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Seven cosy living rooms with industrial material palettes

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Living rooms with tactile brick , concrete and wood surfaces feature in this lookbook , which shows that opting for industrial materials doesn't have to sacrifice cosiness. Typically informed by old and unrefined factories, lofts and warehouses, industrial-style interiors are a go-to for many contemporary designers.

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Winning Material: Redwood Details Star in the Design of Sonoma Raceway

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Nestled in California’s famed wine country, Sonoma Raceway stands as a premier motorsports facility attracting enthusiasts and corporate clients alike. This approach is evident in the extensive use of redwood throughout the project, a material deeply rooted in California’s history and ecosystem. Why Redwood?

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Magpie House extension is a "personal museum" for client's furniture collection

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Architecture practice DGN Studio has extended a terraced home in east London with spaces and materials that form a backdrop to the client's mid-century furniture collection. An internal opening between the living room and kitchen diner creates a new visual axis that cuts through the entire home, intended to better unify the interior.

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Nine home interiors brightened with colourful window frames

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Shades of green, red and yellow run throughout this lookbook , which collects nine home interiors enlivened by colourful window frames. Whether painted wood, plastic or metal, opting for colourful window frames is an easy way to brighten a residential interior. Turquoise accents feature throughout this family home by Fahr 021.3

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Revalu aims to improve access to materials data for architects

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The Revalu platform uses one million data points and an AI -powered accuracy checker to enable architects to compare the environmental impacts of different building materials. First, there is the material cloud, which gathers over one million data points related to the environmental impact of different materials.

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Eight interiors where burl wood provides natural texture

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This week's lookbook rounds up eight interiors with furnishings and surfaces finished in burl-wood veneer, allowing its swirly, psychedelic graining to serve a decorative function. Mixed and matched with other patterns, the material is now used to communicate a kind of organic understated luxury, much like natural stone.

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Sustainable Practice: 7 Legendary Designs Using the Landscape as an Architectural Material

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We’ve looked at a number of highly technical projects, nevertheless materials have usually been natural, or as natural as possible. With this in mind, the following collection of projects has been compiled to reflect what can be achieved when firms and clients look to assimilate with the world as it has stood for time immemorial.