Deezen

OCTOBER 24, 2023

New York architecture studio REX has completed the "most automated" performance building in the world at Brown University's campus in Providence, Rhode Island. I feel like the building is a bit of a holy grail. It has a "fractal" aluminium facade "It was effectively like building five buildings in one," said Ramus.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

UK architecture firm Studio Egret West has shared its plans to create housing within two concrete 1960s buildings in London , which were formerly the headquarters of food company Heinz. Studio Egret West has received planning permission to create 124 apartments across the two office buildings while preserving their external concrete frames.

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Deezen

MAY 22, 2023

Daniel Joseph Chenin designed the house in the Las Vegas desert Named Fort 137, "the building pays homage to the old fort structures from the early settlement days of Las Vegas, which relied upon site-sourced materials along with tried-and-true techniques for designing and building in an arid climate," the team told Dezeen.

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DECEMBER 5, 2021

I’ve seen building codes become more voluminous, expectations grow unreasonably, and litigiousness rise to worrisome levels. Back in the day, we didn’t detail our exterior wall assemblies as rainscreens, and our weather barriers were often simply “building paper.” Liquid-applied or a self-adhering membrane? What thickness?

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Exterior louvres and faceted canopies are among the elements that US studio Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects has added to a 1920s academic facility, helping it achieve net-zero energy consumption, according to the studio. In total, 5,400 square feet (502 square metres) were removed from the building.

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Deezen

MAY 28, 2024

Weathering steel and accoya wood wrap the exterior of the Alta House, which was created by US studio Lever Architecture to embrace the "sublime mountain landscape". Located in the small Wyoming town of Alta, the house serves as a holiday home for an outdoor-loving couple from Portland, Oregon. Situated on a half-acre (0.2-hectare)

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Deezen

AUGUST 23, 2022

Non-combustible materials form the exterior of a cabin near Lake Tahoe that was designed by US studio Faulkner Architects to serve as a "base camp" for an active family. Exterior walls consist of concrete and 16-gauge weathering steel – materials that are known for being non-combustible and could help the building survive a wildfire.

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Deezen

JUNE 9, 2023

The academic building is located on ASU's main campus in Tempe, which is part of the Phoenix metropolitan area. Encompassing 281,000 square feet (26,106 square metres), the building houses a range of research institutes focused on topics such as food, water, energy and climate change.

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Deezen

JANUARY 6, 2022

Architecture firm SOM has completed its headquarters for Shenzhen 's Rural Commercial Bank, a steel-wrapped office building with an exterior that resembles an exoskeleton and features natural ventilation. The building's exterior diagrid provides structural support while reducing solar heat gain.

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Deezen

APRIL 26, 2024

Its design references traditional almshouses "[Harriet Hardy House is] planned around the idea of progressive privacy, that is of giving residents independence as well as strong connections to the support and communal facilities within the building," explained the studio.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2022

The pavilions were designed as square and rectangular buildings with exterior walls that are angled inwards at their base. Large vaulted arches on the sides of the buildings provide views from the interior across to the parkland. Civil engineer and landscape architect: Land Design. Photo is by Chad Baumer.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

To commemorate the 60th anniversary of its founding and contribute to the community, Japanese civil engineering firm Qilu Construction recently invested around 250 million yen (approximately HK $ 14.5 The feature is that the building is surrounded by wooden shutters. Sakyukaikan, a souvenir shop near the Cafe.

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Deezen

JULY 27, 2024

The 360-square-metre board-marked concrete building was informed by an idea of Frenchness that drew on many different sources, including religious architecture. Moreover, the board-formed concrete material used throughout the building serves as a metaphor for the croissant stripes," she added.

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Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2022

Exterior cladding was designed to look like canvas folds. At the centre of the site, the smallest structure is a circular building that contains the theatre's main foyer along with a restaurant and bookshop. The final building in the trio encloses an open-air amphitheatre that can accommodate 1,440 spectators with 965 seated.

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Deezen

JANUARY 24, 2022

American firm Frederick Fisher and Partners has completed a trio of hilltop buildings for a California school that was partly destroyed by a wildfire. The project is a trio of hilltop buildings. The buildings are interspersed with walkways and gardens. Photos top and above by Logan Hall. Photos top and above by Logan Hall.

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Deezen

APRIL 18, 2022

White siding and a curvy aluminium screen make up the exterior of a residential building in Los Angeles designed by American firm Brooks + Scarpa. Located on the edge of the city's Valley Village neighbourhood, the Magnolia Hill Apartments building occupies a corner site that formerly held a gas station.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Architecture studio Brooks + Scarpa has completed an all-electric, affordable housing complex in Santa Monica called 1819 Pico, which departs from the area's typical "defensive apartment buildings" with their solid walls and fences. The team broke up the massing to create social areas and to make the building more open and inviting.

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Deezen

MAY 5, 2023

The building partly cantilevers over the site The guesthouse was designed to serve as a flexible space that could accommodate extended stays by family and friends. The rectangular building holds a main living area and two bedrooms. Many of the building's components were prefabricated.

