Archinect

MARCH 11, 2025

For the institute’s new building, the design team drew inspiration from the natural landscape of the Ozarks, with curvilinear forms that echo the region’s bluffs, caves, and forests. Image credit: Tim Hursley The exterior material palette consists of glass, stone cladding, and weathered brass fins.

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Archinect

MAY 2, 2024

The adaptive reuse of a former grocery store into the first American home for the popular Japanese brand pays homage to the naturalism of its native country while mirroring the “dance” of fermentation. Production flows counterclockwise to accommodate a volume of approximately 140,000 cases annually.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Image credit: Chris Mottalini The Casa Loma Hotel guest experience is inspired by historic seaside village hotels, with a sense of relaxed hospitality, sun drenched verandas, and salt-washed hues. Main image credit: Chris Mottalini Casa Loma Beach Hotel – blending a bohemian spirit with the natural energy of the Pacific Pauline Brettell.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2025

It was updated by Atelier Itch with a mostly windowless facade of corrugated lightweight steel to "refine the building's exterior", which the studio said was previously "cluttered" due to an external road-facing staircase. Throughout the interior, pared-back finishes have been applied, echoing the utilitarian look of the exterior.

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Archinect

MAY 9, 2023

A team comprising Orange Architects, Felixx , Ballast Nedam West, and ABT has completed a mixed-use residential scheme in Amsterdam inspired by various natural forms.

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Archinect

JULY 19, 2022

According to the project team, four core principles influenced the museum’s design: community, nature, education, and the preservation of the museum’s vast collections. The museum will also be a hub for research. The museum will have rounded corners that are reminiscent of the erosion and weathering.

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Deezen

JANUARY 12, 2025

Often used as a form of weather protection on home exteriors, wall coatings like lime render and clay paint may also offer decorative touches to interiors. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Thus, we set out to integrate into our design the structure of the earth while echoing the natural forces shaping the rising hills, strata/soil, and spring water found therein.

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Architizer

MARCH 5, 2025

Inspired by the historic -ru pavilions, the structure features six tree-like columns that echo the wooden brackets of Chokseok-ru, a landmark built in 1365. Its delicate framework, combined with glass walls, creates a sense of openness, reconnecting visitors with the citys natural and historical landscape.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2024

"The clients' desire to be surrounded by both family and nature in their home called for a new adaptation of this once-ubiquitous typology, expanding and reframing the idea of outdoor living." A dark standing-seam metal roof rises into a steep gable and thin red, circular columns add asymmetrical pops of color around the exterior.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Designed in collaboration with Huawei’s internal design team, the store seeks to create an “experience-rich concept that brings people, nature, and technology together and caters to consumer preferences.”

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Avontuura

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

To generate connection with exteriors and to create different situations and sceneries, all in relation with Nature. The post Escape to this Shire-inspired home outside Buenos Aires appeared first on Åvontuura.

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Architizer

JANUARY 13, 2025

Apple Park By Foster + Partners , Cupertino, California Apple Park reimagines the workplace as a connection between architecture and nature. Natural light floods the interior through eight atria, creating open, collaborative spaces that flow into landscaped courtyards.

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Architizer

MARCH 4, 2025

Showcase your work by uploading projects to Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters. This design approach in addition to placing openings strategically along the buildings faade, also offers an abundance of natural light, despite the narrow footprint. Architects: Want to have your project featured?

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Deezen

DECEMBER 21, 2024

As in many of its healthcare projects, CF Mller drew on the principles of "healing architecture" - an approach based on research into the impact of architecture on wellbeing that prioritises access to the outdoors, natural materials and daylight. The photography is by Wellu Hamalainen.

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Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2025

TBo has renovated a townhouse in Philadelphia originally designed by IM Pei "Pei used an uncomplicated and repetitive palette of materials for the townhouses brick and concrete on the exterior and oak ooring, oak casework, brick and blackened steel on the interior," said TBo.

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Deezen

JANUARY 31, 2025

It is designed for "both human and feline residents" "The clients, both writers who love to read, wanted a multifunctional space where they could cook, eat, read and find inspiration in their surroundings," Office S&M co-founder Catrina Catrina Stewart told Dezeen. "We It is unified with the original home by a lilac-tiled plinth.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

It’s usually an awe-inspiring, glazed hilltop palace where the fridge orders matcha before you run out, where lighting switches from meditation to movie night with a single word, and the dog has its own passcode for the alarm system. The home of the future — it’s a place we’ve all seen in films, on TV, and even at exhibitions.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Image credit: Michael Young Image credit: Michael Young The building’s exterior features a glass box facade with fractal geometry to create a “sense of lightness, airiness, and depth,” according to ODA.

