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Snøhetta creates library to emulate feeling of "sitting under a tree"

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International studio Snøhetta has completed Beijing City Library in China , a glass-lined building filled with towering tree-like columns and rooms disguised as hills. Its design is based on natural landscapes and prioritises helping visitors to connect to the outside, enticing them away from their screens.

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Brooklyn Basin Township Commons // Einwiller Kuehl Landscape

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Urban design critic John King of the San Francisco Chronicle described Township Commons as “a startling act of urban reinvention that, with time, should pull people from across the city to an area that until now has been off the map” The new park welcomes Oakland residents back to their waterfront with a bold and brave definition of a park.

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TVK designs limestone buildings for "first zero-carbon district" in Paris

Deezen

The biggest challenge of the project was to bring together more than a dozen programmes and turn them into a fully-fledged part of the city," said Trévelo and Kohler. The shape of each building is linked to the very specific geometry of the site shaped by the railway infrastructure," they continued. The photography is by Julien Hourcade.

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Page Southerland Page integrates "past and future" at Texas Capitol Complex

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The Texas Capitol Complex – designed for the Texas Facilities Commission – spans approximately 150 acres across 40 city blocks around the Texas State Capitol. We hope this project will enhance urban spaces in the city, contributing to the State of Texas' and Austin's unique, vibrant identity." & Elec. (AOR & Elec.

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Burden Welcome Center by EskewDumezRipple

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Intended to provide visitors with an overview of the many destinations dispersed throughout the 440-acre property in the heart of Louisiana’s capital city, the 28,625-square-foot facility will also detail the rich history of the Burden family and the Burden property, one of the largest donations ever made to LSU and the surrounding community.

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Leong Leong transforms 1970s Los Angeles ranch house into "suburban sanctuary"

Deezen

Historic preservation guidelines limited the interventions that could be made "We were inspired by the client's desire to rethink cliches of contemporary domesticity and create a home to live with art but not be saturated by it," co-founder Dominic Leong told Dezeen. To reduce water usage, the landscaping is drought tolerant "xeriscape."

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The Hope Center & Berkeley Way Apartments by LMSA

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Photo © Bruce Damonte This project demonstrates the city’s and non-profit partner’s commitment to creating a community based on social, financial, and environmental resilience, equity, sustainability, and integration.