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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

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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DECEMBER 2, 2024

The studio revamped the existing three-bedroom house in the east London suburb of Wanstead to taking cues the client's childhood home in Gibraltar with a sequence of arches as a nod to the mix of British, Spanish and Moorish architecture found on the peninsula.

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APRIL 21, 2023

We asked ourselves how our clients could live on this land in a modern but thoughtful way, what a modern farm and farmhouse should and could look like, and how we could integrate the building into a site that has been cleared of its bushland. The clients erected and filled the gabion walls themselves.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Located in the Poet's Corner conservation area of Herne Hill, the studio was tasked with retaining the late 19th-century building's character while opening up its "disconnected and dark" interiors. The extension features a window seat overlooking the rear courtyard Oliver Leech Architects was founded in 2016.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

After four years of construction, IQON rises 130 m making it the tallest building in the Ecuadorian capital of Quito – a city with one of the highest elevations in the world. Traditionally a city of dense low-rise buildings, the skyline of Quito was re-imagined following the relocation of the city-center airport over a decade ago.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2023

Waechter Architecture has completed an "all-wood" commercial building in Portland , which it says is the first commercial building in Oregon to "use mass timber construction for all components of the building". The three-storey structure comprises six volumes arrayed around a central courtyard.

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MAY 15, 2024

Blue Sky Building Systems makes steel structures to your specifications, whether for a suburban dwelling or Joshua Tree retreat. Welcome to Prefab Profiles , an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. Photo by Eric Rorer Tell us about the most exciting project you’ve realized to date.

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MAY 3, 2023

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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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

US studio The Miller Hull Partnership has completed the Health Sciences Education Building in Seattle , which features corrugated metal cladding and a warm interior that departs from the "hospital-like environments found in most university medical buildings". The general contractor was Seattle-based Lease Crutcher Lewis.

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Deezen

APRIL 29, 2023

Los Angeles architecture studio Formation Association has turned an assemblage of buildings in West Hollywood into a new home for London-based auction house Phillips. We started with idiosyncratic conditions and buildings layered with history," said studio co-founder John K Chan, who led the project. "We With a ceiling over 15 feet (4.5

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APRIL 7, 2022

Like other parts of the city, the area is experiencing a lot of new development and building renovations. Local firm In Situ Studio was charged with designing a contemporary residence for a couple – the husband is an electrical engineer, and the wife is a German and history teacher. They opted to raze the old building and start anew.

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JULY 10, 2022

Neubau was approached by St Mary's Junior School for girls to transform the 1970s greenhouse into a specialised lab for teaching classes in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Client: St Mary's School Cambridge. Structural engineer: Simple Works. Neubau has created a STEM lab at a Cambridge school.

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Deezen

AUGUST 12, 2022

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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Deezen

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

metres) below the street-level concourse and minimised the height of the building in relation to the surrounding buildings. Additionally, an elevated upper concourse wraps around the building with a drink rail along the facade, opening the stadium to the gameday festivities on the exterior of the stadium.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2022

Structural plywood was used to help reduce the carbon footprint of an Oregon office building designed by Lever Architecture for a nonprofit organisation. Located in Portland 's Albina neighbourhood, the building serves as the headquarters for Meyer Memorial Trust , a charitable foundation focused on racial, social and economic justice.

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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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AUGUST 6, 2024

Designed for Farrow & Ball color curator Joa Studholme, the revived 19th-century building in Somerset, England balances city and country sensibilities. The 19th-century building was first built in 1864 as a local village school and was converted to a house in the 1940s. Have one to share? Post it here.

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MAY 31, 2023

Project Details: Location: Ophir, Central Otago, New Zealand Architect: NOTT Architects Builder: Down to Earth Builders and Shamrock Builders Structural Engineer: Paula Hugens Photographer: Biddi Rowley / @ biddirowley From the Architect: " We worked closely with the clients to form a raw house for a raw landscape.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Composed of three distinct buildings – a main house, guesthouse and writer's studio – the project was designed for a California-based couple who manage an independent record label. Each building responds to its immediate setting. The other two buildings are tucked within the woods and feel more intimate.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A museum in Dubai dedicated to the future, which has been dubbed "the most beautiful building in the world" by the emirate's ruler, has officially opened its doors. The distinctive form led Dubai ruler and UAE vice president Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum to state that the museum is "the most beautiful building in the world".

