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LBR&A creates dramatic cantilever for CH73 House in Mexico City

March 24, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Architecture studio LBR&A has designed a residence that “breaks the imposed paradigms of construction” in a Mexico City neighbourhood where development has reportedly taken its toll on the landscape. The CH73 House is located in the Bosques de las Lomas neighbourhood and occupies a long, slender site that slopes down toward a ravine. Designed for

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Dezeen Debate features “robust and luxurious” brick-clad townhouses

March 23, 2023 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a row of townhouses by The DHaus Company featuring brick-clad arches. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Architecture studio The DHaus Company has finished a row of brick-clad townhouses within the Dartmouth Park Conservation Area in north London called The Arches. The homes, which replace a derelict petrol

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Amsterdam apartment block features bedroom cupboards

March 23, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

Dutch design studio Blom Interieurs has created playful interiors with bedroom cupboards for Shift Architecture Urbanism’s Domūs Houthaven residential complex in Amsterdam. The complex, which contains 235 compact rental apartments, was created to provide high-density living, utilising space and materials effectively. Each apartment contains a bedroom cupboard with built-in shelves and under-bed drawers. The sleeping

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Dalston Works demonstrated that “timber is a viable alternative to concrete and steel at scale”

March 23, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

Up next in our Timber Revolution series we look at the Dalston Works apartment complex in London by Waugh Thistleton Architects, which is the world’s largest cross-laminated timber building. Completed in 2017, Dalston Works is a 10-storey residential development in east London that contains 121 apartments with balconies as well as two ground-level courtyards, retail and

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Westblom Krasse Arkitektkontor adds colour to 1980s Stockholm apartment

March 23, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

An all-lilac kitchen and bright geometric storage solutions feature in this colourful Stockholm apartment renovation by local studio Westblom Krasse Arkitektkontor. The two-bedroom apartment, which is housed within a 1980s prefabricated concrete building in southern Stockholm, was transformed by the architecture studio for a family with four-year-old twins. As part of the renovation, Westblom Krasse Arkitektkontor

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Atelier Gratia designs angular concrete courtyard house in Taiwan

March 22, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

An angular wall of exposed concrete informed by origami wraps this courtyard home in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, designed by local studio Atelier Gratia to be a “sanctuary” from the surrounding city. Called Star House after the street on which it sits in a dense urban area, the four-storey home has been turned inwards, with a series

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Specht Architects creates austere glass house in the Berkshires

March 21, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Specht Architects has designed a symmetrical glass pavilion in The Berkshires in Massachusetts that was created as a residence and a place to showcase antiques. The clients hired Texas-based Specht Architects to build a 2,000-square-foot (186-square metre) minimalist house with floor-to-ceiling glass walls that afforded views of the surrounding meadow and large old-growth trees. The

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Eight top-heavy homes with dramatically oversized roofs

March 21, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

From steep single pitches to gables with overhanging eaves, we’ve rounded up eight houses with roofs that protrude beyond their footprint to shelter inhabitants from rain, sun, snow and prying eyes. Big roofs can be one straightforward way of reducing a home’s overall energy use – providing shade to help keep interiors cool in hot weather

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Neal Schwartz includes dovecotes in “chapel-like” California studio

March 20, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

A series of shelters for doves were embedded in the laminated-cedar facade of Neal Schwartz’s self-designed studio, which is an extension of his Sonoma home. Called Mourning Dovecote, the extension is attached to Schwartz’s single-storey home in Sonoma, California. Schwartz worked with his studio Schwartz and Architecture to create the addition, which the architect uses as

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