ArchDaily

JUNE 24, 2023

© Derek Swalwell A healthy environment that is also visually appealing in our homes has become increasingly sought when it comes to designing houses and residential spaces, especially during the world’s current context. Read more »

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Archinect

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Snøhetta has shared photos revealing the construction status of their Shanghai Grand Opera House design ahead of its expected opening in 2025. What’s most noticeable is the formation of the structure’s distinctive fan-shaped roof, which frames the Opera House’s spiraling form.

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Archinect

MAY 16, 2023

Nine projects across the United States have been selected as part of the 2023 AIA Small Projects Awards. More information about each winning project can be viewed below. Liberation Coffee House by ODA-Architecture (Los Angeles, CA)

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The evolving needs of a family became the impetus for how we imagined a house that could embody the state of transition at a conceptual and experiential level.

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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

House MF / alarciaferrer arquitectos © Federico Cairoli Is it possible to assert the existence of a timeless material in architecture from an aesthetic standpoint? Concrete, in particular, exhibits greater malleability in comparison to wood.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The installation of Ban's Paper Log House housing prototype in heavily afflicted Lahaina follows previous contributions to earthquake recovery efforts in Turkey and Morocco through Ban’s nonprofit Voluntary Architects’ Network (or VAN), which was first founded in 1995.

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Archinect

MARCH 29, 2024

Featured below are four calls seeking forward-thinking designs for affordable and eco-conscious housing schemes that would fit beneath city bridges, creative concepts expressed through inventive formats, outstanding projects in various design fields, and successful preservation efforts of structures and landscapes in the United States.

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ArchDaily

MAY 29, 2023

The Sunflower Houses / Arenas Basabe Palacios + Buschina & Partner. Image © Kurt Hoerbst There’s a lot of undeserved stigma surrounding social housing. Although many projects start off well enough with shiny ribbon-cutting photoshoots, the cameras move on and investment tends to dry up, and maintenance cut.

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ArchDaily

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

One Year Project / Life Style Koubou. Image © Life Style Koubou Some of the most picturesque projects are those built in the mountains; the rustic cabin wrapped with a floor-to-ceiling glass panel that overlooks the snow-covered trees. Visually, the architecture exudes an enchanting feeling, but is it truly a habitable space?

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Jerome Markson, the 2022 RAIC Gold Medalist and modern social housing pioneer whose influence was felt widely across Canada, died in Toronto on Saturday, November 18, The Globe and Mail reported. Marie (1962), and Alexandra Park Public Housing (1965), among others. He was 94 years old.

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ArchDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Möbius House, Naarden, Netherlands, 1993-98. Courtesy of UNStudio In 1993 a young professional couple with two toddlers and a large suburban lot in Naarden, a town less than half an hour's drive southeast of Amsterdam, approached Ben van Berkel to design an unusual house. I knew what kind of house it would be. Image © Eva Bloem.

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Archinect

JUNE 26, 2023

Plans have been unveiled for the reportedly “world’s largest urban construction project in wood” in the Swedish capital. Named Stockholm Wood City, and designed by Henning Larsen and White Arkitekter , the scheme will extend over 2.7 million square feet across several buildings. Stockholm Wood City manifests our fut.

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Currently, the design of housing in major urban centers is often linked to finding ways to optimize interior spaces, integrate environments for better lighting and ventilation, and establish a connection with the outdoors. Image © Milena Villalba How to design livable spaces, making the most of the available square meters? Read more »

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Avontuura

AUGUST 7, 2023

The project offers structure through the use of a courtyard rooted in both the site itself and its surroundings architectures. The post OFFICE MUTO completes a house of stone courtyards on a Greek island appeared first on Åvontuura.

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Deezen

MARCH 5, 2024

Above: one of his early projects was his own house. Hotakubo Housing was his first social housing project. One of the things we need most in the future of cities is to create conditions through architecture that multiply the opportunities for people to come together and interact," explained Aravena.

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Deezen

MAY 15, 2024

Eight concrete siloes were retained for the Colboc Sachet Architects development While the majority of the site had been cleared, its eight large concrete silos remained, six of which were used to house the art gallery and the remaining two to create a dramatic skylit entrance to the Renaissance Hotel. The photography is by Ivan Mathie.

