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APRIL 6, 2022

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. Flanking the ends of the main bar are piers made of concrete masonry units (CMUs), which help anchor the home to the site. Soils engineer: Landmark Consultants.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Called The Lindemann Performing Arts Center (The Lindemann) the 101,000 square-foot (9,383-square-metre) structure consists of a shoebox theatre with a long bridge-like walkway. 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.

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Deezen

MAY 30, 2024

The screens will juxtapose the brick and black structural steel that will be included to reference the site's industrial heritage, according to HOK.

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APRIL 26, 2024

A tower-like volume on the site's southeastern corner is topped with a rooftop terrace. It is designed around a courtyard The exterior of Harriet Hardy House is enlivened with areas of textured brickwork at the ground and roof levels, while the balconies are topped by arched concrete lintels. "In

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Studio Egret West will preserve the concrete exterior of the former Heinz headquarters They were designed by US architect Gordon Bunshaft while working at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and were his only project in the UK. They were awarded Grade II-listed status in 1995 but have been left vacant for several years.

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Deezen

MARCH 28, 2022

Cedar cladding and a rigorous structural grid feature in a winery tasting room by American studio GO'C that is designed to frame views of the terrain. The winery hired Seattle's GO'C , formerly known as goCstudio, to design a tasting room and wine garden for an unusual site – a curved piece of land that sits in the crook of sloped vineyards.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2023

The home, called Wabi Sabi Residence and completed in 2020 is a 4,000-square-foot (370-square metre) structure on a nine-acre lot in the Wasatch Range. We wanted to touch lightly on the site, so the home cantilevers over the site, is grounded at the entrance, and then floats over the landscape as you move through the home," the studio said.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The two structures are mirrors of each other and are divided by a courtyard with a privacy wall in the middle Set on 40-foot (12-metre) wide lots, the linear homes measure only 20 feet (6 metres) at their widest, leaving plenty of space for outdoor areas on either side of the house for residents to enjoy.

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Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2024

hectare site near Maastricht to commemorate soldiers who died in the second world war. The structure's "monumental" form draws on American memorial architecture "The United States has a strong tradition when it comes to memorials," Kaan Architecten co-founder Vincent Panhuysen told Dezeen. "All The photography is by Simon Menges.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Chicago architecture firm Studio Gang has expanded a California college through the addition of mass-timber structures that were informed by how fungi grow in the wild. Four buildings were designed to complement the existing structures – California modern-style buildings with stucco walls and splashes of colour – and the woodland environment.

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Deezen

AUGUST 23, 2022

Non-combustible materials form the exterior of a cabin near Lake Tahoe that was designed by US studio Faulkner Architects to serve as a "base camp" for an active family. The CAMPout House is located on a gently sloping site in Truckee, a mountain town just north of the lake known for its skiing , hiking and water sports.

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Deezen

MAY 16, 2024

Local studio Forge Craft Architecture + Design has created affordable apartments for people transitioning out of homelessness in Austin that feature a breezeway to encourage rest and preserve heritage trees on the site. Balconies painted in the same hue on either side look over the outdoor areas oriented around the oak trees.

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Deezen

AUGUST 28, 2023

Gardeners House is a blue-stained timber and terracotta-brick structure in a park in Geneva , designed by architecture studio Cabinet to provide workshops for gardeners and leisure space for locals. The building contains workshops and communal space for locals Gardeners House has a pleated exterior made from blue-stained pine.

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Deezen

MARCH 19, 2024

US architecture studio Cannon Design has referenced the local landscape and "prioritized inclusion", drawing on the Native American heritage of the site for its design of a university student centre in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The project, called The Rambler, is tucked into a wooded site on the Kitsap Peninsula, which lies northwest of Seattle. An overhanging roof provides shade "The new structure grounds itself to the earth with its approach to material and form," said GO'C , a Seattle-based firm. The home is designed to be rooted to the landscape.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 18, 2024

The building soffits and protected exterior walls are clad with cedar siding; a standing seam metal shell is extruded down the outermost walls, reinforcing the simple massing while protecting the recessed cedar from weathering at the west, south, and east building frontages where the building receives the most sun.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

US studio CCY Architects has clad a mountainside house in patinated copper panels and tilted the roof to adhere with the topography of its site in Colorado. Known as DNA Alpine, the 4,000-square foot (372-square metre) home was completed in 2022 and designed to "disappear into or somehow become" the 75-acre site in San Miguel County.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

The exterior is clad in a rain screen of weathered steel that recalls the site’s steel mill history, with an exposed mass timber interior. miles from the site. The cost of bringing a sanitary sewer to the site was $2.0M – threatening the viability of the entire development.

