residential

GRT Architects creates fluted glass stairwell for skinny Brooklyn townhouse

November 8, 2017 Bridget Cogley 0

A glazed stairwell brings light from a roof window down through this narrow townhouse in Brooklyn, renovated by New York studio GRT Architects with splashes of colour. The brick residence is located in Fort Greene, a tree-lined neighbourhood in the New York borough that is popular with young families. The townhouse is three storeys and

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Concrete latticework and two courtyards filter light into Mexican house by Delfino Lozano

November 8, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architect Delfino Lozano has completed this house in Zapopan, Mexico, featuring decorative concrete screens, a pair of brick-paved courtyards and cool-blue walls. Designed for a family of four, Casa Azul occupies a 300-square-metre rectangular plot in the city – part of the Guadalajara metropolitan area – with neighbours abutting its longer northern and southern sides.

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Concrete latticework and two courtyards filter light into Mexican house by Delfino Lozano

November 8, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architect Delfino Lozano has completed this house in Zapopan, Mexico, featuring decorative concrete screens, a pair of brick-paved courtyards and cool-blue walls. Designed for a family of four, Casa Azul occupies a 300-square-metre rectangular plot in the city – part of the Guadalajara metropolitan area – with neighbours abutting its longer northern and southern sides.

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Arizona horse barn transformed into desert guest house by The Construction Zone

November 8, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

Concrete walls that once enclosed horse stalls are now used as room dividers in this modern guest house by The Construction Zone, a design-build firm in Phoenix. The Barn Guest House is located on a large property in Phoenix dotted with cacti, boulders and desert trees. The adaptive reuse project entailed transforming an existing concrete

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Arizona horse barn transformed into desert guest house by The Construction Zone

November 8, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

Concrete walls that once enclosed horse stalls are now used as room dividers in this modern guest house by The Construction Zone, a design-build firm in Phoenix. The Barn Guest House is located on a large property in Phoenix dotted with cacti, boulders and desert trees. The adaptive reuse project entailed transforming an existing concrete

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Etch House by Fraher Architects contains clues about its previous layout

November 8, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Traces of the original architecture are incorporated throughout this renovated Victorian house in south London, which Fraher Architects updated with a new staircase that creates multipurpose landings on each level. Joe Fraher and Lizzie Webster of London-based Fraher Architects purchased the property two years ago and decided to undertake a complete refurbishment of the outdated interior to create

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Etch House by Fraher Architects contains clues about its previous layout

November 8, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Traces of the original architecture are incorporated throughout this renovated Victorian house in south London, which Fraher Architects updated with a new staircase that creates multipurpose landings on each level. Joe Fraher and Lizzie Webster of London-based Fraher Architects purchased the property two years ago and decided to undertake a complete refurbishment of the outdated interior to create

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Hanging staircase divides spacious New York loft by DJDS

November 7, 2017 Bridget Cogley 0

Brooklyn studio DJDS has redesigned the interior a loft apartment in Lower Manhattan, using white, black, chrome and wood surfaces throughout. Measuring 3,800 square feet (353-square-metres), the single-storey apartment contains an open-plan dining room, living area, and kitchen that takes up almost half of the floor area. A central staircase, flanked by thin elements that

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House with “margin space” helps relocating city-dwellers adjust to life in rural Japan

November 7, 2017 India Block 0

To encourage the occupants of this house to socialise with their neighbours, Japanese architect Takanori Ineyama added a patio deck, a first-floor balcony and a large bay window to the building’s facade. Ineyama designed Tab House for a young family who recently moved out of Tokyo, in favour of a more rural setting in Yamanashi Prefecture.

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Yale architecture students create dwelling in Connecticut for the homeless

November 6, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

Graduate students at Yale University have completed a prefabricated building in New Haven with two apartments that will be leased to tenants who are experiencing homelessness. The 1,000-square-foot (92-square-metre) house was built on a slender vacant lot on Adeline Street, in the city’s Upper Hill neighbourhood. The building is clad in white-stained cedar and is

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