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Deezen

APRIL 29, 2024

Local studio Valbæk Brørup Architects drew on the principles of Danish functionalism for Kildeskovsvej, a red-brick house outside Copenhagen with a blocky form broken up by large corner windows. Previous projects by the studio include a barrel-vaulted summer retreat in a Danish forest that is reminiscent of agricultural structures.

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Deezen

APRIL 2, 2024

Next in our Social Housing Revival series we examine Life Reusing Posidonia – a group of 14 dwellings on the Mediterranean island of Formentera designed by architects at the Balearic Social Housing Institute using locally sourced materials such as dried seagrass.

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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

MAY 13, 2024

Canadian practice Studio North has wrapped a wooden screen around the curved corners and cantilevers of a Calgary house near a winding river. Studio North has completed a screen-wrapped house in Calgary "The Elbow House looks to the immediate and the macro landscapes for inspiration," the studio told Dezeen. "The

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Architectural Record

MAY 1, 2024

A diverse group of North American projects showcases architects breaking through budgetary, spatial, and legal barriers to provide innovative housing solutions.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2024

Architecture practice Studio Octopi has added a rear extension clad in mint-green metal to The Saddlery, a Georgian house in southeast London. Studio Octopi 's design uses the extension to rationalise the levels between the existing house and the garden and to revamp the fragmented rear elevation.

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Dwell

MAY 16, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. A concrete parapet with exposed Lewisian Gneiss aggregate caps the stone walls and together with the hardwood windows create a contemporary feeling around the project. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Architizer

MARCH 19, 2024

Architects: Want to have your project featured? Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters. This raises questions about the types of residential spaces that emerge through the use of arches and the motivations behind architects’ decisions to incorporate them into domestic designs.

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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. From the outside, they are an important element in the composition of the elevations and in the perception of the occupation of the house, but without revealing too much," the studio said.

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Deezen

MAY 16, 2024

Called Zilker Studios, the structure includes 110 affordable apartments operated by local housing organisation Foundation Communities. The mid-rise housing complex consists of a long volume on a narrow site, flanked by outdoor public spaces with a breezeway and an open-air staircase on the far end. The photography is by Casey Dunn.

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Deezen

MAY 17, 2024

Liverpool studio Smith Young Architects has completed Vestige, a house in northwest England with a brick base built from the remnants of a previous structure on the site. It replaces an old house on the site that was in poor condition.

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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 IGArchitects has created a skinny house in Japan "Land in Tokyo and surrounding cities is very expensive," IGArchitects founder Masato Igarashi told Dezeen. "We The home has a width of 2.7

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Deezen

MAY 5, 2024

In this lookbook , we have collected eight projects that use internal glazing and partitions to create brighter home interiors and increased connectivity between spaces. While similar, internal partitions offer a unique opportunity to simultaneously increase connectivity and enhance privacy through the demarcation of a home's internal spaces.

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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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Habitus Living

MARCH 3, 2024

Architects, the name of the project is informed by its location, labelled as Toorak House 2. The house is a modern residential home that honours the Jazz Age, adorned with Art Deco features such as geometric lines and eclectic materials. Conceived by Kerry Phelan of K.P.D.O

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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

APRIL 9, 2024

Jun Mitsui & Associates and Pelli Clarke & Partners have converted a grocery store into a sake brewery The site contains three buildings – the brewery, housed in the shell of a former Stop & Shop grocery store, a small rice polishing building and a wastewater treatment facility.

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

Local studio Oliver Leech Architects has extended a Victorian terrace house in south London, introducing a four-metre-wide skylight at its centre that offers views of a wildflower meadow roof. Here we used the light to draw you into the house through the darker hallway and towards a huge fixed skylight in the centre of the house." "We

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Architects: Want to have your project featured? Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters. Beyond its eye-catching exterior, the Tietgen Dormitory incorporates nature into its design through a spacious central courtyard.

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Bustler

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A total of 29 projects were selected for the cohort, which this year comes with an added call for collaboration with the private sector. C40 added that the 27 other winning projects remaining are "highly ambitious regarding environmental and social benefits and go beyond business as usual." Read the full post on Bustler

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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. Its other recent projects include CLT House , which also features modular furniture on wheels, and an "otherworldly" music studio in a garden.

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