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F5: George Smart on His Favorite Modernist Architecture

Durham, North Carolina-based George Smart spent three decades as a management consultant for Fortune 500 companies like Boeing, Microsoft, and Cisco. While he was well-compensated, it was less than fulfilling work for someone who wanted to make a difference. “There…
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Inside a Hidden Italian-Inspired Family Home That Reveals a Gorgeous Central Courtyard (House Tour)

Tapping into Western Australian sensitivities, Enclosed House II is a hidden Italian-Inspired family home that evokes a purity and sense of harmony reminiscent of the desert. Seemingly impenetrable, the raw, textural retreat the home provides is achieved through an innovative…
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A Tree House That Feels Like It’s Floating Inside The Forest

INTEGRA STUDIO ARQUITETURA has shared photos of a modern Tree House project they completed for the NaCarapina accommodation complex, that’s located in Brazil. The Tree House which has the feeling of ‘floating inside the forest’, is fully integrated with the…
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Inside a Mediterranean Dream House Designed for a Growing Family (House Tour)

Casa F sees Williams Burton Leopardi seamlessly marry old and new elements whilst integrating bespoke moments throughout that allow for easy family living. The Mediterranean dream house is designed to age and grow with the occupants, as family lies at…
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Architect Designs A Beautiful Home For A Growing Family (House Tour)

Narrow sites and smaller residences provide architects with an opportunity – one that inspires creativity and innovation. This is true of Concrete Curtain, where the architect designs a beautiful home in inner-city Melbourne. FGR Architects evocatively draws on materiality and…
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Inside a Breathtaking Modern Home Positioned on the Edge of a Canyon (House Tour)

On the hills of Pacific Palisades, in Los Angeles, is Palisades Residence by Abramson Architects, a breathtaking modern home with sweeping views of the canyon backdrop. As the house tour begins from street level, the house opens onto a one-storey…
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Architecture and design events in October from Dezeen Events Guide

Design Miami’s first event in Paris and the month-long Archtober festival in New York City are among the architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this month. Other events taking place in October include an exhibition on how…
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Inside a Hidden Garden House with a Kitchen at the Heart of the Home (House Tour)

Removed from the busyness of Fitzroy, an inner-urban suburb of Melbourne where the home resides, stepping into Sunday makes one feel as though they are entering a hidden garden house. Architecture architecture partners with Brickworks to create a sanctuary that…
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A Modern Farmhouse By The Sea In New Zealand

New Zealand architecture firm Studio John Irving Architects has shared photos of a modern farmhouse they completed that’s been designed like a collection of linked farm outbuildings. With an exterior of weathered grey-stained wood and a grey metal roof, the…
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Inside a Californian Inspired Family Home Designed for a Wine Maker and Photographer (House Tour)

Just outside of Adelaide is Richmond House, a family home designed by studio gram that offers the owners a robust, relaxed and character-rich home to raise a family. After spending some time travelling around California, the clients delivered a detailed…
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SOM creates spiral of algae bricks for 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial

In collaboration with Colorado-based Prometheus Materials, architecture studio SOM has created a spiral installation made of bio-bricks for the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial. The installation was made using the Bio-Block building material developed by Colorado-based material company Prometheus Materials, a…
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Għallis exhibition suggests alternative to Malta’s “unstoppable trajectory of hyper-development”

Valentino Architects and curator Ann Dingli have presented a proposal to retrofit a historic fortification at the Venice Architecture Biennale to suggest alternative methods of conservation in the face of Malta’s rapid development. Curated by Dingli, the small-scale exhibition was part of…
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This Australian Terrace House Was Modernized For Today’s Living

Chan Architecture has shared photos of a project they recently completed in Clifton Hill, Australia, that included transforming the interior of a terrace house into a modern home. Working together with interior designers Sanders & King, the rear of the…
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Inside a Breathtaking Brazilian Inspired Super House Engulfed in Nature (House Tour)

An inspired super house leveraging its unique site nestled between the calm waters of Pittwater, the surf beach of Avalon and bushland in Clareville on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, M House envelopes the landscape in its very structure in an alluring…
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Dellekamp Schleich uses trusses for “Mexico’s largest mass-timber building”

Local architecture studio Dellekamp Schleich has created an office building in Mexico City that it says is the country’s largest and tallest mass-timber structure to “set an example for innovative construction methods”. Called El Jardín Anatole, the 940-square-metre structure was…
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A Contemporary Interior Was Given To This Victorian Era Home

Richard Beard Architects and The Wiseman Group has sent us photos of a project they recently completed in San Francisco, California, that involved updating a historic Victorian-era home. Over the span of several years, the house underwent a complete restructuring…
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Casa Los Tigres is a minimalist residence in Mexico

Rounded columns “simulate elements washed by the sea” at this beach house on Mexico’s Pacific Coast, designed by César Béjar Studio and Fernando Sánchez Zepeda. The 465-square-metre Casa Los Tigres is located in Nuevo Vallarta, in Mexico’s western Nayarit province,…
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Before & After – Remodeled Kitchen And Bathrooms For A Mid-Century Modern Home

M Monroe Design has sent us photos of a contemporary remodel they recently completed for a mid-century modern home in Newport Beach, California, that includes a new kitchen as well as the main bathroom and a kids’ bathroom. Before –…