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Architizer

MARCH 20, 2025

Showcase your work by uploading projects to Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters. This exposed system allows natural light to reach deep into the interior while aluminum fins control glare and heat. Showcase your work by uploading projects to Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

PIMAA Architects has completed Casa Donovan in Portugal "The project draws inspiration from the deeply rooted heritage of the local fishing community," PIMAA founder Gonalo Pires Marques told Dezeen. The "day volume" combines the living, dining and kitchen spaces PIMAA Architects was founded in 2007 by Pires Marques with Jos Pires Marques.

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Deezen

MARCH 13, 2025

The inspiration came from direct engagement with the Yolu community, learning from their ways of living, and ensuring the architecture supported cultural continuity rather than imposing an external model of aged care," said practice director David Kaunitz. The timber was salvaged from the local mine site in the process of clearing.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Stone and timber were used to complement the sandy landscape Set back from the road, the home is accessed via a pale concrete path that leads between a service house and garage and across a large, "desert-inspired" courtyard planted with cacti.

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Dwell

MARCH 5, 2025

The shiplap siding and trimmed-out windows paired beautifully with a palette of warm, natural materials inside. A glass connector separates the new and old structures while introducing natural light. The exterior palette had to be approved by the HLC as well. A view into the kitchen.

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Deezen

AUGUST 2, 2024

NBBJ has designed the nature-infused, net-zero Westmark Lower School for students with learning differences There is a significant need for educational facilities that accommodate neurodiverse students, said NBBJ , a design studio headquartered in Seattle. "One Providing ample outdoor space was a top priority for the design team.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2025

Metal roofing intended to complement the home's natural aesthetic is used to top both of the structures. Many of the home's original details have been retained Other homes finished with stone exteriors include a holiday home organised around a courtyard in Mexico and a dwelling built from fluted blocks in Greece.

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Dwell

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The newly built home has a crisp, white exterior and a sun-kissed living area that opens to a pergola-topped balcony. acres From the Agent: " This separate-structure ADU is inspired by the purity, simplicity, and clean-angled lines of homes in Ibiza. The living room and kitchen are unified in one large space.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The rectangular wood frame, which steps down to accommodate a rocky slope, was coated in a white plaster stucco exterior to withstand the extreme fluctuations of the site's weather. The photography is by Joe Fletcher. The post Ryan Leidner Architecture creates home and studio in High Desert appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Vague nods to the exterior style of the buildings can sometimes be found, but often even that minimal bar isn't cleared. Timeless finishes" are uniformly encouraged, invariably, "a neutral palette that is inspired by nature hues". If you read professional advice on lobby design lately you encounter perennial buzzwords.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The project also incorporates a series of passive house strategies to reduce the energy demand for heating and cooling and maximizes the natural light that enters the space. The housing modules are organised around a central core that promotes social gatherings, while each individual home has a patio, a terrace or a private garden.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Also included is a veterinary centre for rehoming cats and a design for a high-rise building inspired by The Shard in London , UK. Inspired by the Shard in London, the design sees a high-rise with a similar geometry." My ArchiSchool Institution: My ArchiSchool School: My ArchiSchool Courses: Architectural Design Program 1.0

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2025

Le Louxor is an art deco cinema with decorations referencing ancient Egypt A rare survivor among pre-war cinemas in France, it is adorned with ancient Egyptian motifs on both its interior and granite exterior, which were restored to full art deco splendour in 2013.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Owners Maati Zoutina and Boris Macquin based the restaurant's concept around music and built the sound system themselves The pair then landed of a Moroccan-influenced aesthetic that dictated the mood throughout the interior and exterior spaces, as well as the materials and furniture pieces – many of which were recycled or repurposed.

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Dwell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The naturally ventilated Kumagaya House has a central breezeway, soaring volumes, and secluded spaces that give its occupants room to breathe. Okubo excels at envisioning homes for confined sites that emphasize privacy and natural light.

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Architizer

APRIL 4, 2024

Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters. Nestled in the heart of America, Arkansas is rich in natural beauty and cultural heritage. The museum’s design aimed to harmonize art and nature, with visitors entering from the hill’s crest for a dramatic view of the complex.

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Deezen

JANUARY 19, 2025

From terrazzo-inspired countertops to floor tiling, the kitchens featured in this lookbook go beyond traditional uses of the colour blue. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive. The post Eight kitchens that incorporate bold splashes of blue appeared first on Dezeen.

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Dwell

JULY 25, 2024

In partnership with the designers at Agents of Architecture , the Melbourne-based company offers a range of customizable prefabricated homes and saunas with an aesthetic inspired by, in their words, the humble Aussie shed (think galvanized metal exteriors complemented by wood and steel interiors).

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