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

Dwell

Homes Oz-Green Shell Is Actually a Sustainability Move 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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Ecology centre in coastal Maine is "model of holistic sustainability"

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In every aspect of its design, the building responds to COA's ambitious goals for sustainability, from macro issues of siting, massing and systems' design to micro issues of material selection and detailing," the architectural studio said.

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I’m a Jack of All Trades and a Master of None

SW Oregon Architect

My responsibility is to connect multiple and complex fields of knowledge and engage in multidisciplinary thinking to help the design team arrive at the most cost-effective, sustainable, and attractive design solution possible. The systems perspective is the antithesis of the silo mentality.

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Studio Libeskind unveils social housing that feels "like home" in Brooklyn

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"We need creativity to overcome the social-housing stigma and we need architects who can invent new ways to create housing that is decent, has dignity, is beautiful and sustainable within the budgets allowed." "If If you're an architect that engages with the issue of housing in a creative way, then you're a much-needed solution to a problem."

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SOM covers computing college at MIT in large glass shingles

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"By pushing the columns to the edge of the structure, each floor can be modified as educational needs evolve, and will retain the flexibility to expand from the back in the future." Other sustainable elements include ample daylighting, solar-controlled fabric shades and water-saving plumbing fixtures.

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Field Architecture clads flowing Sonoma house in copper

Deezen

The surrounding environment informed the design "By simultaneously folding the house inward on itself and reaching outward to the land, we established a homestead in a transitional space that sustains human activity as well as wildlife."

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

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These include the Perelman Center in Downtown Manhattan at the World Trade Center site and the Wyly Theatre in Texas. The photography is by Iwan Baan.

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