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Kuehm Malvezzi designs Montreal Insectarium to subvert "museological norms and expectations"

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Architecture studios Kuehn Malvezzi , Pelletier de Fontenay and Jodoin Lamarre Pratte Architectes have created an insect zoo and museum in a glazed sawtooth-roof building with interior spaces that emulate the experience of being a bug. The main component is a two-storey glass building with a rectangular plan and sawtooth roof.

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A Brick Facade Is About All This Australian Home Shares With Its Neighbors

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The house is composed of three pavilions that step down along the contours of the long rectangular site; a barn-like structure forms the main living space in the center of the property and is bookended by brick clad forms that contain bedrooms at the front and a car workshop at the rear. "The Post it here.

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SAW transforms a hillside home in Mill Valley

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Spiegel Aihara Workshop (SAW) has completed the transformative architectural and landscape design of a 1962 home in Mill Valley for a couple and their two young children. While the entire home is an exercise in blurring distinctions between interior and exterior, this reaches its fullest expression at the rear. Roof Floor Plan.

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Marlon Blackwell's Thaden School buildings are rooted in Arkansas vernacular architecture

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The structure has a lime green exterior and a roof that "pitches and rolls to provide daylight and ventilation", according to the studio. A canopy stretching along the city's Main Street serves as a "billboard" for the campus and also shelters an outdoor bike workshop. Structural engineer: Engineering Consultants Inc.

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Radio Hotel and Tower by MVRDV

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The stacked shape has the added benefit of providing multiple outdoor terraces, with every block having its own outdoor space on the roof of the block below. The hotel’s interior design by Workshop APD takes the exterior as its inspiration, matching the brightly-coloured bathrooms to the colours of the blocks.

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Blue-timber gardeners' workshop topped with illuminating lantern

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Gardeners House is a blue-stained timber and terracotta-brick structure in a park in Geneva , designed by architecture studio Cabinet to provide workshops for gardeners and leisure space for locals. A central hall connects the workshops and public spaces, as well as an office and changing rooms.

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Lafond Desjardins Dental Laboratory, Laval

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The sense of vastness created by its double height, the abundance of natural light from the upstairs garden – filtered through metal-chain screens – and the pure white walls and polished-concrete floor contrast sharply with the exterior. In order to provide natural light for the workers, most zones feature exterior-facing windows.