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5468796 Architecture adds "floating" office floor within preserved pumphouse

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Offices were suspended inside the pumphouse Office space and a restaurant fill the steel-and-glass structures, which have polished concrete flooring and open up directly to the original industrial roof and its new skylights, providing the structure with plentiful natural light.

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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. These are the spaces that were designed for outdoor comfort."

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REX creates "holy grail" combination of performance spaces in Providence

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REX designed a performance centre in Rhode Island According to REX founder Joshua Ramus, the brief for the project was to combine small performance spaces with student facilities and a home for the Brown University Orchestra. "We And then you go into the main hall and it's this massive space and there's no structure.

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Forge Craft uses "hammock" approach to create outdoor space for transitional apartments

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The mid-rise housing complex consists of a long volume on a narrow site, flanked by outdoor public spaces with a breezeway and an open-air staircase on the far end. When entering the building, residents walk into an atrium space with an oculus framed by blue-painted metal at its centre of circulation.

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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". Public spaces and bedrooms are oriented towards the dramatic mountain views, creating a feeling of immersion in the landscape," the team said. Situated on a half-acre (0.2-hectare)

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Omar Gandhi Architects balances cedar house on rocky Nova Scotia coastline

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Rockbound is a seaside home in Nova Scotia, Canada Omar Gandhi Architects (OGA) completed the three-bedroom house in 2023 for a couple, incorporating additional space for an ageing parent. The exterior is "minimal in its massing" "The exterior is extremely minimal in its massing," said OGA principal Omar Gandhi.

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Mae Architects completes "21st-century almshouse" in Southwark

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Above, in the lower portion of the U-shaped plan, flats have been positioned off short, semi-outdoor decks overlooking the communal garden, with a generous width to give residents ample space to meet and sit. A tower-like volume on the site's southeastern corner is topped with a rooftop terrace.

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