Katsutoshi Sasaki's minimalist home contrasts a dark exterior with a light interior
Japanese architect Katsutoshi Sasaki has built himself a new family home, featuring a dark-painted facade of red cedar and a bright, airy interior. More
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Chris Price's black TreeHaus staggers down wooded hill in Utah
Dark-stained cedar planks cover a series of volumes that are stepped and rotated down a slope in a Utah forest, forming a house for architect Chris Price and his family. More
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Denizen Works designs "abstracted tree" viewing tower for Scottish botanical gardens
London-based architects Denizen Works has submitted planning for a observation tower containing a vertical gallery and bird hide at Inverewe Garden in Scotland. More
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Cascading boxes with green roofs form coastal Washington home by Prentiss Balance Wickline
American firm Prentiss Balance Wickline Architects has created a dwelling in the Pacific Northwest that consists of timber-clad volumes that step down a rocky hillside. More
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Alfonso Arango builds tiny black cabin next to his childhood home
Architect Alfonso Arango has designed himself a 24-square-metre weekend retreat next to his childhood home overlooking the Andes mountains in Colombia. More
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Little House by MW Works sits on bluff overlooking Washington's Puget Sound
American studio MW Works has designed a compact cabin in a Washington forest with exterior walls clad in weathered cedar and blackened cement. More
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John Ronan's charred wood Courtyard House frames views of Lake Michigan
American firm John Ronan Architects has completed a square-shaped, waterfront home in Michigan that features a wooden exterior and rooms organised around open-air courtyards. More
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Jeff Svitak builds blackened Redwood House with private studio for himself in Southern California
American architect Jeff Svitak has designed a house for himself nestled into a hillside in San Diego, complete with various outdoor spaces and an office for his practice. More
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Eckford Chong adds blackened-timber garden studio to refurbished London house
UK architecture office Eckford Chong has renovated and extended an end-of-terrace property in east London, adding a garden studio that evokes traditional Japanese tea houses. More
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Hayhurst and Co adds charred-timber extension to basement flat in north London
Dark timber cladding applied to the exterior of this extension to a London flat by Hayhurst and Co contrasts the white-oiled boards that line the kitchen and dining space within. More
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Fiedler Marciano creates artist studios in a forest clearing in Connecticut
American studio Fiedler Marciano Architecture took cues from vernacular architecture in New England while designing a pair of small, sculptural buildings for an artists' nature retreat. More
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Black Quebec chalet by Atelier Boom-Town overlooks forest and lake
Two volumes are stacked at irregular angles to form this Canadian forest retreat, which Montreal-based architecture firm Atelier Boom-Town designed for siblings. More
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Foraged materials form artist's home and studio in Washington woodland
Architect Les Eerkes rescued plywood cladding, kitchen cabinets and a tiny porthole window from houses set to be bulldozed for this rural cabin near the Puget Sound. More
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T W Ryan renovates and extends black Surf House in Montauk
New York studio T W Ryan Architecture has renovated a black house in the Long Island beach town of Montauk, using pale finishes inside to contrast the dark exterior of the gabled forms. More
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10 architecture projects that prove black is the new black
Blackened wood is an ever-popular choice of material for architects in recent times. Here are 10 of the most eye-catching examples, including a nine-square-metre Muji Hut and a tar-coated Californian ski chalet.
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Nicole Hollis creates blackened wood library for its San Francisco studio
Interior design studio Nicole Hollis has inserted charred black boxes for storing project materials into its new offices in San Francisco. More
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Asymmetric house clad in blackened pine stands in a Polish forest
Architect Grzegorz Layer has used lengths of blackened wood to clad the asymmetric gables of this house, which is located near the pine-forested shores of Lake Gowidliński in northern Poland. More
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Wernerfield elevates Treebox guest house on wooded site in Texas
Architecture studio Wernerfield has raised this dwelling in Texas several metres off the ground, to provide guests with a sensation of "floating in the forest". More
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HOLA Design builds gabled lakeside cottage in Poland
HOLA Design has completed a gabled lakeside cottage in southern Poland, which incorporates large windows that look out towards two nearby castles. More
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Small Architecture Workshop's charred-timber sauna floats on a Swedish lake
Milan-based studio Small Architecture Workshop has built a sauna on a floating platform in Åmot, Sweden, which features a blackened-wood exterior and a large window that overlooks a lake.
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