BD+C

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Navigating architectural challenges—from 'unbuildable' to unbelievable 0 qpurcell Mon, 10/30/2023 - 10:12 Senior Living Design Mick Schaefer, AIA, NCARB, LEED GA, recounts the challenges Vessel Architecture & Design had to overcome while designing a state-of-the-art senior living facility. The "unbuildable" hill.

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aasarchitecture

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Teaming with HASTINGS Architecture, the team sought to bring a new housing typology to Nashville that allows young professionals, artists, musicians, and teachers of Nashville to live comfortably in a high-demand central urban neighborhood.

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2023

Wood and cement wrap the exterior of a hillside, family home designed by California studio Feldman Architecture to feel like a "space of serenity". Wood elements were included inside "It was important for the clients that this roof deck was publicly accessible without compromising the privacy of their bedroom," the team said.

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Architizer

MAY 11, 2022

Atherton pavilions – The two pavilions nestled in this verdant landscape were a response to the clients’ vision for a deeper engagement with their lovely yard. Architizer chatted with Anjali Iyer, project manager and senior associate at Feldman Architecture to learn more about this project. © Feldman Architecture.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 17, 2024

Photo © Rasmus Hjortshõj Location: Gothenburg, Sweden Architect: Henning Larsen Wood Structure: Engineering and production by Wiehag GmbH Wood structure: interior claddings, and facade by Lindner Scandinavia AB Structural engineering: Optima Engineering AB and BRA Teknik Landscape contractor: BRA Mark Landscape: Henning Larsen Main contractor: BRA (..)

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Deezen

MARCH 13, 2022

Klopf Architecture has reconfigured a San Francisco home to create an open-concept living space that faces onto the backyard. The clients were able to see beyond the dated materials and finishes," said the studio, and from there they decided to update the entire house. Architect John Klopf established Klopf Architecture in 2001.

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Deezen

APRIL 26, 2023

Called Maxon Studio, the project comprises a two-storey weathering-steel structure constructed as an office for the client's branding agency in Carnation, Washington. The client, Lou Maxon, was also the general contractor on the project and worked with Olson Kundig Architects to allow for the studio to move back and forth on the rails.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Chinese studio FOG Architecture has turned a courtyard house in Beijing into a flagship store for fragrance brand ToSummer with exposed wooden roof trusses and columns. FOG Architecture was founded by Zheng Yu and Zhan Di and has offices in London, Shanghai and Chongqing. The photography is by InSpace Architectural Photography.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Scottish architecture studio Loader Monteith has designed an office with a gabled roof , along with two private residences, for mountain bike tour operator H&I Adventures on a sloping brownfield site in Scotland. The structures share a timber-and-metal material palette designed to create a "common language", the studio said.

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

Throughout, a largely muted colour palette of white punctuated by deep greens and blues was adopted to provide a "calm backdrop" to the client's possessions and artworks. The extension features a window seat overlooking the rear courtyard Oliver Leech Architects was founded in 2016. The photography is by Jim Stephenson.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

US studio Klopf Architecture has completed the Sonoma Hilltop New Residence, a horizontal house in wine country that takes cues from mid-century modern architecture and has dangling chains that collect rainwater. The Sonoma Hilltop New Residence is located in Sonoma , a city in the heart of northern California's wine-growing region.

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2024

Alabama forms the site for Fowl River Cabin "When looking at the site and analysing the client's goals for the project, we knew that the siting of the building and the way it interacted with the river and trees was going to be just as crucial as the design itself," the Tall Architects team told Dezeen. Contractor: C.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Steel canopies shade the spaces of the Kamwokya Community Centre in Kampala, Uganda , designed by Berlin studio Kéré Architecture. Kéré Architecture has created the Kamwokya Community Centre in Kampala. Read: Termite mounds inform Kéré Architecture's design of Kenyan education campus. The photography is by Kéré Architecture.

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aasarchitecture

JULY 27, 2022

Form4 Architecture have completed a new light-filled, two-storey entrance lobby for 3000 Hanover, an existing 500,000 sq ft commercial life-science building in Stanford Research Park, Palto Alto, the “epicenter” of California’s Silicon Valley. Source by Form4 Architecture. Photo © John Sutton. Photo © John Sutton. Photo © John Sutton.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

It was the studio's first completed residential project and is the subject of a recently published monograph by architectural critic Paul Goldberger – the first public showcase of the home since its completion – for which it was photographed by Baan. The door has the shape of the clients' thumbprints "The clients were very unusual.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Dutch studio VenhoevenCS Architecture + Urbanism has completed IJboulevard, an underwater bicycle park for Amsterdam Central Station in the Netherlands. The facility provides underwater parking for 4,000 bicycles, as well as a pedestrian boulevard above ground with panoramic views over the River IJ. The photography is by Ossip van Duivenbode.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Architecture studio Arsenit has designed Piil, a modular wood-and-steel holiday home elevated above the ground at the edge of a forest in Estonia. The cantilevered house, which the studio describes as a treehouse, was made from steel and metal and was designed to balance on one leg above a wooden terrace.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Local architecture studio Partisans has completed a house with an undulating yellow brick facade designed to look pixelated in Toronto , Ontario. Inspired by the client's Larry Poons paintings, the bricks are choreographed to convey movement. The box-shaped homes are in a Tudor revival style and feature a centre hallway plan.

