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This Unassuming Edwardian-Era Home in Australia Conceals a Crisp, Airy Extension

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The clients also developed a sensory direction that would make the house feel calming and soft to the touch. This space boasts a northern window opening to a small pocket garden and allowing the afternoon sun to pour in. Post it here. The new addition sits behind the existing heritage structure, concealed from the street. "A

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Skylab arranges series of A-frame Colorado cabins in snowflake-like pattern

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Tall triangular windows under the eaves bring natural light into the interiors and direct views toward mountain vistas. The panelized structure of the 475-square foot (44-square metre) cabins was prefabricated by Plant Prefab in Los Angeles and then assembled on-site.

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Four Pines is a Wyoming home clad in cedar and local stone

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The home was designed to achieve three main goals – to make the most of the natural setting, provide ample space for visitors, and accommodate the client's impressive art collection, which features work by artists such as Richard Serra, Deborah Butterfield and Roy Lichtenstein. Windows open the home to the mountains beyond.

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Beijing Chang’an Huijing Twin Towers Renovation by CLOU

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Day-to-night uses, from co-working gardens to health and wellness facilities and dining establishments, ensure the vibrancy of the five above-ground levels of this central zone beyond office hours, while the basement offers extended daily services in direct connectivity to Yong’anli metro station. Image © CLOU.

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Salem Public Library Renovation by Hacker

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Photo © Lara Swimmer New windows and redesigned entrances create connections between outside and in, and the voluminous central space creates vertical connections between floors. With almost no wiggle room in a utilitarian budget, the design team for the library needed to get creative finding ways to make every dollar spent do double-duty.

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West of West experiments with "beautiful roughness" for Austin office complex

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acres and was inspired by the visual language of the neighbouring warehouses such as punched windows and linear massing. The central pathway is marked by small gathering spaces that trail into the building, creating a "living room" that bridges interior and exterior zones. "A Floor-to-ceiling storefront windows create natural light.

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Hacker overhauls "fortress-like" brutalist library in Oregon

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To improve the seismic design, the team added shear walls on three sides of the building and replaced out-of-date windows. Programmatic zones were shifted around and modified. Civil engineer: Westech Engineering. Structural engineer: KPFF. Mechanical and plumbing engineer: PAE. Client: City of Salem.