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Oregon researchers build prototype mass timber home that ‘fits together like gingerbread house’

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

A research team in Oregon has unveiled a mass timber prototype home that seeks to showcase a sustainable, energy-efficient alternative to traditional home construction. Unlike conventional timber construction, the home is constructed of mass plywood panels shaped to fit together like pieces of a gingerbread house, the team says.

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The Rise of 3D-Printed Prefabricated Homes

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APRIL 9, 2024

Image © Paul Vu As construction materials costs increase , builders and developers are seeking alternatives to traditional home construction methods to address housing shortages. ADU / Mighty Buildings. In response, an expanding construction technology field is the 3D printing sector.

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The Home of Shadows competition winners explore natural light-only home designs

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JULY 17, 2024

The answers to such a brief have just been shared as the winning results of The Home of Shadows design ideas competition, organized by Buildner to highlight the role light and shadow play in creating better functional and more inviting living spaces for their occupants.

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Four micro-homes by Cover: Your Next Employer?

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Founded in 2014 by Cooper Union graduates Alexis Rivas and Jemuel Joseph, the company describes itself as one that offers “a turnkey solution for building homes that leverages the power of computational design and precision manufacturing to deliver homes of unprecedented quality.” Guesthouse/Office.

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Room for More: Home Extensions to Accommodate New Needs

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

Image © Federico Cairoli In densely populated cities, the demand for more living space has led to a growing trend in home extensions. With limited opportunities for new construction and a desire to preserve historical urban fabric , homeowners are increasingly looking for innovative ways to expand their homes.

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Montreal home becomes a ‘playhouse for kids and adults’ by Indee Design

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Named Atelier Chabot, the scheme saw the transformation of an existing duplex into a single-family home featuring curated furnishings themed around play. “This project combines both of those dreams, which seemed to oppose one another.

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Eric Owen Moss’ first LA home relists for $10.95 million

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APRIL 25, 2024

Eric Owen Moss ’ first residential design in Los Angeles, the 1991 Constellation 167 home in Brentwood, has hit the market courtesy of Sotheby’s International Realty for a listed price of $10.95

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Designing a Nature-Embracing Modern Home in Palo Alto, USA

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APRIL 29, 2024

Courtesy of Feldman Architecture and Western Window Systems When it came to designing a nature-embracing modern home in Palo Alto, California, USA, architect Tai Ikegami took his responsibility to protect and venerate the magnificent trees on the lot seriously.

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Sinfonia Verde Home / Studio Saxe

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

Courtesy of Studio Saxe architects: Studio Saxe Location: Carate, Costa Rica Project Year: 2022 Photographs: Courtesy of Studio Saxe Area: 400.0 m2 Read more »

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Buildner’s Home of Shadows Competition: Winners of the Artificial Light-Free Home Challenge

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Image Courtesy of Buildner Buildner has announced the results of its second annual Home of Shadows international architecture ideas competition.

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Five bespoke California homes by Laney LA: Your Next Employer?

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

A multidisciplinary studio based in the Hermosa Beach Arts District, the firm has amassed a portfolio from private homes to masterplans. Following our previous visit to Cover , we are keeping our Meet Your Next Employer series in Los Angeles this week to explore the work of Laney LA. OZ Residence.

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Four unique Los Angeles homes by Yu2e: Your Next Employer?

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JULY 22, 2024

As we have previously reported, the firm’s work has recently been recognized at the 2024 AIA|LA Residential Architecture Awards and 2021 AIA|LA Design Awards for their Axolotl and Almost Famous homes, respectively. Image credit: Taiyo Watanabe Gable Gable Gable , Los Angeles, CA A single-family home. Gable Gable Gable.

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Julia Morgan’s first home design lists for $1.9 million in Berkeley

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

The 116-year-old home owned by architect Claude Stoller until his death last year in Berkeley is just steps from UC Berkeley ’s campus and includes four bedrooms and 3.5 baths in a 2,555-square-foot envelope.

