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Bedrooms Step Directly Out Into a Pool at This Sunken Home in Ojai

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It is seductive, ethereal, and transportive. Prime is a project of patience, perseverance, and trust. It insists upon immersion and offers the possibility of transformation. It is also, quite simply, a house, for a family and their friends. Prime is, fundamentally, a monument to living."

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TVK designs limestone buildings for "first zero-carbon district" in Paris

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The upper levels were made from load-bearing limestone sourced mainly from the local Ile-de-France region, aiming to reduce the carbon cost of transportation. TVK claims the 35,200-square-metre development is the largest load-bearing stone building site since Georges-Eugène Haussmann's reconstruction of Paris in the mid-19th century.

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Studio Egret West to transform former Heinz HQ into London housing

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The images are by Hism.

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New concrete vaulted floor suggests path to cutting carbon emissions

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The multidisciplinary team has completed a full-scale demo of the floor, built inside a Cambridge University Civil Engineering Department facility, and hopes the innovation will be adopted by the construction industry to reduce its carbon emissions. Flooring innovation makes use of concrete's strengths. The demo floor measures 4.5

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

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Project credits: Architect: REX Vibration consultant: Acentech MEP engineer: ARUP Sustainability consultant: Atelier Ten Cost management consultant: Cost+Plus Specifications Consultant: CSI Fall arrest consultant: Diversified Façade consultant: Front Geotechnical engineer: GEI Code, fire Protection, & life safety consultant: Jensen Hughes Lighting (..)

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MAD unveils sunken Train Station in the Forest in Jiaxing

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The revamp of the 354,000-square-metre station is MAD 's first station and the studio hopes it will "redefine transportation infrastructure buildings in China". Chinese architecture studio MAD has rebuilt a historic station and created an underground terminal at the central train station in Jiaxing, China.

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SOM covers computing college at MIT in large glass shingles

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Other recent projects by SOM include a "vertical campus" in Cambridge for the US Department of Transportation in Cambridge and a supertall skyscraper with "monolithic simplicity" in New York City. The photography is by Dave Burk and Lucas Blair Simpson.

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