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Deezen

JULY 22, 2024

Lead by architect Mark Stoner and the National Trust for Historic Preservation , the project included the exterior and interior restoration of Johnson's Brick House , a small retreat building located just across from the historic Glass House. The photography is by Michael Biondo Project credits: General contractor: Hobbs, Inc.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Inaba Williams Architects has completed two white-stucco-clad houses in Santa Monica Brooklyn-based practice Inaba Williams Architects followed strategies laid out in Title 24 – California's Building Energy Efficiency Standards – to create net-zero emissions houses "better suited to our future climate conditions".

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Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2024

Concrete blocks provide seating at the building's front "Many wars and struggles for freedom are commemorated, all designed and built in a very solid manner with the intention of preserving these sacrifices for eternity," added Panhuysen. "All This inspiring concept has set the tone for the design of this building for us," he continued.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The revamp of the 354,000-square-metre station is MAD 's first station and the studio hopes it will "redefine transportation infrastructure buildings in China". Photo is by Aogvision These underground waiting halls havemetal roofs equipped with solar panels that power the station, contrasting the brick exterior of the old station front.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2023

Its exterior is a mixture of glass and steel support structures that out extend from I beams in the internal plates, across the facade and down to isolators below ground level. It has a glass facade wrapped in plaster-clad steel "It's probably the safest building around and its lifecycle, in our terms, is eternal," Moss told Dezeen. "If

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2022

Architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa has created a North Hollywood apartment building that prioritises social areas over private space and includes units for low-income tenants. The quarter-hectare site, which stretches along Camarillo Street, was formerly occupied by a small office building. The white exterior increases natural light.

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Deezen

JUNE 25, 2024

US studio Susan T Rodriguez Architecture & Design has incorporated local materials and energy-saving features into a Maine building that is meant to be "a new benchmark for academic buildings in northern climates". The structural system is made primarily of wood In plan, the two-storey building takes the shape of a wide V.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro has completed two buildings on the Manhattanville campus of Columbia University 's School of Business in New York City. The two buildings – Henry R Kravis Hall and David Geffen Hall – were designed in collaboration with FXCollaborative for Manhattanville, a 17-acre (6.9-hectare)

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

Jun Mitsui & Associates and Pelli Clarke & Partners have converted a grocery store into a sake brewery The site contains three buildings – the brewery, housed in the shell of a former Stop & Shop grocery store, a small rice polishing building and a wastewater treatment facility.

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Deezen

MARCH 5, 2024

The building is made of steel modules that were prefabricated in a factory, trucked to the site, and put into place using a telescopic forklift. Designing the building for reuse was critical, as there are plans to convert the station into an environmental learning centre in 10 years. Exterior walls are clad in corrugated steel siding.

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Deezen

APRIL 6, 2023

The 2,110-square-metre building has arched ceilings and red brickwork on the exterior facades and interior floors and walls. The building sits within a conservation area in Limerick’s Georgian Quarter and on the footprint of three derelict Georgian townhouses.

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2022

American studio Marlon Blackwell Architects has completed a series of asymmetrical, angular buildings for an Arkansas school backed by the founders of retail giant Walmart. The photo shows Wheels Science and Fabrication Building. The Wheels Science and Fabrication Building is dedicated to bicycle repair and construction.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The studio’s stone walls conceal a robust steel structure, fully insulated yet incorporating pockets into which both the protective plank shutters and European engineered glass sliders retract. The building is also crafted to articulate the creative process, initiated by the commitment to enter.

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Deezen

JULY 17, 2024

The structure consists of a four-storey main building and a seven-storey bell tower, which sits at the church's front corner. A two-storey, stucco addition was added to the building's west side in the late 1940s, and continued the Gothic revival style language of the building's facade.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Four buildings were designed to complement the existing structures – California modern-style buildings with stucco walls and splashes of colour – and the woodland environment. All of the buildings feature concrete podiums, which support load-bearing timber walls. It also added a square at the building's primary entry.

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Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

Project Details: Location: Washington, United States Architect: GO'C / @ go_c_studio Footprint: 1,700 square feet Builder: Sparrow Woodworks Structural Engineer: SSF Engineers Civil Engineer: J Welch Engineering Envelope Consultant: RDH Building Science Inc.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Hacker Architects used a massing informed by the local topography Hacker applied its signature "Landform Building approach", which sets the structure as subordinate to the landscape and draws references from the regional agricultural buildings, connecting the design to both site and place.

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Deezen

AUGUST 2, 2024

Encompassing 15,500 square feet (1,440 square metres), the building accommodates a total of 120 children in grades one through five. Exterior walls are wrapped in fibre-cement panels, aluminium -composite panels and wooden slats. The basement level has walls made of board-formed concrete. The photography is by Ty Cole.

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The Spaces

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Behind this hillside former home’s unassuming, whitewashed exterior lies a treasure trove of vintage furniture and finds assembled by owner Mikkel Kristensen – a Danish photographer and former fashion brand owner who’s transformed the property into an eight-bedroom boutique hotel, Marqí.

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