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Taming Exterior Greenery: Landscape Design for Houses in Natural Environments

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The art of landscaping is the arrangement of nature’s raw material elements, like vegetation and planting, combined with nonliving elements, such as exterior structures, paving, and decking, in order to create site-specific solutions that enhance the exterior spaces of a project. Read more »

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AD Classics: Nordic Pavilion, Venice / Sverre Fehn

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Designed to create a space at the Venice Biennale for the biennial exhibitions of these countries, Fehn's proposal addressed several key architectural challengesranging from its integration with the site and incorporation of pre-existing elements to the handling of physical boundaries and uniform natural lighting.

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Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama debuts 'Purple Hibiscus' at the Barbican, a reference to the site's material history

Archinect

His site-specific piece Purple Hibiscus, named in reference to the 2003 novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is installed on the facade of the Barbican’s central Lakeside Terrace. It uses approximately 21,500 square feet of fuschia-hued cloth that contrasts dramatically with the rough concrete exterior and overcast London sky.

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Calatrava’s completed St Nicholas Church at 9/11 site features a translucent stone exterior that appears to ‘glow by the light of 10,000 candles’ at night

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The church is the second Calatrava-designed project to be completed at the World Trade Center Memorial site in New York City, following his World Trade Center Transportation Hub , which opened in 2016. Work has been completed on the Santiago Calatrava -designed St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine.

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Construction Site Tour

SW Oregon Architect

Construction site tours help them understand why coordination, communication and teamwork are so important, why mastering fundamental building technology principles is critical, and why even relatively modest jobs are more complex than they may seem at first blush. Me explaining details of the exterior envelope mockup.

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BLDUS' Brown House advances a sustainable vision for adding density in Washington, D.C.

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has gotten our attention for its highly selective materials palette and unique response to site challenges that would imperil similar designs. A BLDUS -designed residential project in Washington, D.C.

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Inside a narrow, brutalist Tokyo home by IGArchitects which plays with heights and thresholds

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Image credit: Ooki Jingu Image credit: Ooki Jingu As a result, the home is designed with large airy volumes that form connections and interactions between interior and exterior spaces. The north wall of the building is skewed to create a space that connects to an adjacent vacant site.

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