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MARCH 17, 2025

Originally constructed at the corner of Church Street and Oak Avenue in 1910 for a largely Swedish immigrant community, the existing building on the site was used by the Soujorner Covenant Church for over a hundred years. Have one to share? Post it here.

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MARCH 7, 2025

Architecture studio Loader Monteith has replaced a dilapidated farm building in Angus, Scotland , with a home finished with stone, black-painted pine and a red corrugated-metal roof. In this area of Angus, byres are typically unrendered stone buildings with pitched roofs," Mack continued.

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APRIL 14, 2025

The house was designed for a family of four interested in living in an unconventional but small building footprint. The covered outdoor area is pushed out from the building, not only defining the garden void but allowing winter sun to pass over the single-story kitchen/living wing and fall into the space. "The Post it here.

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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 13, 2025

To update the 130-year-old Flow House in Toronto, Dubbeldam Architecture + Design extended the building at the rear and on top to add more space for the family. Bedrooms and bathrooms on the upper levels are also bathed in natural light thanks to the extension's large windows and the addition of skylights where possible.

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MARCH 10, 2025

It felt as if every corner of the building was bathed in soft, velvety, warm light that touched everything and brought it to life." From the outside, the flat facade is punctuated only by a shadowed square window and a rectangular depression for the concealed entry. The photography is by Csar Bjar.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

When seen from inside, the roof's shell structure is exposed revealing its "complex" geometry and its Douglas fir and steel construction, designed in collaboration with London structural engineers Foster Structures. These have been designed with heavy block-work and oblique windows to reduce noise from the train line.

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e-architect

APRIL 8, 2025

The project encompasses a reconfiguration of the existing building as the base with a new upper floor addition which spans the established gardens on the site and replans the home with a new central core for this multigenerational family home. The rhythmic quality of the sawtooth roof to the new bridge structure is both lyrical and rational.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

metre-tall mass-timber tower in Wisconsin designed by Korb + Associates Architects, has been certified as the world's tallest timber building. The 25-storey tower, which opened in July, has a concrete base, elevator and stair shafts, with the rest of the structure made from cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glulam. Ascent, an 86.6-metre-tall

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Dwell

JANUARY 2, 2025

Updating insulation was critical, of course, but so was preserving the historic structure with the materials and construction techniques originally used to build it. Transforming this farm building into a gathering place required creating a large central space where the whole family could come together. Have one to share?

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JUNE 18, 2024

Polycarbonate , steel and concrete are among the resilient materials used to form a pair of industrial buildings at Fulldraw Vineyard, designed by American studio Clayton Korte. The team designed three buildings for the site. The winery is known for its production of Rhone-style wines.

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JULY 13, 2023

UK studio Corstorphine & Wright has converted a world war two bunker in Dorset, UK, into a holiday home with a blast-shaped window cut in its front. Corstorphine & Wright worked with structural engineer Symmetrys to maintain a sense of history by retaining almost all of the existing structure.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

Design studio HGA has completed a pair of educational facilities , Mills Hall and Gibbons Center, that are among the first "commercially scaled mass-timber buildings" in the state of Maine. Both buildings also have mass timber frames, wooden interior finishes and brick facades.

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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. One side is marked by a dormer while the other features large windows that orient interior spaces toward the adjacent pond. acres in Westchester County, New York.

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Dwell

JANUARY 16, 2025

The conventional first-floor bedroom block is placed along the railway and built with heavy block-work and oblique windows to reduce noise; it is planned so that no future change is required to any of the bathrooms and with symmetrical rooms for both children. Its dark color conceals the dust from the railway to reduce maintenance. "In

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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. Its facade is interspersed with many skinny windows The seven-storey structure has a ground-level podium clad in green-painted concrete interspersed with steel gates.

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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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MAY 22, 2024

The building is situated in Seattle 's Fremont neighbourhood, known for its bohemian character. Robert Hutchinson Architecture has converted a 1950s Seattle building into an event space The venue's name stems from the owner's love of automobiles, along with its location along a street called Stone Way.

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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. Flooring was finished in thermally treated larch The box has a single-sloped roof that stretches out to shade protruding windows, nooks and a large porch.

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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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Dwell

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The building appears to be held together by two double-story pavilions: parents at the rear, children and guests at the front. A light-controlling veranda, strategically placed windows for natural ventilation and thick walls with integrated automated awnings ensure stable indoor temperatures, reducing reliance on artificial climate control.

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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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APRIL 25, 2024

Omar Gandhi clad the home in naturally weathering cedar boards Naturally weathering cedar boards were interspersed with detail elements of Corten steel to form picture frame hoops around the windows. Approaching the building from the public side, a sense of privacy and shelter welcomes visitors," the team said.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

A dining area tucked underneath the loft features a dining table made by the client out of reclaimed red oak from a barn in Asheville, North Carolina, and a circular window that spotlights the landscape. Post it here. On the other end of the house, a separate seating area with a fireplace faces onto the pond.

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JULY 3, 2024

The four-storey office building has been extended sideways and upwards and wrapped in glazed bricks , arranged to draw attention to the circular window of the neighbouring Grade II-listed church. The Scoop provides a moment of unexpected delight and surprise, knitting together this small part of the city."

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The main highlight is the huge window / skylight paired with the generous hammock mezzanine — a place to feel suspended mid-forest, with nothing but the panoramic view ahead and the gentle sway of treetops above.

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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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Dwell

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

A frameless corner picture window anchors the living room, framing an ever-changing tableau of the mountains beyond. Post it here. Nowhere is this more evident than in the sunken living room, an homage to the conversation pits of the 1970s. The primary bedroom has a large skylight above the bed.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

US studio Peterson Rich Office has inserted a glazed art gallery into the heart of a university campus, creating a contemporary thoroughfare between two neoclassical buildings at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Completed in the spring of 2023, the Pruzan Art Center is Wesleyan's first new arts building in 50 years.

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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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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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APRIL 21, 2023

The Jeanne Gang -led studio, united eight previous structures, that have been built for the museum complex since it opened in 1937, with the concrete canopy. In addition to the extended viewing spaces, the structure holds a lecture hall, a school, and a research lab. The photography is by Iwan Baan. The photography is by Iwan Baan.

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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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MAY 28, 2024

Read: TW Ryan Architecture clads pyramidal Montana house in weathering steel To boost the home's energy efficiency and thermal comfort, the team created a super-tight envelope using wood-fibre insulation and triple-pane doors and windows. The house also has an energy-recovery ventilation system. The photography is by Lara Swimmer.

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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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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. On the opposite wall, an organ is built into the exposed concrete, while narrow stained-glass windows are set within deep, faceted reveals on the southeast side. Equipment engineer: Jusung Eng.

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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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