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Albert Frey's all-metal 1930s Aluminaire House reassembled in Palm Springs

Deezen

The Palm Springs Art Museum has unveiled the reconstructed Aluminaire House in California, a modernist house originally designed in the 1930s by architect Albert Frey and editor A Lawrence Kocher. The three-storey house has a boxy frame with an entry program that is pushed back and framed by pilotis.

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Commenter says "no culture experiments with the domestic house like the Japanese"

Deezen

In this week's comments update , readers are debating a Japanese house arranged around a series of central staircases and discussing other top stories. Archipelago Architects Studio arranged Kappa House in Kanagawa, Japan, around a series of central staircases that divide the spaces and provide places to sit or relax. No windows.

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Timber is an essential ingredient on this renovation in Rozelle

Habitus Living

The bricks that line the interior walls hide an innovation the pair developed in collaboration with the engineer. “We Anything that was salvageable has been kept and reused including all the wood, the bricks that came from the deconstructed additions, and the sandstone step and footings. The home expresses a textured authenticity.

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More Virtuous Circles

Landscape Architecture Magazine

In 2021, the firm tested this strategy in a dense Parisian neighborhood, in collaboration with the social housing developer Élogie-Siemp. The project transforms the existing concrete esplanade of a social housing complex into a greener space that is more adapted to both climate concerns and community needs. Photo by Ilana Cohen.

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20 Inspirational Thought Leaders on the 10th Anniversary A+Awards Jury

Architizer

Currently, he is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Community Housing Identity Lab (CHIL) at the University Of Miami School Of Architecture. a , Romania, a long house in Canada and an installation for a music festival. Hanxiao Liu. Co-Founder, IILab. Hanxiao Liu is a registered architect in Germany and co-founder of IILab.

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Kongjian Yu: Found In Translation

Landscape Architecture Magazine

The old building was deconstructed, and contaminated soil was removed, but the post office’s north wall was preserved to retain a parking lot next to it. Its protections include programs and groups that zealously support low-income housing, neighborhood improvements, and services. Civil Engineering MIG | SvR, Seattle.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

Left: Square House; right: Stella Betts; images courtesy LEVENBETTS. This willingness to put things together in an unorthodox way is reflected in the firm’s 2017 project Square House , a 2018 Jury Winner in the A+Awards in the Private House Category. Square House is best described as subtly deconstructive.