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GO'C places arts centre on former Seattle gas station site to "heal an urban problem"

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Local studio GO'C drew on the aesthetics of a 1930s gas station to create Mini Mart City Park, a community arts centre in Seattle that aims to show the potential of remediated brownsites. Also important was the remediation of the contaminated site, often referred to as a brownfield site.

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

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Located on a triangular site in Paris's 19th arrondissement, the project is "the capital's first zero-carbon district", according to TVK. TVK claims the 35,200-square-metre development is the largest load-bearing stone building site since Georges-Eugène Haussmann's reconstruction of Paris in the mid-19th century.

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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. This projection helped us to minimize the impact on this natural site and reduce excavation.". metre) cantilevers.

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Google opens New York headquarters built on renovated 1930s train terminal

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Google has opened a building serving its North American operations in New York City that is housed in a 1930s rail terminal restored and adapted by architecture studios CookFox Architects and Gensler. Site developer: Oxford Properties Architect of record : Adamson Associates, P.C. But you did. That's the genius of Google. said Hochul.

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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. Skylights punctuate the gabled roofs "Gibbons has a more mysterious, introverted quality," said Nat Madison, design principal at HGA.

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MAD unveils sunken Train Station in the Forest in Jiaxing

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A metal roof and glass facade contrast the brick station. 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. The photography is by CreatAR Images, unless stated otherwise.

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Ten brutalist Welsh buildings with "sculptural qualities"

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The composition is further enhanced by the varied angles of mono-pitched roofs and flashes of intense colour from the stained glass in the chapels." The building's design draws stylistic parallels with Boston City Hall (1968) by Kallmann, McKinnell & Knowles, though on a more modest scale, befitting a cathedral city in north Wales."

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