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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. Photo © Iwan Baan. Our intervention unifies them to define a contemporary institutional identity in dialogue with an industrial heritage.

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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. They deliver a message about an environmentally responsive and conscious future.

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Villa MKZ by Takeshi Hirobe Architects

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The footprint of this vacation home dances around the complex conditions of the site. Although the site is splendidly situated overlooking an ocean view to the southeast, there is an elevation gap of about 1.4 The result is a natural-feeling interior scale and a sense of affinity between the buildings and the site.

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Elliott Architects uses dramatic cantilever for House on a Bay

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Completed in the spring of 2021, the 6,060-square-foot (563-square-metre) House on a Bay is composed of two distinct bars that sit atop a steep site overlooking a bay in Southport, Maine. He felt strongly that this building should be singular, much like its site. Structural engineer: Thorton Tomasetti.

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Field Architecture clads flowing Sonoma house in copper

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Palo Alto-based Field Architecture designed the home around the presence and absence of water in the unique microclimate, with the project completed in 2021. By surrendering the manmade environment to the same natural forces that shape the land, the house collaborates with the natural hydrological systems that nurture the landscape."

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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. Settled in a quarter-acre site, the house sits 17 feet (five metres) above the sidewalk, lifting it up from the street's sightlines. The photography is by Ema Peter.

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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. The green valley serves as a new green space to invite life and activity for the students.