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RootStudio transforms former Oaxaca convent into culinary centre

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Architecture firm RootStudio has converted a historic convent building into a centre for celebrating the rich culinary legacy of Mexico's Oaxaca region. Details were restored using traditional construction techniques, with materials like lime, brick, wood and Oaxacan Cantera verde stone.

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Form Follows Funding

Landscape Architecture Magazine

The goal was to connect people of all ages, especially youth, to the Tennessee landscape, which the farm would do through education, sport, hospitality, food, and agricultural science. David Dowell, whose architecture firm, El Dorado, worked with Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects and W. It’s a big program.”

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Mithun revamps iconic 1960s Sea Ranch Lodge in northern California

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The community was established in the early 1960s by architect and developer Al Boeke, who enlisted fellow architects to create modern-style structures that worked in harmony with the natural landscape. In 2018, it was purchased by new owners who wanted to restore the building in a way that honoured the original design.

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What Is…Googie? These Devoted Fans Will Tell You

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s second Googie World Expo, a sold-out event for those passionate about the retro-futuristic, disappearing, distinctly SoCal aesthetic. Chances are, if you’ve taken a spin around Southern California, you’ve seen Googie architecture, even if you’re not familiar with the term for it. Inside L.A.’s

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Back to the Garden

Landscape Architecture Magazine

But in a quiet, woodsy corner of the Bethel Woods property, an endeavor related to an event that took place here more than a half century ago was underway: An archaeological crew was investigating a part of the site of the legendary Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Mowers roved over lawns bordered by blue spruce trees. Photo © Elliott Landy.

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"The face of Palm Springs is changing" says Modernism Week CEO

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Vossler Smith told Dezeen that homes currently being built in the California desert town are combining modernist design principles with energy-saving strategies that include solar power and drought-tolerant landscaping. "We The event is now in its 18th year, with a programme that will see 250 homes opened up to the public.

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How to Grow a Greenway

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Volunteers help plant cypress trees on the Lafitte Greenway in April during an event that sprang from the park’s new Greenway GROW! We typically practice landscape architecture in this model brought to us by architecture: Design it, build it, and walk away from it,” Michaels adds. By Jane Margolies. management strategy.