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Grove of trees shades hillside Costa Rican house by Carazo Arquitectura

May 8, 2017 John Trujillo 0

Costa Rica studio Carazo Arquitectura has completed a concrete residence that sprawls across the summit of a hill and steps down the slope into a canopy of vegetation. The Murray Music House is situated in the small Costa Rican city of Heredia, which forms part of the capital San Jose’s greater metropolitan area. The clients

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Glazing surrounds white house by Evelop Arquitectura to provide vistas of Mexican dale

May 7, 2017 John Trujillo 0

Evelop Arquitectura has created a white hillside house where glazing fully opens onto lavender bushes and a verdant garden, against the backdrop of central Mexico’s rolling terrain. House S1 is situated in the hills of Zibatá, a small city in the central Mexican province of Querétaro. Recessing the two-storey residence into an incline, the Mexican

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West Virginia home by GriD Architects perches above Potomac River

May 6, 2017 John Trujillo 0

Maryland-based GriD Architects has taken cues from vernacular Appalachian houses and local rock formations to create this West Virginia home on a forested hillside. Having lost their original West Virginia home to a fire, a couple commissioned GriD architects to build a new residence on the rural site. The clients asked for a house that

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Messana O’Rorke Architects extends New York homestead with weathering-steel annex

May 3, 2017 John Trujillo 0

During the renovation of an 18th-century home in Upstate New York, Manhattan-based Messana O’Rorke Architects has revitalised its original appearance and added modern conveniences in an extension clad in Corten steel. Situated on an apple orchard in Columbia County, the renovated Ten Broeck Cottage – which dates back to 1734 – still bears signs of

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Angled louvres shade glass skyscraper in Guadalajara by Sordo Madelano Arquitectos

May 2, 2017 John Trujillo 0

Mexican firm Sordo Madelano Arquitectos has stacked offset volumes that contain a hotel and office spaces to form a tower in Guadalajara. Torre Américas 1500 is the first building to complete as part of a complex off Américas Avenue, one of the principle highways in Guadalajara – which is emerging as Mexico’s architecture hotspot. Tasked

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Gable wall conceals double-height atrium in Austin home by Design Hound

May 1, 2017 John Trujillo 0

Austin studio Design Hound has completed a local home with light-toned facades, designed to help to create a “soft transition” into the residence’s bright interior. The Laurelwood House sits in a residential neighbourhood outside downtown Austin, Texas. A low-slung garage abuts a gabled, rectangular house, creating a long facade that reduces sight lines into the

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Philip Johnson’s first residential project hits the market for $1 million

April 27, 2017 John Trujillo 0

The first house designed by American architect Philip Johnson has been put up for sale by its owners, after 55 years living in the Upstate New York residence. On the market for $1 million (£775,000), the Booth House was built in 1946 in Bedford, New York – close to the modernist haven of New Canaan,

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Northern California home by Arcanum Architecture sprawls along verdant lot

April 26, 2017 John Trujillo 0

San Francisco firm Arcanum Architecture has organised the massing of this large home around trees overhanging a broad lawn. The residence is situated in the Northern California town of Atherton, where the site takes up the corner of a broad avenue and a side street. The long home, named Atherton Avenue, bisects the two-acre (0.8-hectare) property

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Abundant glazing and wrap-around terraces feature in Vermont home by J Roc Design

April 25, 2017 John Trujillo 0

Boston-based J Roc Design has built a Vermont home with three wings around a central hub, creating a wheelchair-accessible upper level that spreads across a hillside. The Glass Trefoil House is situated outside Stowe, Vermont. Recessed into a slope, the upper storey sits elevated to offer a panorama of rolling hills surrounding the valley town.

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White box forms sleeping nook in Toronto loft by StudioAC

April 17, 2017 John Trujillo 0

Toronto-based StudioAC has remodelled the interior of a local apartment for a young client, balancing a bright and open living space with a cosy bedroom tucked away inside a millwork box. A young professional asked the designers to create an interior “that was equally fun, functional and unique” for the Broadview Loft project. The designers partitioned

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