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David Baker Architects accelerates housing for homeless in San Francisco with modular construction

December 28, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Bay Area studio David Baker Architects has completed 145 units of social housing using modular construction and a weathering steel facade in San Francisco, California. The 63,000-square foot (5,850 metre) project – called Tahanan, the Tagalog word for “coming home” – was completed in November 2021 through a financing prototype that aimed to accelerate the

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EYRC tucks light filled spaces behind white walls in Venice Beach

December 23, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Los Angeles studio Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects has completed a sleek stucco home in Venice Beach, California. Completed in June 2022, the 3,400-square foot (315-square metre) home – known as Navy House – contains a two-storey primary unit and a flexible two-bedroom unit on the ground floor that could eventually be annexed into the

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Elemental references “double condition of castles” for cylindrical home in Mexico

December 22, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Chilean studio Elemental has created a round concrete house called Casa del Tec outside of Monterrey, Mexico that is the prize of a raffle that funds higher education at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey. Completed in 2022 in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, the three-storey textured reinforced concrete shell serves as a shell for

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Michael Hsu converts 1930s Austin church into spacious design office

December 20, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

US studio Michael Hsu Office of Architecture has adapted a former church in Austin, Texas into an open office that maintains the original gabled form and materials. Originally built in 1930, the church was converted into a 19,600-square foot (1,820 metre) flagship studio for Argodesign, a global product design office. Michael Hsu Office of Architecture

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Jenny Peysin Architecture creates concrete Southampton home with a glass pavilion

December 19, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Jenny Peysin Architecture has completed a house in the Hamptons with a poured-in-place concrete envelope and a glazed living space. Completed in 2019 on the eastern end of Long Island, New York, the 8,300-square foot (770-square metre) home has a board-formed mass with punched windows, natural materials and light-filled spaces. The concrete bar – which

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Paz Architectura creates a stacked structure meant to reflect “basic concepts of time”

December 15, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Paz Arquitectura created a compact mixed-use building in the middle of Guatemala’s capital city with “strict geometry interlocked with constant movement”. The 115,200-square foot (10,700-square metre) building known as AEME was completed in 2021. “AEME tries to reflect the basic concepts of time,” said studio founder Alejandro Paz. “Strict geometry interlocked with constant movement softens

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Alexander Jermyn Architecture clads a gabled California home with charred wood

December 9, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Alexander Jermyn Architecture has created a lake house in Lake Tahoe, California with blackened wood siding to withstand the mountain climate. The 3,200-square foot (300-square metre) home nestled in the Sierra Nevada Mountains was designed to shed snow with a steep gable form and looks out to the lake with floor-to-roofline windows. Berkeley-based studio Alexander Jermyn

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Mork-Ulnes completes eight-sided Octothorpe House in Oregon desert

December 6, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Mork-Ulnes Architects has completed a single-family residence in Oregon with a dark exterior and interconnected spaces without corridors that was built using American-made cross-laminated timber. The 3,340-square-foot (310-square metre) Octothorpe House is located in Bend, Oregon, a small city 160 miles (257 kilometres) southeast of Portland. “[It’s] a hybrid between a cabin and a house,

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LaRue Architects creates a copper-clad lake house in the Texas Hill Country

December 1, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

LaRue Architects has clad a lake house outside of Austin, Texas with patinated copper, limestone and oak in order to give it a “living finish”. Called Cliffside, the house was constructed on a limestone bluff 75 feet (23 metres) above Lake Austin in the summer of 2021. The 7,900-square foot (734-square metre) U-shaped house is

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Drew Mandel Architects completes a multi-textural house in a Canadian forest

November 30, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Drew Mandel Architects designed a house in n Milton, Canada with exteriors of metal, brick and wood that is centred around a walnut staircase. Situated within a forest on the Niagara Escarpment, the 6,780-square-foot (630-square metre) house was completed in 2022. Drew Mandel Architects – a Toronto-based studio – designed the home to embrace and

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