10 residential spaces designed for reading books in

September 22, 2017 Trudie Carter 0

Influenced by Sam Jacob’s micro cabin for MINI, we’ve rounded up homes that contain libraries for this week’s Pinterest roundup. Examples range from tiny reading nooks to sprawling rooms stuffed floor-to-ceiling with books. Urban Cabin, UK, by Sam Jacob Sam Jacob teamed up with MINI to build a tiny home with an adjoined library for this year’s

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10 residential spaces designed for reading books

September 22, 2017 Trudie Carter 0

Influenced by Sam Jacob’s micro cabin for MINI, we’ve rounded up homes that contain libraries for this week’s Pinterest roundup. Examples range from tiny reading nooks to sprawling rooms stuffed floor-to-ceiling with books. Urban Cabin, UK, by Sam Jacob Sam Jacob teamed up with MINI to build a tiny home with an adjoined library for this year’s

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10 residential spaces designed for reading books

September 22, 2017 Trudie Carter 0

Influenced by Sam Jacob’s micro cabin for MINI, we’ve rounded up homes that contain libraries for this week’s Pinterest roundup. Examples range from tiny reading nooks to sprawling rooms stuffed floor-to-ceiling with books. Urban Cabin, UK, by Sam Jacob Sam Jacob teamed up with MINI to build a tiny home with an adjoined library for this year’s

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Five of the best houses in Tennessee on Dezeen

September 22, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

Next up in our series looking at houses from each American state, we’re venturing south to Tennessee, where some of the best homes include a timber-framed farmhouse and a tall home squeezed onto a tight site in Memphis. Old Briar by Brian Ambroziak, Tricia Stuth, Ted Shelton and Katherine Ambroziak Nestled into a grove of mature trees

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Lund Hagem installs Y-shaped cabin on a hilltop overlooking Norwegian ski resort

September 22, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Pine louvres cover the glazed sides of this cabin by Oslo studio Lund Hagem Arkitekter, which forks at one end to present two large windows towards slopes in Norway’s Kvitfjell ski resort. Lund Hagem Arkitekter set the cabin on one of the highest buildable plots in the resort, giving it clear views towards the southeast, where the sloping

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Jun Igarashi Architects uses loophole in Japanese planning to equip Hokkaido house for snowy winters

September 21, 2017 India Block 0

Jun Igarashi Architects found a work-around in Japanese building code to create this house on Hokkaido’s southwest coast, which features a larger than average roof to protect a pair of patios from snowfall. Winters in Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island, are renowned for their snowfall. Snow-sports enthusiasts from around the world flock to experience the waist-deep powder that typically blankets

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Architect builds his own studio at the end of Toronto garden

September 21, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

The Brooklyn trend for backyard studios has extended all the way to Toronto, where the founder of architecture firm Six Four Five A has constructed a tiny timber workspace for himself at the end of the garden. The Garden Studio was designed by Oliver Dang at his family home in the Canadian city, where property prices

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Living spaces open out to Lake Austin at residence by A Parallel

September 21, 2017 Bridget Cogley 0

Rooms with white and glass walls slots on top of the stone-clad ground floor of this house overlooking Lake Austin, by Texas firm A Parallel Architecture. The two-storey Lake Austin Residence has a wide footprint with floor-to-ceiling windows at nearly every vantage point. Structurally, the residence is comprised of an assortment of rectangular cubes that

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STPMJ layers different concrete mixes to form striped walls at Stratum House

September 21, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

The stripy facades of this pair of houses near the South Korean city of Icheon are the result of experiments by architecture office STPMJ into how altering the constituents of concrete changes its properties. STPMJ’s founders Seung Teak Lee and Mi Jung Lim described Stratum House as an attempt to simulate a geological formation by

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Bruno Dias adds curving extension based on the golden ratio to historic Portuguese house

September 20, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Bruno Dias Arquitectura has renovated a traditional house in the Portuguese town of Ansião, and added a contrastingly modern extension that curves around a turfed central courtyard. Casa Ansião is situated in the historic centre of the town in Portugal’s Leiria district. Local architect Bruno Dias was asked to update the property and create an extension

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