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Loader Monteith adds charred-timber-clad office to brownfield site in Inverness

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Scottish architecture studio Loader Monteith has designed an office with a gabled roof , along with two private residences, for mountain bike tour operator H&I Adventures on a sloping brownfield site in Scotland. The structures share a timber-and-metal material palette designed to create a "common language", the studio said.

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Mississippi Workshop, Portland, Oregon

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photo © Lara Swimmer photo © Lara Swimmer Located on a prominent site in Portland’s vibrant Mississippi Avenue district, the 9,550-square-foot building offers a new model for sustainable and sensitive infill development. photo © Lara Swimmer At the same time, Mississippi is a commercial building with a civic heart.

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Mississippi Workshop by Waechter Architecture

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Designed and developed by Waechter Architecture, the Mississippi Workshop was conceived as a proving ground for sustainable building systems and “all-wood” construction technologies and equally, as a forum for new creative conversations.

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Loader Monteith and Studio SJM create woodland school in Scotland

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Loader Monteith and Studio SJM won a competition to design it with their proposal to "embrace the students and the landscape" with a low-slung, L-shaped building that hugs the site's trees.

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Concrete columns frame Bury Gate Farm house by Sandy Rendel Architects

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Named Bury Gate Farm, the five-bedroom house replaces a 1950s bungalow on a sloped site on the outskirts of Pulborough, which overlooks fields and woodland. The challenge was how to craft sensitive contemporary design that responds to and enhances this protected landscape without resorting to historic mimicry," he continued.

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Studio Bark devises structural use for waste timber in English woodlands

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British architecture practice Studio Bark has worked with students from the University of East London to devise a roof-supporting column with otherwise unusable timber at a site within ancient English woodland. That posed the question of what to do with the felled trees. It also hopes to make bespoke furniture with local students.

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Site Verrier de Meisenthal by SO – IL and FREAKS architecture

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Hidden in the bucolic landscape of Northern Vosges Natural Park, Site Verrier de eisenthal is a publicly funded active cultural center in a historic glass factory dating back to the 18th century. New functions are sensitively introduced under and over this surface, including offices, workshop areas, a cafe and restaurant.

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