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GO'C places arts centre on former Seattle gas station site to "heal an urban problem"

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Local studio GO'C drew on the aesthetics of a 1930s gas station to create Mini Mart City Park, a community arts centre in Seattle that aims to show the potential of remediated brownsites. Remediation systems were added to the foundation to "clean the residual contaminants". Skylights were included in the gallery space.

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Little Rock Art Museum, Arkansas, USA

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In a newly transformed building designed by Studio Gang, the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA) will re-open on April 22, 2023. The project, which is Studio Gang’s first completed art museum, renews existing spaces and introduces a new central addition for the museum.

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John Friedman and Alice Kimm include dining room crane in Los Angeles house

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Large windows open the various rooms to the forest-like landscape The ADU sits atop an embedded garage and is topped by an urban roof garden with a sinuous aluminium sunshade structure. The functional and workaday are the foundation for achieving artfulness and architectural innovation," said the studio.

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New Vesterheim Commons by Snøhetta

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Snøhetta and Vesterheim have completed a new building and landscape for the storied Vesterheim campus in Decorah, Iowa, housing the largest collection of Norwegian-American cultural artifacts in the world, in A new 8,000 square-foot building, known as The Commons.

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"Shifting volumes" make up Cole Valley Residence in San Francisco by Jensen Architects

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Spaces are tailored for optimal ergonomics, individual habits and a passion for art, design and technology," the team added. The landscape design was informed by Asian garden traditions. Robust earth shoring, concrete and steel foundations, and stormwater drainage systems ensure the home will remain for decades," the team said.

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Marlon Blackwell's Thaden School buildings are rooted in Arkansas vernacular architecture

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The school is named after pioneering female aviator Louise Thaden and is backed by the Walton Family Foundation, which is led by Walmart's founders. The studio also master-planned the school's 26-acre (10-hectare) campus in collaboration with New Orleans-based Eskew Dumez Ripple , landscape studio Andropogon and engineering firm CMTA.

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LMN Architects creates mass-timber business school for University of Washington

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Mass timber – an engineered wood product – elements include glued laminated timber structural posts and beams and cross-laminated timber flooring. With the foundation of our design rooted in a mass-timber structure, we leveraged both the inherent beauty and sustainability of wood," said LMN principal Kate Westbrook.

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