Monday, does not mean regular weekly posts will resume, as I'll be dealing with said emergency on and off for the foreseeable future. If you think I left out any worthwhile books published so far this year — and I'm sure there are plenty — please let me know in the comments.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Also included is a research project that investigates clay and a project that explores the renewal of heritage buildings in Barcelona. Projects shown include responses to the climate emergency, community-led design-build projects as well as land-based and socio-spatial inquiries."

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Habitus Living

JULY 13, 2023

They gave Jost a hybrid brief that catered for their current and future intentions: they wanted a contemporary house near the beach, not a beach house nor a suburban house; and they were inspired by dark and moody interiors and mid-century modern design. We thought of the design as ‘Smith Street, Collingwood, meets the beach’,” he shares.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Looking to better address the woodland that wraps the home's rear garden, the architects opened up the interiors and added a gently curving brick pavilion at its rear that contrasts the vernacular architecture of the original home. A curving brick pavilion was added to the rear of the home. "[The

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Also included is school designed for children with disabilities and a museum site in Rome that is enveloped in a monolithic brick wall reminiscent of traditional city walls. Facing these depths, the idea of home offers a metaphor for grounding. During the fourth year, students spend a term abroad studying at our campus in Rome, Italy.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Sign up to receive future program updates > “Work to live, don’t live to work” — Unknown. There are many ways to bring equilibrium into your work-life balance, but one in particular has been causing more debate than any in recent months — working from home. The rise of home-based workers globally, currently estimated at 12.7%

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Deezen

AUGUST 11, 2022

Irish social enterprise Common Knowledge has teamed up with hemp producer Margent Farm to design a low-carbon micro home that it claims can support people affected by the housing crisis. They are intended for people struggling to buy their own home. The homes are clad with corrugated hemp panels.

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Deezen

JUNE 19, 2023

Projects designed by his studio have been shortlisted for the UK's top architecturee award – the Stirling Prize – four times. At Foster Associates he was the project architect for the highly influential Willis Building in Ipswich, before leaving to establish Hopkins Architects with Patty Hopkins in 1976.

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The Architecture Designs

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

More Basement Transformation Ideas Transforming your basement can offer a wealth of opportunities to expand your living space and improve the value of your home. Transforming the basement into such a spot not only secures a place for your children to play and grow but also frees up space in the rest of your house.

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Deezen

JULY 19, 2023

US architecture studio West of West has won an AIA competition to reimagine the future of San Francisco housing in response to the city's housing crisis. For instance, residents would be able to choose to "pool resources" in order to convert one unit into a daycare space if enough children reside throughout the building.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Mata Architects founder Dan Marks has extended his self-designed home in London, adding a charred wood-clad garden studio using Japanese technique Sho Sugi Ban. The refurbishment of the 19th-century, mid-terrace house also added a rear extension containing a large kitchen and living room.

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Deezen

MARCH 24, 2023

and Young Architectural Author Program Tutor: Alice Cheung School statement: "My Archischool provides an introduction to architectural education and digital design for those seeking knowledge and skills to aid their future career aspirations. My ArchiSchool School: My ArchiSchool Courses: Architectural Design Program 1.0

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

A large stairwell takes up a third of the living space in Light-Filled Stair Hall, a compact family home designed by Tokyo -based Kiri Architects. The 79-square-metre house, which is shortlisted in the Urban House category of Dezeen Awards 2022 , provides a home for a family of four in Nishit?ky? Photo is by Anna Nagai. "It

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