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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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

British architecture practice Studio Bark has worked with students from the University of East London to devise a roof-supporting column with otherwise unusable timber at a site within ancient English woodland. This is "an old technique", said Thorns, but one that opens up a lot of opportunities to use smaller trees.

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2023

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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Deezen

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Architecture firm Alterstudio has completed a tower-like house in Texas that rises up from a steep, wooded site that was long overlooked "as a possible home site". The site had long been overlooked as feasible for home construction. Alterstudio saw potential and let the constraints guide the home's design.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Argentinian architect Malvina Zayat has completed a white home for herself and her family that is lifted above a sloped site and enters into "an intimate dialogue with the sky and clouds". Accessed via a cobblestone street, the home is perched on a hilly property with extensive views of the landscape.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

From rainforests in the most unlikely transport hubs to event spaces hanging preciously over world heritage sites and remote rest stops for desert travelers, each of the blueprints below proves that our planet is the ultimate creative force. Architizer's 12th Annual A+Awards are officially underway!

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Deezen

OCTOBER 18, 2023

From factories and warehouses to shop fronts and underpasses, Hicks explores the structures that make up the post-industrial landscape of the West Midlands region known as the Black Country. The landscape I grew up in is human-made. Letterforms have the ability to locate a building in a certain time period".

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Archinect

AUGUST 31, 2022

Hurley Building at the Boston Government Service Center. The move was announced last week after years of speculation as to the fate of Rudolph’s endangered Brutalist follow-up to his Yale School of Art & Architecture building from 1963.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The project is formed of five interconnected glazed buildings in a stepped arrangement, with the lowest volumes located next to the Kai Tak river. It also features landscaped spaces Inside, the lower buildings house 60,000 square metres of retail space, while the tower holds 100,000 square metres of office space.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The firms say the project is conceived as a “pillar in the reconciliation of Indigenous and Western ways of living and building” that will serve as an important precedent as the first “major public building” in an area with the highest ratio of Indigenous residents of any other major city in the country.

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Deezen

APRIL 3, 2024

A crematorium clad in ribbed concrete and a geometric university bell tower feature in this roundup of 10 brutalist buildings photographed by Simon Phipps for his Brutal Wales book. I'm interested in the sculptural qualities of each building and the ways in which light and shade articulate them," he continued.

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Deezen

MARCH 10, 2023

The design was generally inspired by the vernacular language of the agricultural landscape based on the origins of the site and its surroundings," the studio said. The vertical, white-wood cladding and standing-seam metal roof reference regional agrarian buildings, but with contemporary refinement.

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Deezen

MAY 31, 2023

The winery is located in a rolling green landscape of fields and vineyards outside the village of Kurdějov, which has historically been one of the region's most important wine-growing sites and subject to a recent growth in wine tourism. At the rear of the building, large concrete columns frame a parking and delivery area.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 12, 2023

According to the team, the building named The Landing House “masterfully blends into the layout, textures, and color palette of its desert canvas.” Los Angeles-based Industry of All Nations (IOAN) has completed a timber residence set against the backdrop of California’s Joshua Tree National Park.

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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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Dwell

MAY 15, 2024

Blue Sky Building Systems makes steel structures to your specifications, whether for a suburban dwelling or Joshua Tree retreat. Welcome to Prefab Profiles , an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. The main structure of the home was constructed within a four-day period.

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Archinect

JANUARY 6, 2022

A 5-story, 122,000 office and retail building, set to be one of the largest Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) buildings in Los Angeles , is taking shape. Its tiered vertical garden courtyard was designed by landscape architecture firm James Corner Field Operations. According to a press releas.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Featuring houses that reach daringly out over steep bluffs and a T-shaped home in Sweden, this roundup collects 10 of the most dramatic cantilevered buildings recently published on Dezeen. According to architecture studio Bauen , the glass and steel structure was manufactured in 60 days and assembled in only seven.

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ArchDaily

JULY 24, 2023

By building houses like the Latypi residence on hillsides, we can reduce the impact construction has on the landscape, while keeping the views for ourselves. Modern development sites instead look for industry and transport links rather than water and farmland, but a level site is still the preferred option.

