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MAY 3, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The clients had worked with another architect on a first floor addition and realized for the cost of the building, they were adding potentially unused space for a very high cost. Post it here.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

US studio CLB Architects has created a retreat in rural Wyoming that has three wood-clad structures, with a creek running underneath the primary residence. Located on a 35-acre (14-hectare) property near the town of Wilson, the home was envisioned as a series of "tectonic structures" set within a diverse ecosystem.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

Polycarbonate walls and a row of tall window boxes bring diffused sunlight into the Iowa City Public Works building by US firm Neumann Monson Architects. The low-lying building is located just south of Iowa City's downtown district, near a recreational area and a future housing development. A 12-foot (3.6-metre)

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

Local studio Hopson Rodstrom Design placed a sawtooth roof on top of this black-clad apartment building with an interior courtyard in southern California. Metal screening was placed over the facade in the middle of the building The screen also allowed the studio to bypass certain height requirements put in place by the city.

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MAY 22, 2023

Daniel Joseph Chenin designed the house in the Las Vegas desert Named Fort 137, "the building pays homage to the old fort structures from the early settlement days of Las Vegas, which relied upon site-sourced materials along with tried-and-true techniques for designing and building in an arid climate," the team told Dezeen.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

Maine studio Elliott Architects has created a seaside house that includes a dramatic, cantilevered volume on stilt that stretches towards the ocean and the tree line. Elliott Architects demolished the main house and relocated the other two structures to start the design with a clean slate.

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Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2024

The structure's "monumental" form draws on American memorial architecture "The United States has a strong tradition when it comes to memorials," Kaan Architecten co-founder Vincent Panhuysen told Dezeen. This inspiring concept has set the tone for the design of this building for us," he continued. The photography is by Simon Menges.

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Deezen

MARCH 8, 2024

SO-IL has unveiled the design for the Williams College Museum of Art Renderings show a low-lying, tiled building, topped with a tent-like roof that echoes the hills behind it. It will extend outwards from the building's core to create overhangs. The studio designed the building to achieve Living Building Challenge 4.0

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Deezen

OCTOBER 24, 2023

New York architecture studio REX has completed the "most automated" performance building in the world at Brown University's campus in Providence, Rhode Island. Called The Lindemann Performing Arts Center (The Lindemann) the 101,000 square-foot (9,383-square-metre) structure consists of a shoebox theatre with a long bridge-like walkway.

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JUNE 9, 2023

The academic building is located on ASU's main campus in Tempe, which is part of the Phoenix metropolitan area. Encompassing 281,000 square feet (26,106 square metres), the building houses a range of research institutes focused on topics such as food, water, energy and climate change.

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JULY 21, 2022

Architecture studio SPF Architects has completed a sports facility in Los Angeles consisting of two separate buildings that were built using pre-engineered metal structures in order to not disrupt activity at the site. SPF Architects designed atheletic buildings for the Michelle and Barack Obama Sports Complex.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 27, 2023

de Reus Architects is the lead architect for more than 400,000 square feet of club amenity facilities and residential dwellings that comprise the core of this project. Source by de Reus Architects. Pool Design: Kolohe Design, LLC Acoustics: Salter Building Envelope: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Inc.

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e-architect

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Ballard Food Bank in Seattle Building, Washington Community Facility, Wilcox Construction Inc. Ballard Food Bank, Seattle Building Design. Design: Graham Baba Architects. To provide a permanent and secure base for their operations and to address the increased needs within the community, the Food Bank set out to build a new home.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

Jun Mitsui & Associates and Pelli Clarke & Partners have converted a grocery store into a sake brewery The site contains three buildings – the brewery, housed in the shell of a former Stop & Shop grocery store, a small rice polishing building and a wastewater treatment facility.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Most of its campus was originally designed by American architects Charles Moore and William Turnbull in the early 1970s. Four buildings were designed to complement the existing structures – California modern-style buildings with stucco walls and splashes of colour – and the woodland environment.

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e-architect

AUGUST 25, 2023

Grappling with context, history, and appropriateness, the design looked to the building and material typologies of the surrounding 1920s-era warehouses, as well as the masonry and concrete construction found at Huston Tillotson University (a historically Black university that overlooks the property).

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Deezen

APRIL 14, 2024

HGX Design created the house to host the owner's visiting family and it now stands as the main dwelling on the 35-acre property, which is dotted with agricultural buildings and another residence. The structure's horizontal form was informed by the vernacular architecture of the surrounding farmland.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Project Status: Built Year: 2021 Size: 10,000 sqft – 25,000 sqft Nicol Building, Sprott School of Business – is a new academic building at Carleton University in Ottawa inspired by the school’s values of creativity, connection, and innovation. Architizer: What inspired the initial concept for your design?

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APRIL 9, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. On a secluded wooded site, the new structure grounds itself to the earth with its approach to material and form. Have one to share? Post it here.

