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• Brooks + Scarpa breaks with local convention at Alma Switch House in California

  23-12-2025 21:00 via dezeen.com
  Architecture studio Brooks + Scarpa has created a three-storey Manhattan Beach house that capitalises on views and indoor-outdoor living while avoiding standard tactics used in the area's housing stock.
  The residence, called Alma Switch House, sits on a slender, gently sloping lot just a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean in southern California. It was designed by Los Angeles-based Brooks + Scarpa for a couple with three young children.
  The house is meant to depart from the norm in Manhattan Beac
  
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• Herzog & de Meuron designs skyscraper for "innovative housing solutions" in New York

  23-12-2025 19:00 via dezeen.com
  Architecture studios Herzog & de Meuron and Curtis + Ginsberg Architects have released designs for a residential skyscraper in Downtown Manhattan that will contain "100 per cent affordable" apartments and a recreation centre.
  The Hudson Mosaic was designed for a public lot owned by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in the Hudson Square neighbourhood in Manhattan.
  Herzog & de Meuron and Curtis + Ginsberg Architects have released designs for an affordable housing tower in Ma
  
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• Rabagast Studio floats timber sauna atop lake in rural Norway

  23-12-2025 12:30 via dezeen.com
  Student architectural practice Rabagast Studio has completed Watercave, a floating timber sauna on a small pontoon in a Norwegian lake.
  The studio, which is led by students from the Trondheim-based Norwegian University of Science and Technology, constructed the sauna in just two weeks for Opaker Gård, an eco-farm in Innlandet that wanted to create a space back to the local community.
  Rabagast Studio created a floating sauna on a Norwegian lake
  Building on an existing timber pontoon, R
  
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• Top 10 holiday homes of 2025

  23-12-2025 12:00 via dezeen.com
  As the holidays approach, we take a look at houses from India to Scotland that would be ideal places to spend the vacation in for the latest roundup in our 2025 Review.Photo by Newcolour Inc
  Earth, Japan, by Sou Fujimoto
  Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto created this circular home, called Earth, on Ishigaki Island for hotelier Not A Hotel.
  The concrete walls encircle a roof garden, which slopes upwards to the sea and downwards towards a courtyard and fireplace area.
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• The top 10 holiday homes of 2025

  23-12-2025 12:00 via dezeen.com
  As the holidays approach, we take a look at houses from India to Scotland that would be ideal places to spend the vacation in for the latest roundup in our 2025 Review.Photo by Newcolour Inc
  Earth, Japan, by Sou Fujimoto
  Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto created this circular home, called Earth, on Ishigaki Island for hotelier Not A Hotel.
  The concrete walls encircle a roof garden, which slopes upwards to the sea and downwards towards a courtyard and fireplace area.
  Find out more about E
  
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• Lebanese students create drone noise-blocking headphones and more designs for life under conflict

  23-12-2025 11:00 via dezeen.com
  Design and architecture students from Lebanon have tackled some of the biggest challenges facing their country in the exhibition Design in Conflict, held in Beirut's notorious abandoned Burj El Murr skyscraper.
  A kit to block out the sound of drones and an adaptive reuse proposal for the silos at the heart of the 2020 Beirut port explosion were among the projects in the show, organised by online platform Archifeed along with product designer Youssef Bassil and design engineer Tark Mahmoud.
  
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