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‘Treehouse’ concept by LAND Suisse and Campana Herrmann Pisoni wins competition for Swiss campus overhaul

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The landscape redesign, centered around the existing middle school, double gymnasium, and swimming pool, introduces 100,000 square feet of green spaces, 196 new trees, and sustainable water management features, including green roofs and rain gardens. The design process emphasized sustai.

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Windsor Terrace Residence by Lyon/Szot Architecture

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The home needed to be solar-powered, feature an accessible roof, and ensure high air quality for her asthmatic son. We collaborated with the engineering team to implement an air quality management system, delivering fresh air to all rooms year-round, and coordinated structural upgrades to support the solar canopy.

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Taborama a high-rise residential building with space for community by querkraft

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Horizontal Structure The horizontally structured high-rise building forms a sheltered courtyard bay in cooperation with its immediate surroundings. The darkly designed caesura floors with generous room heights structure the building and are characterized by a perimetrical balcony zone.

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Blueberry Hill ADU by HUTS

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The structure is supported by helical piers, strategically positioned to preserve all existing trees. A compost toilet efficiently manages waste. The exterior features painted cedar shingles, high-performance windows and doors, and a custom standing seam metal roof. A European-style wet room combines the shower and c.

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Klas Hyllén Architecture tops Malvern Pool House with skylight for stargazing

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Read: Osso Architecture models timber pool house in New Jersey on horse arena By casting Malvern Pool House's services directly into the structural walls themselves, the water can extend to the very edges of the interior, where a large panoramic window provides views over the landscape.

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David Kohn Architects curves University of Oxford college building around three-sided quadrangles

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Both New Warham House and the Main Quad have decorative facades made from 70-millimetre-thick load-bearing stone walls, which were tied to a concrete structure. Stone gargoyles and grotesques feature on the buildings' rooflines The Main Quad has an undulating timber-frame roof topped with polygonal anodised-aluminium roof tiles.

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Greenhouse Technology in Architecture: Building Bright Spaces for the Future

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Image Cortesia de BDG Architects Zwolle Greenhouses are elegant and ingenious structures that incorporate simplicity in design while creating light-filled spaces that shape indoor climates. With walls and roofs composed mainly of transparent or translucent materials, these structures harness solar energy to create a controlled environment.