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Loader Monteith adds charred-timber-clad office to brownfield site in Inverness

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Scottish architecture studio Loader Monteith has designed an office with a gabled roof , along with two private residences, for mountain bike tour operator H&I Adventures on a sloping brownfield site in Scotland. The structures share a timber-and-metal material palette designed to create a "common language", the studio said.

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Peckham House in London Stands Out Thanks to Hit-and-Miss Brickwork

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Following a two-year search which began in 2016, the council-owned site, a small patch of scrubby grass in Peckham, was purchased at auction. Located at the end of a short two-story terrace built in the 70s, Surman Weston saw great potential in the site but bought it without the assurance that it could be developed.

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Loader Monteith and Studio SJM create woodland school in Scotland

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Loader Monteith and Studio SJM won a competition to design it with their proposal to "embrace the students and the landscape" with a low-slung, L-shaped building that hugs the site's trees.

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Bohlin Cywinski Jackson designs nature-infused Henry Island Guesthouse in Washington

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Photo is by Benjamin Benschneider The site is reached by boat, and a winding path leads from a dock through a wooded area and into a sunlit meadow. When new owners purchased the property in 2016, they engaged us to make additions to the site that respected the natural character of the sparsely populated island," the firm said.

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An Interim Landscape at NC State University Is a Masterclass in Reuse

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The most emblematic site on campus is University Plaza, which was initially paved with more than half a million red bricks donated by the North Carolina Bricklayers Association and white bricks purchased from South Carolina manufacturers. The Brickyard is an expansive field of paving that connects several academic buildings, including the D.

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Parramatta Park Pavilion by Sam Crawford Architects

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A popular cafe is severely damaged by fire in 2016. We wanted to respect the layers of history of the site – the park setting has a rich period of occupation by the Burramatta clan of the Darug people and ongoing connection for the Indigenous community. And be future proof to adapt for changing uses,” Sam Crawford explains. “We

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Bell Phillips creates The Tree House pavilion at London's Elephant Park

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Bell Phillips was approached to design a community space housing a cafe kiosk, toilets and a bookable multipurpose room for the site, which contains several mature plane trees. The structure nestles amongst large plane trees. The 18-square-metre kiosk is located in a unit at the prominent southern corner of the site.

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