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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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International African American Museum lifted above Charleston site "without occupying it"

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Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and Moody Nolan unveiled the International African American Museum The space underneath the structure was left completely open between the columns, except for the massing of the skylit staircase that rises up through the centre of it. The material choices on the exterior further reference the history of the site.

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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. The Harmeny Learning Hub comprises two buildings set atop a paved patio.

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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. The decision with the most impact is the use of a mass timber structure.

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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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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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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