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Omar Gandhi Architects balances cedar house on rocky Nova Scotia coastline

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Canadian studio Omar Gandhi Architects has completed a cedar-wrapped house "inspired by the scattered boulders" that trail down the seaside property in Hubbards, Nova Scotia. The house presents as two interlocked, stacking boxes – that are meant to weather over time to match the pale grey of the sky – perched on a hillside. "The

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CCY architects wraps Colorado house in patinated copper

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US studio CCY Architects has clad a mountainside house in patinated copper panels and tilted the roof to adhere with the topography of its site in Colorado. Settled on the edge of a meadow surrounded by spruce trees, the massing of the two-bedroom, rectangular house follows the natural grade, never rising more than 15 feet (4.5

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MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple creates elliptical house for mountainous site

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Extreme site conditions drove the design of House at 9,000 Feet, a rounded dwelling by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects in the American West supported by stilts and accessed via a bridge. The project's name – House at 9,000 Feet – stems from the home's perch on a mountaintop at 9,000 feet (2,743 metres) above sea level.

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Rural structures in Québec inform Virgin Vineyard House by LAMAS

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A rugged stone wall lines the front of a long, linear house in Québec , Canada, by architectural studio LAMAS , which was designed to capitalise on views while minimising disruption to the landscape. Walls were clad in stone and hemlock wood, and the house was topped with a metal gabled roof. There also is a roof deck.

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Mae Architects completes "21st-century almshouse" in Southwark

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London studio Mae Architects has created Harriet Hardy House in Southwark, a block of 119 social homes complete with a community centre and cafe. Commissioned by Southwark Council, the housing forms part of the Aylesbury estate redevelopment and is organised in a U-shape around a central courtyard.

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Brooks + Scarpa envision California housing block as "carved-out cube"

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Architecture studio Brooks + Scarpa has completed an all-electric, affordable housing complex in Santa Monica called 1819 Pico, which departs from the area's typical "defensive apartment buildings" with their solid walls and fences. For the city at large, the courtyard is an urbane housing type that fits well into neighbourhoods."

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Studio Libeskind unveils social housing that feels "like home" in Brooklyn

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Architecture firm Studio Libeskind has completed The Atrium at Sumner Houses, an affordable housing block with 190 apartments for seniors in Brooklyn , New York. Libeskind, who is now one of the world's best-known architects, lived in the housing cooperative when he was a teenager in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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