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Johan Sundberg Arkitektur uses natural materials for holiday home on Swedish island

Deezen

Swedish studio Johan Sundberg Arkitektur has completed a holiday home on the island of Gotland, using a natural palette of materials to allow its owners to feel "grounded" in the site's natural landscape. The bathrooms are finished in stone Swedish architect Sundberg founded Johan Sundberg Arkitektur in 2006.

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Casa Nido in Queretaro, Mexico, Is a Celebration of Natural Materials

Dwell

Immersed by vegetation, the design invites the outdoors in, integrating natural materials and luxe finishes. Find built-ins throughout the entire home alongside natural oak floors from Austria and Italian porcelain floor tiles. For $1.2M, Settle into Relaxed Pacific Northwest Living With This Vashon Island Home

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The Best Suited Finishes for Wood Floors

Aric Gitomer Architect

Being a renewable material, the flexibility and adaptability of this material have allowed for a more environment-friendly construction. It undergoes cleaning and processing and finally, the finished product is what goes onto the structures. Finishes can be grouped into classes based on what they have to offer.

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Exploring Local Material in Contemporary Architecture: PWDC Transforms Building Surfaces in Nigeria

ArchDaily

This design practice, Co-led by Adeyemo Shokunbi , aims to contribute to a Nigerian architectural language through the renaissance of local materials. These projects brought the Laterite finishing technique to life and now help build the case for a Nigerian architectural language. Read more »

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Natural Material Studio drapes floor-to-ceiling biotextiles across Copenhagen art gallery

Deezen

Danish design practice Natural Material Studio has unveiled its Human Nature exhibition, which featured compostable biofoam seating and biomaterial textiles, at 3 Days of Design. We created a lot of materials for this exhibition, I think around 150 square metres," Natural Material Studio founder Bonnie Hvillum told Dezeen.

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Step by Step: How to Specify Materials in an Architecture Project?

ArchDaily

Image © Parham Taghioff Just as fashion designers use pins, needles and textiles to bring their creations to life, architects rely on materials to shape our built environment. Several questions naturally arise: How do architects navigate the endless possibilities to handpick the elements that will breathe life into their designs?

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Eight home kitchens finished with tactile brick floors

Deezen

Widely used for their durability and low maintenance, bricks are a long-time favourite material across the fields of architecture, interiors and design. Married with warm oak finishes and a custom washi-paper pendant lamp, the textured flooring is intended to contribute to a warm and cosy atmosphere. "A

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