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Angular terrace tops Clive Wilkinson's self-designed Los Angeles home

12-01-2020 19:00

Los Angeles architect Clive Wilkinson has designed his own family home atop a hilly site to draw cues from nearby modern dwellings that resemble "spaceships on stilts".Located in West Los Angeles, the property is the home of Wilkinson, his wife, and three children.
"Wilkinson had always yearned for the slightly surreal opportunity of designing his own floating home and finally came across the chance to do so when he found a steep site in west Los Angeles for sale in 2016," said Clive Wilkinson A

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Lakeside house in Sweden is clad with pine slats to match the forest

12-01-2020 13:00

Dive Architects has completed a lake house in isolated woodland to the north of Stockholm designed to gradually "merge with nature" as the surrounding birch and pine forest grows.Sitting on a site that slopes down towards a lake, the timber-framed home has been split into two volumes.One for are for sleeping and another for living are angled inwards around an entrance courtyard.
With the forest to the east and lake to the west, the home is oriented to maximise natural daylight in different areas

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Lakeside house in Sweden is clad with birch slats to match the forest

12-01-2020 13:00

Dive Architects has completed a lake house in an isolated woodland to the north of Stockholm designed to gradually "merge with nature" as the surrounding birch and pine forest grows.Sitting on a site that slopes down towards a lake, the timber-framed home has been split into two volumes.One for are for sleeping and another for living are angled inwards around an entrance courtyard.
With the forest to the east and lake to the west, the home is oriented to maximise natural daylight in different ar

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Discover innovative saunas on this week's Pinterest board

12-01-2020 09:00

We’ve updated our saunas Pinterest board with images from new projects, including a subterranean spa in Williamsburg and a pine sauna complex in Finland. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest or visit our updated board to see more.
Located on Britain's southeast coast, this bathing machine is constructed from traditional sauna wood planks
Latest additions to the Pinterest board include a wood-burning sauna located on the sands of the Kent coast in Britain and a traditional sa

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James Casebere's photographs depict fictional refuges emerging from flooded landscapes

12-01-2020 07:00

American artist James Casebere has produced a series of staged photographs portraying a future world in which people are forced to build shelters to escape catastrophic flooding.
Casebere created the series titled On the Water's Edge to draw attention to issues relating to climate change and, in particular, the need for humans to respond creatively to the threat posed by rising sea levels.
"Forty per cent of greenhouse gases are created by buildings," the artist told Dezeen, highlighting one of

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