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Curved-Roof Guest House Avoids the Hobbit Look

Curved houses can be at risk of being just a little hokey. But here is one from Sarasota, Florida, that carries it off. There is nothing hobbit-like about this confidently executed structure.

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Desert Concrete is Forever

Marwan Al-Sayed Architects designed this interesting, stark and forbidding-looking concrete house in Paradise Valley, Arizona that looks as harsh and uncompromising as the desert landscape that it inhabits.

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A Modern Living Structure From Urban Israel

Here is a brutally chic house for the super modern and urbane, set in Ramat Gan, Israel. A clean-cut white box allows a mere few precise fronds of permitted vegetation to sprout.

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Jigsaw House Admits Ribbons of Sky Views

The formal rules of proportions that governed classical symmetrical architecture are rarely seen today, but in his Jigsaw House, David Jameson Architect uses masses and forms in a modern asymmetrical version of this kind of approach to architecture.

The house is a complete retrofit of a single story suburban house located on a busy corner site, in Betheseda, Maryland.

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See-Through Church Brings This world In

In these stunning photos from Mine Dalemans and Kristof Vrancken from Architecture Lab, we see – or more accurately – don’t see – an extraordinary, almost completely see-through church.

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