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Taming Exterior Greenery: Landscape Design for Houses in Natural Environments

ArchDaily

JUNE 24, 2023

© Derek Swalwell A healthy environment that is also visually appealing in our homes has become increasingly sought when it comes to designing houses and residential spaces, especially during the world’s current context. Read more »

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Brick Houses in Spain: Modern Masonry Design for Home Interiors and Exteriors

ArchDaily

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Throughout history, they have added both beauty and function to the spaces that use them, offering protection from the elements while also permitting the entry of natural light and air flow.

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Brazilian Houses With “Balcony-Rooms”: When Living Extends From the Interior to the Exterior

ArchDaily

AUGUST 1, 2023

Image: © Keniche Santos A residential architectural project almost always seeks to integrate interior and exterior to get closer to nature and improve comfort or aesthetics. Considering living spaces, this dialogue between open and closed environments becomes even more relevant. Summer House / Lucas Gonçalves Arquitetura.

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Space Twist by ArchObraz

Archinect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The extensive glazing attracts attention: part of the house’s front walls are like glass walls that let in maximum light, providing ideal insolation and filling the space with volume. The absence of bright shades and elements cluttering the space makes this interior perfect.

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Four Retractable Shade Solutions for Residential Exteriors

ArchDaily

JUNE 25, 2023

For these reasons, architects strategically incorporate shading elements to enhance the quality and utility of spaces, especially in outdoor residential areas. It offers relief from direct sunlight, helps regulate temperature, and reduces glare.

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National Air and Space Museum Holds Architecture Challenge for Architecture Students and Young Professionals

Archinect

MARCH 17, 2023

This post is brought to you by The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum recently announced its Student Architecture and Design Challenge for the design of an element for its new Bezos Learning Center. Image courtesy of The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

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solid exterior minimizes visual noise in bankog’s monochromatic phuffle restaurant

designboom

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

too.architects fills the space with a greyscale palette through washed sand on lower walls and floors. The post solid exterior minimizes visual noise in bankog’s monochromatic phuffle restaurant appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Heatherwick's Vessel reopens with steel safety mesh wrapping its exterior

Deezen

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Thomas Heatherwick -designed Vessel viewpoint in New York has reopened with steel mesh added to the exterior as a safety measure to prevent people from jumping from its platforms. The post Heatherwick's Vessel reopens with steel safety mesh wrapping its exterior appeared first on Dezeen.

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MAD Architects Unveil Ethereal Design for Cloud 9 Sports Center in Shijiazhuang, China

ArchDaily

MAY 8, 2024

The venue is proposed to become the focal point of CBD's Central Park , marking the public space surrounded by residential, commercial, and recreational amenities. The new sports center broke ground in March this year and is expected to be completed in 2025.

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Houses in Spain: Mobile Wooden Enclosures for Sun Protection

ArchDaily

MARCH 25, 2024

Image © Salva López According to the climatic conditions of each region and its implantation environment, exterior enclosures play a fundamental role in providing the necessary climatization and ventilation conditions to make indoor spaces habitable and comfortable. House in Hills of Madrid / Slow Studio.

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Apple's first flagship store in India, designed by Foster + Partners, opens to the public

Archinect

APRIL 18, 2023

Image: Foster + Partners The connection between the interior and exterior spaces is further emphasized by a hand-crafted timber ceiling that extends beyond the glass façade to the underside of the exterior canopy. Greenery is invited into the store, with a row of ficus trees slotted along the inside of the glazing.

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Designing for Plants: The Architecture of Greenhouses and Their Relationship with the Environment

ArchDaily

MARCH 11, 2024

Image © Roland Halbe When delving into the envelope of construction and examining how the interior relates to the exterior, the concept of greenhouses emerges as an opportunity to cultivate life indoors, whether dependent on external factors or not.

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Houses in Peru: 5 Projects That Use Cement Blocks in Their Construction

ArchDaily

MAY 27, 2024

Whether in interior or exterior spaces, their use can align with concepts of circular economy , resource efficiency, sustainability , and more, with the goal of creating habitable spaces while also understanding their constructive advantages and disadvantages, their expressive and aesthetic qualities, and so on.

