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Tall Architects wraps X-shaped Alabama cabin in black metal

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Tall Architects designed the X-shaped building with corrugated metal cladding The house is elevated four feet above the ground – as mandated by local codes and flood elevation regulations – on six-inch round steel columns. Project credits: Architecture: Tall Architects Interiors: Jill Dupre Structural engineer: Simpkins & Costelli, Inc.

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"We should all take the Grenfell Tower report as a mighty, much overdue wake-up call"

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Even though the client wanted to swap the zinc rainscreen panels initially specified by the architect for the cheaper, but ultimately deadly, aluminium composite material, "it was the responsibility of Studio E to determine whether the use of such material would enable the building to comply" with building regulations.

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Peckham House in London Stands Out Thanks to Hit-and-Miss Brickwork

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The self-built home marks the first time that local firm Surman Weston has acted as a project’s client, architect, and contractor. Performance data collected to date exceeds LETI’s ambitious targets for energy use and is 80% better than Building Regulation requirements." Have one to share? Post it here.

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Kirkland Fraser Moor tops chalk-walled house with CLT arch

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The distinctive house was built under the Paragraph 80 planning regulation. Another house completed under this regulation, which was formally called Paragraph 79, is a rural Passivhaus in Devon hidden behind a linear red-brick wall. In Kent, architect Charles Holland has also designed a house approved under the regulation.

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PAT completes off-grid Kenyan holiday home with raised bedrooms

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Recycled timber clads the bathroom blocks Cast concrete provides flooring, intended to help regulate temperatures in the bedrooms. The bathroom blocks are meanwhile clad in recycled timber boards, salvaged during the dismantling of some other structures that stood on the site previously.

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Macdonald Wright Architects creates low-energy home in London as "scalable prototype"

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ACH@50Pa, which is significantly less than UK building regulations that require airtightness of 10 ACH@50Pa or less. Structural engineer: Osbourne Edwards. Contractor: Daneco Build. To retain heat, the house also makes use of mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR). It achieves an airtightness of 1.3

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The Role of Architects in Construction Projects

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Architects work hand-in-hand with other professionals such as civil and structural engineers to deliver qualified designs. However, designing an entire building is a huge task for a single person; architects work with civil and structural engineers to discuss technical issues and the structural integrity of a building.