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APRIL 20, 2022

Text description provided by the architects. The Queen’s Lane Pavilion is the fifth project that CLB Architects has designed for one family on the same property over a 25-year period. © CLB Architects. © CLB Architects. © CLB Architects. © CLB Architects. © CLB Architects. © CLB Architects.

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Deezen

JANUARY 16, 2023

LA studio Kevin Daly Architecture has created a headquarters for a Houston foundation that has a latticed canopy suspended over a white building that was created using steel and cross-laminated timber. Kevin Daly Architects created a headquarters for Houston Endowment. It has cross-laminated timber structural elements.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Text description provided by the architects. Our design response is a spacious, off white and simple pitched roof classical form with slender exposed structural steel work creating a functional and elegant, light-filled interior. © H2o Architects. © H2o Architects. © H2o Architects. © H2o Architects.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Seattle-based studio LMN Architects has completed the mass-timber Founders Hall building for the University of Washington's Foster School of Business in Seattle. Founders Hall is an 84,800-square-foot building with five floors spread over three volumes on the University of Washington's campus in northern Seattle.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Bay Area studio David Baker Architects has completed 145 units of social housing using modular construction and a weathering steel facade in San Francisco , California. David Baker Architects added a rainbow mural-lined courtyard to the ground floor. Architect: David Baker Architects. Landscape architect: Fletcher Studio.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Snøhetta created an 8,000 square feet (743 square metres) building for the museum, as well as adjoining outdoor spaces that connect the museum's Heritage Park to the street. "As The project includes the addition of a gallery and office building, as well as the further development of the museum's outdoor greenspace.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 3, 2024

The Hope Center & Berkeley Way Apartments are two distinct 6 story buildings joined visually by interlocking facade motifs and welcoming, light-filled ground floor spaces that are woven together reflecting two parts of a greater whole. Source by LEDDY MAYTUM STACY Architects.

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e-architect

JULY 24, 2023

Situated on an extraordinary estate with several existing traditional-style buildings, including an adjoining pool house, the 18,194-square-foot home was designed to extend the contact between living space and landscape through transparency and erosion of mass.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

US studio Inaba Williams Architects has created two mirrored houses with courtyards in Santa Monica , California that are clad in white stucco and have net-zero energy use, according to the studio. Positioned to maximize daylight, the courtyards and auxiliary areas capitalise on the coastal location's mild climate and can be used every day.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The architects ended up conceiving a "theatrical destination integrated with nature". The original stage building was torn down, and in its place, the team created a rectangular, steel -framed building. Lemay also created new entrances The back wall can be closed or opened up, enabling views through the building.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 8, 2023

Walker Hall is an adaptive reuse of a 1927 building at the core of the University of California, Davis campus. The project transformed a vacant, seismically unsafe building into a graduate and professional student center with meeting rooms, a lecture hall, and sophisticated active-learning classrooms that serve the entire campus.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The revamp of the 354,000-square-metre station is MAD 's first station and the studio hopes it will "redefine transportation infrastructure buildings in China". The glass facade and skylights allow natural light into the building, while allowing a clear view of the reconstruction of the old station front from inside the building.

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e-architect

JUNE 27, 2023

photo : Lincoln Barbour To house this diverse group of building occupants—the PSU Graduate School of Education, the OHSU|PSU School of Public Health, the PCC Dental Programs, and the City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability—the Vanport Building is a seven-story, 175,000 GSF structure on a dense urban site in downtown Portland.

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Deezen

MAY 6, 2022

Global firm Henning Larsen Architects prioritised openness and connectivity to create a Minnesota government building that is part of a "new coalition of civic architecture across the United States". The building has a gridded facade. The architects worked closely with the City of Minneapolis and public advocates on the project.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 12, 2023

the complex consists of two semi-cylindrical, prefabricated steel warehouse buildings, notable for their arching roof forms and con-nected via an enclosed walkway. While much of the existing structures will remain intact, Skylab has reworked the layout and is updating the buildings through a strategic set of insertions and modifica-tions.

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2024

It includes two new high-rise office buildings that measure over one million square feet (92,903 square metres), a central utility plant for efficient cooling and a five-storey, below-grade structure with over 3,000 square feet (280 square metres) of parking space. The photography is by Albert Vecerka/Esto.

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Deezen

MAY 5, 2023

The building partly cantilevers over the site The guesthouse was designed to serve as a flexible space that could accommodate extended stays by family and friends. The rectangular building holds a main living area and two bedrooms. Many of the building's components were prefabricated.

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Deezen

MAY 11, 2022

These teams are highly specialized in extreme conditions that include rappelling down buildings, navigating collapsed structures, and even deploying for underwater rescue operations. The building serves as the elite unit's headquarters, where the firefighters sleep, train, and coordinate their operations.

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