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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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JANUARY 24, 2025

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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APRIL 3, 2024

A crematorium clad in ribbed concrete and a geometric university bell tower feature in this roundup of 10 brutalist buildings photographed by Simon Phipps for his Brutal Wales book. I'm interested in the sculptural qualities of each building and the ways in which light and shade articulate them," he continued.

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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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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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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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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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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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APRIL 25, 2024

The exterior is "minimal in its massing" "The exterior is extremely minimal in its massing," said OGA principal Omar Gandhi. "It Approaching the building from the public side, a sense of privacy and shelter welcomes visitors," the team said.

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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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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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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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JANUARY 16, 2023

LA studio Kevin Daly Architecture has created a headquarters for a Houston foundation that has a latticed canopy suspended over a white building that was created using steel and cross-laminated timber. The exterior photography is by Iwan Baan. Much of the flooring was constructed using prefabricated elements.

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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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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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JUNE 23, 2022

The building in the Watts neighbourhood of southern Los Angeles will contain offices for the institute's 150 staff as well as spaces for both the Watts Gang Task Force and the LAPD Community Safety Partnership. "The The exterior facade is made of corrugated metal and plaster. Frank Gehry designed the Children's Institute in Watts.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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AUGUST 16, 2024

hectares) urban farm in a "seamless milieu that blurs interior and exterior, as well as private and public space". The four-storey building zigzags up from the ground in alternating bands of vertical wooden boards, in natural and blackened finishes, both punctuated with black-framed windows.

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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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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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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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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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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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JULY 21, 2022

Architecture studio SPF Architects has completed a sports facility in Los Angeles consisting of two separate buildings that were built using pre-engineered metal structures in order to not disrupt activity at the site. SPF Architects designed atheletic buildings for the Michelle and Barack Obama Sports Complex.

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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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APRIL 14, 2024

HGX Design created the house to host the owner's visiting family and it now stands as the main dwelling on the 35-acre property, which is dotted with agricultural buildings and another residence. Floor-to-ceiling windows line the majority of the exterior, with the remainder clad in a vertical cedar siding.

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