Deezen

APRIL 25, 2024

The exterior is "minimal in its massing" "The exterior is extremely minimal in its massing," said OGA principal Omar Gandhi. "It Approaching the building from the public side, a sense of privacy and shelter welcomes visitors," the team said. The photography is by Ema Peter.

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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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Deezen

JULY 21, 2022

Architecture studio SPF Architects has completed a sports facility in Los Angeles consisting of two separate buildings that were built using pre-engineered metal structures in order to not disrupt activity at the site. SPF Architects designed atheletic buildings for the Michelle and Barack Obama Sports Complex.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Envisioned as a home that embraces the outdoors, the residence is composed of four structures housing the home’s separate functions. While one structure houses the kitchen, dining and living areas, a second houses the primary suite, creating a private escape. Only six trees were removed to build all four structures.

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Deezen

JANUARY 2, 2024

The ADU is part of a family estate During the design process, they looked to farm structures that dot Sonoma Valley, many of which are dilapidated and have "their own strange elegance", the team said. Exterior walls are wrapped in Alaskan yellow cedar with a weathered finish.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Local studio Hopson Rodstrom Design placed a sawtooth roof on top of this black-clad apartment building with an interior courtyard in southern California. Its facade is interspersed with many skinny windows The seven-storey structure has a ground-level podium clad in green-painted concrete interspersed with steel gates.

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Deezen

MARCH 19, 2024

CannonDesign has created a student centre for a Michigan university "The primary concept of the building was to celebrate place, with a focus on elements and symbols that are universal to all people – and especially important to the Western community," Brett Lawrence, Cannon Design project manager, told Dezeen.

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Deezen

MAY 6, 2024

The nine-storey building occupies a site measuring just 83.5 square metres, which has buildings on either side. Hotel Rakuragu is located in central Tokyo "Planning windows and balconies on one side of a building for minimum lighting is typical," Kooo Architects co-founder Ayaka Kojima told Dezeen. The result is a unique shape."

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Deezen

MAY 22, 2023

Daniel Joseph Chenin designed the house in the Las Vegas desert Named Fort 137, "the building pays homage to the old fort structures from the early settlement days of Las Vegas, which relied upon site-sourced materials along with tried-and-true techniques for designing and building in an arid climate," the team told Dezeen.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 16, 2023

US studio Anacapa Architecture has transformed an early 1900s, stucco -clad building that was formerly closed off to the public into a welcoming hotel filled with compact rooms and handcrafted decor. The building has served various uses over time. The building's terracotta tile roof was retained, as well.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 2, 2024

The building splices together museum functions around an unused courtyard, and though the dome function is tall, the addition is sensitive to the vaulted hall and lower buildings defining the courtyard today. The roof mediates between the tall dome and the low facades of the one-story building, spanning 26x48m across the dome.

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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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Dwell

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This structure was to be very strong, be as fire resistant as possible and require as little long term exterior maintenance as possible. This structure was to be very strong, be as fire resistant as possible and require as little long term exterior maintenance as possible. A certificate of occupancy has been issued."

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Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2024

The structure's "monumental" form draws on American memorial architecture "The United States has a strong tradition when it comes to memorials," Kaan Architecten co-founder Vincent Panhuysen told Dezeen. This inspiring concept has set the tone for the design of this building for us," he continued.

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Deezen

APRIL 5, 2024

Local architecture studio Ædifica has created a residential apartment building outside Montreal with an interior courtyard and a metal-mesh second skin on the facade. Called Cité Angus II, the structure is part of Technopôle Angus, an urban revitalization project that its developers say is a "full-scale sustainable development".

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Architizer

AUGUST 23, 2022

Sakuragicho Residence – The development endeavored to re-define exterior wall tiling and balcony construction distinctive to, yet typical of, large apartment blocks. A challenge in allowing such co-location on the same footprint concerns the building’s appearance. Year: 2021. Size: 25,000 sqft – 100,000 sqft. ARCHITECTS.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 24, 2023

New York architecture studio REX has completed the "most automated" performance building in the world at Brown University's campus in Providence, Rhode Island. Called The Lindemann Performing Arts Center (The Lindemann) the 101,000 square-foot (9,383-square-metre) structure consists of a shoebox theatre with a long bridge-like walkway.

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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 23, 2024

Nestled beside the surrounding woodland, the cabin is wrapped by an external skin or 'monocoque' – similar to an eggshell – that draws on structural systems used within the aerospace and automotive industries. The structure draws aerospace and automative construction techniques Measuring 3.3-metres-wide, metres-wide, 3.5-metres-tall

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Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Along with curling exterior walls that span the length of the houses's perimeter, they were created using a technique in which concrete is poured slowly into fabric formwork supported by a plywood rib structure. The team covered the structure with berms, which rise out of the flat landscape of the surrounding agricultural fields.