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Deezen

APRIL 17, 2023

The home's multi-layered gabled forms engage the site, interact with each other and frame interior spaces, studio co-founder Jejon Yeung said. The studio collaborated with Silman Structural to size up the exposed rafters, blending them with the wooden trusses and accenting the steel tie rods.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

Jun Mitsui & Associates and Pelli Clarke & Partners have converted a grocery store into a sake brewery The site contains three buildings – the brewery, housed in the shell of a former Stop & Shop grocery store, a small rice polishing building and a wastewater treatment facility.

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Deezen

MARCH 5, 2024

Fire Station 67 is made from prefabricated steel modules Totalling 4,667 square feet (434 square metres), the single-level station sits on a flat site, with hills in the background. The building is made of steel modules that were prefabricated in a factory, trucked to the site, and put into place using a telescopic forklift.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2023

American architect Eric Owen Moss has completed the (W)rapper office tower in Los Angeles , which was named for a structural support system that covers the facade. Moss, who runs an eponymous studio in LA and has been planning the tower for decades, recently completed the 235-foot (72 metres) structure in Los Angeles.

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MAY 5, 2023

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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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

The structures have mass-timber structures and brick facades The new buildings – officially called Barry Mills Hall and the John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies – were designed by American studio HGA , which served as both architect and structural engineer. The photography is by Michael Moran.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 2, 2024

A series of undulating tectonic structures set against an aspen grove near Wilson, Wyoming, this mountain home serves as a creative retreat for a California based couple. A fourth, spiritually focused structure has yet to be built and will be sited further to the south.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

US architecture studio GBBN preserved and expanded a 19th-century home in Erie, Pennsylvania into an educational facility with a glass bridge connection and metal-clad, barn-like structure. The structure features two conceptual elements: the barn and the bridge. A glass bridge is included in the design.

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Deezen

JUNE 9, 2023

The centre's design is "rooted in resiliency, site-specificity and inspiration", the team said. Envisioned as a gateway building, the building occupies a large, triangular site at the edge of the campus. One side faces a major vehicular intersection, while another sits alongside a light-rail stop and train tracks.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Photo © Naho Kubota The constraints on the size of the site, coupled with the desired program, encouraged French 2D to create an ethos of abundance within limited resources. Found after years of searching, the site is steps away from both a Boston subway stop and a thriving and diverse downtown. Source by French 2D.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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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aasarchitecture

JANUARY 22, 2024

Photo © Likeness Studio The two new structures are situated parallel to one another and shifted slightly in opposite directions to provide each with access to views and daylight. Photo © Likeness Studio Interior and exterior materials are clean-lined while resilient.

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Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2022

Built on the Domaine de Bayssan estate near the town of Béziers in southern France, the permanent theatre replaced a circus tent that was erected on the site in 2006. K Architectures aimed to replicate this "circus architecture" with permanent structures for the theatre. Exterior cladding was designed to look like canvas folds.

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Deezen

AUGUST 21, 2023

A Cold War-era building designed to withstand nuclear blasts is among the structures that have been renovated by Elkus Manfredi Architects at the newly established Children's National Research & Innovation Campus. The 12-acre (4.8-hectare)

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Deezen

MAY 22, 2023

Daniel Joseph Chenin designed the house in the Las Vegas desert Named Fort 137, "the building pays homage to the old fort structures from the early settlement days of Las Vegas, which relied upon site-sourced materials along with tried-and-true techniques for designing and building in an arid climate," the team told Dezeen.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Photo is by Aogvision These underground waiting halls havemetal roofs equipped with solar panels that power the station, contrasting the brick exterior of the old station front. A metal roof and glass facade contrast the brick station. The post MAD unveils sunken Train Station in the Forest in Jiaxing appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

APRIL 18, 2022

White siding and a curvy aluminium screen make up the exterior of a residential building in Los Angeles designed by American firm Brooks + Scarpa. Located on the edge of the city's Valley Village neighbourhood, the Magnolia Hill Apartments building occupies a corner site that formerly held a gas station. Civil engineer: Barbara Hall.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2022

The three structures were constructed using pigmented concrete. The pavilions were designed as square and rectangular buildings with exterior walls that are angled inwards at their base. Materials used were locally sourced, with the precast concrete used across the facade sourced from within 25 miles of the site.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Guided by the landscape setting and the monumental atmosphere of the site, the building complements the serenity of this vast memorial. KAAN Architecten chose to place the new building at a respectful distance from the monumental ensemble, maintaining the original plan for the site and preserving its peaceful atmosphere.

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