Archinect

DECEMBER 17, 2021

This thought has spurred a growing band of architects and building firms to look at how to re-use the huge range of materials already hiding within our built environment, from concrete and wood to the metallic bounty within electronic waste Architecturally-rich cities are both a fount of reusable materials and a way of circumventing the awful cycle (..)

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ArchDaily

APRIL 17, 2025

Courtesy of Yacademy Blurring the boundaries between surface and underground, The In-between Scape and Transitorre boldly reimagine the Petralia Soprana Salt Mine as a meeting point of contrastswhere education blends with leisure, nature with architecture, and visitors become part of the story.

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Deezen

APRIL 22, 2025

Also featured is a project presenting immersive installations using salt and light, and a repurposed salt mine that includes a sculpture garden. The post Six proposals by YACademy students that breathe new life into salt mines appeared first on Dezeen. Find out more about Dezeen partnership content here.

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Deezen

JUNE 12, 2022

The Ranch Mine has completed a low-slung, minimalist home in Arizona's Paradise Valley, drawing cues from a style of house that was popular in the 1930s. The Ranch Mine completed a home on an irregular lot in Paradise Valley. Read: The Ranch Mine creates O-asis home in the Arizona desert. The photography is by Roehner + Ryan.

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Deezen

AUGUST 12, 2024

Architecture studio The Ranch Mine has completed Shadow Box, a holiday home in northwest Montana with angled forms clad in black metal, offering a "striking contrast" against the landscape. Read: The Ranch Mine adds steel-clad lookout tower to Arizona house Interior finishes include oak flooring and tongue-and-groove hemlock wall panelling.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Breeze-block walls and a roof cutout for a palm tree are among the special features at an Arizona house designed by The Ranch Mine , which took cues from a mid-century modern dwelling across the street. Vacant for decades, the historic house has a simple, boxy shape and white exterior screens with elliptical openings.

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Deezen

JUNE 10, 2024

Called The Mineless Heritage Restoration Project and completed in 2023, the scheme involved the adaptation of a series of logistical structures including offices, dormitories and a bathhouse that once supported the Chungyi Coal Mine. Project credits: Architect: Divooe Zein Architects Client: Mineless Execution: C.C.H

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designboom

DECEMBER 22, 2022

the project explores the relationship between production infrastructure and leisure programs to reclaim the mining sites and utilize Giali’s geothermal energy. The post student proposal carves baths in greek island’s volcanic landscape to repurpose mining sites appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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designboom

JULY 27, 2022

The post we+ explores urban mining through copper wire collection titled ‘haze’ appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. the 'haze' series reframes the human-material relationship by looking at tokyo as a mineral deposit where copper can be sourced and assigned new values.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

American architecture studio The Ranch Mine has completed The Lumen House, a wedding facility in an agrarian setting composed of gabled forms and a minimalist wedding arbour. A minimalist archway was installed in the yard Designed by The Ranch Mine, the archway was conceived "as a sculptural interpretation of home".

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ArchDaily

JUNE 11, 2024

In fact, around 4000 B.C., the ancient Egyptians used quicklime mixed with water as a building material for their pyramids.

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Archinect

MAY 30, 2022

There's still time to register for YAC - Young Architects Competitions’ latest contest IRELAND MEDITATION MINE , a competition of ideas aiming to recondition an Irish industrial archeological masterpiece into a meditation destination immersed in nature. This post is brought to you by YAC - Young Architects Competitions.

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Deezen

JANUARY 30, 2024

US studio The Ranch Mine has completed a house in Arizona clad in wood and weathering steel that includes a tall volume that can "serve as a sentinel for potential forest fires". Read: The Ranch Mine optimises Arizona home for indoor-outdoor living The adjoining living room has a wood-burning fireplace with a raw steel surround.

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Deezen

JANUARY 30, 2025

Landscape architect BuroLandschap has completed Cycling Between Terrils, an S-shaped bridge over a lake in an eastern province of Belgium shaped by its coal mining past. The post BuroLandschap snakes cycle bridge over lake on former Belgian coal mine appeared first on Dezeen. The photography is by Pieter Rabijns.

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designboom

OCTOBER 19, 2024

The post recycled sawdust-based glaze by studio peipei reduces raw ceramic materials mining appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. this innovative glaze adapts to various types of stone, creating new colors and structures with each batch.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The bar itself is covered in mining dust The process can be adapted to suit a variety of different materials, according to the designer. The tables and the bar were covered in mining dust, another material that the studio has worked with extensively. So that is what we use, the dust that gathers up in the factory."

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Archinect

APRIL 6, 2022

The Satoshi Island development will feature a range of sustainability measures like solar panels and a specialized waste management system that combine with a goal of 100% self-generated power in a move away from the energy-intensive mining process involved in crypto.

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The Spaces

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Designed in 2008 by Japanese firm Atelier Bow-Wow , the breezy home seemingly riffs on the Californian architectural and mining vernacular, almost like a barn in the forest. Known as The Mountain House , its built within 60 acres of private forest in the middle of the Mother Lode – a.k.a California’s gold rush belt.

