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John Friedman and Alice Kimm include dining room crane in Los Angeles house

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John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (JFAK) completed the house – and 540-square foot (50-square metre) accessory dwelling unit (ADU) – in November 2021. Large windows open the various rooms to the forest-like landscape The ADU sits atop an embedded garage and is topped by an urban roof garden with a sinuous aluminium sunshade structure.

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Tokyo Institute of Technology Hisao & Hiroko Taki Plaza by Kengo Kuma and Associates

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Above ground, the building takes on a lush mound-like form, seamlessly integrating with the surrounding landscape. The line between the interior space and exterior landscape is blurred by continuing the stepped landscape into the building. Source by Kengo Kuma and Associates.

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Splyce Design centres Vancouver house around "weightless" staircase

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Completed in 2021, the 5,700-square-foot (530-square-metre) residence, known as Yield House, is oriented east-west and responds to the varied setting in both directions. A thin steel ribbon supports the outer edge of the floating wood treads, while discreet vertical cables serve as the guard," he continued. The photography is by Ema Peter.

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Strang Design tops Miami mansion with slatted volume and planter

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The studio, which specializes in projects along Florida's vast coastline dedicated to "environmental modernism", completed the expansive, 8,500-square foot (2,590-square meter) house – known as the Angel Oaks Residence – in 2021. The second storey is wrapped with vertical ipe wood fins that jut out from a densely landscaped planter.

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nARCHITECTS tops New York nature centre with a mass-timber roof

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The project transformed 12 acres of concrete parking lot into a sustainable structure and resilient landscape with native plants. A cedar trellis wraps around the exterior. MEP engineer: FPM Group, Ltd. Landscape: Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects & Planners. Structural engineer: Silman.

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Peterborough Town Library // Ann Beha Architects

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Year: 2021. Historic finishes in the 1893 building are renewed, and a large, flexible multipurpose room provides a new civic forum with views of the town, river, and Monadnock landscape. Project Status: Built. Size: 10,000 sqft – 25,000 sqft. Text description provided by the architects. © Peter Vanderwarker. © Peter Vanderwarker.

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Evelop Arquitectura creates "garden with a house" in San Miguel de Allende

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For this recent project completed in 2021, Evelop Arquitectura lent more importance to the surrounding greenery than to the interior, built spaces. Throughout the home, small details such as a shower with a glass wall that opens out to the exterior reinforce the connection to the surrounding gardens. Structural engineer: Ing.

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