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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Deezen

JANUARY 16, 2023

Montreal studio ACDF Architecture has designed a low-slung, modernist -style home with massing shaped to surround an apple tree and provide lines of sight through the living areas. ACDF Architecture arranged the structure around an apple tree. Project credits: Architect, interior design and landscape: ACDF Architecture.

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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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aasarchitecture

APRIL 17, 2024

A right to nature The expansive round structure encourages visitors to create their own journeys both indoors and outdoors, regardless of whether they hold tickets to the exhibition inside. “As a brand Volvo is rooted in a Swedish pride for producing and manufacturing quality for everyone.

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Architizer

MARCH 24, 2022

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Dwell

MAY 3, 2023

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. The clients came to me wondering if they could achieve the bare minimum for their family, which would then allow for the quality items within those spaces.

Civil Engineering 128

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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

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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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

MAY 4, 2024

Loader Monteith and Studio SJM won a competition to design it with their proposal to "embrace the students and the landscape" with a low-slung, L-shaped building that hugs the site's trees. The photography is by Jim Stephenson.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The project consists of a main house, guest house and writer's studio The main house was "conceived as a geologic remnant in the landscape, located on the edge between field and forest". The client's bohemian lifestyle and love of music, literature and the great outdoors were the inspiration behind the interior design," the team said.

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Dwell

MAY 31, 2023

Project Details: Location: Ophir, Central Otago, New Zealand Architect: NOTT Architects Builder: Down to Earth Builders and Shamrock Builders Structural Engineer: Paula Hugens Photographer: Biddi Rowley / @ biddirowley From the Architect: " We worked closely with the clients to form a raw house for a raw landscape.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2023

Waechter Architecture has completed an "all-wood" commercial building in Portland , which it says is the first commercial building in Oregon to "use mass timber construction for all components of the building". The three-storey structure comprises six volumes arrayed around a central courtyard. The photography is by Lara Swimmer.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

Jun Mitsui & Associates and Pelli Clarke & Partners sought to marry elements of Japanese architecture with small-scale manufacturing and its location in upstate New York. Partly because the client was a Japanese brewer who mainly makes sake, we also incorporated 'Japanese-ness' into the design."

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Dwell

MAY 15, 2024

Several years ago, Dave McAdam bought a two-and-a-half-acre parcel in Joshua Tree, where boulders are strewn across a desert landscape that stretches as far as the eye can see. Blue Sky Building Systems worked with CB Architecture and Marchese Construction to create a steel-framed home for a family of four in Orinda, California.

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Habitus Living

MARCH 10, 2024

The former accommodates the client’s need for a home suitable for hosting and conducive to the contemporary lifestyle of a family of four. WOWOWA collaborated with the clients to weave the stories and narratives that resonate with them into the fabric of their interiors. The latter is perhaps more aesthetically oriented.

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Deezen

APRIL 23, 2024

"Drawing inspiration from the monocoque design of the world war two de Havilland Mosquito fighter planes, which stand out as prime examples of monocoque construction, the Monocoque Cabin seeks to bring this level of ingenuity and efficiency to architecture and domestic spaces." metres-wide, 3.5-metres-tall

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Bustler

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Unbuilt projects are eligible only when a client is named. All submissions must be the work of American architects, landscape architects, and urban planners working nationally or internationally for projects both in the U.S. since January 1, 2021. Previously awarded buildings by the Museum are not eligible. and abroad.

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Deezen

APRIL 5, 2024

Local architecture studio Ædifica has created a residential apartment building outside Montreal with an interior courtyard and a metal-mesh second skin on the facade. Called Cité Angus II, the structure is part of Technopôle Angus, an urban revitalization project that its developers say is a "full-scale sustainable development".

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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

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

JANUARY 30, 2023

Ambassador Crescent is positioned on a sloped site The house – a vacation home for clients who have previously worked with the studio on their Vancouver home and office interiors – slants toward the top of the mountain, diminishing its form and allowing it to disappear into the scenery. "It The photography is by Ema Peter.

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2024

Local architecture studio Hewitt has unveiled the 33-storey-high Skyglass residential block in downtown Seattle , which was informed by an offset stack of magazines. The apartment shave full-height glazing Its form also creates views of the surrounding natural landscape of Seattle, which she describes as an important influence. "We

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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

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. Read: Amos Rex's bulging underground galleries create playful landscape in Helsinki plaza "It is both humble and brave," he continued. The photography is by Tuomas Uusheimo.

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Deezen

AUGUST 28, 2022

North River Architecture designed Gallatin Passive House as an extension to an 18th-century farm in upstate New York , repurposing the existing barn as a double-height play space for the owner's three children. North River Architecture designed a Passivhaus in Upstate New York. The ground floor has an open-plan living area.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A cluster of wood-clad, gabled volumes form a sculptural home by architectural studio Young Projects that nods to historic Long Island architecture while reimagining the barn typology. For instance, the primary bedroom looks upon a mature, purple beech tree that is beloved by the client. hectare) lot with an historic farmhouse.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Guided by the landscape setting and the monumental atmosphere of the site, the building complements the serenity of this vast memorial. This intervention does not detract from the monumental features, but architecturally complements the cemetery landscape with style and dignity. Source by KAAN Architecten.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 21, 2024

Spiegel Aihara Workshop (SAW) has designed the Kauhikoa Core House on the island of Maui, a two-bedroom home that appears as a tumbling set of forms settling gracefully into the landscape of its site, a former pineapple plantation. All indoor and outdoor furniture, provided by the homeowners, were custom-made in Indonesia.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 20, 2023

Designed and developed by Waechter Architecture, the Mississippi Workshop was conceived as a proving ground for sustainable building systems and “all-wood” construction technologies and equally, as a forum for new creative conversations. Source by Waechter Architecture.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The building is nestled into the rocks, with stone steps leading down to the fresh water swimming pool and pool terrace, which sit within a natural cleft in the landscape. Architizer chatted with Todd Saunders, Owner of Saunders Architecture , to learn more about this project. Inorganic material that hits the landscape.

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Deezen

MARCH 2, 2023

US studio CLB Architects has designed a cedar-clad home and barn in Wyoming for clients who love horses and wanted to return their property to its historic roots as a working ranch. All around the dwelling, CLB Architects incorporated thoughtful landscaping All around the home, the architects incorporated terraces and thoughtful landscaping.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Image © Powerhouse Company On an urban level, the architecture, consisting of two towers linked by a ‘valley’, makes a powerful yet polished statement that acts as a unifying element in a disjointed architectural landscape.

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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". When not staying at the house, the clients rent it out. The home is in Sedona, a high-desert town located about two hours north of Phoenix by car.

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Architizer

AUGUST 7, 2022

Telegraph Hill Residence – The project draws inspiration from the landscape as a source of both prospect and refuge. The design elicits visceral responses to the landscape and encourages introspection and connection to the larger environment. © Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture. Project Status: Built. Year: 2015.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Deep overhangs shade pavilions and walkways at a lush nature retreat in Costa Rica by architectural practice Studio Saxe. We designed a strategy of aggregation by creating a network of triangular pergolas that can grow or contract, depending on the necessity of the client throughout the project," the firm said. Builder: Cr-Eco.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Located on a farm in Canada, the house was covered with berms that rise out of the landscape The technique allows the concrete to continuously cure during the installation process, reducing the risk of pressure at the base and weaknesses at the column's joints. Interior planting beds were also installed in the gathering space.

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