BD+C

JUNE 5, 2023

How to properly assess structural wind damage 0 dbarista Mon, 06/05/2023 - 16:17 Engineers Properly assessing wind damage can identify vulnerabilities in a building's design or construction, which could lead to future damage or loss, writes Matt Wagner, SE, Principal and Managing Director with Walter P Moore.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Bright white plaster clads the exterior of a 1960s concrete building that has been turned into the self-designed studio of Baldridge Architects, which acted as the designer and contractor. Called Burnet Road Offices, the project involved the adaptive reuse of a small commercial complex along a main street in Austin.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Japanese studio Unemori Architects has used cypress wood to create Father & Son House, an extension constructed above and around a self-built annexe in Saitama. Instead, the studio "planned a new independent structure outside the existing structure," Unemori Architects team member Keita Komori told Dezeen.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

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. Known as DNA Alpine, the 4,000-square foot (372-square metre) home was completed in 2022 and designed to "disappear into or somehow become" the 75-acre site in San Miguel County.

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Deezen

JANUARY 3, 2024

The "ruin-like" concrete frame of a former chemistry laboratory has been transformed into a series of workspaces for the University of Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands , in this project by Civic Architects and VDNDP. It repurposes an abandoned 1970s structure to house bright interiors organised around courtyard gardens.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Seattle-based studio LMN Architects has created a university building in Santa Barbara, California , with two separate volumes connected by a series of walkways clad in perforated aluminium. However, according to the studio, the structure's organicism was also informed by the need for efficient classroom layouts.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Danny Lim dons multiple hats as architect, contractor, and client as he transforms his Highland Park bungalow with a new ADU for his in-laws. At the front of the main house, architect Danny Lim framed one of the original windows with new trim to give it a more contemporary feel and installed limestone on the porch and steps.

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Deezen

MARCH 18, 2022

London studio Nimtim Architects has redefined the interior of a 1920s house in Southwark using multifunctional partitions that are built from plywood joinery and feature a repeating arch motif. Nimtim Architects has updated a 1920s house in London. Sliding doors and windows are built into the partitions.

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Dwell

APRIL 30, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here. Project Details: Location: Yarraville, Victoria, Australia Architecture and Interior Design: OOF!

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Deezen

MARCH 23, 2022

ERA Architects has refurbished a postwar social housing building in Hamilton, Ontario , making it the largest residential building in the world to achieve Passivhaus EnerPHit certification. ERA Architects was commissioned to renovate the tower by CityHousing Hamilton. Photo by DoubleSpace. Photo by DoubleSpace. Photo by Codrin Talaba.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

US firm CLB Architects has blended Japanese and mid-century Californian architecture styles for this house in Jackson, Wyoming , which is broken up by a trio of courtyards. CLB Architects designed a Japanese-influenced home in Wyoming. A chimney of structural concrete rises with the change in the elevation of the roof.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

London studio Satish Jassal Architects has created a two-bedroom bungalow from handmade-bricks behind shops and restaurants on Turnpike Lane in Haringey, England. This was a very tricky backland site, but the key message is that with careful planning, you can succeed," said Satish Jassal Architects founder Satish Jassal.

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Deezen

JANUARY 21, 2024

An elevated box formed of exposed concrete forms the Meditation Chapel in Incheon, South Korea , designed by local studio Atelier Koma and architect Lee Eunsok. On the opposite wall, an organ is built into the exposed concrete, while narrow stained-glass windows are set within deep, faceted reveals on the southeast side.

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Deezen

JANUARY 2, 2022

Hacker Architects has renovated a 1970s house in central Oregon , removing walls to create a more spacious layout and preserving original design features that lend the home a "retro spirit". Portland -based Hacker Architects ' renovation focused on the interiors, which the team described as a "vibrant, nostalgic mix of colours and textures".

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Deezen

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. Lighting design: Peter Knuppel.

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Deezen

MAY 16, 2024

Called Zilker Studios, the structure includes 110 affordable apartments operated by local housing organisation Foundation Communities. The internal common areas on the ground floor have surfaces painted with bright colours and internal windows to help spread light. The photography is by Casey Dunn.

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Deezen

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. Neumann Monson Architects completed a municipal building in Iowa. The structure is made of concrete and metal, and perimeter walls consist of precast concrete panels. "The

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Deezen

APRIL 6, 2023

Stirling Prize-winning studio Niall McLaughlin Architects has completed a seven-storey museum in Limerick, Ireland , with vaulted ceilings and walls designed to "reflect the forces found in rugby". The museum's highest point is 33.8 metre-tall tower set back from the street front by a portico.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 18, 2022

London studio Crawshaw Architects has transformed a former cow shed in Dorset into a library and office , organised around a wooden, barrel-vaulted arcade that references the client's collection of books on classical Palladian architecture. Crawshaw Architects has overhauled a former cow shed in Dorset.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Pasadena-based studio Hopson Rodstrom Design ( H/RD ), designed the structure to "embrace" the higher-scale zoning that exists along thoroughfares in areas of the city generally filled with low-lying structures. Office interiors on the ground floor open up to the courtyard via floor-to-ceiling windows.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 29, 2023

Ben Adams Architects, in partnership with Great Portland Estates plc (GPE), has received planning permission to reinvent Minerva House, a prominent c. Image © Ben Adams Architects The existing building built between 1979 and 1983 as the London office of Grindlays Bank will undergo a complete redesign of its envelope.

