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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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Revitalizing a Contaminated Site: The Ford Calumet Environmental Center

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Project Status: Built Year: 2021 Size: 5000 sqft – 10,000 sqft Ford Calumet Environmental Center – Once a dumping ground from nearby steel mills, Big Marsh park opened in 2016 on the southeast side of Chicago. miles from the site.

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Bohlin Cywinski Jackson designs nature-infused Henry Island Guesthouse in Washington

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Photo is by Benjamin Benschneider The site is reached by boat, and a winding path leads from a dock through a wooded area and into a sunlit meadow. When new owners purchased the property in 2016, they engaged us to make additions to the site that respected the natural character of the sparsely populated island," the firm said.

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Parramatta Park Pavilion by Sam Crawford Architects

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A popular cafe is severely damaged by fire in 2016. We wanted to respect the layers of history of the site – the park setting has a rich period of occupation by the Burramatta clan of the Darug people and ongoing connection for the Indigenous community. And be future proof to adapt for changing uses,” Sam Crawford explains. “We

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Bell Phillips creates The Tree House pavilion at London's Elephant Park

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Bell Phillips was approached to design a community space housing a cafe kiosk, toilets and a bookable multipurpose room for the site, which contains several mature plane trees. The structure nestles amongst large plane trees. The 18-square-metre kiosk is located in a unit at the prominent southern corner of the site.

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Page Southerland Page integrates "past and future" at Texas Capitol Complex

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for the three-phase master plan, which was outlined in 2016. Page Southerland Page led the planning and urban design – guiding the full team that included HKS , Kirksey, Jacobs, Sasaki , and Coleman Assoc. – & Elec.

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Johnson Fain completes curvilinear First Americans Museum after decades of work

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The Oklahoma River runs alongside the site. In 1997, Johnson Fain was commissioned to assist with site selection and programming, and in 2000, the studio was hired to design the museum. Work resumed in 2016. A third structure arches away from the courtyard and toward the sunken lawn to the west.