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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Archinect

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The building’s form—a set of interlocking white cubes—responds to the client’s initial idea for what the house would look like and emerges from careful evaluations of views and spatial optimization. Built as a 100-year structure, the house was designed to meet the changing needs of a growing family.

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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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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.

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Archinect

JUNE 6, 2023

Designer: gad Location: Jinhua, Zhejiang, China Client: Jinhua Duohu Central Business District Construction Investment Co.,Ltd. As an important carrier of this event of the Asian Games, Jinhua Asian Games Sub-Village will become an important window of Jinhua's cultural display.

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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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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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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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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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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. Its surface uses warm, iridescent hues to blend into its natural environment.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

"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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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

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

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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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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Deezen

MAY 26, 2024

Located in the Golden Triangle in the Heigham Grove conservation area, the home is named Cast Corbel House after the handmade concrete corbelling on its facade that nods to neighbouring buildings. Two large rooflights positioned above these beams draw light into the space, along with picture windows that frame the garden.

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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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Home Windows Roofing Client 111

Deezen

MAY 28, 2024

Elements of Ukrainian and Japanese architecture combine at this pared-back residence on the outskirts of Kyiv , which local architecture studio Shovk created for a client with a passion for Japanese culture. The compact main bedroom features a podium bed set next to a large frameless window that looks out onto the nearby trees.

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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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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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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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e-architect

MAY 24, 2023

Full height windows to inject natural sunlight: Simple linear form with vertical fins: Echoing HKIA main buildings, the overall architectural language of the HKIA Community Building adopts simple linear form and vertical fins. It extends the unified image from the airport to the building. Albert says.

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Design Thoughts Architects

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

A Modern Commercial Building Design. The client owned a 30*40 property adjacent to the main road. Though it’s a commercial building, the client desired a well-planned modern commercial building design that can attract most of the customers. Type of Architecture: Modern Building Design.

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Commercial Modern Building Design 52

Deezen

APRIL 29, 2024

The studio renovated the Grade-II listed building – the only factory designed by the architect – into a "premium workspace" for property developer Dorrington. It will be occupied by wallpaper company Sanderson Design Group , which originally commissioned the building as an extension to its main factory more than a century ago.

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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". Operable windows were also arranged around the building.

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e-architect

DECEMBER 4, 2022

DC Van Hall Staatsliedenbuurt building, Amsterdam studio housing interior design, Dutch Architecture Photos. DC Van Hall, Staatsliedenbuurt building. At the corner of Donker Curtiusstraat and Van Hallstraat in Amsterdam, Studioninedots has created the surprising transformation of a prominent, 1964 office building.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 6, 2023

Adjacent to Hong Kong International Airport’s (HKIA) Terminal 1, the HKIA Community Building was opened in December 2022, providing a recreational building for airport staff. Echoing HKIA main buildings, the overall architectural language of the HKIA Community Building adopts simple linear form and vertical fins.

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