Archinect

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Image: Lucas Blair Simpson © SOM The brief called for repairs affecting the material character of the building (terrazzo flooring, refinished exterior columns, and a glass mosaic tile wall) and fixes to water-damaged ceilings.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Use reclaimed construction materials where possible The 14 ft. x 34 ft.CL20 minimally connects to the existing house with a glass box connecting space. This allows floor plan flexibility and eliminates exterior shear walls. The CL20 exterior walls are custom installed dual pane insulated glass and proprieta.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

For a renovation and expansion of the Design Museum Gent, an innovative new recycling process is turning old bits of broken concrete and glass into the bricks that will cover the museum’s exterior. This approach utilizes local materials rather than extracting clay or importing mass-produced bricks from elsewhere.

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Archinect

JANUARY 26, 2024

“The architects immersed the concrete and glass house in the landscape so that a series of green rooftop terraces gently step down from the street to the river below.” Views, portals, and material continuity join the interior and exterior spaces. You feel immersed in the surrounding forest.

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Deezen

JANUARY 17, 2024

Florida-based manufacturer Renco has created a building block made of repurposed materials that interlocks and stacks for "LEGO-like" construction. Made of a composite of glass fibres, resin and stone, the blocks were recently used to construct a Palm Springs apartment complex by Miami-based architecture studio Arquitectonica.

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Deezen

JULY 11, 2024

Heavy timber, wood and brick are among the materials used by US studio Heliotrope to create an extension to a historic 1930s home that was originally built by a Norwegian ship captain. Wood was used for the structural system, and exterior walls were clad in materials influenced by the original home.

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Archinect

AUGUST 5, 2022

Located in the city’s Garment District, the hotel adopts what the team calls a “robust, solid architecture” with a material palette including brick, concrete, steel, and oak. Front desk. Photo credit: William Jess Laird Inside, the lobby features a series of poured-in-place, steel-edged concrete structural arches.

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Archinect

AUGUST 3, 2022

The proposed volume is composed of a slatted design to be able to extend the interior space to the exterior, and, at the same time, personify the horizon line present in the place in the project design. Its raw materiality in concrete intends to emphasize its irreverent personality.

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Deezen

APRIL 15, 2024

Read: Jean Verville lines Montreal row house with sculptural plywood interiors From the garden room, glass doors lead into the open-plan ground floor. The ground floor is left raw, and the more intimate [upper] floors are treated in wood, a more noble material," said the studio's founder Jean Benoît Vétillard.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Materials from a dismantled warehouse were used to build this courtyard house named Dailly, which local studio Mamout has nestled between two buildings in Belgium. Dailly is arranged around two courtyards and features colourful spaces filled with reclaimed materials. The concept is therefore to have a low, long house lit by patios."

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2024

Brickwork extends across the floor of the basement Organised across four floors and a basement level, the white-walled gallery spaces sit alongside the existing staircase, lift, service and storage areas, where the structure's rough material finishes have been left exposed. The photography is by Yongjoon Choi.

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Archinect

JULY 14, 2023

KPF’s renovation of the 712 Fifth Avenue lobby introduces carefully crafted, gently curving glass and stone elements that refract light and add warm tones to brighten and seemingly expand the space. Echoing the sculptural quality of the glass, the lobby.

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MLL Atelier

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The image above of The Palais Des Congres De Montreal shows how the selection of an architectural material (colored glass exterior panels) can have numerous effects that reach well into the realm of providing for a unique and positive occupant experience.

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Deezen

APRIL 19, 2023

PJCArchitecture has completed a micro-home in Napoles, Ecuador with two brick forms connected by a glass bridge that relies on passive heating and cooling. It was also heavily shaped by the availability of construction materials and by working within the local traditions."

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Rose is a guesthouse made of concrete, weathering steel, glass and water. The steel exterior seems private and fully immersed in the wild nature, whilst the inner part of the building is opposite – open and fragile due to the floor-to-ceiling windows. Floor-to-ceiling windows provide the interaction of nature and the interior.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 22, 2024

The Huron comprises two interconnected glass and steel towers, for which Morris Adjmi Architects served as the architect, interior designer and art consultant. Industrial hints in the form of exposed concrete columns, large loft-style windows and metal-framed glass partitions are found throughout the public areas.

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Deezen

MAY 28, 2024

Weathering steel and accoya wood wrap the exterior of the Alta House, which was created by US studio Lever Architecture to embrace the "sublime mountain landscape". Aesthetically, the siding is meant to "echo the geological character Tetons – shaped by pressure that fractures material to create irregular pattern and form," the team said.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Diverging from the common response of infill design that orients the home toward front and back yards, LOHA articulated punctures on all sides of this home’s exterior skin. A steel moment frame frees the skin from structural restraints, allowing an unrestricted rhythm of Profilit channel glass and solid cement fiberboard panels.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Local practice Slow has created a family home in Nagoya , Japan, which has a raw exterior of blackened wood and corten steel topped with an overhanging pitched roof. Organised across a single storey, the home centres around a combined living, dining and kitchen space, which steps up to two bedrooms in the home's slightly raised western end.