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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. The house rests on a fifty-acre (20-hectare) parcel, the majority of which the clients granted to the Minnesota Land Trust for permanent conservation.

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Deezen

AUGUST 1, 2022

California studio AUX Architecture has converted and expanded a synagogue on LA 's Westside to create the Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center for a nonprofit focused on children's welfare. AUX Architecture positioned the building on a sloped campus. The architecture was informed by a dance piece. Civil engineer: VCA Engineers.

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

Open-air bedrooms and terraces are raised above the treetops at this holiday home designed by Italian architecture studio PAT on Kenya 's Manda Island. PAT teamed up with fellow Italian architect Ferdinando Fagnola on the project, which involved renovating a 2oth-century "white house" and adding a series of elevated, pavilion-like structures.

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Bustler

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Unbuilt projects are eligible only when a client is named. International architecture firms headquartered outside the United States are eligible to enter projects built, or to be built, in the U.S. Winning projects are published in Global Design + Urbanism "New American Architecture 2023" by Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Portholes and semi-circular motifs characterise this colourful renovation and extension of a Victorian terrace house in Hackney, London , by architecture studio Gundry & Ducker. Project credits: Structural Engineer: Feres Ltd Contractor: Nika Projects The photography is by Jim Stephenson.

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aasarchitecture

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Photo © Kéré Architecture. Source by Kéré Architecture. Location: Kampala, Uganda Architect: Kéré Architecture Local Architect: j.e.nsubuga & associates, Kampala, Uganda General Contractor: Soleco Construction co Ltd., Photo © Kéré Architecture. Photo © Iwan Baan. Photo © Iwan Baan. Photo © Iwan Baan.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Architecture studio Unknown Works has extended a semi-detached house in east London , adding vibrant yellow-rendered forms to its front and rear. Client: Annabel Bligh and Luke Leighfield. Structural engineer: Martin Redston Associates. Main contractor: Tutka Building Services Ltd. CLT contractor: Construkt CLT.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Other public projects by Snøhetta include plans for a library in Charlotte with a "translucent prow" and a spiralling planetarium in France The photography is by Michael Grimm. Hall Glass & custom frit: Agnora The post Snøhetta includes wooden oculus for Norwegian-American museum extension in Iowa appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

APRIL 29, 2024

Architecture studio dMFK Architects has restored and renovated the Voysey House office in Chiswick, London , which was originally designed as a wallpaper factory by architect CFA Voysey. The photography is by Jack Hobhouse.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 15, 2023

Photo © Koichi Torimura By necessity, the detached building housing a two-car garage and guest room is situated on the east side, where the elevation gap is smallest, but the client requested that the main house weave around the difficult site conditions.

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Deezen

MAY 4, 2024

A neutral palette was used for the interior Loader Monteith is an architecture practice based in Scotland founded in 2016 by Matt Loader and Iain Monteith, and Studio SJM was established by Sarah Jane Storrie and Marianne Partyka in 2020. The photography is by Jim Stephenson.

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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. Structural engineer: Hardman Structural Engineers.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 21, 2024

One of the homeowners, an avid surfer with an intrepid mindset, served as the general contractor and constructed much of the work himself. Enthralled by the process of reading the Hawaiian landscape through collaboration and design, he is now pursuing a graduate architecture degree at the University of Hawaii. Source by SAW Design.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The writer's studio rises two stories while the guest house is rectilinear in form The ground floor includes public spaces, the primary bedroom suite, a garage and a gym, along with "an expansive mudroom for the client's Irish wolfhounds". Each window frames a view of the prairie and Teton Range beyond," the team said.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 8, 2024

Springfield University Hospital is based on the concept of evidence-based architecture to provide therapeutic surroundings for patients and wellbeing for staff and visitors. The Springfield University Hospital, which provides mental health services, is at the centre of a 33 hectare estate regeneration. Photo © Mark Hadden C.F.

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2022

Glazed brick and charred cypress wrap the exterior of a partly sunken North Carolina home designed by architecture firm In Situ Studio. The site formerly held a run-down, 1940s dwelling that was owned by the clients. It was really a blast working with the clients on these parts of the house.". Contractor: Arrowhead.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

In Finnish architecture there is a long tradition of people's houses or halls that have been important public meeting places particularly for village communities. It has a glued laminated (glulam) timber structure and was clad in black-stained spruce as a nod to the nearby timber buildings. The photography is by Tuomas Uusheimo.

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aasarchitecture

AUGUST 31, 2023

Teaming with HASTINGS Architecture, the team sought to bring a new housing typology to Nashville that allows young professionals, artists, musicians, and teachers of Nashville to live comfortably in a high-demand central urban neighborhood.

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Deezen

JANUARY 21, 2024

Project credits: Architect: Lee Eunseok and Atelier Koma Project team: Atelier Koma Stained Glass Artist: Chung Kyungmi Orgelbau Meister: Hong Seonghun Structural engineer: Edun Struc. Equipment engineer: Jusung Eng. Mechanical engineer: Jusung Eng. Electrical engineer: Hangil Eng.

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