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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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Inaba Williams creates mirrored stucco-clad residences in California

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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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Daniel Joseph Chenin uses passive building strategies for stone-clad Nevada house

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The five-bedroom house was conceived as a series of connected rock masses, oriented to maximise views of the surrounding landscape and arranged to create thermally protected communal zones on the interior. Drawing colours and textures from the landscape, Fort 137 uses native and regionally sourced materials that will patina over time.

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Beijing’s Huijing Twin Towers by CLOU Architects

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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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Hopson Rodstrom Design creates jagged-roof Los Angeles building with interior courtyard

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Pasadena-based studio Hopson Rodstrom Design ( H/RD ), designed the structure to "embrace" the higher-scale zoning that exists along thoroughfares in areas of the city generally filled with low-lying structures. We were able to get approval for a 7th story by wrapping the top in the perforated metal."

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Brooklyn's first supertall skyscraper reaches completion

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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. New York studio SHoP Architects has completed the black and bronze facade of the supertall skyscraper Brooklyn Tower, the tallest building in the borough.

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

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We were taken by the low concrete and metal warehouses surrounded by wild landscapes and ancient oak trees, and the way those buildings were aging after fifty years and the landscape had grown up around them. Civil engineer: Civilitude. Landscape architect: TBG. Mechanical & plumbing Engineer: Integral Group.