ArchDaily

JULY 6, 2023

Image © FLC/ADAGP Examining the houses that architects designed for themselves can provide insight into their design process, priorities, and philosophy. These projects are often experiments and testing grounds for their own design principles, pushing the boundaries of architectural expression. Read more »

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Archinect

JULY 25, 2023

These conversions seem like a win-win: turning a plethora of barely used office space into desperately needed urban housing. Various cities across the United States have been turning to office-to-residential conversions as a way to address declining city cores that have yet to reach pre-pandemic levels. In Washington D.C.,

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Called "TOVA," the project was developed by a team of students and researchers from the 3D Printing Architecture (3DPA) postgraduate program of IAAC. The structure was conceived as a prototype for sustainable housing that could be built anywhere in the world.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 7, 2022

will explore innovations in the design and delivery of affordable housing across the country. A new exhibition at the National Building Museum ( NBM ) in Washington, D.C.

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2024

Copenhagen design studio Fragile has teamed up with architecture office MVRDV and manufacturers CREE and Knauf to launch a modular housing kit informed by a 1950s concept by designers Charles and Ray Eames. Kwickset is a modular prefab housing kit The Kwikset House represented the Eames' ambition to make high-quality housing affordable.

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Deezen

APRIL 1, 2024

As part of Dezeen's Social Housing Revival series, we look at how one county in Maryland is leading the way in the US after devising a novel public-development strategy to help combat its housing crisis. Like much of the rest of the country, it is in dire need of more affordable housing.

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Deezen

APRIL 30, 2024

Architecture studio Unknown Works has renovated a terraced London house called Oasis, adding a side and rear extension to create a flexible interior and maximise natural light. This maximises light and space while establishing a better connection with the garden where large fig and bay trees have been retained.

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Deezen

MAY 1, 2024

Ben Pentreath is designing the South East Faversham development for the Duchy of Cornwall South East Faversham will be the third major housing development by the Duchy of Cornwall on its lands, following Poundbury near Dorchester and Nansledan near Newquay, but the first led by Prince William since becoming Prince of Wales.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2024

From a standing start, Taiwan has embarked on one of the world's most ambitious social-housing programmes. Dezeen finds out more as part of our Social Housing Revival series. Every time I go back to Taiwan, there's always a new housing project completing," she continued.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Presented at this year's Designblok festival in Prague , Cake Houses is a modular home concept that allows clients to design bespoke homes via an online configurator. Founded by Matyáš Švejdík, Pavel Špringl and Šimon Marek, the team behind the Cake Houses project describes it as an "architectural recipe for modular wooden houses".

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Deezen

APRIL 14, 2024

HGX Design created the house to host the owner's visiting family and it now stands as the main dwelling on the 35-acre property, which is dotted with agricultural buildings and another residence. The house meets the sky in a very minimal way, while remaining lightly seated on the ground," said HGX Design founder Hal Goldstein. "The

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designboom

JANUARY 19, 2024

the project reexamines the structural essence of japanese houses in the pursuit of a modern way of living. The post renovated wooden house boasts bright red facade in central tokyo appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

A sedum roof designed to "change colours with the seasons" tops Heatherhill Beach House, a wooden holiday home burrowed among the hills on the Danish coast by local studio Norm Architects. The 232-square-metre house will be used by its owners as "a getaway from everyday life in Copenhagen," according to Norm Architects.

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Deezen

JANUARY 12, 2024

We imagine this project as an alternative to those, opening up a space for new forms of kinship, new interdependencies, and new forms of support within a network of infrastructures shaping a renewed social movement for aging in place." as a way of countering isolation."

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Deezen

MARCH 12, 2024

Micro homes are not a humane response to the homelessness crisis, writes Cynthia Griffith as part of our Social Housing Revival series. billion people are enduring inadequate housing conditions worldwide. billion people are enduring inadequate housing conditions worldwide.

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Deezen

MARCH 28, 2024

For our Social Housing Revival series, we look at how the fate of UK social-housing estates has become an urgent topic as councils grapple with the housing crisis and challenges of preservation. I think it's lost its bad reputation – people think, 'if only houses were available on council estates in the way they used to be'."

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Deezen

APRIL 29, 2024

Architecture studio dMFK Architects has restored and renovated the Voysey House office in Chiswick, London , which was originally designed as a wallpaper factory by architect CFA Voysey. This included replacing the non-original windows with steel reproductions of the original frames.

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Architonic

MARCH 31, 2024

The project describes a garden-house for a family as a refuge and meeting place. Where estudio karina kreth collaborated with estudio arquitecturam on the vision, and identity of the project. Nature in its materials, accompanies the exterior and open views, and makes the house visually attractive through the change of seasons.

