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Taming Nature: How Architecture is Redefining Its Relationship with the Environment

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Image Stanley Fung Integrating natural elements into architectural design has long been a fundamental pursuit in creating comfortable, sustainable environments that enhance both individual well-being and the relationship between buildings and their surrounding context.

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The Groundwork of Great Design: Integrating Landscape into Architectural Narratives

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Inspired by her global experiences, she shares captivating insights into the world’s most extraordinary cities and buildings and provides travel tips on her blog, The Travel Album. But beyond the physical structure lies an often-overlooked element that profoundly shapes the experience of these buildings: the landscape.

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library by Snøhetta rises out of North Dakota landscape

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Architecture studio Snøhetta has begun work on the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library , releasing the first construction images as well as renderings of the building's green roof that appears to merge with the landscape. It will have exhibition areas as well as a large theatre. It has galleries and theatre Outside, a 1.3-mile

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BIG's four-building 670 Mesquit scheme approved by LA City Council

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Bjarke Ingles Group (BIG) has received planning permission to build the new 670 Mesquit project in Downtown LA. Situated at the eastern edge of the Arts District overlooking the LA River , the four-building scheme yields 894 new residential units, a hotel, charter school, and more than 676,000 square feet of office space.

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Ginsen Nishi Shimbashi Building - an Office Building with Sweeping Wood-clad Eaves by NIKKEN SEKKEI LTD

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This project involves a relatively compact tenant building situated in the heart of Tokyo. Facing an intersection, the site is located directly above a subway station at the end of a series of large-scale developments stretching from Otemachi to Hibiya Street.

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Swatt + Partners tucks Moss Rock home office into woodsy site in California

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Local architecture studio Swatt + Partners has used two vertical concrete slabs to support a "wood-framed glass box" that floats over the landscape and holds a home office. Situated in Dry Creek Valley, the site features a dense forest of Douglas fir, madrone and oak trees. The project, called Moss Rock, sits on a nine-acre (3.6-hectare)

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Gensler's new mass timber-rich Walmart campus opens in Arkansas

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One of twelve mass timber office buildings. Image courtesy Walmart In total, the project includes 12 mass timber office buildings (two of which have now opened) that represent the “largest application” of the material to date in the United States according to a press release. Walton Family Whole Health and Fitness center.

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