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10 homes that make clever use of lightwells to bring daylight in

July 14, 2017 Trudie Carter 0

We’ve selected 10 popular projects from Dezeen’s Pinterest boards that show how lightwells can be used to channel daylight down into parts of the home where windows are limited. Clinton Hill Courtyard House, USA, by O’Neill McVoy Architects To breathe fresh air into this historic Brooklyn townhouse, New York studio O’Neill McVoy Architects carved out large

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Unwanted tower-block cladding could be used to build migrant housing

July 14, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Cladding panels removed from high-rise buildings are repurposed to build temporary homes for Romanian migrant workers in this proposal by architecture studio Reed Watts, which has just been named winner of a charity-organised design competition. Called The Flat Pack, the design envisions the Trespa cladding panels that currently cover a pair of tower blocks in the London borough

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Unwanted tower-block cladding could be used to build migrant housing

July 14, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Cladding panels removed from high-rise buildings are repurposed to build temporary homes for Romanian migrant workers in this proposal by architecture studio Reed Watts, which has just been named winner of a charity-organised design competition. Called The Flat Pack, the design envisions the Trespa cladding panels that currently cover a pair of tower blocks in the London borough

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Studio William Hefner completes modernist Beverly Hills house for an art collector

July 13, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Los Angeles-based Studio William Hefner has taken cues from Californian modernism to complete this house for an art collector that overlooks Beverly Hills. Studio William Hefner was tasked to design the residence in Beverly Hills’ Trousdale Estate, following the client’s unsuccessful search for a mid-century modern home with a large enough wall space to hang the larger artworks in

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Low-lying residence by Dick Clark stretches across a Texas prairie

July 12, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

This rural home designed by Austin-based Dick Clark + Associates features walls made of concrete and glass, and deep roof overhangs that mitigate exposure to harsh sunlight. The Brownwood Residence sits on a property blanketed with prairie grass and dotted with mature oak trees. It is located in Brownwood, a town in central Texas. The clients wanted

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The Houseboat by Mole Architects evokes the underside of a ship’s hull

July 12, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Mole Architects has completed a house in the English seaside town of Poole, comprising a pair of blackened-timber volumes that resemble the upturned hull of a boat. Cambridge-based Mole Architects designed The Houseboat for architect and developer Roger Zogolovitch, who wanted a space his family could use as an alternative quiet retreat to their main

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Jean Verville converts backyard shed into minimalist studio in Montreal

July 12, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

Canadian architect Jean Verville has overhauled a storage shed at his home into an austere workspace lined with oriented strand board. The project, called IN 1, was envisioned as a “model on a human scale”. It is one in a series of recent works by Verville intended to embody the merging of art and architecture, through experimention with

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Chop + Archi cuts triangular lightwells into corners of house in Tokyo

July 12, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Japanese architecture studio Chop + Archi has used trio of courtyards to make the most of the sharp “dead space” corners of this house, located on an almost triangular plot in Tokyo. Situated on a south-eastern corner plot in a dense residential area in Tokyo’s Setagaya ward, Kamiuma House provides the home for a couple and

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Budi Pradono tops hillside house in Lombok with tilted shipping container

July 11, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

A shipping container appears to be slipping away from the top of this house on the island of Lombok, designed by Indonesian architect Budi Pradono. Clay House is set on a hill in Selong Belanak, a beachside area in the southern West Nusa Tenggara province of Lombak – an Indonesian island east of Bali. The residence is made

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Edmonds + Lee breaks tradition for gallery-like Remember House in San Francisco

July 10, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

US studio Edmonds + Lee Architects has used voids, large windows and white-washed interiors to open up this San Francisco property, breaking away from the tightly packed “pancake-style” layout of its neighbours. The Remember House is located on sloped road in San Francisco’s Noe Valley. The team at Edmonds + Lee Architects describes the regular layout of the neighbourhood’s four-storey

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