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This Arizona Home Uses the Desert Landscape as "Living Art"

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The desert city of Scottsdale, Arizona, is set within the sprawling Sonoran Desert and overlooked by the majestic McDowell Mountains, so it’s no surprise that this spectacular landscape plays a pivotal role in shaping much of the area’s architecture. Modern Sunset House is located on 14 acres of hillside.

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BIG designs Mindfulness City in Bhutan connected by "inhabitable bridges"

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Named Mindfulness City, the development will be located in the town of Gelephu near the Indian border in southern Bhutan and be built around a series of bridges. Above: Mindfulness City will be built in Bhutan. Turning engineering into art and turning the forces of nature into power," said Ingels.

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Ten architecture and landscape projects by Academy of Art University

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Rather than being located outside the city, the thesis proposes that these systems will be closely intertwined within the urban fabric as visible landmarks. "As The separation from parents caused many children to display characteristics that include loneliness, misconduct and lack of confidence.

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Arquitectonica reveals designs for new $1 billion mixed-use project in Miami's Medical District

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Site preparations will begin this year on the seven-acre Highland Park Miami development in the city’s Medical District. The plan for clients The Allen Morris Company and Black Salmon will increase the district’s total area by approximately ten percent, transforming it into the second largest such development in the country.

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Luxury within the landscape

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There is no doubt that 3 Ash House in Singapore is bespoke on every level, with tropical landscape and luxurious appointments at its heart. In reply, the architect has devised a design strategy that replicates the natural ground space through elevation and includes additional landscaping on the second and attic levels of the structure.

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Architectuur Maken designs sculptural staircase overlooking Dutch landscape

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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. Client: Municipality of Tilburg. Landscape architect: Eelerwoude.

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LBR&A creates dramatic cantilever for CH73 House in Mexico City

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Architecture studio LBR&A has designed a residence that "breaks the imposed paradigms of construction" in a Mexico City neighbourhood where development has reportedly taken its toll on the landscape. A landscaped garden is found outdoors. The project also entailed rehabilitating the landscape.

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