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ICON's first 3D printed CODEX homes come to market in south Texas

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JULY 16, 2024

The first eight 3D printed homes from construction tech company ICON ’s new CODEX architectural catalog are coming to Wimberley, Texas, as part of an initial release intended for the Austin area market. Image: courtesy of ICON Homes from the TexNext line are designed in partnership with Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). ALPHABETA S.

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Preservation group completes purchase of Marcel Breuer's 1949 Cape Cod home

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AUGUST 2, 2024

The fight to save Marcel Breuer ’s former home on Cape Cod, the 1949 Wellfleet Cottage, has reached its conclusion after The Cape Cod Modern House Trust completed its purchase following a successful $1.4 million fundraising campaign. Breuer’s son Tamas was the homeowner at the time of the sale.

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Saeed's Boutique Home / Maziar and Colleagues

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

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Four modern Los Angeles homes by Alloi: Your Next Employer?

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AUGUST 19, 2024

For candidates interested in applying for the position or anybody interested in learning more about the firm’s output, we have rounded up four homes in the city by Alloi that exemplify the firm’s ethos. Wagoya Home. Image credit: Alloi Architecture + Construc.

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Norman Foster Foundation and Holcim unveil Essential Homes prototype designs for Latin America

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JUNE 14, 2024

The Norman Foster Foundation has unveiled details of its new Essential Homes prototype design with Holcim that will deliver low-cost options for emergency shelter in Latin America using low-carbon concrete and cement products in demonstration of the principles of a circular economy.

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Burning down the house to make American homes disaster-proof

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JULY 21, 2024

Last year's devastating wildfires in California and Hawaii once again came into focus as part of a New York Times exposé on the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (I.B.H.S.)-led The MIT Technology Review wrote more extensively on the subject of design and the disaster-proof home in California last April.

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The New York Times gets inside the debate on ‘tiny homes’ and LA’s fight against homelessness

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JUNE 24, 2024

“The city of Los Angeles has worked very hard to brand these as tiny homes as if they are a housing solution, which they absolutely are not,” said Shayla Myers, a senior attorney at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. “In reality, these are tiny sheds.”

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Escape to this Italian home overlooking the Dolomite peaks

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The post Escape to this Italian home overlooking the Dolomite peaks appeared first on Åvontuura. Reflecting the region's building heritage, the façades and roof materialize in a contemporary interpretation of Alpine architecture, featuring a distinct design language.

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Four contemporary LA homes by RIOS: Your Next Employer?

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

For candidates interested in applying for a position or anybody interested in learning more about the firm’s output, we have rounded up four contemporary Los Angeles homes by RIOS that exemplify the firm’s ethos. Over on Archinect Jobs, the firm is currently hiring for several positions to join their Los Angeles team.

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Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation teams up with Lindal to offer replica Usonian home designs with a modern twist

Archinect

JUNE 24, 2024

Your chance to build a version of one of Frank Lloyd Wright 's seminal Usonian home designs has now become available thanks to a new collaboration between the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and the Seattle-based home construction company Lindal Cedar Homes. Crystal Springs' (inspired by Bachman-Wilson home design).

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Rebuilding with 3D Printing: For Everyday.Life Designs Community-Focused Homes for ICON's Initiative99 Competition

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MAY 27, 2024

Image Courtesy of For Everyday.Life United Kingdom-based office For Everyday.Life (FEL) is one of the three selected winners for the Open Category of ICON’s Initiative 99 , an open competition aiming to promote affordable home designs that can be built for under $99,000 employing ICON ’s 3D printing technologies.

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Eileen Gray’s modernist 1934 Tempe à Pailla home is for sale in the French Riviera

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

The second-ever built Eileen Gray home design from 1934 has hit the local real estate market in France’s Côte d'Azur region for €3.5 The home is not far away from Gray’s earlier historic E-1027 villa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martim and boasts 8 bedrooms with 5 baths. million ($3.87 million USD).

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Australian real estate firm buys Ye’s gutted Tadao Ando home

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AUGUST 27, 2024

An upstart Australian real estate venture named Belwood Investments has announced the signing of a purchasing agreement for the Malibu home Tadao Ando designed for Richard Sachs (and later purchased by Kanye West ) in 2013. In a press release , the firm states the deal was made for slightly less than $22 million.

