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Inside the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County’s new $75 million expansion

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The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) has opened its $75 million NHM Commons expansion to the public. Image credit: Benny Chan Image credit: Benny Chan The centerpiece of the design is a transparent glass façade, creating a visual connection between the museum and Exposition Park.

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A Multicolored Glass Canopy for Senses, Shelter and Hospitality: The Vertical Panorama Pavilion

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Image © Adam Potts Although the sensory approach in the built environment is often based primarily on visual aspects, such as color and light, as we delve deeper into the relationship of architecture with the senses other essential elements emerge, such as aromas, textures, sounds, and even flavors. Vertical Panorama Pavilion.

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Rieder uses glass fibre-reinforced concrete for curving office facade

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A gridded facade made up of rectangular windows and glass fibre-reinforced concrete (GFRC) bars wraps the building and its rounded corners. Its facade was made by Rieder "The materiality and calming appearance of the glass fibre-reinforced concrete elements allow for a harmonious integration into the surrounding neighbourhood," said Rieder.

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Biomorphic Overhead: 7 Glass Ceilings That Imitate Nature

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By design, glass ceilings tend to attract attention to themselves. Their functional purposes are fairly limited, and their shortcomings can be sizable (depending on how good the glass is at insulating), but we keep building them because they’re just so appealing. 44 Union Square/Tammany Hall. By BKSK Architects , New York, NY.

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Wonderforest Nature Preschool by Palette Architecture

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The façade provides opportunities for natural light, visual connection, and varying levels of privacy. The most public layer lies next to the glass and contains the welcome area, The Forest , and The Wetland. The architectural approach was to layer the spaces along the storefront to create pockets of privacy and activity.

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Snøhetta wraps Queens library in orange ombre glass covered with script

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Architecture studio Snøhetta has completed the Far Rockaway Library in New York, which is wrapped in fritted, orange ombre glass covered with thin, white script by Brooklyn artist José Parlá. The idea for the library's simple form provides a calm contrast to the visual noise of surrounding retail outlets," said the studio.

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White Arkitekter adds hyperboloid observation tower to Swedish nature reserve

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Situated within a nature reserve in Getterön, the 12-metre-tall and seven-metre-wide tower by White Arkitekter has a hyperboloid structure composed of 140 beams combined with metal rings. Elsewhere, Slovenian studio Korpnik Produkcija recently completed an Observation Tower topped with an angular glass cafe resembling a crystal.

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