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This Heavenly Add-On Gives One Sydney Family All the Breathing Room They Need

Dwell

The clients had worked with another architect on a first floor addition and realized for the cost of the building, they were adding potentially unused space for a very high cost. The clients came to me wondering if they could achieve the bare minimum for their family, which would then allow for the quality items within those spaces.

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TVK designs limestone buildings for "first zero-carbon district" in Paris

Deezen

French architecture practice TVK has completed a neighbourhood in Paris made up of limestone buildings surrounding a garden and designed as a sustainable development that aims to increase biodiversity. We chose to use mainly limestone from the Paris region – it's the same one used to build the Haussmann buildings."

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Modu clads Houston building with "self-cooling" exterior

Deezen

Brooklyn-based studio Modu has created a building envelope that lowers the ambient air temperature in order to help cool the interior and exterior of this Houston building. In hot climates like that, if you can lower the air temperature, then it would require less air conditioning because the air around the building is cooler."

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CLB Architects converts former Kmart building into manufacturing facility

Deezen

The building form is addressed both additively and subtractively, creating a synergised, consolidated structure that encourages non-hierarchical relationships between office employees and factory staff," the CLB Architects team told Dezeen.

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How Coplon Associates Turned a Tired Campground a Glampground

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Still, building the eco-friendly resort, which achieved SITES Gold certification in late 2024, required KOA to significantly redevelop the property: a wooded 73-acre swath set just a few miles from the cobblestone beaches and towering evergreens of Acadia National Park. Terramor means love of land, she explains.

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Soft light fills Iowa municipal building by Neumann Monson Architects

Deezen

Polycarbonate walls and a row of tall window boxes bring diffused sunlight into the Iowa City Public Works building by US firm Neumann Monson Architects. The low-lying building is located just south of Iowa City's downtown district, near a recreational area and a future housing development. A 12-foot (3.6-metre)

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Elliott Architects uses dramatic cantilever for House on a Bay

Deezen

The client was not beholden to the prevailing style of houses in the area, most of which are traditional, vernacular, New England wood-framed structures," the studio said. "He He felt strongly that this building should be singular, much like its site. Structural engineer: Thorton Tomasetti. Lighting design: Peter Knuppel.

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