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Àltima Sant Andreu Funeral Home, Nou Barris / Batlleiroig

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JANUARY 4, 2024

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Home owned by late Sea Ranch architect George Homsey lists for $2.45 million

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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The home once owned by one of the leading late-modernist figures in Northern California—the EHDD co-founder George Homsey’s exemplary Third Bay Tradition style former personal residence in San Francisco—is now for sale for $2.45 million via Superstructur. Homsey passed away at the age of 93 in April of 2019.

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Lodge at Marconi Hotel / Home Studios

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JULY 5, 2024

Completed in 2023 in Marconi, United States. Images by Brian Ferry. Lodge& at& Marconi is a historic coastal retreat in Northern California’s dynamic Tomales Bay region that has been fully reimagined by.

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Ye’s gutted Tadao Ando home is purchased by a crowd-sourced real estate investment startup

Archinect

AUGUST 27, 2024

An upstart California property investment venture named Belwood Investments has announced the signing of a purchasing agreement for the Malibu home Tadao Ando designed for Richard Sachs (and later purchased by Kanye West ) in 2013. In a press release , the firm states the deal was made for under $22 million.

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Skylights in Tropical Architecture: 20 Homes That Redefine Natural Lighting

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

Soul Garden House / Spacefiction Studio. © Monika Sathe Photography From subtle light beams to wide openings, skylights transform natural light into a powerful architectural tool , creating a dynamic interplay of light and shadow that adds movement and vitality to buildings.

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Reflections Holiday Home / OKNO MODHOMES

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JUNE 16, 2024

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Nonprofit begins 100 home 3D printed supportive housing project in Austin

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

ICON ’s 100 home 3D printed Community First! The homes 3D printed by ICON across in the Village’s expansion are a mix of townhome units and family designs with footprints varying between 380 to 1,040 square feet. Village is underway in an effort to combat homelessness in the Austin , Texas area.

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Parkside Home / Austin Maynard Architects

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

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A Round and Around Home Renovation / HAMS and, Studio

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MARCH 11, 2024

Completed in 2024 in Japan. Images by Akira Nakamura. When you open a book, words whirl around in your mind. When you open a window, cars and trains race around from city to city. The inside and outside.

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Estudio Atemporal completes tranquil home in Mexico forest to capture ‘grandeur of a woodland setting’

Archinect

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Mexico City -based Estudio Atemporal has completed a tranquil home in San Simón el Alto, Mexico. Named Casa Cono, the home was designed for a young couple seeking refuge from city life, merging living, working, and leisure within the forest environment.

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This minimalist home was designed as a "blank canvas", aiming to reflect its surroundings in Lake Geneva

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Geneva , Switzerland -based firm Leopold Banchini Architects has designed a sleek, minimalist home designed to reflect its alpine and waterside surroundings. Image: Rory Gardiner As a reaction to its landscape, the home was built to stay as simple and humble as possible. His paintings often depicted mountains reflected in Swiss lakes.

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Vassar's religious community finds a new home in adaptive reuse design from L.E.FT Architects

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JULY 23, 2024

Photo by Michael Vahrenwald/ESTO Their adaptive reuse of the 109-year-old building turned its three-story Gothic Revival structure into a home for the office and their mission to serve twelve religious and spiritual student groups at Vassar. In what was originally the college warden’s residence, a new kind of space has evolved.

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10 modern home designs that stood out this week

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles. Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Houses.

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Land as Raw Material: Latin American Homes Built With Locally Sourced Soil

ArchDaily

MAY 21, 2024

Chontay House / Marina Vella Arquitectos. © Gonzalo Cáceres Dancuart Organizing, shaping, stacking. Transforming raw materials from the soil into architecture. This is a challenge that many Latin American architects embrace, demonstrating that scarcity can be daunting but also a rich opportunity to unleash creativity.

