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Forge Craft uses "hammock" approach to create outdoor space for transitional apartments

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Called Zilker Studios, the structure includes 110 affordable apartments operated by local housing organisation Foundation Communities. Strategic window sizes were used to help make the building energy-efficient Beyond helping to finance the project, Foundation Communities has pledged to pay the energy bills for the building.

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Kevin Daly designs canopied building to be "welcoming as the shadow beneath a tree"

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LA studio Kevin Daly Architecture has created a headquarters for a Houston foundation that has a latticed canopy suspended over a white building that was created using steel and cross-laminated timber. The structure features a latticed canopy that was designed to reference the surrounding oak groves.

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John Friedman and Alice Kimm include dining room crane in Los Angeles house

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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. The functional and workaday are the foundation for achieving artfulness and architectural innovation," said the studio.

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Deborah Berke Partners revamps modernist law centre at Harvard University

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Additional social spaces were also incorporated "The original modernist structure became outmoded with the changing needs of libraries and law pedagogy alike," said the firm. "As New York-based Deborah Berke Partners was tapped to design an update that met the centre's contemporary needs, which included more meeting rooms and social spaces.

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LMN Architects creates mass-timber business school for University of Washington

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The structure was made using mass timber. Mass timber – an engineered wood product – elements include glued laminated timber structural posts and beams and cross-laminated timber flooring. The structure was designed to meet the university's n Green Building Standards. The photography is by Tim Griffith. Project credits:

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Desai Chia creates “winged" roofs for Copake Lake House in New York

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The home's foundation was designed to avoid disturbing the trees' roots and causing them any harm. For the exterior walls, the team used a mix of concrete and cypress boards that were charred using the ancient Japanese technique of Shou Sugi Ban , helping bolster the wood's resistance to insects and rot.

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David Baker Architects accelerates housing for homeless in San Francisco with modular construction

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Simons noted the team's interaction with the local community group SOMA Pilipinas group "had a direct and strong influence on the patterns, textures and colors of the project, especially the exterior and the public spaces.". Structural engineer: DCI Engineers. MEP engineer: FARD Engineers.