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A revamped ruin in rural Girona and a 12-storey block on a compact plot in Mumbai are among the top five houses to turn Dezeen readers’ heads this month. Also featured on the list are a sculptural home in Perth, a stilted “micro-chalet” in Québec and a buff-brick residence in London. The roundup is the

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Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados has cantilevered a glass and red-painted wood house off a forested cliffside near the sea in Chile with layers that create “increasing levels of intimacy”. Painted a vibrant red, the elevated 2,100-square foot (195-square metre) house is located in Detif, Chiloé, Chile. Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados (GAAA), a studio based in

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Architecture studio Hello Wood has completed a sunken house near Budapest, Hungary, which is crowned by a green roof and features an outdoor living area overlooking a pond. Named CLT House in reference to its structure that is built partly from cross-laminated timber (CLT), the home is designed by Hello Wood to “blend seamlessly” with

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From a home formed of two overlapping volumes in Alabama to a structure on a narrow site in San Francisco, we’ve rounded up 11 houses in the United States with striking black facades. While there is a variety of different styles and material choices between the different states, black cladding is a unifying trend throughout

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