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Modu clads Houston building with "self-cooling" exterior

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Brooklyn-based studio Modu has created a building envelope that lowers the ambient air temperature in order to help cool the interior and exterior of this Houston building. Each tenant will be provided with both an interior and exterior space. A bamboo grove will also provide additional shade.

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REX creates "holy grail" combination of performance spaces in Providence

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To accomplish this, REX included a "clear storey", a glazed walkway that runs the length of the building, passing between the shoebox form and the exterior wall. For the exterior, REX aimed to create a contemporary structure that "played nicely" with the surrounding historical styles.

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Inaba Williams creates mirrored stucco-clad residences in California

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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. The white of the exterior continues inside A bedroom suite, garage, and a secluded zen garden hold the southern edge of the site.

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The Kitchen in This Pacific Northwest Retreat Is Made From Douglas Fir Felled On-Site

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Project Details: Location: Washington, United States Architect: GO'C / @ go_c_studio Footprint: 1,700 square feet Builder: Sparrow Woodworks Structural Engineer: SSF Engineers Civil Engineer: J Welch Engineering Envelope Consultant: RDH Building Science Inc.

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Omar Gandhi Architects balances cedar house on rocky Nova Scotia coastline

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The exterior is "minimal in its massing" "The exterior is extremely minimal in its massing," said OGA principal Omar Gandhi. "It The house presents as two interlocked, stacking boxes – that are meant to weather over time to match the pale grey of the sky – perched on a hillside.

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Studio Egret West to transform former Heinz HQ into London housing

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Studio Egret West will preserve the concrete exterior of the former Heinz headquarters They were designed by US architect Gordon Bunshaft while working at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and were his only project in the UK. The images are by Hism.

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HGX Design creates house that "flows like music" in the Hudson Valley

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Floor-to-ceiling windows line the majority of the exterior, with the remainder clad in a vertical cedar siding. Constructors: Pete Mostaccio Engineers: DiSalvo Erickson (Structural Engineers), Crawford Associates (Civil Engineers) Landscape architects: Wagner Hodgson Lighting consultant: Claude R.

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