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Bustler

APRIL 4, 2024

The contest is aimed at designing solutions to help address the UK's housing shortage within the context of climate change. The contest is aimed at designing solutions to help address the UK's housing shortage within the context of climate change.

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The Architecture Designs

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This means looking at how much value our projects add compared to their cost. Not all projects will add the same value. This is pretty much the case of house renovation in Concord , CA. It measures how much value remodeling projects add to a home compared to their cost. Not all renovations are equal.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

A slide that doubles as a bookshelf in a South Korean house and a swooping mirrored tunnel that descends the four levels of a New York apartment feature in our latest lookbook of homes with interior slides. Here, we have collected eight projects on Dezeen that demonstrate ways in which slides can transform a living space.

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Deezen

APRIL 1, 2024

Destudio swapped the positions of living and sleeping areas in Casa Inversa "We worked with the owners to convince them to make a 'tabula rasa' of how they lived in this house for the last 20 years and find a better distribution for their actual needs," Destudio creative director Gabi Ladaria told Dezeen. "It

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Vertical louvres adorn the facades of The H Residence, a mixed-use housing complex completed by architecture studio Tariq Khayyat Design Partners in Dubai. Additionally, private walkways and ramps lead out from the housing units to provide direct access to the central plaza and lobby to improve accessibility.

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Deezen

JULY 1, 2023

British studio Ström Architects has completed a minimalist home in Cheltenham, UK , which references modernist Case Study Houses in California. Aptly named Case House, it is defined by pared-back finishes and forms, and layers of walls and gardens that buffer its light, airy interiors from the adjacent busy road.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Clay tiles line the front of a slender family house in San Miguel de Allende that was designed by local architect Mauricio Alonso to be in "continuous dialogue with the landscape". Designed for a family of three, the house is located in a dense neighbourhood and occupies an oddly shaped property in a cul-de-sac.

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Deezen

JANUARY 11, 2024

Architects drew on traditional mountain architecture when designing this house in the village of Malá Úpa, creating steep gables to help deal with heavy snowfall. Named Family House Dolní Malá Úpa, the home is located within the mountainous Krkonoše National Park, which required Mar.s Czech studio Mar.s

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Dwell

MARCH 5, 2024

The Japanese designer has made a career of finding new ways to bring people together. Yamamoto’s work is known for its boxy forms, but this achievement acknowledges his significant contributions to social housing and community life, fostered through his designs.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 3, 2024

The Hope Center & Berkeley Way Apartments grew out of a local need for housing and supportive services in the transit-rich downtown Berkeley area. Additionally, the project is one of 4 pilot projects in the Bay Area Low-Carbon Concrete Codes Project by BAAQMD. Source by LEDDY MAYTUM STACY Architects.

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Deezen

JANUARY 25, 2024

Canadian architecture studio D'Arcy Jones Architects has completed a project called John Street Redo, which involved renovating and enlarging an early 1900s home in a way that is "forward-looking without erasing an old building's original charm". The garage's exterior is meant to blend with the rest of the house.

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Deezen

APRIL 21, 2024

Whether painted wood, plastic or metal, opting for colourful window frames is an easy way to brighten a residential interior. Photo by Fred Howarth Camberwell Cork House, UK, by Delve Architects A bright forest green paint lines the window frames at Camberwell Cork House, helping to draw focus to the lush planting outside.

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designboom

JANUARY 29, 2023

led by ingvartsen arkitekter, the star homes project presents a robust and affordable housing prototype for a healthy future in sub-saharan africa. The post the star homes project explores ways for a sustainable & healthy future in sub-saharan africa appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A blocky form animated by hit-and-miss brickwork defines Peckham House, a self-build project by architecture studio Surman Weston that draws on its surroundings in southeast London. Peckham House was designed for and built by the directors of Surman Weston , Tom Surman and Percy Weston.

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Dwell

MARCH 20, 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. But the duo saw a way to improve on the latter by developing new software.

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Deezen

MARCH 8, 2024

Architects are often wrongly blamed for past failures in social housing , Mikhail Riches co-founder Annalie Riches says in this Social Housing Revival interview. Riches set out in her career to design great social housing, in a bid to challenge what she saw as a prevailing notion that architects "can't do housing".

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Deezen

APRIL 6, 2024

Amsterdam studio Woonpioniers has used natural materials and prefabricated elements throughout the Sprout Ruben & Marjolein house , which includes an open, greenhouse-like volume. For this prototype, which is located in Olst, Woonpioniers created a small house comprising a two-storey volume topped with a mono-pitched roof.

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Deezen

APRIL 12, 2024

The studio also reimagined The Tower of London Uncommon Creative Studio created the visuals for the Humanise campaign, which was launched last year by UK designer Heatherwick , as it believes that images are the best way of conveying the campaign's message. "We We wanted to find sacred buildings – immortal and untouchable," explained Leonard.

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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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