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Modu clads Houston building with "self-cooling" exterior

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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. Each tenant will be provided with both an interior and exterior space. A bamboo grove will also provide additional shade.

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Pinwheel house by JM Architecture resembles "a white pebble in the landscape"

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The dwelling is named Pinwheel after its distinctive shape, which was JM Architecture 's solution for the client's "only request" – that it offers views of both the nearby Lake Maggiore and surrounding alpine valleys. It is] a white pebble lying in the landscape, that fits in and stands out," he continued.

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Timeless lines framing the landscape

Habitus Living

Simplicity – in the most complimentary sense – is the quality that carries all the way through from the clients’ brief to the finished object. The house is defined by its surrounding landscape, set as it is amidst four acres of land with a natural spring-fed dam acting as focal point.

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Birdproof glass technology is getting better – but it's popularity still hasn't taken off

Archinect

Architects have known how to prevent their buildings from becoming bird killers for more than a decade: Patterned glass, exterior screens and turning the lights off at night can all significantly reduce bird deaths. But those standards clash with the big glass and big views that clients associate with big money.

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Elizabeth Roberts combines two buildings into one for a Catskills ski house

Deezen

"This inconspicuous space creates the effect of two separate buildings from the approach." Cedar cladding covers the home's exterior From the exterior, the house appears to be two simple gabled buildings wrapped in vertical western red cedar, connected by a slate-coloured walkway. The photography is by Chris Mottalini.

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Powerhouse Company completes Europe's first mass-timber academic building

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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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A rural residence that sits gently in the landscape

Habitus Living

In renovating and redesigning the 1950s timber cottage-style farmhouse , Layan Architects was able to both revitalise the existing distressed weatherboard structure and expand its functionality to meet their clients’ off-grid priorities. Flora has been conserved where possible and in places the building has been designed around it.