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

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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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Field Architecture clads flowing Sonoma house in copper

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Field Architecture has created a house in Sonoma Valley with copper-clad roofs Dry in the summers with heavy rainfall in the winter, the area's geography informed the design, as did the client's desire to co-inhabit the land with the region's plants and animals. "We the studio said. "By

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Snøhetta includes wooden oculus for Norwegian-American museum extension in Iowa

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Other public projects by Snøhetta include plans for a library in Charlotte with a "translucent prow" and a spiralling planetarium in France The photography is by Michael Grimm. Hall Glass & custom frit: Agnora The post Snøhetta includes wooden oculus for Norwegian-American museum extension in Iowa appeared first on Dezeen.

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CLB Architects creates trio of "tectonic structures" for Wyoming residence

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The project consists of a main house, guest house and writer's studio The main house was "conceived as a geologic remnant in the landscape, located on the edge between field and forest". The client's bohemian lifestyle and love of music, literature and the great outdoors were the inspiration behind the interior design," the team said.

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

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Its design is based on natural landscapes and prioritises helping visitors to connect to the outside, enticing them away from their screens. Located in Beijing's Tongzhou district, the library was designed by Snøhetta to "reinstate the library's relevance in the 21st century" and aims to offer a "new vision" for the typology.

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Mae Architects completes "21st-century almshouse" in Southwark

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The photography is by Tim Crocker.

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Burden Welcome Center by EskewDumezRipple

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As such, the design of the center will unfold from the landscape—a welcome center not so much sitting on the land but embedded in it. A series of glass walls on the far side of the entryway will provide unobstructed views out—a mediating surface between building and landscape. Image © EskewDumezRipple.