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Deezen

MARCH 16, 2023

American studio CLB Architects has refreshed a Wyoming house it created 20 years ago, making changes that honour the original design and prioritise "durability and a play of textures". The treehouse-like project reorients the occupant to their place in nature, bringing them into a closer, more intimate cohabitation," the CLB Architects said.

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Deezen

MARCH 14, 2024

Situated on a forested university campus in Tilburg , the cuboid building has a mass timber structure and facades clad in Portuguese stone. Natural stone clads the exterior The main structure and internal wood finishes were made from pine , while the external columns punctuating glazing on the ground floor were made from larch.

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Deezen

JULY 31, 2023

Stirling Prize-winning studio Niall McLaughlin Architects has completed a prefabricated steel-framed home with a pyramidal copper roof overlooking a tidal saltmarsh on the Isle of Wight. Steel columns and trusses support a copper roof The seaward side of the home features three triple-glazed picture windows.

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Deezen

JANUARY 8, 2022

A cluster of wood-clad buildings surround a central courtyard at this Minnesota residence by US firm Salmela Architect that was designed for clients who formerly lived in Japan. Fifty-Acre Wood is a home in Minnesota that was designed by Salmela Architect. Read: Salmela Architect wraps Feldmann Residence in Minnesota with black stucco.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2024

Wendell Burnette Architects used Corten steel to clad a cabin in Arizona designed to capture views while disappearing into the landscape like a "dark shadow". The home was designed "to recede into the landscape" "This home is designed to recede into the landscape as a dark shadow," said Phoenix-based studio Wendell Burnette Architects.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

When Mark Derenthal couldn’t find an architect or builder to take on his ambitious concept, he worked directly with an engineer to create the treetop retreat. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2022

Fletcher Crane Architects has completed a two-bedroom house on a brownfield plot in west London featuring grey-brick walls that are left exposed throughout the living areas and sunken bedrooms. Fletcher Crane Architects has completed a grey-brick house in London. Project credits: Architect: Fletcher Crane Architects.

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2022

London studio Macdonald Wright Architects has created the low-energy and heavily insulated Library House on an infill plot in Hackney. Macdonald Wright Architects has created a house on an infill plot in Hackney. Macdonald Wright Architects has created a house on an infill plot in Hackney. All the windows are triple glazed.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The new building's first floor has floor-to-ceiling windows and is topped with a wooden canopy that extends over the street, while the upper floors were clad in grey brick. The structure was built using a mass-timber frame fabricated in Minnesota, while locally sourced brick and concrete were used throughout the rest of building.

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Dwell

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The 1960s home is true to its era, featuring a post-and-beam construction, a long row of clerestories, and soaring double-height windows in the living area. Location : 4347 Tosca Road, Woodland Hills, California Price : $1,400,000 Architect : George Letts Year Built : 1966 Footprint : 1,878 square feet (four bedrooms, two baths) Lot Size : 0.23

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Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2024

Interior finishes include birch plywood Different-sized boards were used "to create a sense of shifting, lateral scale that counters the vertical massing of the structure". In the power room, the birch plywood has been stained blue "From afar the studio reads as an abstract volume," the architects said. "Up centimeters).

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Structural Engineering Windows Finishes Engineering 128

Deezen

MAY 4, 2024

To the north, the classrooms, meditation spaces and two art workshops are housed in the main timber-framed, larch-clad structure that will silver over time to "camouflage" with the trees. High-level windows and sections of overhead glazing offer a constant, relaxing visual connection to the outdoors."

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aasarchitecture

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The apartments to the street and the plaza are largely two-room units, which combine two physically separated living spaces with large, full-height windows that optimise daylight levels. Source by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects.

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Deezen

JANUARY 17, 2022

An extra-wide oak staircase doubles as a piece of furniture in this renovation of a Victorian terrace in east London, designed by Paolo Cossu Architects. To reconnect this floor with the rest of the house, London-based Paolo Cossu Architects designed an extra-wide staircase that gives its residents a place to sit, chat or read.

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Architizer

APRIL 22, 2024

Subscribe to our Awards Newsletter to receive updates about Public Voting, and stay tuned for winners announcements later this spring. Happy Earth Day, architects! Strategically placed windows and ventilation promote natural airflow, minimizing the need for mechanical cooling and heating systems.

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Architizer

APRIL 22, 2024

Subscribe to our Awards Newsletter to receive updates about Public Voting, and stay tuned for winners announcements later this spring. Happy Earth Day, architects! Strategically placed windows and ventilation promote natural airflow, minimizing the need for mechanical cooling and heating systems.

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