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Trending Now: 10 Popular New Home Offices (10 photos)

October 4, 2024 Becky Harris 0

This Trending Now story features the most-saved home office photos uploaded to Houzz between June 15 and September 15, 2024.Office, nook, hub, command center — everyone can benefit from a dedicated space at home for managing work and life. You’ll find…

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Cowper Griffith Architects creates contemporary holiday home in medieval hall

October 4, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

UK studio Cowper Griffith Architects has combined the medieval fabric of the 14th-century Calverley Old Hall in West Yorkshire, England, with contemporary additions to create a holiday home for the Landmark Trust charity. The Grade I-listed medieval hall in the town of Calverley, which was in a largely derelict state, was overhauled by the studio

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M Residence / TAKATINA

October 4, 2024 Hadir Al Koshta 0

The M Residence is a mid-century house originally built in the 1980s and is nestled on a seven-acre bucolic wooded area in the Hudson Valley. TAKATINA was approached by the clients, a couple in the creative field, for a gut renovation and addition to modernize the house to suit their lifestyle. Our goal was to create a serene and retreat-like atmosphere while respecting the existing rustic character and highlighting the collection of modern furnishings and art objects.

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M Residence / TAKATINA

October 4, 2024 Hadir Al Koshta 0

The M Residence is a mid-century house originally built in the 1980s and is nestled on a seven-acre bucolic wooded area in the Hudson Valley. TAKATINA was approached by the clients, a couple in the creative field, for a gut renovation and addition to modernize the house to suit their lifestyle. Our goal was to create a serene and retreat-like atmosphere while respecting the existing rustic character and highlighting the collection of modern furnishings and art objects.

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Wraxall Yard designed as “attractive, comfortable, fully inclusive holiday accommodation”

October 4, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This video spotlights the Wraxall Yard holiday accommodation by Clementine Blakemore Architects, which is one of six projects shortlisted for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize. The project in Dorset is one of a trio of reuse projects on the shortlist, which is the focus of this short film series being published by Dezeen in collaboration with

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“Gives off a cool Bond villain vibe” says commenter

October 4, 2024 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a submerged concrete and glass house in California, designed by local studio Donaldson + Partners. Seven years in the making, the circular structure features large concrete parabolic arches and was envisioned as a “house for the twenty-first century”. “Those views, yet the house is so introverted” Commenters

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Collective Housing in Barcelona: The Sustainable and Cooperative Model of Lacol

October 4, 2024 Paula Pintos 0

One of the biggest current challenges in large cities is the housing crisis and the lack of efficient solutions to mitigate its effects on citizens. This problem is exacerbated in cities where tourism and vacation or temporary housing dominate the market, distancing residents from the possibility of accessing affordable urban housing. Furthermore, gentrification, driven by rising rents and real estate speculation, contributes to the displacement of local communities, transforming traditional neighborhoods into areas exclusively oriented toward tourist consumption.

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Terabe Guest House / Tomoaki Uno Architects

October 4, 2024 Hana Abdel 0

The recent health boom has increased the number of people who prefer to eat brown rice. However, because of the taste and texture, there are not many who choose to eat it every day. There is an enzymatic brown rice recipe which is a tasty and nutritious way to eat brown rice as part of one’s daily diet. The only ingredients are brown rice, azuki beans, and sun-dried salt, but the cooking process is quite time-consuming to make it every day. The owner of this company is the first person in Japan to make it possible to cook brown rice in a rice cooker, just as you would cook white rice. She and her partner, who is an engineer, succeeded in commercializing the product several years ago, and the company has been making steady progress ever since.