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CmDesign Atelier completes “solid and porous” villa in Lagos

April 20, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Perforated screens of gold-toned metal filter light and air into Lantern House, a villa on Banana Island in Lagos designed by Tosin Oshinowo-led studio CmDesign Atelier. CmDesign Atelier was commissioned to design a five-bedroom home with ample room for entertaining guests on the private island, which is known for its luxury residential developments. Overlooking a

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Brutalist-style villa by Espacio 18 embodies “natural beauty” of Yucatán Peninsula caves

April 7, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

Mexican practice Espacio 18 Arquitectura has designed a concrete holiday home in Tulum with a circular window in one of the ceilings that reveals a swimming pool. Villa Cava is a fortress-like house that takes cues from brutalism and is surrounded by lush vegetation in Tulum’s Aldea Zamá neighbourhood. Clad in board-formed concrete, the home

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Saunders Architecture builds cross-shaped Villa Austevoll on top of Norwegian island

March 16, 2023 James Parkes 0

Norwegian studio Saunders Architecture has created an island villa in an archipelago in Norway that is cross-shaped in plan and acts as an observatory for viewing its surroundings. Named Villa Austevoll, the project is located on the island of Selbjørn, which forms part of an archipelago just south of Bergen. The home contains three bedrooms

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Dezeen Debate features a mirror-clad villa that reader calls “magnet for birdstrikes”

February 23, 2023 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a mirror-clad woodland villa in Antwerp. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Studio Okami Architecten has designed a villa in Antwerp, Belgium, featuring a mirrored facade that it says “disappears due to the reflection of the forest”. Named Beli House, the home replaces a 1960s villa and draws

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Formafatal creates series of rammed earth structures in Costa Rica

February 1, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Formafatal has constructed twin villas out of rammed earth on a jungled hillside in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica that open to the Pacific Ocean with expansive frameless glass. Named Achioté, two 95-square metre villas are embedded in a steep 11,000-square metre plot of jungle, 300 metres above the sea and are, according to the studio, the

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Studio Andrew Trotter creates earth-toned villa from local sandstone in Puglia

January 5, 2023 Katie Last 0

Italian architecture practice Studio Andrew Trotter has completed an earth-toned villa named Casa Maiora that is made from sandstone sourced locally in Puglia, Italy. Located on an elevated site in Carovigno with views of the nearby sea, the house was influenced by the forms and colours of villas along the coast of Puglia. It is

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Villa KD45 is a concrete house in Delhi with a plant-covered roof

January 4, 2023 Alyn Griffiths 0

Studio Symbiosis has completed a villa in Delhi, India, that rises up from its landscaped grounds, forming a terraced roof that is covered with plants to maximise the site’s green area. The clients for Villa KD45 asked Studio Symbiosis to design a house on an angular plot surrounded on three sides by other villas, with

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No Architects completes “seamless” revamp of 1920s house in Prague

December 29, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Czech studio No Architects has renovated and extended a 1920s villa in a Prague suburb, adding bespoke joinery and modern details that complement the original architecture. The studio headed by artist Daniela Baráčková and architect Jakub Filip Novák oversaw the modernisation of the property in the Smíchov district on the left bank of the Vltava river. The

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Brick extension opens rural Dutch home out towards a forested garden

November 30, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Dutch practices Space Encounters and Studio Vincent Architecture have completed BD House, an extension of a 1950s villa in Bergen, the Netherlands, with a brick garden pavilion intended to create the feeling of “living in the forest”. When the new owners of the existing rural villa found it to be structurally unsound, they tasked the

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Sou Fujimoto designs circular holiday home topped with bowl-shaped meadow roof

August 7, 2022 James Parkes 0
Aerial render of Not A Hotel Ishigaki which is disc-shaped

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has revealed the design for a disc-shaped villa with a swooping green roof on Japan’s Ishigaki Island for hotelier Not A Hotel. Located on Ishigaki Island, an idyllic island in Japan’s southwestern region of Okinawa, Not A Hotel Ishigaki was designed to host up to 10 people while being “connected to

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