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APRIL 9, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The house is 1,700 square feet, and reaches into the landscape with a sheltering roof and screen walls to create usable outdoor spaces on all sides. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

MAY 11, 2022

Studio Gang designed a firestation in Brooklyn. The new Rescue Company 2 facility is designed as a tool for training, enabling FDNY’s elite force of specialized rescue workers to stage and simulate a wide range of emergency conditions in, on, and around the building," the studio added. Civil engineer: Langan , civil engineer.

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Deezen

MAY 5, 2023

The property has a main residence designed by Pennsylvania-based Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in 2012. The building partly cantilevers over the site The guesthouse was designed to serve as a flexible space that could accommodate extended stays by family and friends. The guesthouse was built on a 24-acre (9.7-hectare)

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Deezen

JANUARY 19, 2023

Local studio Strang Design has created a contemporary residence with a garden terrace in Miami , Florida, complete with Brazilian influences and vintage touches. We carefully located the home amongst the existing oaks, from which its name was derived," the Strang Design team said. Civil engineer: Jorge G.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 24, 2023

REX designed a performance centre in Rhode Island According to REX founder Joshua Ramus, the brief for the project was to combine small performance spaces with student facilities and a home for the Brown University Orchestra. It's more automated than any other performing arts building in the world."

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

Known as DNA Alpine, the 4,000-square foot (372-square metre) home was completed in 2022 and designed to "disappear into or somehow become" the 75-acre site in San Miguel County. This DNA sequence, ever-present and unseen, underscores the subtleties of the landscape and the beauty of deferring to it."

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Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2024

Kaan Architecten has created a visitor centre at the Netherlands American Cemetery In 2017, Kaan Architecten was commissioned by the American Battle Monuments Commission to add a visitor centre to the landscaped site, providing a small display space and an auditorium. The photography is by Simon Menges.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

Partly because the client was a Japanese brewer who mainly makes sake, we also incorporated 'Japanese-ness' into the design." We have created a Japanese-style porch design that not only continues the interior space for tasting drinks, etc. and the landscape as an intermediate area, but also gently welcomes visiting guests."

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2023

bath house out of two volumes with floor-to-ceiling glazed ends that float above the landscape. The north volume is oriented along a direct east-to-west axis and contains the private spaces, while the south volume, rotated 45 degrees along the canyon's axis, holds the public gathering spaces that overlook the landscape and city below.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

MAD designed Train Station in the Forest in Jiaxing The studio created an underground terminal with a public park created at ground level along with a full-scale replica of the original 1907 station recreated as the north entrance to the building. Railway Siyuan Survey and Design Group Co.

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Deezen

JUNE 9, 2023

Architecture studios Grimshaw and Architekton looked to natural elements such as rocks and saguaro cacti while designing the Walton Center of Planetary Health at Arizona State University. The centre's design is "rooted in resiliency, site-specificity and inspiration", the team said. "The

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 18, 2024

Design for integration & Design for Discovery: The Science Station is integrated into the broader context of the high desert and the immediate context of the new OSU-Cascades campus in form and materiality. The design team drew on prior experience designing for the unique high-desert climate of Central Oregon.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

Design studio HGA has completed a pair of educational facilities , Mills Hall and Gibbons Center, that are among the first "commercially scaled mass-timber buildings" in the state of Maine. Skylights punctuate the gabled roofs "Gibbons has a more mysterious, introverted quality," said Nat Madison, design principal at HGA.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Most of its campus was originally designed by American architects Charles Moore and William Turnbull in the early 1970s. Four buildings were designed to complement the existing structures – California modern-style buildings with stucco walls and splashes of colour – and the woodland environment.

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Deezen

JANUARY 16, 2023

The structure features a latticed canopy that was designed to reference the surrounding oak groves. The building's design team was inspired by one of Houston's most characteristic features: the landscape of trees that Swedish architect and Rice University architecture professor and former dean Lars Lerupnamed the zoohemic canopy.".

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2022

Brooks + Scarpa designed the 11 NOHO apartment building in North Hollywood. Large aspects of 11 NOHO were cut away to open up the design. The building has a white exterior that helps enhance natural light and reduce heat gain – the latter being an important consideration given the area's hot climate. MEP engineering: IDS Group.

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Deezen

MAY 22, 2023

Daniel Joseph Chenin designed the house in the Las Vegas desert Named Fort 137, "the building pays homage to the old fort structures from the early settlement days of Las Vegas, which relied upon site-sourced materials along with tried-and-true techniques for designing and building in an arid climate," the team told Dezeen.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Composed of three distinct buildings – a main house, guesthouse and writer's studio – the project was designed for a California-based couple who manage an independent record label. 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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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Designing our own house was great because we didn’t have to ask permission," Friedman told Dezeen. "We Large windows open the various rooms to the forest-like landscape The ADU sits atop an embedded garage and is topped by an urban roof garden with a sinuous aluminium sunshade structure.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Eric had worked with this client before and was intrigued by the request to step outside of his preferred design sensibilities and to venture in a seemingly opposite aesthetic direction. Post it here.

