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Habitable Form creates vertical house for woodsy site on South Carolina island

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Habitable Form has created a timber-clad house on Kiawah Island in South Carolina The site conditions drove the design by architecture studio Habitable Form , which has an office nearby, on Johns Island. The post Habitable Form creates vertical house for woodsy site on South Carolina island appeared first on Dezeen.

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Magpie House extension is a "personal museum" for client's furniture collection

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Architecture practice DGN Studio has extended a terraced home in east London with spaces and materials that form a backdrop to the client's mid-century furniture collection. It is designed as a backdrop to the client's furniture collection. DGN Studio has extended the Magpie House in London. The kitchen features wooden joinery.

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Drones take site assessments to new heights

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Drones take site assessments to new heights 0 qpurcell Mon, 06/12/2023 - 12:50 Drone Software Eric Vallejo, Director of Reality Capture and Geospatial Solutions, IMEG Corp., While photos and drawings can offer a small glimpse of an overall site, it can be challenging to visualize and understand how all elements relate to one another.

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Cometa House is nestled within trees on coastal site in Oaxaca

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It sits at the edge of a nature preserve on Punta Cometa, or Comet Point, a peninsula that juts into the Pacific Ocean and was once the site of an Aztec fort. Two stone towers juxtapose the site's horizontal elements The architects also needed to consider how the landscape evolves throughout the year.

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Schaum/Shieh "gently" conforms house to contours of steep Virginia site

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US architecture studio Schaum/Shieh has embedded a Virginia house with irregularly shaped volumes into the contours of a steep site. Our clients knew many hilly sites from growing up in the area and their time in Greece. We focused on the hill, the seasons, the distant view, and the intimate life of the site."

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Surman Weston self-builds "characterful family home" with three gardens in London

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A blocky form animated by hit-and-miss brickwork defines Peckham House, a self-build project by architecture studio Surman Weston that draws on its surroundings in southeast London. We enjoy referencing the surrounding architectural styles, often subverting them or playfully interpreting them in our buildings," he explained.

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Virtual site visits help control infection on project sites

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Meanwhile, as hotels, offices, universities and municipal facilities sit mostly vacant, many building owners are eager to use this downtime to complete long overdue renovation projects. Clients, designers, and builders are asking, how can we execute a renovation with as few people on–site as possible? .

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