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Giordano Hadamik Architects builds hillside Villa Nemes using stone excavated on site

January 15, 2021 Amy Frearson 0
Front window at Villa Nemes by Giordano Hadamik Architects

The walls of this Italian villa, designed by Giordano Hadamik Architects, are formed of natural stone excavated from the home’s site. Villa Nemes is partially embedded into the Ligurian landscape. To help it merge with its setting, its architects chose to clad the exterior walls with a material that was readily available to them. With

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OHLAB frames cinematic views of the landscape for hotel in Mallorca

July 13, 2020 India Block 0

Casa Palerm is a standalone villa built for a hotel in Mallorca by architecture office OHLAB with a window designed to replicate the dimensions of a retro cinema screen. OHLAB carved out a section through the middle of the villa in the countryside of Lloret de Vistalegre in the centre of the Balearic island. Concrete

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Foster + Partners shelters Dolunay Villa in Turkey under giant undulating roof

March 26, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Dolunay Villa by Foster + Partners in Turkey

A rippling timber roof cantilevers from the Dolunay Villa in Muğla, Turkey, designed by Foster + Partners to complement its rugged coastal setting. Positioned on the coast of the Aegean Sea, it is the first private family house designed by Foster + Partners since completing Leedon Park House in Singapore in 2006. Dolunay Villa’s giant undulating

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Foster + Partners shelters Dolunay Villa in Turkey under giant undulating roof

March 26, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Dolunay Villa by Foster + Partners in Turkey

A rippling timber roof cantilevers from the Dolunay Villa in Muğla, Turkey, designed by Foster + Partners to complement its rugged coastal setting. Positioned on the coast of the Aegean Sea, it is the first private family house designed by Foster + Partners since completing Leedon Park House in Singapore in 2006. Dolunay Villa’s giant undulating

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Summer Villa by Kapsimalis Architects
 plays on traditional Greek whitewashed houses

August 11, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Summer Villa in Santorini, Greece by Kapsimalis Architects

The white, blocky form of this holiday villa by Kapsimalis Architects is intended to be a “contemporary translation” of the chalky houses seen around Santorini, Greece. Summer Villa – which forms part of Santorini’s existing Andronis Arcadia hotel – has been designed by Kapsimalis Architects to appear as a “synthesis of cubist white volumes”. The

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 plays on traditional Greek whitewashed houses appeared first on Dezeen.

Villa SG21 is a monolithic blackened-wood house topped with a turfed roof

September 30, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Dutch studio FillieVerhoeven Architects has completed a house near Rotterdam featuring an asymmetric gabled form clad entirely in blackened timber and incorporating large glazed openings on all sides. FillieVerhoeven Architects designed Villa SG21 for a plot situated next to a historic road that passes through an area of typical Dutch countryside between the cities of

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Villa SG21 is a monolithic blackened-wood house topped with a turfed roof

September 30, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Dutch studio FillieVerhoeven Architects has completed a house near Rotterdam featuring an asymmetric gabled form clad entirely in blackened timber and incorporating large glazed openings on all sides. FillieVerhoeven Architects designed Villa SG21 for a plot situated next to a historic road that passes through an area of typical Dutch countryside between the cities of

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Woven metal-mesh curtain wraps Melbourne house extension designed by Matt Gibson

July 20, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Australian architect Matt Gibson and his studio have renovated and extended a traditional villa in Melbourne, adding deep verandahs that can be protected from harsh sunlight using woven steel-mesh curtains. Matt Gibson Architecture + Design was tasked with upgrading the property in the Australian city’s Barrington heritage area, in order to create more liveable spaces with a better connection

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Atelier XÜK adds wedge-shaped roof extension to Spanish-style villa in Shanghai

May 7, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Atelier XÜK has added a corrugated-metal attic room to this Spanish colonial-style house, which was designed in the 1920s by a Hungarian architect for a plot in Shanghai’s French quarter. The villa that local studio Atelier XÜK renovated and extended was originally designed by architect Ladislav Hudec. It is located in a part of the city known

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