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designboom

JULY 12, 2024

The post transparent volume by plastique fantastique inhales and exhales within coal mine in genk appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. as resonance of the invisible moves up and down, it reflects an imaginary lift, evoking the confluence of labor and the underground.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Image credit: Nick Swartzendruber for Sotheby’s International Realty Image credit: Nick Swartzendruber for Sotheby’s International Realty The home sits on the site of a 19th-century gold mine which features wagon roads, trails, and seasonal streams.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 31, 2023

They wanted a modern home capable of withstanding another wildfire, inspired by the materials of nearby historic mining infrastructure, and able to harvest the abundant sunlight at the site. The same fire scorched this site, which they selected to start again with a new approach to living in the mountains.

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designboom

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The post fronte mare: an urban regeneration project that animates a small mining village in sardinia appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. transforming a once marginal and abandoned space into a vibrant hub for socialization and cultural production.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

US architecture studio The Ranch Mine has completed a holiday home in northern Arizona consisting of black, gabled forms that "burst vertically from the ground". Rising up from a grassy, high-altitude plateau, the Noir Peaks house is located in the northern Arizona town of Flagstaff, known for its mountains, aspen stands and pine forests.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Anchored in the heart of California's Mother Lode, the property is the site of a 19th Century gold mine, Sailor Flat, which features wagon roads and trails, and is crisscrossed by year-round creeks and seasonal streams. The Mountain House was conceived with utmost sensitivity to its surroundings, over a 9-year process.

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ArchDaily

JULY 5, 2023

The winning research project, titled “Tracing Sand: Phantom Territories, Bodies Adrift,” delves into the multifaceted impacts of sand mining and reclamation, understood from cultural, economic, and ecological perspectives. Read more »

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ArchDaily

MARCH 17, 2024

Cortesia de Rheinzink In nature, zinc is mainly found as zinc sulphide ore or zinc carbonate, which is mined to obtain the metal. Once refined, it is used in a variety of applications, including metal alloys, battery manufacturing, medicines and supplements, as well as in the fabrication of pigments, chemical compounds and coatings.

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ArchDaily

JULY 20, 2023

A friend of mine, Completed in 2021 in Strekov, Slovakia. Images by Matej Hakár. My journey with this assignment didn’t start in the usual way, although perhaps, looking back, it should go like this every time.

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Archinect

MAY 13, 2022

The pop-up city, which includes an airport concept similar FR-EE’s contribution to the abandoned design for a new international airport in Mexico City, will be located at the base of the Conchagua Volcano (also its power source for mining operations) along El Salvador’s southern coast. All images via Nayib Buk.

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Archinect

JUNE 27, 2024

The prize money supports her study of "Outer Space," which includes examining aerial land surveying techniques as well as the mining of precious metals used in smartphone devices and unwittingly underwriting a system of "digital dispossession" worldwide.

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ArchDaily

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Beyond its urban attractions, the city's surrounding mountains are home to the hiking trails of La Tigra National Park and several colonial silver mining towns, which make it a great city to visit while traveling through Central America. Read more »

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Archinect

JUNE 27, 2022

“I truly feel like he is a contemporary of mine. And I slowly realized how close the work of an architect to the work of a director really is in many ways,” he said at a press conference, referencing Ando's design in particular. Though we don”t meet so often, I feel a connection and I’m happy that I kno.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 12, 2024

St Barbara Square Kalgoorlie Central Canopy By Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects , Kalgoorlie, Australia St Barbara Square in Kalgoorlie transforms a laneway into a vibrant public space, celebrating the citys mining heritage and desert environment.

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Deezen

APRIL 13, 2025

The bricks are made from clays and shales sourced from The Belden Brick Company's mines in Ohio. Each brick is made with clays and shales sourced from Belden Brick's mines also in Ohio. Photo by The Belden Brick Company Belden Brick makes Luminescent at its Ohio facility, where the company started its Clay Coated range.

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Archinect

MARCH 9, 2022

Another company, Zeppelin Ukraine, a dealer of Caterpillar, along with agricultural and mining equipment, also reportedly suspended business, with expectations on a return to work unclear. The company believes the cost of materials will climb as the war continues, impacting raw materials in all industries.

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Lusatia, a former lignite mining region, is facing. Completed in 2024 in Kolkwitz, Germany. Images by Helin Bereket. Comprehensive School with Upper Secondary Level and Three-field Sports Hall in the Lusatia region.

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Deezen

APRIL 13, 2025

Find out more about CLT House Photo by Roehner + Ryan CasiTa, US, by The Ranch Mine CasiTa is a T-shaped homein Phoenix ,Arizona, with a huge floor-to-ceiling pivot door measuring 3.7 The dwelling was designed by architecture firm The Ranch Mine as a guesthouse in the backyard of one of the firm's other projects, Foo House.

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Deezen

APRIL 15, 2025

Sand dredging also comes with a hefty carbon footprint , with mining and transport linked to high emissions across the construction supply chain. The material was developed in collaboration with Cemex , a leading global cement manufacturer.

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