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First photos of Morphosis' soon-to-open Orange County Museum of Art

Archinect

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

“The OCMA design represents a new model for museums based on public, urban, communal spaces with strong connections between interior and exterior,” Morphosis principals Thom Mayne and Brandon Welling shared.

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Dubbeldam's Shift House stands out through a unique push and pull of interior volumes

Archinect

JUNE 27, 2024

Western red cedar fills the voids left by the retracted volumes, providing a striking contrast to the predominantly charcoal gray exterior. Photo: Shai Gil The house is spread across two stories, and its layout consists of an interior grid of six staggered volumes that shift in and out to shape the exterior envelope.

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Enlace by Canopy / Architecture + Design

Archinect

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Canopy worked with Enlace to develop a design that accommodates the basic office needs but goes beyond to create an exciting new community space that remains contextual to the neighborhood.

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Büro Ole Scheeren Unveils a Live-Work-Play Development in Hangzhou, China

ArchDaily

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

This feature, inspired by Hangzhou's hilly landscapes, becomes a built topography of terraces and exterior environments, aimed at optimizing natural light and the quality of both indoor and outdoor spaces.

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Kenyatta International Convention Center: A Modernist Icon of Post-Colonial African Architecture

ArchDaily

APRIL 30, 2024

This architectural production, coinciding with economic growth, employed complex construction methods in designs that seamlessly blended interior and exterior spaces (thanks to the tropical climate ), focusing on form and expression of materiality.

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How to Improve Natural Light and Ventilation in the Bathroom With a Shower Window

ArchDaily

MARCH 20, 2024

Image © Tom Ferguson As one of the smallest spaces in the home , shower rooms often find it difficult to get enough light. Read more »

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Columbia GSAPP's floating 'Cloud' installation seeks to unite a fractious campus

Archinect

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Photo: Nicholas Knight/Columbia GSAPP The temporary pavilion structure, which is made out of metallic foam fabricated by a Spanish manufacturer called Àrea Cúbica, "envisions a participatory experience that emphasizes the interconnectedness of peoples’ actions in shared spaces."

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Lasting Joy Brewery by Auver

Archinect

JULY 18, 2024

An existing barn was repurposed as the brewery portion of the program, and a new, purpose-built tasting room space was constructed. The space is defined by its structural system, along with a fully glazed enclosure and exterior weathering-steel cladding. The inversely raised roof floods the space with natural light.

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Prefab cabins that 'disappear among the trees' designed by Canadian architects

Archinect

APRIL 14, 2022

Photography by Adrien Williams + Maxime Brouillet Several design moves were made to create continuity between the interior and exterior. The entrance to each cabin has been pushed inwards, with a light pine used to clad the ceiling of both the external patio and internal spaces. The dark wood cladding from the ext.

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In Amsterdam, a new residential development draws on canyons, forests, and beaches

Archinect

MAY 9, 2023

A multifunctional grandstand is created by sculptural terraces and wooden decks, while on summer days, the building’s interior and exterior merge by way of a large operable glass frontage.

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Bundang Doosan by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF)

Archinect

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The tower's rational form contains office, auditorium, and tenant amenity space, including the Doosan History Museum and a café that opens up to the landscaped roof terrace. Glass facades allow plentiful daylight into the interior space while limiting solar gain through vertical and horizontal exterior shading devices.

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Herzog & de Meuron?? update plans for the Lusail Museum in Qatar

Archinect

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The building addresses its coastal site with a sand-like exterior finish, appearing as though it were a natural landform. Inside, four galleries are designed to replicate domed spaces at the Palace of Topkapi in Istanb. Courtesy Qatar Museums. A sculptural polished plaster stair serves as the entrance to the building.

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Bridging the Gap: 15 Atypical Living Solutions in Urban Remnants

ArchDaily

OCTOBER 23, 2023

© Hoang Le Behind facades lie vibrant lives, where the exterior melds with the interior, transforming neglected urban spaces into captivating residences. In cities around the world, architects, engineers and designers face the challenge of integrating new buildings into existing urban landscapes with limited space. Read more »

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Sou Fujimoto's House of Music finally opens in Budapest

Archinect

JANUARY 24, 2022

The building’s paneled glass facade presents a seamless transition between exterior park and interior mu.

