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HW Studio creates austere white home in Mexico to evoke “sense of security”

June 1, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local firm HW Studio Arquitectos has completed an all-white stucco home in Morelia, Mexico, whose hermetic design serves as a haven for the residents. Morelia-based HW Studio completed the 375-square metre (4,036-square foot) house in 2023, taking up an entire corner plot in the city in the state of Michoacán. In their previous home, located

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Dumican Mosey includes red staircase for “sculptural relief” in San Francisco renovation

May 26, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Dumican Mosey has completed a renovation of a 1907 house with a four-storey, red staircase in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighbourhood. Dumican Mosey completed the 3,300-square foot (300-square metre) house, named the Red Stair House, in 2022. The completed residence preserved the original building footprint but expanded the living space by excavating a

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Atelier Guy uses mass-timber structure for Canadian wood company facility

May 23, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Atelier Guy Architects has completed an all-timber office and factory for engineering firm SmartMill in Lévis, Quebec. Completed in January 2022, the airy, 2,000-square metre (21,500-square foot) facility reflects the products and services of the client, Quebec wood products manufacturer SmartMill, and has a structure made with glued-laminated (glulam) timber columns and floor

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Daniel Joseph Chenin uses passive building strategies for stone-clad Nevada house

May 22, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Daniel Joseph Chenin has placed a sprawling stone residence around an 1850s fort-inspired rotunda outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. Daniel Joseph Chenin settled the 7,800-square foot (725-square-metre) house on an acre rock outcrop near government-protected land in Las Vegas Valley, looking out to Red Rock Canyon. Named Fort 137, “the building pays homage

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SOM connects block-long glulam bridge to the High Line

May 18, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Global architecture studio SOM has installed a block-long timber truss bridge called Timber Bridge, which connects Manhattan’s High Line to the renovated Penn Station. Designed by global studio Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), the 128-ton, two-section, Warren truss bridge was constructed out of glued-laminated timber (glulam), an engineered wood product made by combining multiple smaller

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Studio MM wraps rural New York home in Corten steel

May 16, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

New York City-based firm Studio MM Architect has completed a Corten steel-wrapped house with a dogtrot-style breezeway that connects to a home studio in North Branch, New York. Known as the Bully Hill House, the home was completed in 2019 by Studio MM Architect, which is led by founder Marica McKeel. The 1,290-square-foot (120-square metre)

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Fuller Overby stacks cypress-wrapped spaces for North Carolina lake house

May 12, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

New York-based studio Fuller Overby has created a North Carolina home clad in charred cypress that cascades down a hill to a lake in North Carolina. Fuller Overby completed the 2,750-square foot (255-square metre) Nebo House in McDowell County in 2022, for a retiring couple. Set on Lake James, the narrow one-acre site drops 100

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HW Studio divides a rural Mexican house with large stone walls

May 11, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

HW Studio Arquitectos has completed a cruciform house with open-air corridors and courtyards tucked between locally quarried stone walls in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Based nearby in Morelia, HW Studio Arquitectos finished the 250-square metre (2,690-square foot) house, named Casa Enso II, in 2022, drawing on vernacular designs, cultural expression and local history of

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Kate Smith clads own Wisconsin home in two tones of wood

May 2, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local designer Kate Smith has wrapped a gabled house in blackened cypress siding in Door County, Wisconsin for her personal residence. The 3,900-square foot (360-square metre) Svart Hus – Swedish for “black house” – was completed in 2021 on a five-acre plot, centred in a meadow within a pine forest. Kate Smith, who leads the

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LAND Arquitectos creates Chilean home with series of screened pavilions

May 1, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

LAND Arquitectos has completed a seaside house consisting of pavilions with wooden screens laid out according to vegetation groupings on the coastal site in Chile. Named the House of Circumferences, the home was completed in 2020 by Santiago-based studio LAND Arquitectos about 300 kilometres north of the capital city. The 1,100-square metre (11,840-square foot) house

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