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McLaren Excell contrasts smoked oak with white panelling for London home in a former office

May 3, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

White ribbed panelling provides a neutral backdrop for smoked-oak furnishings and marble bathrooms in this former west London office, which McLaren Excell has converted into a family home. London-based McLaren Excell completely overhauled the two-storey Rylett Crescent building in London’s Shepherds Bush, which was originally an industrial laundry facility before it was converted into offices. The architects

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Cantilevered concrete volumes provide river and mountain views at Guesthouse Rivendell

May 2, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Angled concrete surfaces collide to form the facades of this guesthouse by South Korean studio IDMM Architects, which features sections that thrust out towards the nearby Bukhan River. IDMM Architects designed Guesthouse Rivendell for the mother of a local entrepreneur and positioned it on a plot that looks directly onto the river to the east.

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Box-framed louvres shade windows of concrete house in Tel Aviv

May 2, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

This concrete house in Tel Aviv by Bar Orian Architects features vertical louvres that can be either rotated to filter light or slid open to reveal the windows behind. Designed for a couple and their three children, the residence is located in a neighbourhood in the north the city called Affeka. Tel-Aviv based Bar Orian Architects, led by Tal Bar Orian,

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Steimle Architekten completes “crystal-like” concrete house in Germany

May 2, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Angular, board-marked concrete walls offer a variety of views from the pared-back spaces inside this house designed by Steimle Architekten in Tübingen, Germany. Stuttgart-based Steimle Architekten designed the three-storey family house across a split-level site in Pliezhausen – a village 30 kilometres south of Stuttgart – as a contrast to its neighbours. Described as “crystal-shaped”, the E20 residence features facades angled to offer residents a range

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Gable wall conceals double-height atrium in Austin home by Design Hound

May 1, 2017 John Trujillo 0

Austin studio Design Hound has completed a local home with light-toned facades, designed to help to create a “soft transition” into the residence’s bright interior. The Laurelwood House sits in a residential neighbourhood outside downtown Austin, Texas. A low-slung garage abuts a gabled, rectangular house, creating a long facade that reduces sight lines into the

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Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti builds wooden house with chimney-shaped skylight

May 1, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

In a play on Slovenia’s traditional wooden barns, Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti has extruded the shape of a chimney along the top of this house to create a continuous skylight. Ljubljana studio Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti designed the 830-square-metre Chimney House for a couple living in the Slovenian town Logatec. Clad in oiled larch panels, the gabled residence bears many similarities to local wooden

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Carl Hansen & Son builds faux apartment to explore how furniture makes a home

May 1, 2017 Emma Tucker 0

Danish homeware brand Carl Hansen & Son built a mock apartment featuring rich colours and mid-century furniture for its Salone del Mobile installation during Milan design week. Called Milan Home, the set was designed to explore what makes a space liveable, and the role furniture plays in transforming a domestic environment into a sanctuary. The brand reconsidered the role of different

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Alma-nac slots angular openings into timber-clad gables of House in the Woods

April 30, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Triangular windows are set beneath the pitched roofs of this house in England’s South Downs National Park, which London studio Alma-nac designed to sit discreetly in its wooded setting. Alma-nac was asked to design the house for a plot within an area of outstanding natural beauty in the county of Hampshire, where it replaces a bungalow

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Tents create guest bedrooms with panoramic views at Peggy Deamer’s New Zealand retreat

April 30, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

The main living areas of this compact holiday home near New Zealand’s Kaipara Harbour are arranged perpendicular to a platform that provides space for three tents used to accommodate guests. Yale School of Architecture professor Peggy Deamer often works in nearby Auckland and wanted to build herself a simple and affordable rural retreat that was

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Studio Bergtraun perches black cabin on steep slope in the Sierra Nevada mountains

April 29, 2017 James Brillon 0

California-based Studio Bergtraun has completed a holiday home in Tahoe, nestling a simple black volume clad in corrugated metal into the steep landscape. Alpine Meadows Cabin was completed for a family of outdoor sports enthusiasts in California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range. “The clients desired to create a fun-filled, cozy and informal cabin for family and

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