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IKEA completes bookcase-inspired store in Vienna, Austria

Archinect

MAY 23, 2022

Austria-based architecture office querkraft has completed an IKEA furniture store in the country’s capital Vienna , whose exterior was inspired by bookcases. Photo © querkraft + christina häusler The scheme’s defining feature is its shelf-like main façade.

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MF House by Spaceworkers by spaceworkers

Archinect

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Then the distribution of spaces, with clarity and rationality, without the morphological obviousness hidden in the tenuous movement of the elements that accompanies the two streets that flank the volumetry. For the interior of the lot, the volume is torn in order to enjoy the light and the garden, ensuring privacy facing the street.

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MVRDV and Diamond Schmitt Collaborate on University of Toronto's Scarborough Campus Addition

ArchDaily

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The new addition, featuring laboratory spaces, classrooms, and offices, aims to function as a communal and gathering space for the community.

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SHoP’s Uber headquarters 'breathes' with smart accordion-style windows

Archinect

MAY 26, 2022

Photo © Jason O'Rear Photo © Jason O'Rear Inside, the building’s perimeter is lined by a series of circulation and gathering spaces known as the Commons. The zones form a buffer area between the unconditioned atmosphere on the exterior and the controlled temperatures in the core workspaces, while “bringing the.

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Windows Zoning Exterior Building

Erieta Attali | Kengo Kuma – Mirror in the Mirror

ArchDaily

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Their joint work is characterized by a shared aesthetic understanding of architecture, space, and visual perception. In both Kuma’s buildings and Attali’s photographs, interior and exterior spaces merge and dissolve into one another.

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Google NYC's new adaptive-reuse HQ design by Gensler and COOKFOX opens at Hudson Square

Archinect

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Image: courtesy of Google After restoring the original three floors remaining from its peak usage in the 1930s, the design team created a welcoming space defined by an exterior cut facade detailed on its northern side with reused rail beds that had been leftovers and are kept semi-exposed to create a visible linkage between past and present.

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4 Homes in Brazil that Encourage Indoor-Outdoor Living

ArchDaily

JANUARY 23, 2024

What's more: residential projects of the era, in particular, blurred the lines between indoor and outdoor, flawlessly merging interior and exterior spaces to reflect a lifestyle that harmonizes with nature.

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Snøhetta unveils green design for new Westchester Square Library in the Bronx

Archinect

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Its two-story interior is organized around a need for natural light in educational spaces and the desire to frame a street-level exterior Viewing Garden that serves as a “counterpoint to the surrounding urban landscape” while adding “visual interest to the indoor experience.

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Ennead and Kahler Slater unveil new Milwaukee Public Museum design

Archinect

JULY 19, 2022

It aims to reflect Wisconsin's rich natural history, drawing inspiration from the geological formations within Mill Bluff State Park, while establishing a new community space and educational destination. 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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Henning Larsen’s ‘forest canopy-like’ World of Volvo opens in Sweden

Archinect

APRIL 16, 2024

” The center’s round structure is intended to encourage visitors to create their own journeys through the building’s interior and exterior. Image credit: Rasmus Hjortshoj Image credit: Rasmus Hjortshoj Inside, a series of spaces are contained to host cultural events, talks, and conferences, accommodating up to 1,100 people.

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Preston Hollow Residence by Specht Novak

Archinect

JANUARY 26, 2024

A floating pavilion roof hovers over the interior and exterior spaces while sliding glass panels and corrugated concrete walls define its courtyards. ” – Scott Specht, principal architect Water helps link the exterior and interior spaces. The Preston Hollow House blurs the lines between indoors and out.

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Mission Rock Building B / WORKac

ArchDaily

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Building -& Mission Rock Building B reimages the future of the workplace by fostering a seamless connection between interior and exterior spaces.

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A Look Back at the 9 Japanese Architects Honored with the Pritzker Prize

ArchDaily

MARCH 12, 2024

While geography is not a criterion in the selection of the laureates , Japanese architecture consistently impresses with its interplay of light and shadow, the careful composition of spaces, soft transitions between interior and exterior, and attention to detail and materiality.

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Chicago O’Hare $300 million airport terminal renovation breaks ground

Archinect

APRIL 25, 2024

Named ElevateT3, the project will include the reconfiguration of two TSA checkpoints into a single screening area, an expanded passenger corridor between concourses K and L, and the development of approximately 10,000 square feet of new concessions and amenity spaces.

