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TVK designs limestone buildings for "first zero-carbon district" in Paris

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French architecture practice TVK has completed a neighbourhood in Paris made up of limestone buildings surrounding a garden and designed as a sustainable development that aims to increase biodiversity. We chose to use mainly limestone from the Paris region – it's the same one used to build the Haussmann buildings."

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In Situ Studio cuts "hoop" opening in cantilevered welcome centre roof

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Local architecture firm In Situ Studio wrapped an art museum visitor centre in Raleigh, North Carolina with darkened steel and cantilevered a roof with an aperture over its patio. In Situ Studio designed the 1,158-square foot (108-square metre) welcome building for the large park that surrounds the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA).

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Mae Architects completes "21st-century almshouse" in Southwark

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Its design references traditional almshouses "[Harriet Hardy House is] planned around the idea of progressive privacy, that is of giving residents independence as well as strong connections to the support and communal facilities within the building," explained the studio. The photography is by Tim Crocker.

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Desai Chia creates “winged" roofs for Copake Lake House in New York

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US studio Desai Chia Architecture designed a highly sculptural, waterfront home wrapped in concrete and charred cypress that has vaulted roofs resembling wings. Built as a second home for a family of four, the building sits on a ribbon of land between a golf course and Copake Lake in Upstate New York. Windows provide framed views.

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Snøhetta creates library to emulate feeling of "sitting under a tree"

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International studio Snøhetta has completed Beijing City Library in China , a glass-lined building filled with towering tree-like columns and rooms disguised as hills. According to the Snøhetta, it is one of three new major cultural buildings in Tongzhou that are hoped to transform the district into "a lively arts and cultural destination".

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Jun Mitsui & Associates convert grocery store into sake brewery in Upstate New York

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Jun Mitsui & Associates and Pelli Clarke & Partners have converted a grocery store into a sake brewery The site contains three buildings – the brewery, housed in the shell of a former Stop & Shop grocery store, a small rice polishing building and a wastewater treatment facility.

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CLB Architects creates trio of "tectonic structures" for Wyoming residence

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Composed of three distinct buildings – a main house, guesthouse and writer's studio – the project was designed for a California-based couple who manage an independent record label. Each building responds to its immediate setting. The other two buildings are tucked within the woods and feel more intimate.

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