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An aromatic garden enfolds this Mexico City house by Manuel Cervantes
A private residence in Mexico City by local architecture firm Manuel Cervantes Estudio makes the most out of the striking ravine-side site and existing flora to create a ceramic-clad home that is contemporary but also at one with the outdoors
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Miami house on stilts offers modern living while mitigating flood risks
Stewart Avenue Residence by Brillhart Architecture offers a template for a Miami house that blends sleek contemporary architecture, traditional local vernacular and design that responds to the site’s flood risk
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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This green retreat brings the Australian beach house to California
A Californian beach house, inspired by Australian seaside retreats and infused with a contemporary aesthetic and an environmentally friendly approach, is the latest residential completion by the US architecture studio of Alec Petros
By Diane Theunissen Last updated
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Celebrating 10 years of exquisite residential architecture with Omar Gandhi
The Wallpaper* Architects Directory has turned 20. Conceived in 2000 as our index of emerging architectural talent, this annual listing of promising practices, has, over the years, spanned styles and continents; yet always championing the best and most exciting young studios and showcasing inspiring work with an emphasis on the residential realm. To mark the occasion, this summer, we’re looking back at some of our over-500 alumni, to catch up about life and work since their participation and exclusively launch some of their latest completions. 2014 Architects Directory alumnus, Canada-based Omar Gandhi celebrates ten years of practice with a monograph. Entitled Adaptation, the book explores the architect's journey from the foundation of his studio to the present day through a number of exquisite residential designs.
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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O'Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects' Dewsbury Road house extension celebrates wood
Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory is our annual round-up of exciting emerging architecture studios. Next on our list is London-based Jody O’Sullivan and Amalia Skoufoglou
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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1960s Futuro House hosts sci-fi sleepovers in Somerset
Futuro House, the sci-fi, 1960s pod design of Finnish architect Matti Suuronen, has been transported to Marston Park in Somerset, UK – and now you can even stay there
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Studio Aki’s copper-clad extension defines Green House in London
Sarah Akigbogun's London architecture practice, Studio Aki, joins the Wallpaper* Architects Directory 2021 and introduces us to Green House, a home with a distinctive copper-clad extension
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Pop star: colourful Hollywood Hills house is a stand-out hit
Berkeley-based Envelope Architecture + Design is the brains behind a colourful, new build home in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills green landscape
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Steven Ehrlich adds to Palm Spring's canon of landmark homes
Steven Ehrlich of Los Angeles-based EYRC Architects is behind this residential project – a modern concrete and weathered steel house, set in the striking, rugged landscape outside Palm Springs in the Californian desert
By Dominic Bradbury Last updated
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Matthew Royce rethinks the Venice Beach house
A new Venice Beach house by architect Matthew Royce on a triangular site makes an eye-catching addition to a Los Angeles neighbourhood
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Don't Move, Improve! 2022 shortlist is revealed
The Don't Move, Improve! 2022 shortlist has been announced, celebrating London conversions, extensions and redesigns of all shapes and sizes
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Arch architecture defines London house redesign by Flower Michelin
Arch House by Flower Michelin is a senstiive, graceful blend of high-tech music-studio technology with domestic space, elevated by the clever use of arch architecture
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Omer Arbel's Pacific North West house is built on concrete ‘lily pads’
Construction progresses fast at OAO's new residential design in Canada's Pacific North West, where Bocci creative director and practice founder Omer Arbel's sculptural concrete and experimental methods take centre stage
By Giovanna Dunmall Last updated
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Greek modernism and more celebrated during inaugural Athens Design Forum
The inaugural Athens Design Forum invites visitors inside one of the works of Greek modernist Aristomenis Provelengios – the current home of architect Dionisis Sotovikis
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Venice Beach house bridges pragmatism and minimalism
A minimalist Venice Beach house by Los Angeles-based architect Dan Brunn combines pragmatism, functionality and contemporary aesthetics
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Lake Flato's tranquil retreat draws on Texan ranch design
A sprawling creek, rich pastures, and small open-air barn provide the perfect family retreat at Verde Creek Residence by architecture firm Lake Flato - one of the many, striking projects included in the studio's newest monograph by Rizzoli
By Shawn Adams Last updated
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Govaert & Vanhoutte unveils brutalist villa in the Belgian woods
A brutalist concrete villa, nestled in its terrain in the Belgian woods outside Brussels, is the latest residential offering by Bruges-based architecture studio Govaert & Vanhoutte
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Inside the world's first 3D printed house in raw earth
Tecla, a revolutionary 3D printed house designed by Mario Cucinella Architects in collaboration with specialists WASP and unveiled this month in Italy, is made entirely from raw earth
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Architensions offers its take on suburban housing in the USA
USA-based studio Architensions and its experimental House On House are part of the 2022 Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory, our annual round-up of exciting emerging architecture studios
By Shukri Sultan Last updated
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Dark age: a cluster of blackened concrete pavilions forms a discreet retreat outside Mexico City
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Industrial architecture inspires a villa renovation in the suburbs of Milan
Italian architecture studio Oasi has renovated an old house into an uplifting villa for a family, combining minimal design with warmth and character
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Stayner Architects revive Wave House – a lost Palm Springs gem
Los Angeles-based Stayner Architects is behind the thoughtful refresh of a Walter White house in the desert, a mid-century modern classic available to visit during the 2020 Palm Springs Modernism Week
By JC Gabel Last updated
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Brazilian architect FGMF designs a house as a canny constellation of cubes
Neblina House in São Paulo state’s Itatiba municipality uses its cubed form to conform to nature, while manipulating light and shade through its orientation
By Daven Wu Last updated
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Studio Saxe’s twin villas in Costa Rica make for the perfect tropical retreat
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Cadaval Sola-Morales’s Casa de la Roca in Mexico is the perfect forest retreat
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Italian architect Simone Subissati’s radical response to a rural farmhouse
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OOAK designs rooftop retreat on the Greek island of Karpathos
A new house in Karpathos – the second one on the island for the young architecture firm – is OOAK's latest project in Greece, combining contemporary architecture with an outdoors feel, an unusual site, and the surrounding village's picturesque character
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated