Deezen

JANUARY 2, 2024

American studio Schwartz and Architecture has completed a cedar -clad accessory dwelling unit on a California property that is meant to serve as "a jumping off point for a modern wine country design". Exterior walls are wrapped in Alaskan yellow cedar with a weathered finish.

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Deezen

JULY 21, 2022

Architecture studio SPF Architects has completed a sports facility in Los Angeles consisting of two separate buildings that were built using pre-engineered metal structures in order to not disrupt activity at the site. The PEMBs consist of the structure and an exterior, which consists of insulated rib metal panels.

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Deezen

MARCH 28, 2024

US studio Michael Hennessey Architecture has revitalised an ageing suburban house near San Francisco , adding black cladding and bright finishes to form a family home that bridges the past, present and future. The building's beige exterior was replaced with black, vertical cedar siding that adds a sense of gravitas, the studio said.

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2024

Toronto studio Workshop Architecture Inc has created a prefabricated home in Ontario with an exposed structure and blue-painted element on the interior. The house looks raw and unvarnished," said Workshop Architecture Inc. The underside of the roof deck, wood framing, exterior framing and white sheathing were also left exposed.

Home 138

Home Architecture Windows Engineering 138

aasarchitecture

APRIL 2, 2024

Conventionally, the program would generate a low volume with a protruding dome, but to utilize the unique dome to create a strong interior space as well as a telling exterior form, the dome is given a focal position under a free form timber structure. The gridshell structure is constructed from flat standard LVL panels.

Structural Engineering 69

Structural Engineering Contractor Technology Technology 69

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

MAY 6, 2024

However, in a small hotel with a small room area such as this, if we unconsciously design the architectural framework as usual, the layout of the interior and the way guests spend their time will be restricted," she added. "As The photography is by Keishin Horikoshi/SS Tokyo.

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Deezen

APRIL 23, 2024

Nestled beside the surrounding woodland, the cabin is wrapped by an external skin or 'monocoque' – similar to an eggshell – that draws on structural systems used within the aerospace and automotive industries. The structure draws aerospace and automative construction techniques Measuring 3.3-metres-wide, metres-wide, 3.5-metres-tall

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Technique Structural Engineering Structure Construction 132

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".

Housing 125

Housing Residential Exterior Remodeling 125

Deezen

OCTOBER 16, 2023

US studio Anacapa Architecture has transformed an early 1900s, stucco -clad building that was formerly closed off to the public into a welcoming hotel filled with compact rooms and handcrafted decor. The exterior facades, featuring white stucco and arched windows, were kept largely intact. The photography is by Erin Feinblatt.

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Architizer

AUGUST 23, 2022

Sakuragicho Residence – The development endeavored to re-define exterior wall tiling and balcony construction distinctive to, yet typical of, large apartment blocks. The brickwork-grooved exterior wall and woodgrain-like paint finish of balcony interiors are all concrete treatments that interpreted the desired adornment. Year: 2021.

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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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Building Architecture Engineering Engineering 122

Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2024

Dutch studio Kaan Architecten has added a visitor centre to the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, with a concrete form that references American memorial architecture. The only American cemetery on Dutch soil, the Netherlands American Cemetery (NEAC) was dedicated in 1960 across a 26.5-hectare The photography is by Simon Menges.

Civil Engineering 139

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The Architect's Newsletter

JULY 29, 2022

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2024

New York firm RKTB Architects has completed One Sullivan Place, a mixed-income apartment building that rises 12 storeys and cantilevers in two directions over the rooftop of an adjacent structure. Appearing as two distinct buildings, the structure has a front facade along Sullivan Place and a front facade along Washington Avenue.

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Dwell

JANUARY 2, 2024

Rather than add an addition to the original structure, their plan was a complementary new companion house: a ruggedly modern home capable of coexisting in balance with the existing house, offering the potential for dual occupancy or future use of either building.

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Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

Project Details: Location: Washington, United States Architect: GO'C / @ go_c_studio Footprint: 1,700 square feet Builder: Sparrow Woodworks Structural Engineer: SSF Engineers Civil Engineer: J Welch Engineering Envelope Consultant: RDH Building Science Inc. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 24, 2023

New York architecture studio REX has completed the "most automated" performance building in the world at Brown University's campus in Providence, Rhode Island. Called The Lindemann Performing Arts Center (The Lindemann) the 101,000 square-foot (9,383-square-metre) structure consists of a shoebox theatre with a long bridge-like walkway.

Space 132

Space Civil Engineering Consulting Safety 132

Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Mexican architecture studio RED Arquitectos has completed a cement -covered residence with screens made of stones used for preparing food on the coastline of Cerritos, Mexico. The house is constructed of concrete block, the most accessible material in the area, and covered on both the exterior and interior with naturally pigmented cement.

Housing 144

Housing Mining Client Clients 144

Dwell

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Best Practice Architecture tops off the lengthy transformation of a butter-yellow Seattle craftsman with an addition that resembles a loaf of bread. I had worked with Ian on a number of projects as his structural engineering consultant," Julie says. "I I knew that was the style we wanted."

