Westeck News

JULY 28, 2023

Content courtesy of Government of Canada Window and Door Retrofit Grants – Government of Canada There are a number of options for upgrading the energy efficiency of your windows and doors. Learn more about replacing your windows and doors. A rough opening serves the purpose of installing one or more windows or doors.

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Westeck News

JUNE 2, 2023

Content courtesy of Energy Star Energy-Efficient Window Terms Explained. Updating or installing new windows for a new residential or commercial build requires a bit of a learning curve to understand the “science” behind an energy-efficient window. It is measured on a scale from 0.20

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Westeck News

JULY 7, 2023

Content courtesy of Sash Windows London The Origin of Stained Glass Stained glass windows have been around for generations. During the rise of the Gothic, during the 12th century, the art of the stained-glass window flourished exceptionally. Glazing and Leading Glazing i s important for stained glass windows.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2024

Method Architecture has completed its self-designed studio Located in the mixed-use East River development , designed by architecture studio Page , the office was designed to serve as an inspiration source for the studio's clients. Light blue bicycles are mounted on one wall as another unique installation.

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Deezen

MARCH 14, 2024

Dutch studio Powerhouse Company has created the Marga Klompé Building at Tilburg University, the Netherlands , is "the first college building in Europe to be entirely constructed from solid wood". Situated on a forested university campus in Tilburg , the cuboid building has a mass timber structure and facades clad in Portuguese stone.

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Westeck News

JUNE 15, 2023

Content courtesy of The Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance (FGIA) FGIA Conference Participants Learn How to Leverage Window Replacement Rebates in British Columbia with Qualified Installers. Available rebates payable direct to contractors include window and door rebates up to $9,500 CAD.

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Design Thoughts Architects

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I recently had the opportunity to explain to one of our new house desired clients what it is that we do as an architectural firm. We design buildings that are functional and meet the client’s needs, but we also design them with a theme or an architectural style in mind. Best Architects do so much more than that.

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Deezen

JUNE 2, 2023

International auction house Sotheby's has announced its acquisition of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Marcel Breuer -designed building on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. Only a few windows dot the side, extruding at angles from the concrete. Only a few windows dot the side, extruding at angles from the concrete.

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Dwell

APRIL 25, 2023

The owners, a pair of architects, used the "least expensive materials possible" to build a rough-and-ready retreat near the mountains. We knew that the project had to be low cost and that we would be working with a very small building. We ended up building the house ourselves (just two people). Have one to share? Post it here.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 28, 2023

On the boards in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood is a new house for a three-peat client of Faulkner Architects. An open plan builds spatial connection between the neighborhood and garden. It is to replace an existing 1904 house that had lost its historic integrity due to renovations over the last 120 years.

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Westeck News

AUGUST 18, 2023

Content courtesy of C2ES How to Build Resilience Climate change has been a key factor in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the West. Warmer, drier conditions also contribute to the spread of the mountain pine beetle and other insects that can weaken or kill trees, building up the fuels in a forest.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Brooklyn-based studio Modu has created a building envelope that lowers the ambient air temperature in order to help cool the interior and exterior of this Houston building. In hot climates like that, if you can lower the air temperature, then it would require less air conditioning because the air around the building is cooler."

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Deezen

AUGUST 3, 2022

metre-tall mass-timber tower in Wisconsin designed by Korb + Associates Architects, has been certified as the world's tallest timber building. The Ascent tower has been named the world's tallest timber building. Our client is very interested in biophilic design, and we incorporated those principles wherever we could.".

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 24, 2024

The Opticum is an interdisciplinary research building for Leibniz University of Hanover currently under construction on the Science Park site located in the urban district of Marienwerder. To the east, the building opens up towards the main entrance. The public areas are located on the slightly recessed first floor.

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Dwell

AUGUST 16, 2022

Known for designing college buildings, Earl Flansburgh experimented with a courtyard plan in the making of his modernist home. Flansburgh + Associates primarily designed institutional buildings, such as the Boston College Library (1997) and the subterranean Cornell University Campus Store (1971).

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Deezen

MAY 14, 2024

Collective Works has extended a house in London The extensions are each finished with terracotta-hued walls and interiors of pale wood and coloured tiles, which aim to "nod to both Scandinavian and Mediterranean design", drawing on the client's heritage. Externally it is distinguished by its terracotta-coloured metal cladding.

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RMJM Architecture

DECEMBER 12, 2023

While 60% of the total property space has been allocated to over 40 open and green spaces, the project houses 240 1–3 bedroom apartments, spread over two low-rise buildings. All of these carefully curated features of Terrazzo come together to offer a unique and serene living experience.

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Dwell

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Set on the edge of a very loose-knit cluster of residential properties, the lodge is located on the grounds of the family home in which the clients grew up. Photo by Tom Bird Photo by Tom Bird Photo by Tom Bird See the full story on Dwell.com: A Prefab Cabin With Massive Windows Touches Down Lightly in a U.K. Have one to share?

