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Architecture Building Culture wraps white curved facade around Piano House in Canada

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A near-continuous curved facade and slatted screens have been included to create privacy for this house designed by Canadian studio Architecture Building Culture on a prominent rocky outcrop in West Vancouver. The office and entry all have windows that look back to the fern garden and the towering cedars on the north side of the site.

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TBo refreshes Philadelphia townhouse originally designed by IM Pei

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Designed in the 1950s, the three-storey building is one in a series of brick townhouses by the Chinese-American architect IM Pei that were integrated into an area with small, historic homes as part of an urban renewal initiative. The buildings feature deep-set arched doorways and rectangular windows.

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Mikhail Riches's Goldsmith Street was the most significant building of 2019

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Our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings pick for 2019 is Goldsmith Street in Norwich, designed by architecture studio Mikhail Riches with Cathy Hawley. Designed by London studio Mikhail Riches and architect Hawley , it is the only social-housing scheme ever to win the coveted annual award, given to the UK's best new building.

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Campus uses "raw and utilitarian" finishes for coastal home in Sweden

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Named House Djur, the home replaces an old building which once stood on the site, the scale and footprint of which the new building was required to match.

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OEB Architects adds Italian-informed loft extension to south London house

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The loft extension features a pair of colonnaded bay windows OEB Architects designed the extension to reflect the proportions of the Victorian property and reference the couple's memories of holidaying in Italy. In the bathroom, a circular mirror reflects the window on the opposite wall The interiors are just as quirky as the exterior.

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Yoghurt window coating proposed as emergency heatwave measure

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British engineer Tom Greenhill has proposed a low-cost, low-energy solution for keeping UK homes cool in a heatwave: painting the outside of windows with yoghurt. Greenhill admits that this may seem like a "totally eccentric idea".

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They Camped Out for Two Years to Build a Home in a Catskills Quarry

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After living here for a couple years in a basic shed they built themselves, our clients began to map out locations for a new house with our help. The abandoned quarry, which supplied slabs to Albany, Kingston, and New York City in the 1800s, had become a spring-fed pond and the quarry tailings had become mossy hillocks.

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