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Renovation Structural Engineering Consulting Engineering 116

Deezen

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It is built above and around an existing building Unemori Architects had originally planned to integrate the extension with the existing structure, but this wasn't possible due to the way it had been self-built. Unemori Architects deliberately chose the wood as it matches the existing structure. Large windows let the light in.

Housing 125

Housing Building Architect Remodeling 125

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. Since The Jagger began design and construction, another 10 or so projects have sprung up on that same stretch of boulevard."

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Roofing Interior Building Civil Engineering 131

Deezen

JANUARY 13, 2022

Brooklyn studio CO Adaptive Architecture has renovated an industrial building in the New York borough's Gowanus neighbourhood to create bright and spacious theatre rehearsal spaces. The first decision that CO Adaptive Architecture made was to open the interiors to form an expansive, top-lit space.

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Space Architecture Structural Engineering Engineering 122

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.

Home 98

Home Architecture Exterior Structural Engineering 98

Deezen

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Bright colours, neon lighting and expressive furniture create a playful mood inside this Brooklyn restaurant, designed by local studio Format Architecture Office. The design, however loud, becomes a backdrop for a quality experience, and that is something we are excited about." The photography is by Nick Glimenakis.

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Architecture Design Windows Structural Engineering 128

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.

Civil Engineering 52

Civil Engineering Structural Engineering Architecture Contractor 52

Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Chicago architecture firm Studio Gang has expanded a California college through the addition of mass-timber structures that were informed by how fungi grow in the wild. Three simple, bow-shaped structures were placed to its southeast to house students. Kresge College is a part of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Consulting Civil Engineering Structural Engineering Residential 132

Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Its design was informed by local vernacular architecture The building is divided into several gabled -roof volumes, with a glazed connector at the centre. Its space are connected by a central space "These materials are intended to be durable and sustainable," the team said of the exterior cladding.

Housing 139

Housing Structural Engineering Exterior Interior 139

Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Along with curling exterior walls that span the length of the houses's perimeter, they were created using a technique in which concrete is poured slowly into fabric formwork supported by a plywood rib structure. The team covered the structure with berms, which rise out of the flat landscape of the surrounding agricultural fields.

Housing 142

Housing Technique Exterior Consulting 142

Habitus Living

JUNE 6, 2023

Situated within 100 metres of the water’s edge, on the fringe of a heritage precinct, “Harold” is a spectacular residence in Middle Park, Victoria that has been given new life by a skyward extension and reconfiguration by local architecture firm Coy Yiontis and built by CBD Contracting Group. Shade Factor shadefactor.com.au

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Architecture Contract Structural Engineering Innovation 93

Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2022

Paris studio K Architectures has created a permanent home for the Domaine de Bayssan Theatre near Béziers, France , which was informed by circus tents. . Top: K Architectures designed the theatre complex near Béziers. Top: K Architectures designed the theatre complex near Béziers. Photo is by Marc Dunile. "The

Civil Engineering 145

Civil Engineering Architecture Information Engineering 145

Deezen

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Among them is Qatar's revamped national stadium, as well as a series of new structures by the likes of British studios Zaha Hadid Architects and Foster + Partners. Islamic bowls and local Qatari architecture informed the design of the largest 2022 FIFA World Cup venue, which its architect Foster + Partners has likened to a "golden vessel".

Architecture 144

Architecture Education Events Exterior 144

Deezen

JUNE 13, 2022

Called The Riwaq after the Arabic word for colonnade, the structure on Hove Lawns was commissioned as a semi-outdoor community space for the 2022 Brighton Festival , which ran from 7 to 29 May. Its exterior is adorned with a decorative carvings. The structure was disassembled after the festival.

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Architecture Structural Engineering Installation Events 112

Deezen

APRIL 16, 2024

US architecture Ross Barney Architects has completed a NASA laboratory for deep-space technology testing in Cleveland , USA, which includes a tower made of pre-cast concrete panels for testing antennas. For a long time I've felt that the best architecture is integrated and functional," she continued.

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Architect Consulting Engineering Engineering 122

Deezen

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Alexander Jermyn Architecture has created a lake house in Lake Tahoe, California with blackened wood siding to withstand the mountain climate. Alexander Jermyn Architecture designed the exterior with blackened wood facades. Alexander Jermyn Architecture designed the exterior with blackened wood facades.

Home 89

Home Architecture Exterior Structural Engineering 89

Architizer

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

This residential project involved the construction of three distinct structures, creating additional interior space and forming a private courtyard for an existing house that remains in place. The largest new structure, the Art House, is designed to house a burgeoning art collection, and accommodate occasional guests.

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Art Project Housing Architecture 64

Deezen

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Curved panels feature on Oslotre's green timber-clad office in Norway Timber construction specialist Oslotre acted as architect, interior architect and structural engineer for the project, which was constructed using a composite structure of cross-laminated timber ( CLT) and concrete.

Structural Engineering 145

Structural Engineering Structure Consulting Construction 145