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Laura Killam Architecture tops beachside cabin with slanted roof in Canada

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Vancouver studio Laura Killam Architecture has created a beachside cabin in British Columbia with a slanted roof that responds to the site's climate. The 650-square-foot (60-square metre) cabin is organised into two offset volumes that are connected by an interior passageway while a tilted, cedar-shingled roof covers the structure.

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"Modest and pioneering" Hackney council housing wins 2024 Neave Brown Award

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Chowdhury Walk is part of Hackney Council’s programme to build new council homes on small sites, providing eleven two-storey terraced houses on a former garage site," said Astrid Smitham, jury chair and 2023 Neave Brown Award for Housing winner. In 2017, Brown was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal.

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A Butterfly Roof Tops an "Upside-Down" House Built for Aging in Place

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Its position on the site means it gets ample sunlight all through the year. The overhanging butterfly roof provides solar shading to south facing high level windows in summer. A key ambition for the project was to make the most of the flat fenland landscape, which means you can see for miles. "The

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Rescobie Pavilion by Kris Grant Architect overlooks Scottish loch

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The design takes cues from the rural site, which borders a farmer's field and features a line of mature trees and a ruined dry stone wall on the eastern edge. A mono-pitched roof crowns the building Built of local stone, the plinth's solidity and form match that of a nearby cowshed, helping to ground the building in the landscape.

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Productora converts Mexico City textile factory into green-trimmed artist studios

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Productora has been gradually renovating the building, which was originally a textile factory built in the 1920s, since it moved its offices to the structure following an earthquake in 2017. The complex is now orientated around two courtyards that were cleared of existing structures to create new circulation and gathering areas.

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Boano Prišmontas creates art gallery that "is unmistakably a barn"

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The small windows, large canopy overhang, wide door on the front facade, and use of industrial materials all sing from the same song sheet." "The As you get closer you will see the sharp edges and geometries that come from a digital fabrication workshop rather than a traditional construction site."

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Grand Designs’ ‘Fossil house’ is for sale in Devon

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This unusual Devon property is inspired by an ammonite fossil found on its site and mimics the form of a Fibonacci spiral. The inspiration for the shape came from an ammonite fossil that we had on our dining room table,’ the Tetlows told Grand Designs magazine when the organic building appeared on the award-winning show in 2017.

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