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This Tehran office building features a sloped green roof and exterior structure

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The post This Tehran office building features a sloped green roof and exterior structure appeared first on Åvontuura. The volume of the building is drawn out of the ground, creates a visually beautiful skyline and harmony with the environment.

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

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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. Videos and photos of the structure shared by the public on X (formerly Twitter) show wire netting in a pattern that mirrors the Vessel's honeycomb shape. .

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Pushing Boundaries: 11 Exteriors That Use Fabric For Protection, Shape, and Longevity

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These early portable structures were primarily supported by wooden frames and were used by various ancient civilizations, including the Bedouins in the Arabian Peninsula and the Native American tribes in North America. Read more »

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Eleven US houses with bold black exteriors

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From a home formed of two overlapping volumes in Alabama to a structure on a narrow site in San Francisco , we've rounded up 11 houses in the United States with striking black facades. According to the studio, the new facade adds a sense of "gravitas" to the structure.

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San Antonio School Exterior Areas / ELE Arkitektura

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© Aitor Estevez Olaizola architects: ELE Arkitektura Location: Durango, Vizcaya, Spain Project Year: 2023 Photographs: Aitor Estevez Olaizola Area: 2000.0 m2 Read more »

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Exterior finishes of Gehry's Warner Bros. Second Century expansion nearly complete

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Second Century expansion, and exterior finishes are climbing the hulking concrete buildings. Now, as seen through new photos, the exterior finishes of the Warner Bros. Just north of the SR-134 Freeway in Burbank, vertical construction is all but finished for the Warner Bros.

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