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KHouse Modern Progress Update | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Home / My Work / KHouse Modern Progress Update 05 KHouse Modern Progress Update 05 Bob Borson — February 3, 2014 — 25 Comments It’s been a long time since I have provided an update on the KHouse Modern so I thought I wold take this Superbowl Sunday and put together a post that brings you up to speed.

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The Sponge Evangelist

Landscape Architecture Magazine

By Stephen Zacks An old industrial site in 2020, before the construction of Benjakitti Forest Park in Bangkok. A modern science of landscape ecology and contemporary design with traditional knowledge about farming and upgraded techniques to solve today’s problems.” Photo © Turenscape, courtesy the Cultural Landscape Foundation.

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Weekend House Bukovany, Czech Republic

e-architect

The glazed living room stands on the site of the former goat sheds and is structurally a steel structure. The house has a traditional morphology but combines modern details with historical technologies. In 2011 he co- founded with V. In 2011 co-founded with J. The house uses every bit of the steep sloping plot.

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Des Forges Residence, Mauricie, Québec

e-architect

Maurice River, the project itself becomes a work of art articulated around the site’s own attributes. The area presents several challenges, particularly in respect to municipal regulations, but also in terms of the steep slope that characterizes the site`s topography. Maurice River.

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Agritecture Is Challenging How Architects Think About Cities

Architizer

Since 2011 Gordon Smith has studied the symbiotic relationship between humans and the natural world through the lens of urban architectural development. Cajuí Restaurant by VAGA set in São Paulo is one of many vegan restaurants worldwide that prides itself on its fresh, local ingredients grown on-site.

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Book Briefs #41: Six Monographs

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

This monograph is their first, and instead of providing exhaustive coverage of their work, On Rigor presents a baker's dozen of buildings completed between 2011 and 2021, or just the latter half of the studio's two decades. Whatever its name, the firm makes some of the best modern houses in the American West.

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Paintbrush Residence in Jackson, Wyoming

e-architect

Initially completed by CLB in 2003, the 2,400 square-foot home straddles both spatial and budgetary constraints on a picturesque site with a small buildable area. The owner wanted a home which would immerse the occupant in nature, calling for a lightness and porosity that was missing from the dark 1970s-era cabin which existed on site.