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Modu clads Houston building with "self-cooling" exterior

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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. Each tenant will be provided with both an interior and exterior space. A bamboo grove will also provide additional shade.

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Hopson Rodstrom Design creates jagged-roof Los Angeles building with interior courtyard

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Local studio Hopson Rodstrom Design placed a sawtooth roof on top of this black-clad apartment building with an interior courtyard in southern California. It serves as a protective guard for the courtyard staircase, helps maintain the facade, and creates privacy for the interior courtyard.

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Terra-Cotta Shingles Cover a Multigenerational Home in Melbourne

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Their multigenerational home in Mount Waverley, Victoria, focuses on retaining three established trees on the property, whilst integrating the magnificent mahogany tree into a central courtyard with unique use of locally made terra-cotta shingles in the exterior that sits well within the backdrop of the trees. Post it here.

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Geological formations shape design of Wyoming house by Lever Architecture

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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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HOK and Snow Kreilich raise thin canopy above St Louis soccer stadium

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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. Lightweight spanning trusses were combined with an invisible lateral system that concealed the seismic bracing.

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Philip Johnson's Glass House guest annexe reopens after restoration

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Lead by architect Mark Stoner and the National Trust for Historic Preservation , the project included the exterior and interior restoration of Johnson's Brick House , a small retreat building located just across from the historic Glass House. A single door is located on its facade. Replacement material: Donated by Fortuny, Inc.,

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Brooks + Scarpa envision California housing block as "carved-out cube"

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Its exterior walls are covered in grey and blue cladding Exterior walls are clad in basic materials coloured grey and light blue. The team broke up the massing to create social areas and to make the building more open and inviting.

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