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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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Ludwig Godefroy creates brutalist cube-shaped home in Mexico

March 20, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Mexico City-based architect Ludwig Godefroy designed a brutalist concrete holiday home in a Mexican pine forest called Casa Alférez. Completed in 2023 in the Alférez region, about an hour outside of Mexico City, sits a stark two-bedroom weekend home with whimsical forms and details. “The origin of the concept of Alferez house comes from the

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ERRE Arquitectos designs U-shaped Chilean beach house overlooking the Pacific Ocean

March 15, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Chilean studio ERRE Arquitectos has constructed Casa Ferran, a low-profile holiday house in Matanzas on the coast of Chile. Raimundo Gutiérrez of ERRE Arquitectos designed the 240-square-metre (2,580-square-foot) residence as a U-shape on the edge of a cliff that limits the buildable area of the 2,200-square-metre site, as it drops steeply down to the Pacific

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Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen develops modular building system to address the global housing crisis

March 14, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen Architects and The Andes House have designed a modular prototype that can be configured to construct low-cost housing. The Industrialized Building System Prototype was designed by Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen Architects and The Andes House and fabricated by Cromolux in Santiago, before being assembled in the nearby town of Casablanca, Chile. “The prototype

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DKA connects three gabled structures for Quebec residence

March 10, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio DKA Architects has designed a white wood-clad home with three connected gables in Terrebonne, Quebec, just outside of Montreal. Set within a large manicured lawn, the Comtois Residence was completed in 2022 by DKA, a mid-sized studio founded in 2009 in nearby Biosbriand. The 6,835-square-foot (635-square-metre) home is composed of three gabled bars

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Ménard Dworkind adds sculptural mezzanine to 1980s Quebec home

March 6, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Ménard Dworkind has renovated a 1980s house on the south shore of Montreal with rounded plaster details and a terracotta fireplace. Originally designed in 1981 by Canadian architect Frank McGrath in Saint-Lambert, Quebec, the 3,500-square-foot (325-square-metre) house was brought back to life last year by local studio Ménard Dworkind (MRDK). Set on a 5,600-square-foot (520-square-metre)

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Izquierdo Lehmann cantilevers boxes from cylindrical glass Chilean house

March 4, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Izquierdo Lehmann has designed a round lakeside house near Lago Ranco in southern Chile that is wrapped in glass with a series of wood-clad boxes projecting from its sides. Cristián Izquierdo L, a partner at Santiago-based studio Izquierdo Lehmann, designed Casa Encoique in 2021 as a guest pavilion adjacent to an existing holiday home that

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Ryall Sheridan Carroll Architects includes monumental porch on Long Island home

March 1, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Ryall Sheridan Carroll Architects has created a cedar-clad, pavilion-like house on the North Fork of Long Island that includes a detached garage and pool. Based in New York City, Ryall Sheridan Carroll Architects designed the 2,500-square-foot (230-square-metre) home, called the Tree Farmer’s House, for a one-acre lot. In elevation, the light-coloured home has the shape

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Supreme’s Los Angeles flagship features its first fully floating skate bowl

February 28, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

A team of architects and designers has mixed retail with a skateboard facility for clothing brand Supreme’s Los Angeles flagship store, sited in the building that was once home to the iconic record store Tower Records. The overall design of the he 8,500-square-foot (790-square-metre) store was carried out through a collaboration of London interiors studios

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Ryan Leidner adds bridge to geometric San Francisco house

February 23, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Ryan Leidner Architecture renovated a 1940s home in the Bernal Heights neighbourhood of San Francisco, resolving entry access with a bridge over the front garden. Ryan Leidner Architecture completed the 2,500-square-foot (230-square metre) Hosono House in 2021, cladding the house in charcoal-stained cedar siding with a copper, standing seam roof. The original structure

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