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O’Neill McVoy designs Houston house as “mini-manifesto against adjacent McMansions”

August 23, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

New York-based studio O’Neill McVoy Architects has created a grey stucco house with a Z-shaped plan and an upward-pitched roof in Houston. The 3,175-square-foot (300 square metres) home was completed in 2020 to replace a 1950s residence that was destroyed by Hurricane Harvey in 2017, a Category 4 storm that caused extensive damage and loss

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Michael Hsu outfits self-designed Austin studio with “humble materials”

August 22, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Michael Hsu Office of Architecture has adorned its studio with wood-and-fabric lined walls and industrial details in Austin in order to create a material “representation” of its work. Located in Austin’s Rosedale neighbourhood, the 10,750-square-foot (1,000-square metre) studio combines elements of residential and warehouse architecture. “The new studio provides us with the additional space we

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Denis Joelsons juxtaposes linear house with circular garden terraces in São Paulo

August 17, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Brazilian architect Denis Joelsons has completed a rectangular house in São Paulo, Brazil that is set into a slope composed of round garden terraces. Aptly named Casa dos Terraços Circulares – or the House of Circular Terraces – the 2,725-square-foot (253 square metre) house is embedded within a forested lot outside of the city. The

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John Friedman and Alice Kimm include dining room crane in Los Angeles house

August 16, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Architects John Friedman and Alice Kimm have stacked a white concrete mass with sinuous cutouts into a hillside as a home for their family in Los Angeles, complete with a yellow crane in the kitchen and a pink accessory dwelling unit. Named the JArzm house – using the first initial of each family member –

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HGR Arquitectos reinforces triangular concrete housing against seismic activity

August 10, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio HGR Arquitectos has completed a triangular concrete apartment block with a rounded corner meant to stand up against earthquakes in Mexico City. Known as MO288 – an abbreviation of the building’s address – the multifamily project includes 15 apartments and two commercial spaces across six stories. HGR Arquitectos finished the 15,047-square-foot (1,398 square

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GBBN creates set of housing blocks that reinterpret historic fabric of Cincinnati

August 7, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

US architecture studio GBBN designed three brick buildings that allow social housing to both “fit in and stand out” in Cincinnati, Ohio. Located in the Over-the-Rhine neighbourhood, Wilkommen includes three separate infill projects that GBBN, an international studio with an office in Cincinnati, designed with Cincinnati Center City Development (3CDC) and Model Group as part

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Caples Jefferson Architects unveils curved Louis Armstrong Center in Queens

August 3, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Caples Jefferson Architects has created an extension for the Louis Armstrong House Museum complete with a curved facade and a green roof in Corona, Queens, designed as an “interpretation of Armstrong’s infinite love of music”. The 14,000-square foot (1,300-square metre) wing – known as the Louis Armstrong Center – is located across the street

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Romero de la Mora includes sunken living room in airy Mexico City house

August 2, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local architecture studio Romero de la Mora has created an expansive concrete and wood holiday home with a protected courtyard in Tepeji del Río, just outside Mexico City. Casa Camelia was completed in 2021 at the Amanali Country Club and Nautica in Tepeji del Río by Romero de la Mora Architecture and Development. The shallow

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Studio North juxtaposes industrial garage with delicate garden in Calgary

July 31, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local architecture firm Studio North designed a custom garden and garage combination complete with Corten steel planters and a green roof in Calgary, Alberta. Known as the Garden Garage, the 700-square foot (65-square metre) garage sits on the sunny edge of a 12,000-square foot (1,115-square metre) lot and holds two cars for a 1,785-square foot

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Anonymous Architects embeds concrete house into Los Angeles hillside

July 28, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Anonymous Architects has completed a residence with a concrete plinth that cantilevers off a mountainside in Los Angeles. The Olancha Drive house was finished in 2022 in the Mount Washington district of Northeast Los Angeles. It was designed in response to the site’s steep angle – which reaches 45 degrees in some areas

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