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• Hacker Architects builds High Desert Residence in volcanic Oregon landscape

  11-01-2020 19:00
  
  Fragmented wood-clad walls enclose outdoor patios that wrap this remote Oregon house by local firm Hacker Architects.
  High Desert Residence is a four-bedroom holiday home in Bend, Oregon designed for an active couple."This house is designed as a regular weekend sanctuary, and a getaway for their extended family – a place where everyone can gather and be together, with a balance between private rooms and communal space," the Portland studio said.The one-storey home comprises a series of fla
  
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• Timber walls pivot to open holiday home to the outdoors in Australia

  11-01-2020 13:00
  
  Moving walls and decked terraces connect the four interlinked pavilions of a holiday home in Point Lonsdale on Australia's southern coast by Edition Office – Dezeen's Emerging architect of the year.
  Point Lonsdale House is oriented east-west along a narrow site, opening up to a garden to the north while remaining more private to the south.The central living room is lined entirely in dark timber boards and can be transformed from an intimate space into an open one.
  A monolithic, four-m
  
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• Seven unique homes on Dungeness beach

  11-01-2020 11:00
  
  Over the past decade a succession of architects have designed holiday homes among the fisherman's huts in the shadow of a nuclear power station on Dungeness beach, Kent. Here are seven of the most interesting.
  Black Rubber Beach House by Simon Conder Associates, 2003
  Simon Conder Associates wrapped a fisherman's hut built in the the 1930s with rubber to create the Black Rubber Beach House on Dungeness's shingle beach. The studio also rebuilt all of the building's walls from spruce plyw
  
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