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Michael Hsu converts 1930s Austin church into spacious design office

December 20, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

US studio Michael Hsu Office of Architecture has adapted a former church in Austin, Texas into an open office that maintains the original gabled form and materials. Originally built in 1930, the church was converted into a 19,600-square foot (1,820 metre) flagship studio for Argodesign, a global product design office. Michael Hsu Office of Architecture

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Jenny Peysin Architecture creates concrete Southampton home with a glass pavilion

December 19, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Jenny Peysin Architecture has completed a house in the Hamptons with a poured-in-place concrete envelope and a glazed living space. Completed in 2019 on the eastern end of Long Island, New York, the 8,300-square foot (770-square metre) home has a board-formed mass with punched windows, natural materials and light-filled spaces. The concrete bar – which

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Paz Architectura creates a stacked structure meant to reflect “basic concepts of time”

December 15, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Paz Arquitectura created a compact mixed-use building in the middle of Guatemala’s capital city with “strict geometry interlocked with constant movement”. The 115,200-square foot (10,700-square metre) building known as AEME was completed in 2021. “AEME tries to reflect the basic concepts of time,” said studio founder Alejandro Paz. “Strict geometry interlocked with constant movement softens

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Alexander Jermyn Architecture clads a gabled California home with charred wood

December 9, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Alexander Jermyn Architecture has created a lake house in Lake Tahoe, California with blackened wood siding to withstand the mountain climate. The 3,200-square foot (300-square metre) home nestled in the Sierra Nevada Mountains was designed to shed snow with a steep gable form and looks out to the lake with floor-to-roofline windows. Berkeley-based studio Alexander Jermyn

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Mork-Ulnes completes eight-sided Octothorpe House in Oregon desert

December 6, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Mork-Ulnes Architects has completed a single-family residence in Oregon with a dark exterior and interconnected spaces without corridors that was built using American-made cross-laminated timber. The 3,340-square-foot (310-square metre) Octothorpe House is located in Bend, Oregon, a small city 160 miles (257 kilometres) southeast of Portland. “[It’s] a hybrid between a cabin and a house,

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LaRue Architects creates a copper-clad lake house in the Texas Hill Country

December 1, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

LaRue Architects has clad a lake house outside of Austin, Texas with patinated copper, limestone and oak in order to give it a “living finish”. Called Cliffside, the house was constructed on a limestone bluff 75 feet (23 metres) above Lake Austin in the summer of 2021. The 7,900-square foot (734-square metre) U-shaped house is

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Drew Mandel Architects completes a multi-textural house in a Canadian forest

November 30, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Drew Mandel Architects designed a house in n Milton, Canada with exteriors of metal, brick and wood that is centred around a walnut staircase. Situated within a forest on the Niagara Escarpment, the 6,780-square-foot (630-square metre) house was completed in 2022. Drew Mandel Architects – a Toronto-based studio – designed the home to embrace and

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Geddes Ulinskas Architects includes cast-glass staircase in San Francisco home

November 24, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Geddes Ulinskas Architects has completed an expansive home in Cow Hollow, San Francisco with indoor-outdoor spaces, a cast glass staircase and stone detailing. The Bay Area studio designed the 12,000-square foot (1,114-square metre) home on a vacant 0.26 acre (1,073 square metre) lot that looks out to the Golden Gate Bridge. “We were

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GBBN expands historic Pennsylvania residence with metal-clad education facility

November 22, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

US architecture studio GBBN preserved and expanded a 19th-century home in Erie, Pennsylvania into an educational facility with a glass bridge connection and metal-clad, barn-like structure. Completed in April 2022 for Pennsylvania State University Behrend, the Federal House Renovation & Addition project saw the conversion of the oldest brick building in the Harborcreek Township into a modern

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Brandon Architects designs stone-clad home that frames the Las Vegas Strip

November 11, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Brandon Architects has created a contemporary house that blends into the surrounding Las Vegas desert with stacked stone, disappearing glazing and reflective water features. The Costa Mesa-based studio completed the contemporary 5,800 square foot (539 square metre) home – known as Cloud Chaser – overlooking Las Vegas in 2022. The five-bedroom, seven-bathroom house “imports elevated,

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