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Office Ou turns Toronto garage into workshop, conservatory and dining room

May 22, 2020 Kristine Klein 0

Canadian architecture studio Office Ou has surrounded a detached garage in Toronto with glass doors and windows to convert it into a multifunctional space. The Garage Gem adjoins an existing house at the rear of a narrow laneway lot that backs up to a street. It was converted from a traditional garage into a space

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Three cast-concrete volumes form Preston Hollow house by Specht Architects

May 22, 2020 Kristine Klein 0

American studio Specht Architects has designed this Dallas residence with long corrugated concrete volumes to reference brutalist architecture. The Preston Hollow home is influenced by the texture and shape of modern Dallas, Texas houses built in the 1950s and 1960s. Its plan is spread across three long cast concrete volumes that comprise 8,826 square feet

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Green roof and charred wood blend Atelier Villa into Costa Rican jungle

May 20, 2020 Kristine Klein 0

Czech architecture studio Formafatal has used blackened wood, perforated aluminium panels and a green roof to form this low-lying holiday home in Costa Rica. Atelier Villa is part of the Art Villas resort in Playa Hermosa, an extensive property that comprises rentable houses and a multifunctional pavilion. Formafatal, led by Dagmar Štěpánová, worked with other

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Slim wooden slats cover “wild geometry” of renovated Californian house

May 19, 2020 Kristine Klein 0

San Francisco’s Blue Truck Studio clad the exterior of this holiday house in Manhattan Beach, California with cedar siding to tone down its unusual geometries. Blue Truck Studio added the cladding during the renovation of the property called 30th Street house, which was completed in the 1990s. The practice used Alaskan yellow cedar to soften

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Zozaya Arquitectos tops Mexican beach house Casa La Vida with dried palm leaves

May 17, 2020 Kristine Klein 0

Zozaya Arquitectos has created a traditional palapa with a dried palm roof at the centre of this house in a Mexican beach village. Casa La Vida sits on flat land that faces the Pacific Ocean and a hilly green landscape in Trocones, which is located near to Mexican city Zihuatanejo. Measuring 650 square metres, the

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White Twin Gable House by Ryan Leidner Architecture is a remodeled Eichler

May 14, 2020 Kristine Klein 0

Californian firm Ryan Leidner Architecture has used bright white paint and lush greenery to refresh a mid-century modern Eichler home in Silicon Valley that was completed in the 1960s. The Twin Gable House in Sunnyvale, California was constructed in 1962 by the design duo A Quincy Jones and Frederick Emmons for post-war real estate developer

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Merge Architects builds bronze-coloured corrugated steel housing facing Boston harbour

May 13, 2020 Kristine Klein 0

Marginal Housing 3.0 by Merge Architects

Waves of corrugated steel and wood accents wrap around the Marginal Housing 3.0 block by Merge Architects located alongside Boston’s harbour. The housing complex contains seven units, two duplexes facing the street, two flats in the middle and three townhouses at the rear of the plot. Merge Architects used materials and geometric shapes that were informed

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Hannah clads off-grid Ashen Cabin in New York with infested wood

May 12, 2020 Kristine Klein 0

US architecture studio Hannah has used 3D-printed concrete stilts to elevate this tiny off-grid cabin in Upstate New York, which has walls made from infested ash wood. Ashen Cabin is intended as a small-scale study of more sustainable construction that combines lumbar destroyed by an invasive beetle with digital fabrication techniques, such as 3D printing.

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MB Architecture stacks shipping containers to form Amagansett holiday home

May 11, 2020 Kristine Klein 0

Amagansett Modular House by MB Architecture

US studio MB Architecture has stacked shipping containers to construct this black holiday house in Amagansett, New York in a few days. Amagansett Modular is a 1800-square-foot (167-square-metre) weekend residence on a small wooded site in the hamlet on Long Island’s south shore. The clients, a family with three kids, had a limited budget, and

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Woodwork and skylights stream light into Noe Valley Residence in San Francisco

May 9, 2020 Kristine Klein 0

Noe Valley Residence by Malcolm Davis Architecture

American firm Malcolm Davis Architecture has placed skylights over existing wood framing to streak the interiors of this San Francisco house with beams of light. Malcolm Davis Architecture was enlisted to renovate the residence located in Noe Valley, a neighbourhood in the California city known for its streets lined with Victorian and Edwardian style homes.

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