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DECEMBER 12, 2023

The old building, a two-storey annexe, workshop and warehouse built by the carpenter father of the current owner, was also renovated as part of the project. Instead, the studio "planned a new independent structure outside the existing structure," Unemori Architects team member Keita Komori told Dezeen.

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Deezen

MARCH 19, 2024

CannonDesign has created a student centre for a Michigan university "The primary concept of the building was to celebrate place, with a focus on elements and symbols that are universal to all people – and especially important to the Western community," Brett Lawrence, Cannon Design project manager, told Dezeen.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Local studio Hopson Rodstrom Design placed a sawtooth roof on top of this black-clad apartment building with an interior courtyard in southern California. Metal screening was placed over the facade in the middle of the building The screen also allowed the studio to bypass certain height requirements put in place by the city.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 16, 2023

US studio Anacapa Architecture has transformed an early 1900s, stucco -clad building that was formerly closed off to the public into a welcoming hotel filled with compact rooms and handcrafted decor. The building has served various uses over time. The building's terracotta tile roof was retained, as well.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2024

New York firm RKTB Architects has completed One Sullivan Place, a mixed-income apartment building that rises 12 storeys and cantilevers in two directions over the rooftop of an adjacent structure. The building is located in the Crown Heights neighbourhood, near Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

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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

APRIL 17, 2023

Brooklyn-based studio Worrell Yeung has updated a historic property in New York with a series of gabled buildings clad in various timber finishes and details. The garage/studio has similar detailing and finishes on the exterior to the main house, but we wanted to diversify and complement the material palette for the third structure." "We

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Deezen

AUGUST 20, 2024

Texas-based studio Moontower Design Build has constructed a "plant-based" cabin in Austin that features cross-laminated timber structural elements and a facade clad in cork. The cork-clad exterior transitions to a wood-focussed interior with cross-laminated timber, solid-sawn lumber, plywood and thermally treated Larch floor.

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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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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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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 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".

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Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2024

The structure's "monumental" form draws on American memorial architecture "The United States has a strong tradition when it comes to memorials," Kaan Architecten co-founder Vincent Panhuysen told Dezeen. This inspiring concept has set the tone for the design of this building for us," he continued.

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aasarchitecture

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

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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SW Oregon Architect

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Olive Plaza (my photo) This is the next in my Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet series of blog posts, the focus of each being a landmark building here in Eugene. Many of these will be familiar to most who live here but there are likely to be a few buildings that are less so. The building must be extant so you or I can visit it in person.

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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

AUGUST 4, 2023

Black wood and asphalt shingles clad the exterior of the Polker housing block by architect and developer SinHei Kwok, who took cues from historic "pyramid cottages" while conceiving the project. This project served as a prototype of urban infill development to help build a sustainable, walkable city."

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Deezen

DECEMBER 6, 2024

British studio David Chipperfield Architects has completed a social housing block, an office building and a mixed-use high-rise as part of a masterplan in Lyon led by Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron. The studio also aimed for the 11 buildings to be visually cohesive while being distinguishable from each other.

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Dwell

JUNE 15, 2022

Each of its three structures—a residence, artist’s studio, and bath house—features a catchment with a reservoir system that purifies harvested rainwater. The main residence takes the form of a pavilion that allows for outdoor use year-round, with over two-thirds of the building footprint dedicated to covered exterior space.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

Thai firm IDIN Architects has completed an office building in Bangkok , featuring angled metal cladding that reflects sunlight away from a nearby shrine and helps prevent the interior from overheating. The private office building also contains a penthouse for the owner on its top floor. Structural engineer: C-insight company.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2022

Local studio Mesh Architectures has completed Timber House, a condominium in Brooklyn that developer The Brooklyn Home Company claims is "the largest mass timber building in New York City.". The building has 14 condos. The way we do that here is by using a plant as the primary building material.".

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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.

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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). Polycarbonate panels were added to the exterior. Structural engineer: Simple Works. The photography is by Nick Guttridge.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

SILO has created a sculptural, metal-clad home in North Carolina After years of living in studio apartments, the couple set out to build a new home in Belmont, a historic neighbourhood near Charlotte's Uptown district. The form and massing respond to surrounding buildings, from the existing mill houses to new, two-storey residences.

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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. Called The Lindemann Performing Arts Center (The Lindemann) the 101,000 square-foot (9,383-square-metre) structure consists of a shoebox theatre with a long bridge-like walkway.

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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

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For a sandy site that faces the water, the team created a rectilinear, three-storey building that totals 5,842 square feet (542 square metres). Its design was informed by local vernacular architecture The building is divided into several gabled -roof volumes, with a glazed connector at the centre. The photography is by Jennifer Hughes.

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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

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Scalloped sections of green-painted timber clad the facade of Lumber 4, a mixed-use building in Norway designed by local consulting agency Oslotre to demonstrate the capabilities of timber construction. Over time, the paint under the shadow will weather, leading to a changing facade with lighter and darker curved sections," it added.

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Deezen

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. It has cross-laminated timber structural elements. The exterior photography is by Iwan Baan.

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

Lime-plastered walls, tiled floors and wooden joinery define the interior The blockwork arches, designed in collaboration with structural engineer Techne Engineering also reduced demolition and construction waste and eliminated the need to put in costly ground beams, Wu explained.

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APRIL 7, 2022

Glazed brick and charred cypress wrap the exterior of a partly sunken North Carolina home designed by architecture firm In Situ Studio. Like other parts of the city, the area is experiencing a lot of new development and building renovations. They opted to raze the old building and start anew. It sits in a leafy neighbourhood.

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SW Oregon Architect

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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Dwell

JULY 26, 2022

The project includes a new solid timber building and the refurbishment of a collection of existing outbuildings that occupy a dramatic position at the edge of the village on the limestone cliff overlooking Rhossili Bay. The internal spaces are arranged around a central stair and orientated toward the long views north and west.

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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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