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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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O’Neill McVoy inserts a mass-timber filled children’s museum into 1920s Bronx powerhouse

April 26, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Brooklyn studio O’Neill McVoy Architects has adapted a historic powerhouse into a museum for children in the Bronx that highlights the historical building while adding playful details such as a curved mass-timber walkway. O’Neill McVoy Architects inserted the Bronx Children’s Museum into the second floor of the rectilinear building “with old and new in a

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PJCArchitecture creates “non-pretentious” tiny house in Ecuador

April 19, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

PJCArchitecture has completed a micro-home in Napoles, Ecuador with two brick forms connected by a glass bridge that relies on passive heating and cooling. New York City-based PJCArchitecture leveraged Make Estudio, its design-build division in Ecuador, to construct the 700-square-foot (65-square-metre) weekend getaway on the corner of a quarter-acre lot. “The design is based not

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Worrell Yeung renovates New York farm with collection of “cousin” wood-clad buildings

April 17, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Brooklyn-based studio Worrell Yeung has updated a historic property in New York with a series of gabled buildings clad in various timber finishes and details. The studio run recently renovated and expanded the North Salem Farm house and studio on 8.7 acres in Westchester County, New York. The project totals 6,585 square feet (610 square metres)

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Espacio 18 Arquitectura cantilevers a sculptural concrete house in Oaxaca

April 13, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Mexican studio Espacio 18 Arquitectura has balanced an expansive concrete house designed like a “rock carved to create a sculpture” on a hillside in Oaxaca. Known as Casa del Alma, the 460-square metre (4,950-square foot) house was completed in 2023 as the client’s “last refuge” after a “long life of work and travel”, according to

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North Arrow Studio creates metal ADU in Austin to resemble a birdhouse

April 12, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

North Arrow Studio has completed a compact, corrugated metal accessory dwelling unit in East Austin’s Chestnut neighbourhood featuring a custom, circular pivot window that is reminiscent of the round opening in a birdhouse. Aptly named the Birdhouse, the 900-square foot (84-square metre) ADU shares a narrow 5,900-square metre (550-square metre) lot with a 1939 single-storey

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Manuel Cervantes develops “assisted self-production” housing in Mexico

April 10, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Mexico City-based architect Manuel Cervantes Estudio has designed DIY housing that relies on passive, vernacular construction strategies to “help families build their living spaces in a better and smarter way.” Completed in 2022, Rural Nicolas Housing is a continuation of Manuel Cervantes Estudio’s “assisted self-production” in Mexico. “We design manuals so people can understand a

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