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Retreat Home / Neogenesis+Studi0261

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

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This Swiss minimalist home was designed as a 'blank canvas' to reflect its Lake Geneva surroundings

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Geneva , Switzerland -based firm Leopold Banchini Architects has designed a sleek, minimalist home intended to reflect its alpine and waterside surroundings. Image: Rory Gardiner As a reaction to its landscape, the home was built to stay as simple and humble as possible. His paintings often depicted mountains reflected in Swiss lakes.

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Mirza Bari Village Home / Plural Works

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Completed in 2022 in Madarganj, Bangladesh. Images by Maruf Raihan. In the remote suburb of Madarganj, where buildings are often constructed without consultants, the project was initiated similarly. The client, one of.

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'The Black Home as Public Art' examines different traditions in the Black canon of architecture at UT Austin this fall

Archinect

AUGUST 30, 2024

He says the examples on display in The Black Home as Public Art "collectively embody decolonial representations of Blackness in a settler colonial context.” Associate Professor Charles L. Davis II is the exhibition’s organizer.

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Oregon researchers build prototype mass timber home that ‘fits together like gingerbread house’

The Rise of 3D-Printed Prefabricated Homes

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The Home of Shadows competition winners explore natural light-only home designs

Four micro-homes by Cover: Your Next Employer?

Room for More: Home Extensions to Accommodate New Needs

Montreal home becomes a ‘playhouse for kids and adults’ by Indee Design

Eric Owen Moss’ first LA home relists for $10.95 million

Designing a Nature-Embracing Modern Home in Palo Alto, USA

Sinfonia Verde Home / Studio Saxe

Buildner’s Home of Shadows Competition: Winners of the Artificial Light-Free Home Challenge

Five bespoke California homes by Laney LA: Your Next Employer?

Four unique Los Angeles homes by Yu2e: Your Next Employer?

Julia Morgan’s first home design lists for $1.9 million in Berkeley

ICON's first 3D printed CODEX homes come to market in south Texas

Preservation group completes purchase of Marcel Breuer's 1949 Cape Cod home

Saeed's Boutique Home / Maziar and Colleagues

Four modern Los Angeles homes by Alloi: Your Next Employer?

Norman Foster Foundation and Holcim unveil Essential Homes prototype designs for Latin America

Burning down the house to make American homes disaster-proof

The New York Times gets inside the debate on ‘tiny homes’ and LA’s fight against homelessness

Escape to this Italian home overlooking the Dolomite peaks

Four contemporary LA homes by RIOS: Your Next Employer?

Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation teams up with Lindal to offer replica Usonian home designs with a modern twist

Rebuilding with 3D Printing: For Everyday.Life Designs Community-Focused Homes for ICON's Initiative99 Competition

Eileen Gray’s modernist 1934 Tempe à Pailla home is for sale in the French Riviera

Australian real estate firm buys Ye’s gutted Tadao Ando home

Àltima Sant Andreu Funeral Home, Nou Barris / Batlleiroig

Home owned by late Sea Ranch architect George Homsey lists for $2.45 million

Lodge at Marconi Hotel / Home Studios

Ye’s gutted Tadao Ando home is purchased by a crowd-sourced real estate investment startup

Skylights in Tropical Architecture: 20 Homes That Redefine Natural Lighting

Reflections Holiday Home / OKNO MODHOMES

Nonprofit begins 100 home 3D printed supportive housing project in Austin

Parkside Home / Austin Maynard Architects

A Round and Around Home Renovation / HAMS and, Studio

Estudio Atemporal completes tranquil home in Mexico forest to capture ‘grandeur of a woodland setting’

This minimalist home was designed as a "blank canvas", aiming to reflect its surroundings in Lake Geneva

Vassar's religious community finds a new home in adaptive reuse design from L.E.FT Architects

10 modern home designs that stood out this week

Land as Raw Material: Latin American Homes Built With Locally Sourced Soil

Retreat Home / Neogenesis+Studi0261

This Swiss minimalist home was designed as a 'blank canvas' to reflect its Lake Geneva surroundings

Mirza Bari Village Home / Plural Works

'The Black Home as Public Art' examines different traditions in the Black canon of architecture at UT Austin this fall

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