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Dig Studio and Lake Flato revamp Scottsdale Civic Plaza for "increasingly warming world"

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American firms Dig Studio and Lake Flato have restored and expanded Scottsdale Civic Plaza in Arizona , adding a series of pavilions and responding directly to existing buildings flanking the outdoor space. million gallons (22,000 cubic metres) of water annually for the plaza. "In The photography is by Alan Karchmer.

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Project Mingde uses "cascading" roofs on Chinese nursery to recycle rainfall

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Curling around a central courtyard, a staggered trio of redbrick buildings house a new nursery, teaching dormitories and a collection of indoor and open-air community spaces for the village's 3,000 residents to gather in. The solution was three buildings of varying heights with roofs that channel rainfall into a lotus pond.

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Who Needs Glass? Not This Board-Formed Concrete Retreat in Greece

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Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Inspiration was taken from architects such as Glenn Murcutt, who pioneered a type of climate-responsive design that is heavily influenced by the landscape that surrounds it. Have one to share?

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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. The photography is by James Brittain.

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A Pristine Bay Area Home By a Lloyd Wright Protégé (Somehow) Had Room for Improvement

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Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Our challenge was to protect the design integrity of the home while adding a substantial amount of space to make it viable for a young family with three children. Have one to share? Post it here.

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They Restored an Abandoned Church and Turned It Into a 30-Unit Apartment Building

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Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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How Coplon Associates Turned a Tired Campground a Glampground

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But the longtime operators at the Montana-based Kampgrounds of America , or KOA, which owns more than 500 of these outdoor hangouts across the United States and Canada, believed the sprawling space on Maines Mount Desert Island could be something more. The original site plan for Terramor by the landscape architect Sam Coplon, FASLA.

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