Architizer

MAY 6, 2024

So how does one build in a place like this? Shipley and Bates accomplished this feat through site-responsive design that blurs the line between interior and exterior. This site has a huge number of challenges on it,” Bates noted bluntly. “As As soon as we walked on the site, we could tell there were wetlands.

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Site Architecture Windows Exterior 77

Deezen

JULY 8, 2022

Apart from a boundary-facing brickwork wall, the entire exterior is clad with Siberian larch, while the interiors are fully lined in Douglas fir boards with flush doors and built-in storage, contrasted by white porcelain surfaces in the kitchen. The entire exterior is clad with Siberian larch. The photography is by Rory Gardiner.

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Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2023

Local practice Platform 5 Architects has completed NW10 House, a family home on an infill site in north London with exposed concrete interiors and a textured brick exterior. Centred around a skylit, concrete spiral stair, the home's spaces fan out to fill the triangular site, overlooking a paved terrace that wraps its eastern edge.

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Site Home Architect Exterior 105

Deezen

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

US architecture studio Schaum/Shieh has embedded a Virginia house with irregularly shaped volumes into the contours of a steep site. Rounded corners on the home's exterior are reflected on the interior, further softening a largely white interior palette. The house is finished with bamboo wood floors and insulated stucco.

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Site Housing Windows Roofing 128

Deezen

APRIL 4, 2024

New York firm RKTB Architects has completed One Sullivan Place, a mixed-income apartment building that rises 12 storeys and cantilevers in two directions over the rooftop of an adjacent structure. The building is located in the Crown Heights neighbourhood, near Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

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Building Housing Architect Structural Engineering 87

Deezen

JANUARY 11, 2023

Occupying a site formerly used by Plymouth University , the project involved the construction of a new teaching building and the refurbishment of the adjacent Owen Theatre, the two of which are connected by a glass link bridge. The studio worked with staff and students to design the building.

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Site Students Windows Exterior 131

Deezen

APRIL 7, 2022

Glazed brick and charred cypress wrap the exterior of a partly sunken North Carolina home designed by architecture firm In Situ Studio. Like other parts of the city, the area is experiencing a lot of new development and building renovations. The site formerly held a run-down, 1940s dwelling that was owned by the clients.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

acre site with a steep drop-off. 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.

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Housing Building Exterior Environment 145

Architecture Ideas

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It’s an exciting journey to build your own house, serving as a reflection of you. From planning to on-site construction, a lot goes behind building a house. Let’s understand every phase of the construction with a step-by-step guide on how to build a house. Let’s see how to build your own house.

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Building Housing Estimating Foundation 98

Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

Design studio HGA has completed a pair of educational facilities , Mills Hall and Gibbons Center, that are among the first "commercially scaled mass-timber buildings" in the state of Maine. Both buildings also have mass timber frames, wooden interior finishes and brick facades.

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Building Civil Engineering Structural Engineering Education 126

Dwell

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Welcome to Prefab Profiles, an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. In 2017, the couple began renting out their shoreside Sydney home on weekends so they could strike out to visit every cabin, tiny home, and camping site in Australia they could find.

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Archinect

MARCH 13, 2022

It is a complete facade renovation and accessibility upgrade for the site and public spaces within the existing building. The building was originally built in 1964 by Richard H Dodd as a medical office building. Ceiling heights were redesigned to give the space an open feel.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Design and build studio Localworks has created the Mustardseed Junior School in Uganda with organically shaped classrooms built from natural and locally sourced materials. The 1,146-square-metre building, located in the town of Sentema, is used as both a kindergarten and primary school for local children.

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Building Roofing Students Environment 111

Deezen

MAY 9, 2024

Tasked with renewing the "old, opaque, heavy, worn down building" in a suburban neighbourhood, Nowhere looked to reestablish the connection between its interior and the surrounding gardens.

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Housing Renovation Exterior Finishes 106

Deezen

APRIL 20, 2023

Buildings embellished by decorative brick facades are the focus of this roundup , which includes houses, a winery and a mausoleum. Bricks are a common building material used all around the world, typically for constructing walls. A total of 5,000 bespoke bricks made in 44 shapes and sizes were used for the project.

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Building Technique Exterior Housing 144

Deezen

MARCH 27, 2023

Cladding made of glass-fibre-reinforced concrete wraps the exterior of a sculptural, mixed-used building that was designed by US firm Handel Architects for a crowded, triangular site. The 12-storey building houses The Line Hotel and a residential portion called Serif, along with commercial space on the ground level.

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Building Residential Glass Exterior 116

Architizer

JUNE 2, 2022

Despite technical complications involved in construction, inclined sites can invoke inspiring new architectural possibilities that just aren’t possible on flat sites. Floating buildings can be constructed on slopes either by using a taller foundation or supports. Villa Vals by SeARCH , Vals, Switzerland.

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Site Structure Inspiration Roofing 97

Deezen

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Mighty Buildings has delivered what it claims is the world's first 3D-printed zero-net home as part of a 40-unit community in Desert Hot Springs that explores environmental and economic development strategies. Mighty Buildings designed the home in California. "We The exterior composite stone wall panels were 3D printed.

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Home Building Technology Technology 126

Dwell

MAY 10, 2023

As well as the living pavilion, there is a two-story sleeping pavilion at the back of the site with a roof terrace capturing the evening sun. Have one to share? Post it here. Clad in New Zealand-grown Monterey cypress, a timber that omits a fragrant, spicy scent, the entry nook is a cave-like space.

