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A Wood Canopy With Netting Fills Out a Glass-Wrapped New York Apartment

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Continuing to interrogate the fundamental nature of a partition, the installation of a garden folly responds to the inhuman proportions found in the newly combined double-height space, which opens to the city through 22-foot-tall glass walls on three sides, and takes on the scale of landscape. Post it here.

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This Gorgeous Timber and Brick Home in Rural Australia Was Inspired by a Ski Chalet

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The splayed plan opens to the landscape and generates a serene central courtyard around which circulation paths are placed. With high levels of thermal mass and a solar passive sectional diagram, the building is highly insulated against the seasonal extremes. The farmhouse is designed as a place for family and friends to gather.

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In Hawaii, This Off-Grid Concrete House Is Powered by Its Snack-Inspired Form

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This cast-in-place concrete house is completely off the grid—powered by photovoltaic panels and catching all domestic and landscape water from rainfall captured off the roof and stored in cisterns. " The diagram of the house is simple—an outdoor triangle within an indoor triangle supporting a diamond shaped roof. Post it here.

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Nanjing K.Wah G72 by UNStudio

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MEP: WSP Structure Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti Landscape architect: AECOM Façade Consultant: Inhabit, Hyder Lighting Consultant: BPI Traffic Consultant: MVA QS: ARCADIS Client: K.

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Visa’s Market Support Center by Henning Larsen is completeheadq

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Photo © Jason O’Rear Location: San Francisco, CA, USA Architect: Henning Larsen Architect of record: Adamson Associates Architects Associate architect: Y.A.

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The Dog’s Breakfast by Paul Michael Davis Architects

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Photo © Mark Woods Over time, developments filled the landscape. They also designed a matching replacement for original structure with another wing in a quasi-Craftsman McMansion style. The house was odd. In 1933, when Redmond was farmland and cabins, someone built a modest rambler overlooking the Cascade Mountains.

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Buitenplaats Koningsweg by MVRDV

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MVRDV, landscape studio Buro Harro and developer KondorWessels Projecten have completed Buitenplaats Koningsweg, transforming a former German military base from the Second World War into a residential and cultural enclave in one of the Netherlands’ most precious natural landscapes.