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Taming Exterior Greenery: Landscape Design for Houses in Natural Environments

ArchDaily

The art of landscaping is the arrangement of nature’s raw material elements, like vegetation and planting, combined with nonliving elements, such as exterior structures, paving, and decking, in order to create site-specific solutions that enhance the exterior spaces of a project. Read more »

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Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama debuts 'Purple Hibiscus' at the Barbican, a reference to the site's material history

Archinect

His site-specific piece Purple Hibiscus, named in reference to the 2003 novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is installed on the facade of the Barbican’s central Lakeside Terrace. It uses approximately 21,500 square feet of fuschia-hued cloth that contrasts dramatically with the rough concrete exterior and overcast London sky.

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Site Tour: The Ponds on Alexander

SW Oregon Architect

Inside the Clubhouse entrance at The Ponds (all photos by me) AIA Eugene and the Willamette Valley Chapter of the Construction Specifications Institute jointly hosted a construction site tour of The Ponds on Alexander this past Thursday. acre site that borders the picturesque Delta Ponds wetlands area. Clubhouse exterior view.

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Construction Site Tour

SW Oregon Architect

Construction site tours help them understand why coordination, communication and teamwork are so important, why mastering fundamental building technology principles is critical, and why even relatively modest jobs are more complex than they may seem at first blush. Me explaining details of the exterior envelope mockup.

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Calatrava’s completed St Nicholas Church at 9/11 site features a translucent stone exterior that appears to ‘glow by the light of 10,000 candles’ at night

Archinect

The church is the second Calatrava-designed project to be completed at the World Trade Center Memorial site in New York City, following his World Trade Center Transportation Hub , which opened in 2016. Work has been completed on the Santiago Calatrava -designed St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine.

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Marrowstone Island Residence: A Masterclass in Site Responsive Architecture

Architizer

Shipley and Bates accomplished this feat through site-responsive design that blurs the line between interior and exterior. This site has a huge number of challenges on it,” Bates noted bluntly. “As As soon as we walked on the site, we could tell there were wetlands. We were squishing, our boots were squishing.

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Three Pines by Resolution: 4 Architecture

Archinect

The vast majority of the home was fabricated off-site at a modular manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania. On site, the local general contractor prepared the site and foundation for the arrival of six prefab modules. Cedar and cement board exterior cladding and ipe decks were then completed on-site.