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Blue-timber gardeners' workshop topped with illuminating lantern

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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. A central hall connects the workshops and public spaces, as well as an office and changing rooms.

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Lina Ghotmeh wraps Hermès leather workshop in "galloping arches"

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French-Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh has created a brick workshop in Louviers, France , for luxury brand Hermès that is the first industrial building to achieve France's highest environmental labelling. The building is Hermès' twenty-first leather workshop.

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Design Out West: 10 Unique Buildings in Dialogue With Utah’s Rugged Landscape

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Utah is a land of striking contrasts and otherworldly landscapes, and its architectural identity is deeply rooted in the state’s history and culture. The team inverted the trusses to create a unique, culturally resonant roof shape, utilizing the existing foundation and most of the kit’s materials.

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Izat Arundell clads remote Outer Hebrides home with local stone

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Thick walls of local stone shelter Caochan na Creige, a home in Scotland 's Outer Hebrides by local practice Izat Arundell designed to "sit respectfully in the landscape". The site's remote nature informed the simple material choices, as well as making it more viable to construct the timber frame on-site rather than prefabricating it.

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Sameep Padora & Associates creates flowing concrete form for Indian arts space

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Hampi Art Labs is designed by Sameep Padora & Associates to appear as though it was "born from its surroundings" near the village of Hampi, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in India known for its historic Hindu temples. The photography is courtesy of JSW Foundation.

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Herzog & de Meuron transforms derelict Brooklyn power plant into arts centre

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Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has completed the restoration and conversion of a power plant on a decontaminated industrial site along the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. Most of the art workshops are stacked along this wall but located at different levels depending on their use.

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Kevin O'Brien, Sky Hopinka, and layers of meaning in the landscape

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Two recent interviews have got me thinking about the relationship between culture and landscape: the generations of peoples who call a place home, how those histories endure even after the communities may be long gone, and the lessons we can learn about stewardship of the land. MacArthur Foundation ). . MacArthur Foundation.

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