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LaRue Architects creates a lake 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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Mighty Buildings completes 3D-printed net-zero home in southern California

November 4, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Mighty Buildings has delivered what it claims is the world’s first 3D-printed zero-net home as part of a 40-unit community in Desert Hot Springs that explores environmental and economic development strategies. The Oakland-based technology company completed the 1,171-square-foot (159-square metre) home in September 2022. Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects (EYRC) designed the two-bedroom, two-bath home,

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RES4 designs modular house for Lido Beach in New York

October 27, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Resolution 4 Architecture stacked a modular beach house above sand dunes for an unencumbered view of the Atlantic Ocean in Lido Beach, New York. The prefabricated coastal house – known as Lido Beach House II – was completed in 2021 as a summer house for a professor and her family. The 2,625-square foot (244-square metre)

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nARCHITECTS tops New York nature centre with a mass-timber roof

October 21, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Brooklyn-based nARCHITECTS has designed a nature centre and exhibition space that produces as much energy as it consumes on the New York coastline. The cedar-clad Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center overlooks the Atlantic Ocean. The project transformed 12 acres of concrete parking lot into a sustainable structure and resilient landscape with native plants. Reusing

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Gensler tucks arena under a movable wooden canopy in Austin

October 17, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

American architecture studio Gensler has completed a resilient and technologically advanced sports arena in Austin, Texas that has a wooden canopy that moves depending on the type of event. The University of Texas at Austin Moody Center Basketball and Events Arena (Moody Center) acts as a conduit between the university and the rest of the

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Elliott Architects uses dramatic cantilever for House on a Bay

October 12, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Maine studio Elliott Architects has created a seaside house that includes a dramatic, cantilevered volume on stilt that stretches towards the ocean and the tree line. Completed in the spring of 2021, the 6,060-square-foot (563-square-metre) House on a Bay is composed of two distinct bars that sit atop a steep site overlooking a bay in Southport,

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