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Deezen

APRIL 3, 2024

Built between 1959 and 1963 according to plans by Basil Spence, Blocks A and B housed the Magnox reactors and were intended to reference the look and feel of medieval castles. "Remarkably, they do seem to sit as comfortably in the landscape as a nuclear reactor can.

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aasarchitecture

JULY 7, 2023

Strategically placed windows, purposeful exterior circulation and units that wrap the outer-most edges, orient the 67 low-income apartments to social spaces that are spatially apart, yet visually connected to each other thru the social spaces at the center of the complex of buildings. Source by Brooks + Scarpa.

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Deezen

AUGUST 12, 2022

The exterior facade is made of concrete panels. Rectangular in plan, the building was designed using 50-foot (15-metre) modules to accommodate future changes and additions. The exterior panels were maximised in width as much as possible to reduce the number of joints," the studio said. MEP engineer: Modus.

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Deezen

APRIL 10, 2022

A lush green wall and back-lit fibreglass panels are found on the exterior of an electrical substation extension that was designed by TEF Design to achieve net-zero energy consumption. For the constrained site, local firm TEF Design conceived a two-storey addition that totals 12,200 square feet (1,133 square metres).

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aasarchitecture

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Photo © Zhu Runzi Interspersing contemporary workspace with recreational offers, the central atrium is conceived as an urban courtyard oasis, an all-day social gathering spot where sunlight, landscape, and art create a comfortable environment at the intersection of work and commerce. Source by CLOU Architects.

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Deezen

JUNE 21, 2023

In Situ Studio designed the 1,158-square foot (108-square metre) welcome building for the large park that surrounds the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA). Designed to be a quiet backdrop to the existing landscape, the low, simple building has a broad, thin roof that curves gently and creates a shaded vantage point across the park.

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Deezen

APRIL 18, 2022

White siding and a curvy aluminium screen make up the exterior of a residential building in Los Angeles designed by American firm Brooks + Scarpa. Brooks + Scarpa designed a functional urban apartment building in LA. Brooks + Scarpa designed a functional urban apartment building in LA. Civil engineer: Barbara Hall.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Image © TEF Design. TEF Design recently completed concept designs for the shell and core base building rehabilitation of the landmark structure, including envelope improvements, complete roof replacement, and structural retrofit to transform the former theater for contemporary commercial use. Image © TEF Design.

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Deezen

JANUARY 11, 2023

The 230,000-square foot (21,370-square metre) two-building creative complex was designed by West of West , a studio with offices in Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles, with American studio Gensler serving as the architect of record. Completed in 2022, Eastbound sits on 3.4 There was a kind of beautiful roughness to the buildings.

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Deezen

JULY 21, 2022

SPF Architects designed atheletic buildings for the Michelle and Barack Obama Sports Complex. Because of the ongoing athletic activity at the park, it was necessary that SPF Architects find a design program that involved multi-phase construction. Large glass windows open up to the exterior athletic fields.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Its new building was designed to embody a novel approach to learning about the natural world. Opening at a crucial moment for rethinking relationships between human and non-human biology, the new Montreal Insectarium represents a critical new approach for museums of natural history," the design team said.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

La Base Studio designed the project in Buenos Aires The site falls at an intersection of a busy cosmopolitan street and an elevated railway infrastructure where the roads dead end into green slopes. The location exposes the home to onlookers, so the design responds to views differently between the levels.

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e-architect

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Design: Kor Architects. A family home unites the demands of an extensive program with hierarchy, plasticity, natural light, views, blurring of interior/exterior space and a unique connection to the natural landscape. The end result is a seamless integration of architecture, landscape architecture, and nature.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 19, 2023

KAAN Architecten was commissioned by the American Battle Monuments Commission to design a Visitor Center for the only American Cemetery on Dutch soil. Guided by the landscape setting and the monumental atmosphere of the site, the building complements the serenity of this vast memorial.

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Deezen

AUGUST 8, 2023

At 93 storeys and 1,066 feet (325 metres) tall, the supertall skyscraper topped out in March 2023 , but the intricate cladding of its exterior was only recently completed. Local interior firm Gachot Studios carried out the design of most of the residences.

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aasarchitecture

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Located at number 1819 Pico Boulevard, one of the most important streets in the Californian city of Santa Monica, is a building of 48 homes designed by the architecture studio Brooks + Scarpa. This totally electric “Net Zero” 100% affordable housing project is certified LEED Platinum and has an astounding pEUI of 6.6, 4850 sqm), 49 units (0.57

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