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Finishes Interior Home Structural Engineering 59

Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Raw finishes and "as found" materials informed by brutalist architecture are used throughout this home , which Portuguese studio Atelier Local has created on a nature reserve near Porto. Called House in Ancede, the house sits on the site of a former stone ruin that it was required to roughly match in terms of its footprint and volume.

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Housing Architecture Finishes Windows 131

Deezen

APRIL 16, 2024

Traditional materials and building techniques "celebrate the essence" of south Indian architecture at Telugu Medium, a restaurant in Hyderabad by local practice Sona Reddy Studio. These finishes are combined with minimal furniture made of dark wood, chosen by the studio to be "timeless, simple, and evocative".

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Architecture Finishes Exterior Technique 117

Deezen

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

PLY+ and MPR Arquitectos have transformed a building at a former Catholic college into the School at Marygrove Elementary, filling it with colours and shapes that help spark "experimentation and exploration" among children. Several buildings on the 53-acre (21-hectare) campus are being converted into facilities for the School at Marygrove.

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Deezen

JULY 26, 2023

A house that incorporates a ruin and a home clad in crushed TVs are among the four buildings on this year's shortlist for RIAS ' Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland award. Hundred Acre Wood has been shortlisted for RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland. Another house on the list is Cuddymoss.

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Building Finishes Students Housing 98

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". On the southern edge of the site, the walls were assembled on-site horizontally and then tilted into place.

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Building Architecture Engineering Engineering 119

Deezen

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The block is located within Nightingale Village, a collection of six apartment buildings by different architects for housing not-for-profit Nightingale Housing that all demonstrate its development model, aiming to create housing which is "environmentally, socially and financially sustainable".

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Deezen

AUGUST 15, 2023

Salvaged brick and aluminium screens feature on the exterior of a round building designed by local studio John Ronan Architects to house the Chicago Park District Headquarters and a community field house. The two-storey building overlooks a 17-acre (6.9-hectare) The two-storey building overlooks a 17-acre (6.9-hectare)

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Building Architect Site Housing 98

Deezen

OCTOBER 2, 2023

British architecture studio Stanton Williams has designed a 35,000-square-metre academic building for the University College London, located in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The studio described the building's material palette as industrial, chosen to evoke the site's industrial history.

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Structure Building Students Architecture 132

Architizer

JULY 18, 2023

The products manufacturers create for a building bring ideas to life through shapes, colors and materials. ” Coil coating, sometimes called pre-painted metal, is an efficient way to produce a uniform, high-quality, coated finish. The metal panels are coated in a Valflon finish supplied by Sherwin-Williams Coil Coatings.

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Building Architect Exterior Manufacturing 81

Architizer

MARCH 18, 2024

Many buildings in Mississippi showcase a blend of architectural styles, ranging from Greek Revival and Victorian to Art Deco and Modernist, reflecting the state’s diverse influences. The subsequent projects showcase contemporary cultural and public buildings throughout the state.

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Deezen

AUGUST 17, 2022

Iridescent aluminium sheets clad the rhomboid-shaped D2 building, a creative workplace by Cambridge studio Mole Architects that forms the latest addition to London's Design District. Headed by architect Meredith Bowles, Mole Architects previously completed a larger building called C2 that opens onto the district's central courtyard.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2024

Roughly rectangular in plan, the house sits on a gently sloping site and was built atop the footprint of a former building. Bedrooms feature surrounding views Exterior walls are wrapped in weathering steel , which helps protect the home against wildfire. A lacquer finish was added in high-use areas.

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Housing Exterior Engineering Engineering 119

Deezen

MARCH 7, 2022

They are joined by an exterior staircase. The interior is finished using chukum, an ancient Mayan stucco technique created with the bark of the native chukum tree, as well as white sand aggregate from the site. The use of these materials and the avoidance of paint and ceramics helped to reduce the building's carbon footprint.

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Building Estimating Housing Construction 145

Deezen

APRIL 26, 2023

Located next to Marrakech's famous Majorelle Gardens, the hotel was designed in collaboration with Moroccan architect Amine Abouraoui to reflect local architecture and celebrate the site's history with a contemporary twist. Like a sandcastle or sculpture, the exterior openings transition into a private interior," said Cooke.

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Exterior Finishes Design Contemporary 145

Deezen

MARCH 14, 2024

Architecture practice Studio Guma has overhauled an old farmhouse in Normandy, retaining its stone and timber structure to "evoke the rural history" of the site. The original divisions between the buildings have also been retained and used to help organise the home's reinvigorated spaces.

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Exterior Structure Glass Renovation 134

Deezen

MAY 9, 2024

The silo has been opened up to create a "basilica-like" atrium "The main architectural intervention we did here was to cut out the cylinders in the original building," said Mestres Wåge Arquitectes co-founder Magnus Wåge. "We Inside the bar, contemporary wooden finishes and furniture fill the space.

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Art Industrial Contemporary Exterior 140

Deezen

APRIL 19, 2024

Replacing a former gymnasium on the same site, the building slots in between the school to the north and a sprawling brick piazza to the south created by local studio Archea Associati in 2010. Contrasting this grey exterior, the inside of the gym has been finished with a datum of bright yellow across the ground floor level.

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Windows Landscape Site Exterior 105

Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Named after the community where it is located, the Cotton Patch Hills House sits on an oceanfront site in Bethany Beach, Delaware. For a sandy site that faces the water, the team created a rectilinear, three-storey building that totals 5,842 square feet (542 square metres). The staircase is made of white oak and steel.

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Housing Structural Engineering Exterior Interior 119