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Architizer

MARCH 4, 2024

In this guide, we delve into the intricacies of specifying doors, from material selection and design considerations to technical requirements and sustainability concerns. Materials Doors can be crafted using a wide range of materials. Exterior doors are often made of wood, steel, aluminum or fiberglass-composite.

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Deezen

MAY 14, 2023

Floor-to-ceiling windows maximise views and flood rooms with natural light, while enabling a seamless transition between interior and exterior spaces. Here are 10 projects where the brand's sliding, pivoting, guillotine and turntable corner products have been used to form glass walls.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Dutch studio Barde vanVoltt has used rippled mirrored glass, boulders and pebbles to create the interior of Calico Club, a retail store located in a century-old farmhouse in the Netherlands. The challenge was to find ways to add materials we could remove easily to keep the original state of the construction as it was," she added.

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SW Oregon Architect

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Though primarily intended to keep the exterior at bay, walls can draw exterior space in or interior space out. Many of these walls are massive, both literally in the sense of the materials from which they are built and as we perceive them (as they may be visually imposing and solid).

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Deezen

MAY 1, 2024

Architecture studio A6A has converted a former model-making workshop in Bordeaux into a studio for itself that is defined by pared-back materials and spaces. This heavy steel door leads into L'Atelier's model workshop and material library – an open, flexible space with a sanded concrete floor and a long birch storage wall.

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Deezen

AUGUST 29, 2024

C3D Architecture has broken ground on a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper Renders of the building show a slim tower with glass facades affixed to a metal spine that travels the length of the building. Exterior lighting will emphasise the building's verticality, according to the the studio.

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Deezen

MARCH 14, 2024

A paved patio is accessed through sliding glass doors Studio Guma has preserved the farmhouse's existing structure and complemented it with subtle contrasts in concrete and steel. It opens out onto a paved patio through large sliding glass doors. A space for gathering with loved ones, preserving an ambience of calm and privacy.

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Deezen

JUNE 19, 2023

Neil Architecture wrapped the house in a rammed-earth wall Tasked with creating a "work and home life balance", between these two realms, Neil Architecture designed the dwelling to present a rough, grey exterior to its surroundings, opening up internally around a central courtyard and a series of small gardens.

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Architizer

JANUARY 25, 2024

Transparent materials, floor-to-ceiling windows and open-concept outdoor spaces offer unobstructed views of natural water features. The main level boasts a modern palette of metal, polished concrete, and glass, emphasizing indoor-outdoor living. The entry sequence includes a courtyard with a gingko tree.

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Deezen

MAY 4, 2023

Named Casa Pulpo, the 235-square-metre residential project is characterised by lilac-hued exterior walls and traditional pasta floor mosaic tiling in the interiors. Traditional Mexican pasta tiles decorate the floors Large sliding glass doors connect the kitchen and outdoor space, letting natural light and ventilation into the interior.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

To avoid distracting from the building, the studio designed a short volume with a minimal material and colour palette. The exterior walls have been clad in vertical panelling made from untreated larch. Using untreated wood and zinc, we chose naturally weathering materials," said Sundberg. The photography is by Markus Linderoth.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Black glass on the facade protects the insides from the intense Nevada sun The stadium's form is cylindrical, with large swaths of black metal and glass covering its facade. According to Manica, the tilt and sleek black exterior were designed to mirror the silver and black of the Raiders' colours.

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SW Oregon Architect

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

A glass curtain wall on the façade will offer views into the building and the courtyard beyond. Exterior view featuring the brick veneer. Some of the exterior cladding is already in place. The main entrance is set back into the site so that students and visitors will approach it along a landscaped, tree-lined plaza.

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Deezen

AUGUST 31, 2023

It has an exposed concrete exterior To the west, the largest block contains five apartments, while the block to the east contains an additional three and the block to the south a single two-storey residence. In Kyneton, the studio also completed a brick home with lofted interiors that were decorated using textural materials.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

It rises to 788 feet (223 metres) and has a sleek, curved form clad mostly in glass. A "crack" in the facade features a textural plaster treatment meant to reference the materiality of a mountain canyon and demarcates the public zones of the building and a few private balconies.

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SW Oregon Architect

MARCH 12, 2023

2) FRP is a composite material that typically consists of strong fibers embedded in a resin matrix. The most common fiber types are glass, carbon, or synthetics. FRP is applied in the form of strips or sheets, which are bonded to the surface of the concrete using epoxy or other adhesive materials.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Casa que Da is conceived as a pre-Hispanic codex, which expresses through its spatiality and iconography, the knowledge of the earth and its materiality," RED Arquitectos principal Susana López González told Dezeen. The primary suite cantilevers slightly out from the perimeter of the foundation with a glazed corner.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Inside, a curved fireplace wall transitions to a floor-to-ceiling sliding glass door A curved fireplace wall transitions to a floor-to-ceiling sliding glass door that opens the family room to a covered terrace and a linear dining table that blends into the architecture of the house.

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