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Dezeen Debate features a mirror-clad villa that reader calls “magnet for birdstrikes”

February 23, 2023 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a mirror-clad woodland villa in Antwerp. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Studio Okami Architecten has designed a villa in Antwerp, Belgium, featuring a mirrored facade that it says “disappears due to the reflection of the forest”. Named Beli House, the home replaces a 1960s villa and draws

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Formafatal creates series of rammed earth structures in Costa Rica

February 1, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Formafatal has constructed twin villas out of rammed earth on a jungled hillside in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica that open to the Pacific Ocean with expansive frameless glass. Named Achioté, two 95-square metre villas are embedded in a steep 11,000-square metre plot of jungle, 300 metres above the sea and are, according to the studio, the

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Studio Andrew Trotter creates earth-toned villa from local sandstone in Puglia

January 5, 2023 Katie Last 0

Italian architecture practice Studio Andrew Trotter has completed an earth-toned villa named Casa Maiora that is made from sandstone sourced locally in Puglia, Italy. Located on an elevated site in Carovigno with views of the nearby sea, the house was influenced by the forms and colours of villas along the coast of Puglia. It is

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Villa KD45 is a concrete house in Delhi with a plant-covered roof

January 4, 2023 Alyn Griffiths 0

Studio Symbiosis has completed a villa in Delhi, India, that rises up from its landscaped grounds, forming a terraced roof that is covered with plants to maximise the site’s green area. The clients for Villa KD45 asked Studio Symbiosis to design a house on an angular plot surrounded on three sides by other villas, with

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No Architects completes “seamless” revamp of 1920s house in Prague

December 29, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Czech studio No Architects has renovated and extended a 1920s villa in a Prague suburb, adding bespoke joinery and modern details that complement the original architecture. The studio headed by artist Daniela Baráčková and architect Jakub Filip Novák oversaw the modernisation of the property in the Smíchov district on the left bank of the Vltava river. The

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Brick extension opens up Dutch home to forested garden

November 30, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Dutch practices Space Encounters and Studio Vincent Architecture have completed BD House, an extension of a 1950s villa with a brick garden pavilion intended to create the feeling of “living in the forest”. When the new owners of the existing rural villa found it to be structurally unsound, they tasked the two Amsterdam-based practices with maintaining

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Sou Fujimoto designs circular holiday home topped with bowl-shaped meadow roof

August 7, 2022 James Parkes 0
Aerial render of Not A Hotel Ishigaki which is disc-shaped

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has revealed the design for a disc-shaped villa with a swooping green roof on Japan’s Ishigaki Island for hotelier Not A Hotel. Located on Ishigaki Island, an idyllic island in Japan’s southwestern region of Okinawa, Not A Hotel Ishigaki was designed to host up to 10 people while being “connected to

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John Pawson designs pair of “intimate” limestone villas on Ibiza

July 25, 2022 James Parkes 0
John Pawson designs two luxury limestone villas in Ibiza

British designer John Pawson has revealed designs for two luxury limestone villas, which will be built on the residential Sabina estate on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza. The two Pawson-designed villas are set to be built in Ibiza’s western village of Sant Agusti des Vedrà within a private luxury residential estate. Named Can Almendro and

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Philippe Starck draws on mid-century modernism for Saint-Tropez hotel

July 22, 2022 Alice Finney 0
The exterior of Villa W in the countryside

French architect and designer Philippe Starck used warm tones and modernist references in his renovation of Villa W, a boutique wellness hotel on the coast of Saint-Tropez. Created as a little sister to the existing Starck-designed Lily of the Valley hotel which is located nearby, Villa W is a fitness and wellness hotel located in

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Reveria Studio revamps villa overlooking Lake Como

January 28, 2022 Jane Englefield 0
Reveria Studio villa

Milan-based Reveria Studio has renovated the interiors of an elegant villa at a Lake Como hotel to echo the cinematic but welcoming nature of traditional Italian houses. The studio updated the interiors of Villa della Quercia, which is a standalone villa within the Mandarin Oriental Lake Como resort hotel in Italy. Reveria Studio completely revamped Villa

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