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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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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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Modern Inversion // Klopf Architecture

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With raised ceiling heights and large windows and glass sliding doors, the open and airy great room now extends out onto the new patio surrounded by lush landscaping to create one even larger indoor-outdoor room. © Klopf Architecture. © Klopf Architecture.

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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. 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.

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SKY IS THE LIMIT

Landscape Architecture Magazine

FROM THE MARCH 2022 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. From the outset, the landscape elevated the street experience, and occupants in the office towers above benefited from building setbacks with exquisitely groomed terrace parterres overlooking Fifth Avenue. BY MARGARET SHAKESPEARE. Photo © Tishman Speyer.

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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.