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MVRDV transforms world war two military base into housing

October 3, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Dutch studio MVRDV has overhauled a former world war two German military base in the Netherlands, adding terraced housing and preserving a series of bunkers disguised as farmhouses. MVRDV worked with landscape studio Buro Harro and developer KondorWessels Projecten on the redevelopment of the site, named Buitenplaats Koningsweg, aiming to create a masterplan that responds to

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Donaldson + Partners creates arched house “for the twenty-first century”

October 1, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

California-based studio Donaldson + Partners has designed a circular house partially embedded in the landscape with large concrete parabolic arches in Montecito, California. Seven years in the making, the 14,000-square foot (1,300-square metre) house is sunken into a four-acre lot between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, outside Santa Barbara. Robin Donaldson, founder

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SO? marries timber and stone for house overlooking Turkish mountains

October 1, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio SO? has completed Two Face House in Turkey, a home finished with two contrasting facades to provide shelter and panoramic views. Located near the western village of Muğla, the home was designed by Istanbul-based SO? to “transform environmental challenges into opportunities”. Facing southwards, a solid stone facade protects Two Face House from the midday

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Johan Sundberg Arkitektur uses natural materials for holiday home on Swedish island

September 30, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Swedish studio Johan Sundberg Arkitektur has completed a holiday home on the island of Gotland, using a natural palette of materials to allow its owners to feel “grounded” in the site’s natural landscape. Named Sommarhus E, the house in a forest clearing, the home, was designed as a place that the client’s family and friends

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Chowdry Walk social housing designed not to be “a monolithic block”

September 30, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This video highlights the Chowdry Walk social-housing scheme by Al-Jawad Pike, which is one of six buildings shortlisted for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize. It is the first of six short films that are being published by Dezeen in collaboration with Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to showcase the buildings on this year’s shortlist. One

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Dezeen’s top five houses of September 2024

September 30, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

A home in the Netherlands topped with a greenhouse and a residence in London with slatted floors feature in Dezeen’s houses of the month for September. Also included in our regular roundup of the world’s most interesting new homes are dwellings in China, Portugal and Norway. Read on to find out more about Dezeen readers’ favourite

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Gold aluminium shutters create “defensive” facade for Portuguese housing block

September 29, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Bureau des Mésarchitecture has completed an apartment block in Leiria, Portugal, wrapped in concrete and gold aluminium shutters. Situated on a corner site where the old and new neighbourhoods of Leiria meet, the block of five apartments is connected to an existing, yellow-painted 20th century house, which was renovated and converted into two

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Gold aluminium shutters create “defensive” facade for Portuguese housing block

September 29, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Bureau des Mésarchitecture has completed an apartment block in Leiria, Portugal, wrapped in concrete and gold aluminium shutters. Situated on a corner site where the old and new neighbourhoods of Leiria meet, the block of five apartments is connected to an existing, yellow-painted 20th century house, which was renovated and converted into two

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Eight interiors that show the versatility of futons and daybeds

September 29, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Our latest lookbook explores how futons and daybeds can offer a tempting spot for relaxation in different residential interior settings. By providing a place to sit, lie down or take a nap with a compact footprint, the humble futon, and its more sophisticated cousin the daybed, can be a useful tool for interior designers. Our

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Seven bathrooms elevated by stylish shower curtains

September 28, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Our latest lookbook showcases the myriad of ways shower curtains can create visual impact in bathrooms, from bold pops of colour and pattern to elegant, long drapes that add a sense of serenity. Practically, shower curtains provide privacy and prevent water from splashing outside showers and bathtubs, but they are also an opportunity to add

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