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Sparano + Mooney positions cedar home over canyon in Utah

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Local studio Sparano + Mooney Architecture cantilevered two envelopes with blackened-cedar siding over a canyon outside of Salt Lake City , Utah. Sparano + Mooney created the cantilevered home near Salt Lake City. bath house out of two volumes with floor-to-ceiling glazed ends that float above the landscape.

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Inaba Williams creates mirrored stucco-clad residences in California

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With less need for air conditioning and generous access to landscaped areas, they offer a more natural, less tempered experience with the environment." Residents enter from a small courtyard on the outside street-edge corner of the lot into a rounded entryway that passes directly into the main exterior courtyard.

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Hopson Rodstrom Design creates jagged-roof Los Angeles building with interior courtyard

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Pasadena-based studio Hopson Rodstrom Design ( H/RD ), designed the structure to "embrace" the higher-scale zoning that exists along thoroughfares in areas of the city generally filled with low-lying structures. The photography is by Here and Now Agency (HANA), Paul Vu.

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HGX Design creates house that "flows like music" in the Hudson Valley

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It was informed by the low-lying agricultural buildings of the area "Comprised of a series of utilitarian, simple form buildings with a repetitive vertical rhythm, the home's elongated footprint is reminiscent of the long, low-lying characteristics of agricultural buildings that dot the surrounding regional landscape," said the studio.

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Studio Gang designs Brooklyn fire station to train elite firefighters

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On the exterior, various anchor points similarly allow the firefighters to practice using the building itself. The void enables the team to practice rescue scenarios that mimic conditions common to the city, using its height and associated elements of balconies, bridge, doorways, ladders, and stairs," Studio Gang explained.

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MAD unveils sunken Train Station in the Forest in Jiaxing

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Photo is by Aogvision These underground waiting halls havemetal roofs equipped with solar panels that power the station, contrasting the brick exterior of the old station front. They stand like imposing palaces in Chinese city centres surrounded by wide main roads, viaducts, and vast empty squares," said Ma.

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HGA creates two mass-timber buildings for Bowdoin College in Maine

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Located near a grove of mature pine trees, the neighbouring buildings are in the southeast corner of the 215-acre (87-hectare) Bowdoin College campus in the city of Brunswick. In contrast to its red-brick neighbour, the Gibbons Center – which is dedicated to arctic research and education – is clad in a rustic, black-brick exterior.

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