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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion

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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion 0 qpurcell Thu, 09/28/2023 - 10:37 Office Buildings IMEG's Edwin Dean, Joe Gulden, and Doug Sweeney, share seven key focuses for structural engineers when planning office-to-residential conversions. faces a housing deficit of 3.8 million units.

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Mexico City renovation by Taller Héctor Barroso includes dark exterior

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Architecture studio Taller Héctor Barroso has fully revamped the decades-old DDH House in Mexico City for a family of five, including new facades clad in dark brown stucco that looks black. The DDH House sits on an irregularly shaped lot in the Lomas de Chapultepec neighbourhood in Mexico City. Structural engineering: Ricardo Camacho.

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A monastic cabin to escape bustling city life

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Cabin House was designed as a tranquil retreat, something immediately sensed by the home’s orientation towards the landscape and its compact placement on the southern side of the site. The clients wanted a weekend home, within the humdrum of the city, that invoked feelings of relaxation and rejuvenation. Project manager – S.

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Ædifica presents "vision of densification" for Cité Angus II housing block in Montreal

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The integration of this courtyard with its pedestrian walkway, private spaces, and landscaping at the heart of the project allows permeability with the urban fabric, encouraging human appropriation at the center of the site without compromising the program's minimum density objective," said Ædifica.

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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. The home, called Wabi Sabi Residence and completed in 2020 is a 4,000-square-foot (370-square metre) structure on a nine-acre lot in the Wasatch Range. metre) and 24-foot (7.3

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Outside, It’s a Foreboding Fortress. But Inside Hides Luminous Living Spaces

Dwell

The Mexico City home’s concrete facade says "keep out" while large windows at the back invite the outdoors in. Toward the street, on the façade, small openings were made to give a glimpse of the exterior while providing intimacy. Have one to share? Post it here. Inside, everything is different.

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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.