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MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple creates elliptical house for mountainous site

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Extreme site conditions drove the design of House at 9,000 Feet, a rounded dwelling by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects in the American West supported by stilts and accessed via a bridge. The project's name – House at 9,000 Feet – stems from the home's perch on a mountaintop at 9,000 feet (2,743 metres) above sea level.

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Rural structures in Québec inform Virgin Vineyard House by LAMAS

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A rugged stone wall lines the front of a long, linear house in Québec , Canada, by architectural studio LAMAS , which was designed to capitalise on views while minimising disruption to the landscape. Walls were clad in stone and hemlock wood, and the house was topped with a metal gabled roof. There also is a roof deck.

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Brooks + Scarpa envision California housing block as "carved-out cube"

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Architecture studio Brooks + Scarpa has completed an all-electric, affordable housing complex in Santa Monica called 1819 Pico, which departs from the area's typical "defensive apartment buildings" with their solid walls and fences. For the city at large, the courtyard is an urbane housing type that fits well into neighbourhoods."

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Field Architecture clads flowing Sonoma house in copper

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California studio Field Architecture designed this Sonoma Valley house out of a trio of fanning copper-clad pavilions with butterfly roofs. Named Madrone Ridge, the 4,920 square-foot (460 square-metre) house sits within the watershed of northern California's Russian River. the studio said. "By

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Geological formations shape design of Wyoming house by Lever Architecture

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Weathering steel and accoya wood wrap the exterior of the Alta House, which was created by US studio Lever Architecture to embrace the "sublime mountain landscape". Located in the small Wyoming town of Alta, the house serves as a holiday home for an outdoor-loving couple from Portland, Oregon. Situated on a half-acre (0.2-hectare)

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

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New York studio Leong Leong has renovated a 1970s ranch house in Los Angeles by adding a large wall, outdoor spaces and a polycarbonate panel-wrapped second storey. Due to local historic preservation guidelines, the team only renovated 50 per cent of the existing house.

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CCY architects wraps Colorado house in patinated copper

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US studio CCY Architects has clad a mountainside house in patinated copper panels and tilted the roof to adhere with the topography of its site in Colorado. Settled on the edge of a meadow surrounded by spruce trees, the massing of the two-bedroom, rectangular house follows the natural grade, never rising more than 15 feet (4.5

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