From a zigzagging minimalist home in Spain to a compact self-build project in the UK, here are the most popular houses featured on Dezeen this month. Also on the list is a Y-shaped house in Canada, a blocky concrete dwelling in Portugal and a sprawling residence among Australian farmland. This is the latest in our Houses
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London studio David Kohn Architects has converted an agricultural building on a former dairy farm in Newton Abbot, UK, to create a house and studio named Cowshed. Cowshed is the last building to be completed in a 15-year-long transformation of Middle Rocombe Farm, which has been owned and inhabited by artist Suzanne Blank Redstone and
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International studio Snøhetta has completed Beijing City Library in China, a glass-lined building filled with towering tree-like columns and rooms disguised as hills. Located in Beijing’s Tongzhou district, the library was designed by Snøhetta to “reinstate the library’s relevance in the 21st century” and aims to offer a “new vision” for the typology. Its design
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A blocky form animated by hit-and-miss brickwork defines Peckham House, a self-build project by architecture studio Surman Weston that draws on its surroundings in southeast London. Peckham House was designed for and built by the directors of Surman Weston, Tom Surman and Percy Weston. It is currently occupied by Weston and his family. The nature
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The recently launched The Stone Collective is aiming to weaken concrete and steel’s hold on the architecture industry. As part of our Stone Age 2.0 series, the team explains its ambition. “There is a lack of exposure to stone projects by contemporary architects everywhere,” said spokesperson Pierre Bidaud, member of The Stone Collective. “It’s a
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Harnessing stone as a structural material can make architecture more enjoyable to both build and inhabit argues Tristram Carfrae, an Arup engineer working on the Sagrada Familia, in this Stone Age 2.0 interview. Carfrae, who is a deputy chair of engineering firm Arup, believes that the potential of stone in architecture lies far beyond what
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As part of our Stone Age 2.0 series, we’re republishing our stone guide that includes 15 popular types of natural rock, some of which can be used for architectural structures. Alabaster Alabaster is a soft, fine-grained stone that has been used for centuries to carve elaborate forms and ornaments. However, its solubility in water means
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ACAN Natural Materials Group co-ordinator Aurore Baulier calls on architects to embrace stone’s natural qualities and reintroduce the material into their toolkits, in this Stone Age 2.0 interview. “Obviously, you can shape concrete into all these fancy forms, but if you’re clever with stone, you can do incredible stuff,” Baulier told Dezeen. “Stone can be
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Following last week’s opening of the world’s longest cantilever at One Za’abeel in Dubai, we’ve rounded up nine skyscrapers that are enlivened by dramatically suspended platforms, bridges and blocks. Cantilevers are structural elements that typically extend horizontally from another volume and are only supported at one end, creating a striking gravity-defying visual effect. Currently, the
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This Dezeen video takes viewers on a tour of One Za’abeel, a mixed-use development by Japanese studio Nikken Sekkei in Dubai that incorporates the world’s largest cantilever. One Za’abeel opened in Dubai last week, with its record-breaking cantilever projecting out 67.5 metres from a bridge between two skyscrapers. In the exclusive footage, the cantilever can
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