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MARCH 18, 2024

Project credits: Architect: Richard Parr Associates Client: Private client Structural engineer: BTA Structural Design contractor: Barr Build M&E consultant: Pool Architecture QS: PT Projects Landscape contractor: Nicholsons The post Richard Parr Associates nestles charred-timber home into UK countryside appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

JANUARY 21, 2024

Alongside the main worship space on the first floor, which is named the Sea Chapel, the building contains two smaller prayer spaces. It is illuminated by a skylight that projects from the southeastern side of the building. This rooftop space can be accessed independently of the building using an external spiral stair made of metal.

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Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2022

Engineering firm Buro Happold has become the latest signatory to the SE 2050 Commitment Program, which unites structural engineering firms behind the common goal to slash embodied carbon emissions from their projects by 2050. As structural engineers, we are more able to influence embodied carbon, so that is the focus for us.".

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JANUARY 29, 2024

The new rooms were raised up from the ground The house reminded the client of a trio of modernist villas in Sardinia, which he had admired since childhood stays at his family's vacation home on the Mediterranean island. The original intention had been to give the building a wood frame. The photography is by Filippo Romano.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Elliott Architects demolished the main house and relocated the other two structures to start the design with a clean slate. 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

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Located in Inverness, northern Scotland, the two-story office building features a steep gabled roof and is defined by its charred timber cladding and black metal detailing – materials chosen to maximise its durability. The structures share a timber-and-metal material palette designed to create a "common language", the studio said.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Piil was designed to blend in with a surrounding forest The studio chose to construct the 19-square-metre building from a metal frame with timber cladding to create an organic feel alongside the nearby woodland. White-washed oak clads the interior Inside, the building was "conceived as a large piece of joinery".

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A client asked us for a habitable object," said RootStudio , led by João Boto Caiero and Fulvio Capurso. "As The building is organized around a central courtyard filled with endemic vegetation selected by landscape architect Luis Zárate. You live different experiences within the same building," the studio added.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Situated on a narrow site between a fragment of the city's medieval wall and a branch of the river Dyle, the complex comprises a 14-storey tower, nine townhouses and a small apartment block united "into one coherent building".

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JUNE 30, 2022

A trifecta of buildings from Connect Homes—a main residence, a guesthouse, and a garage—form their new retreat in Sonoma. The client and family live in San Francisco and use the house as a retreat for gatherings and celebrations.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

As the clients’ home and workspace, the three-story building is a project in being inventive with a minimal palette.

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Deezen

AUGUST 15, 2022

Raised above a floodplain on steel stilts , the single-storey March House replaces a former 1920s home in a row of summerhouses along the river bank close to the town of Marlow, where the client has lived for the past 19 years. One is used by the client and the other is designed for guests. Structural engineer: Price & Myers.

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JUNE 22, 2024

Its main building is formed of an old shipping container with rusty facades, intended to blend into the woodland, while a decommissioned silk parachute is used as a large shelter. An old shipping container was used to construct the building The main building features a stage-like deck, a meeting room, a storeroom and a square tower.

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Deezen

JANUARY 13, 2023

A colourful collection of buildings in Palma de Mallorca have been designed by architecture studios MVRDV and GRAS Reynés Arquitectos to echo the playful style of Camper shoes. Project Gomila features seven buildings informed by Camper shoe design. There is an apartment building with earth-block walls and a rooftop pool.

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2024

Alabama forms the site for Fowl River Cabin "When looking at the site and analysing the client's goals for the project, we knew that the siting of the building and the way it interacted with the river and trees was going to be just as crucial as the design itself," the Tall Architects team told Dezeen. Contractor: C.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Structural Engineer: Martin Wünsche Fire Safety Engineering: Pavla Tvrdá EPC: Tomáš Brückner Footprint: 1,560 square feet From the Architects: " The clients specified that the building program should include a home for a family of four and a separate unit for their grandparents. was quite difficult in this case.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The home is located by a busy intersection in central Tokyo House in Aoyama's location at a busy intersection led Keiji Ashizawa Design to create a design that would offer its owners privacy, which informed the choice of concrete as the building material. "We The photography is by Tomooki Kengaku.

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