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KTGY to design expansion of Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

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Richard Nixon Foundation announced that KTGY has designed a major expansion of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California. The expanded facilities will allow the Nixon Foundation to house large-scale, traveling exhibitions at the Nixon Library. Site Plan Nixon and the Nixon family.

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Shigeru Ban unveils Paper Log House at Philip Johnson's Glass House

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metres) structure was built within the site of Johnson 's historic house. The pavilion was made from paper tubes, wood and milk crates The structure was constructed with walls made from 156 paper tubes, which sit within a frame made from plywood on a foundation made of 39 milk crates. foot by 13.5 meters by 4.1

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Spridd slots T-shaped house into rocky hillside in Stockholm

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Raked concrete covers this T-shaped house , which architecture studio Spridd has slotted into a sloped site surrounded by trees on the island of Nacka in Stockholm. The house is located in Nacka "The T-shape enables a minimal excavation as it only requires a small foundation at the bottom," Spridd told Dezeen.

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Kéré Architecture designs community centre in Uganda to be "source of inspiration and pride"

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Kéré Architecture , the studio led by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Diébédo Francis Kéré , created Kamwokya Community Centre in collaboration with the local non-profit Kamwokya Christian Caring Community and the humanitarian organisation Ameropa Foundation. A water tower provides a visual marker for the site.

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Balmy Palmy House perches above steep Australian bushland

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Australian studio CplusC Architectural Workshop has elevated a house on posts above a sloping site in Palm Beach, Sydney, to create the feeling of being in a treehouse. As there was no stable subsoil on the site, concrete piers were drilled into the ground to create minimal foundations for the single-storey home.

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Eight Black modernist architecture projects preserved in the US

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Architectural sites with significance to African American culture have received funds as part of Conserving Black Modernism, a national grant program that highlights "undervalued" contributions of Black architects in the United States. The grant will support building assessments for the three sites.

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You (Likely) Won’t Need a Permit for KitHAUS’s $38K Backyard Studio

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Using that system, in 2005, Sandonato and Wehmann launched KitHAUS to build "lightweight, modernist modules" that could be used everywhere from suburban backyards to sparsely populated deserts. The base price on a K3 module is $38,000, plus typically about 15 percent of the final cost to build on site.

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