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Deezen

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Linden Brown Architecture created a live-work structure in Oregon The mixed-use building is located in the St Johns neighbourhood in North Portland and sits on a sloped parcel that was formerly occupied by a post-war dwelling. The house features tall monitor windows A breezeway separates the two volumes that join to form an L-shaped plan.

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Architecture Ideas

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Let’s see window grill design. Doors and Windows. While doors save us from thieves, burglars, unnecessary and unwant people, windows provide us with fresh air and sunlight. Windows allows us to have a peek at the outsiders’ or neighbors’ lifestyles. Do you know you can even add an interior window too?

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Dwell

MARCH 8, 2024

Based on the Big Island, Paradise Tiny Homes makes units with pass-through windows, bar seating, and mango wood details. The two took a road trip together and ended up talking about an idea Dan had to build tiny houses to help those who lost their homes in a 2018 eruption in lower Puna. Know of a builder we should talk to?

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Payvand Residential Building, located in the Mokhaberat neighborhood, 8th Payvand Alley, Saadat Abad, Tehran, Iran. Payvand building itself is a modern residential building, which design to be the home of three brothers and their families. Besides, the client also considers the economics of the project. Year: 2020.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Welcome to Prefab Profiles, an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. Since, Stott and Levy have made more affordable models as well as shelters and community buildings for unhoused people. The prefabs’ steel framework allows windows to be placed anywhere along the perimeter of a home.

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Deezen

APRIL 29, 2023

Los Angeles architecture studio Formation Association has turned an assemblage of buildings in West Hollywood into a new home for London-based auction house Phillips. We started with idiosyncratic conditions and buildings layered with history," said studio co-founder John K Chan, who led the project. "We With a ceiling over 15 feet (4.5

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Deezen

MAY 31, 2023

Architectural studio LOHA has transformed an agricultural building in California into the light-filled Sandi Simon Center for Dance with polycarbonate walls that evoke the "ephemeral nature of performance". Prior to its recent revamp, the wood-framed building had one level and a basement.

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Dwell

AUGUST 28, 2023

Welcome to Prefab Profiles, an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. We’re using software to streamline the design, engineering, and permitting process, and we’re building homes on a production line more like how cars are made." Do you know a prefab brand that should be on our radar?

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It is formed of exposed timber joinery animated by a curved roof canopy, affectionately referred to by the clients and studio as the "fried egg", giving the project the name Sunny Side Up. Its design evolved from the client's original vision of a full-width rear extension.

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e-architect

AUGUST 15, 2023

Constructed within the UKGBC’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Framework, the building is Grosvenor’s flagship Net Zero development, and offers 26,500 sq. Constructed within the UKGBC’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Framework, the building is Grosvenor’s flagship Net Zero development, and offers 26,500 sq.

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BD+C

APRIL 11, 2024

To be successful, these discussions must include clients, owners, city or county agencies, and benefit greatly from conversations with actual patients. Is it providing the environment the patient needs to begin their healing journey? What does the next space on their path to recovery look like?

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Deezen

AUGUST 12, 2022

Polycarbonate walls and a row of tall window boxes bring diffused sunlight into the Iowa City Public Works building by US firm Neumann Monson Architects. The low-lying building is located just south of Iowa City's downtown district, near a recreational area and a future housing development. A 12-foot (3.6-metre)

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Deezen

APRIL 21, 2024

Taking advantage of this, IGArchitects placed windows on all four facades of the home, allowing natural light to pour in. On the ground floor, windows are placed at a clerestory height to provide privacy. On the ground floor, windows are placed at a clerestory height to provide privacy. The home has a width of 2.7

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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.

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e-architect

AUGUST 25, 2023

Grappling with context, history, and appropriateness, the design looked to the building and material typologies of the surrounding 1920s-era warehouses, as well as the masonry and concrete construction found at Huston Tillotson University (a historically Black university that overlooks the property).

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BD+C

JUNE 16, 2023

Can a VR-enabled AEC Firm transform building projects? 0 dbarista Fri, 06/16/2023 - 14:36 Virtual Reality With the aid of virtual reality and 3D visualization technologies, designers, consultants, and their clients can envision a place as though the project were in a later stage. Most clients don’t have that ability.

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Dwell

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Then it was built and the clients moved in, and they gave me some very direct feedback: It was such an energy-hungry house to keep warm," recalls Rafe. "It Rafe’s build started with a tight budget and a challenging lot. Rafe’s build started with a tight budget and a challenging lot. "It And that hit a note with me."

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Photos © studiohanswilschut CasaNova Rotterdam Tower Building News The Muse and CasaNova In the wake of the economic crisis, Barcode Architects took the initiative in 2013 to develop a tower on the Wijnhaven 69 plot, where The Muse now stands. As light changes, the strong relief in the stone constantly gives the building a new look.

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

Located in the Poet's Corner conservation area of Herne Hill, the studio was tasked with retaining the late 19th-century building's character while opening up its "disconnected and dark" interiors. The extension features a window seat overlooking the rear courtyard Oliver Leech Architects was founded in 2016.

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