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La Base Studio wraps glass Buenos Aires house with shading screen

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Local architecture firm La Base Studio has renovated a glass and concrete home, wrapping it in a delicate privacy and shading screen on a lush site in Buenos Aires , Argentina. The home was first constructed in the mid-1970s by a civil engineer, and La Base Studio demolished part of it for its current iteration.

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Geological formations shape design of Wyoming house by Lever Architecture

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Weathering steel and accoya wood wrap the exterior of the Alta House, which was created by US studio Lever Architecture to embrace the "sublime mountain landscape". hectare) site, the dwelling looks toward the Teton Range and is about an hour from Jackson , a popular ski destination. Situated on a half-acre (0.2-hectare)

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Woods + Dangaran creates Desert Palisades house for rocky site in Palm Springs

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Patinated brass panels and extra-clear glass form the facades of a weekend dwelling designed by Woods + Dangaran for a boulder-strewn site in southern California. Metal trellises extend outward from the glass enclosure, offering shade and producing an interesting play of light and shadow. In the rear, 12-foot-deep (3.7-metre)

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Gort Scott reconnects University of Oxford college with riverfront site

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Gort Scott's scheme focused on unifying these buildings and their relationship to the landscape, removing a small residential building at the centre of the site that diverted the riverside route and blocked views from the rest of the college. The project reconnects the college to its riverside site. Photo is by Jim Stephenson.

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REX creates "holy grail" combination of performance spaces in Providence

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To accomplish this, REX included a "clear storey", a glazed walkway that runs the length of the building, passing between the shoebox form and the exterior wall. For the exterior, REX aimed to create a contemporary structure that "played nicely" with the surrounding historical styles. The photography is by Iwan Baan.

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Inaba Williams creates mirrored stucco-clad residences in California

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Residents enter from a small courtyard on the outside street-edge corner of the lot into a rounded entryway that passes directly into the main exterior courtyard. The studio said the home has achieved net-zero emissions At the northern end of the site lies a small two-storey volume that holds a media room and a private suite.

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Bohlin Cywinski Jackson designs nature-infused Henry Island Guesthouse in Washington

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Photo is by Benjamin Benschneider The site is reached by boat, and a winding path leads from a dock through a wooded area and into a sunlit meadow. When new owners purchased the property in 2016, they engaged us to make additions to the site that respected the natural character of the sparsely populated island," the firm said.

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