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Neri&Hu designs Blue Bottle Zhang Yuan Cafe within revitalized 19th-century residence in Shanghai

Archinect

DECEMBER 27, 2022

As part of the revamp , coffee roaster and retailer Blue Bottle Coffee Company commissioned Neri&Hu to create a retail space in one of the old residences. Along the exterior wall of the old building, an elongated, alley-like space connects the main street to the atriums. The café rises in the midst of these elements.

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BIG’s Twisting One High Line Skyscrapers Near Completion in New York City

ArchDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The two condominium towers designed by BIG are organized to define a central public courtyard, activating the public space with retail and commercial facilities. The towers’ exterior and the majority of the interior are completed, with the courtyard expected to be finished by early 2024. Read more »

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Disney unveils further details for planned Cotino community in the Coachella Valley

Archinect

MARCH 27, 2023

Additional spaces will include five bedrooms, a kitchen, dining room, boardroom, and an art studio. Along Parr House's exterior, an elevated patio will present stunning views of the grand oasis and the surrounding mountain.

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Taming Exterior Greenery: Landscape Design for Houses in Natural Environments

Brick Houses in Spain: Modern Masonry Design for Home Interiors and Exteriors

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Brazilian Houses With “Balcony-Rooms”: When Living Extends From the Interior to the Exterior

Space Twist by ArchObraz

Four Retractable Shade Solutions for Residential Exteriors

National Air and Space Museum Holds Architecture Challenge for Architecture Students and Young Professionals

solid exterior minimizes visual noise in bankog’s monochromatic phuffle restaurant

Heatherwick's Vessel reopens with steel safety mesh wrapping its exterior

MAD Architects Unveil Ethereal Design for Cloud 9 Sports Center in Shijiazhuang, China

Houses in Spain: Mobile Wooden Enclosures for Sun Protection

Apple's first flagship store in India, designed by Foster + Partners, opens to the public

Designing for Plants: The Architecture of Greenhouses and Their Relationship with the Environment

Houses in Peru: 5 Projects That Use Cement Blocks in Their Construction

First photos of Morphosis' soon-to-open Orange County Museum of Art

Dubbeldam's Shift House stands out through a unique push and pull of interior volumes

Enlace by Canopy / Architecture + Design

Büro Ole Scheeren Unveils a Live-Work-Play Development in Hangzhou, China

Kenyatta International Convention Center: A Modernist Icon of Post-Colonial African Architecture

How to Improve Natural Light and Ventilation in the Bathroom With a Shower Window

Columbia GSAPP's floating 'Cloud' installation seeks to unite a fractious campus

Lasting Joy Brewery by Auver

Prefab cabins that 'disappear among the trees' designed by Canadian architects

In Amsterdam, a new residential development draws on canyons, forests, and beaches

Bundang Doosan by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF)

Herzog & de Meuron?? update plans for the Lusail Museum in Qatar

Bridging the Gap: 15 Atypical Living Solutions in Urban Remnants

Sou Fujimoto's House of Music finally opens in Budapest

IKEA completes bookcase-inspired store in Vienna, Austria

MF House by Spaceworkers by spaceworkers

MVRDV and Diamond Schmitt Collaborate on University of Toronto's Scarborough Campus Addition

SHoP’s Uber headquarters 'breathes' with smart accordion-style windows

Erieta Attali | Kengo Kuma – Mirror in the Mirror

Google NYC's new adaptive-reuse HQ design by Gensler and COOKFOX opens at Hudson Square

4 Homes in Brazil that Encourage Indoor-Outdoor Living

Snøhetta unveils green design for new Westchester Square Library in the Bronx

Ennead and Kahler Slater unveil new Milwaukee Public Museum design

Henning Larsen’s ‘forest canopy-like’ World of Volvo opens in Sweden

Preston Hollow Residence by Specht Novak

Mission Rock Building B / WORKac

A Look Back at the 9 Japanese Architects Honored with the Pritzker Prize

Chicago O’Hare $300 million airport terminal renovation breaks ground

Neri&Hu designs Blue Bottle Zhang Yuan Cafe within revitalized 19th-century residence in Shanghai

BIG’s Twisting One High Line Skyscrapers Near Completion in New York City

Disney unveils further details for planned Cotino community in the Coachella Valley

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