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Deezen

MARCH 19, 2024

US architecture studio Cannon Design has referenced the local landscape and "prioritized inclusion", drawing on the Native American heritage of the site for its design of a university student centre in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2024

Also included is an urban design scheme that aims to withstand the effects of extreme weather events caused by climate change and an adaptive reuse project that turns a derelict building into a community food hub. The research takes into analysis a typical H-shaped building located in the Barca district of Bologna. "By

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

These complex feats of engineering offer passage between buildings, supported in their entirety by the structures they connect. Fusing two commercial buildings in the heart of San Francisco, the glazed intervention creates almost 100,000 square feet of continuous office space for Twitter, now known as X. Order your copy today.

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The Architecture Designs

JANUARY 22, 2024

This includes an appealing de­sign, structure rundown, and ideal location for the house­. This is what landscape architects do. They may create­ a calm Japanese Zen garde­n or a structured French formal garden. In this Guide, we will discuss landscape architecture and its importance. What is landscape architecture?

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A team led by MVRDV has begun construction on a leisure and cultural district in Shanghai on the site of a disused cement factory.

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Deezen

JULY 4, 2023

Pinwheel is a holiday home in Italy "While exploring several design options for a compact house to fit on this small plot, we realised that the building constraints and the client's requirements resulted in the simple geometry of a pentagon shape," said JM Architecture founder Jacopo Mascheroni. The photography is by Mascheroni.

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BD+C

JUNE 5, 2023

How to properly assess structural wind damage 0 dbarista Mon, 06/05/2023 - 16:17 Engineers Properly assessing wind damage can identify vulnerabilities in a building's design or construction, which could lead to future damage or loss, writes Matt Wagner, SE, Principal and Managing Director with Walter P Moore.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The project is formed of five interconnected glazed buildings in a stepped arrangement, with the lowest volumes located next to the Kai Tak river. It also features landscaped spaces Inside, the lower buildings house 60,000 square metres of retail space, while the tower holds 100,000 square metres of office space.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Also included is a scheme that aims to implement landscape architecture methods that stop diseases from spreading, as well as a project examining the impact of wildfires. Landscape architecture is a broad field that encompasses the design of a complex range of environments outside our buildings.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Gehry Partners has created a building for Warner Bros in Burbank Second Century Burbank is divided into two large blocks connected by a two-storey volume that is topped by a landscaped courtyard. These are used across the building's highway-facing elevations and have an "icy white appearance" intended to evoke the form of icebergs.

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Hotel Designs

MAY 4, 2023

Situated within Saudi Arabia’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site and opening by Q4 2023, The Chedi Hegra will offer 35 bespoke guestrooms, each with its own distinct connection to the Hegra landscape, a breath-taking testimony of human expression within the natural environment.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Located off the Bundesautobahn 72 motorway to the east of Leipzig, the centre sits alongside a new educational trail that celebrates the Leubinger Fürstenhügel site, which is one of the region's most important archaeological monuments. Read: Curving larch wood buildings with green roofs form school extension in Germany.

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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. The public areas are located on the slightly recessed first floor.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

GO'C has created the City Park Mini Mart art centre in Seattle Initially attempting to renovate an existing structure, GO'C realised it did not provide enough space. The structure was built on the site of a former gas station Using references from the era, the structure features classic signage, an overhanging roof and divided metal windows.

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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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Deezen

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The structures sit at 10 campsites along the 160-kilometre-long hiking trail, which traverses the Grampians National Park, or Gariwerd, from Mount Zero in the north to the town of Dunkeld in the south. Alongside them, a series of camping huts and amenities pods have also been installed at some sites. Photo is by Adam Gibson.

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Deezen

AUGUST 10, 2022

Dutch studio Architectuur Maken has completed De Niewe Herdgang, a sculptural staircase rising 25 metres to create a watchtower over the landscape outside the city of Tilburg , the Netherlands. Landscape and people are inextricably linked. Architectuur Maken has created a sculptural staircase called De Niewe Herdgang.

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