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Deezen

JUNE 9, 2023

The academic building is located on ASU's main campus in Tempe, which is part of the Phoenix metropolitan area. Encompassing 281,000 square feet (26,106 square metres), the building houses a range of research institutes focused on topics such as food, water, energy and climate change.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Scalloped sections of green-painted timber clad the facade of Lumber 4, a mixed-use building in Norway designed by local consulting agency Oslotre to demonstrate the capabilities of timber construction. Over time, the paint under the shadow will weather, leading to a changing facade with lighter and darker curved sections," it added.

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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

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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Chicago architecture firm Studio Gang has expanded a California college through the addition of mass-timber structures that were informed by how fungi grow in the wild. Four buildings were designed to complement the existing structures – California modern-style buildings with stucco walls and splashes of colour – and the woodland environment.

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Dwell

APRIL 23, 2024

The kitchen, dining, and living spaces spill into each other and bleed into the outdoor gathering spaces to allow for easy exterior-to-interior gathering and entertaining. The exterior metal is strong and storm-resistant, but it is also made from recycled content and is reusable and recyclable. Post it here.

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Deezen

APRIL 16, 2024

Ross Barney Architects has created a deep-space technology research centre in Ohio The building forms part of a master plan for the NASA site, which has also been designed by Ross Barney Architects. The copper in the concrete allows for the building to act like a Faraday cage, completely isolating it from outside radio interference.

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SW Oregon Architect

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Olive Plaza (my photo) This is the next in my Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet series of blog posts, the focus of each being a landmark building here in Eugene. Many of these will be familiar to most who live here but there are likely to be a few buildings that are less so. The building must be extant so you or I can visit it in person.

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Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

Project Details: Location: Washington, United States Architect: GO'C / @ go_c_studio Footprint: 1,700 square feet Builder: Sparrow Woodworks Structural Engineer: SSF Engineers Civil Engineer: J Welch Engineering Envelope Consultant: RDH Building Science Inc.

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Deezen

JANUARY 16, 2023

LA studio Kevin Daly Architecture has created a headquarters for a Houston foundation that has a latticed canopy suspended over a white building that was created using steel and cross-laminated timber. The structure features a latticed canopy that was designed to reference the surrounding oak groves.

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Deezen

JULY 10, 2022

Neubau was approached by St Mary's Junior School for girls to transform the 1970s greenhouse into a specialised lab for teaching classes in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Polycarbonate panels were added to the exterior. Structural engineer: Simple Works. Plywood units feature inside.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2022

Local studio Mesh Architectures has completed Timber House, a condominium in Brooklyn that developer The Brooklyn Home Company claims is "the largest mass timber building in New York City.". The building has 14 condos. The way we do that here is by using a plant as the primary building material.".

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Deezen

JANUARY 21, 2024

The chapel has an exposed concrete structure "The simple chapel volume, set in the vast nature, is constructed as a lifted box, signifying a separation from the secular world," explained Eunsok. "It Alongside the main worship space on the first floor, which is named the Sea Chapel, the building contains two smaller prayer spaces.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Inaba Williams Architects has completed two white-stucco-clad houses in Santa Monica Brooklyn-based practice Inaba Williams Architects followed strategies laid out in Title 24 – California's Building Energy Efficiency Standards – to create net-zero emissions houses "better suited to our future climate conditions".

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 18, 2024

Marrying function and aesthetics, the building is figuratively and literally a simple machine for learning. Photo © Alan Brandt The 3,750-square-foot shed-roofed building, sited on the campus’ public threshold, puts science education on display. The north façade is scaled to relate to the larger campus buildings and campus green.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 12, 2022

After four years of construction, IQON rises 130 m making it the tallest building in the Ecuadorian capital of Quito – a city with one of the highest elevations in the world. Traditionally a city of dense low-rise buildings, the skyline of Quito was re-imagined following the relocation of the city-center airport over a decade ago.

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Deezen

AUGUST 24, 2022

Thai firm IDIN Architects has completed an office building in Bangkok , featuring angled metal cladding that reflects sunlight away from a nearby shrine and helps prevent the interior from overheating. The private office building also contains a penthouse for the owner on its top floor. Structural engineer: C-insight company.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

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). Its design was informed by local vernacular architecture The building is divided into several gabled -roof volumes, with a glazed connector at the centre. The photography is by Jennifer Hughes.

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