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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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Field Architecture clads flowing Sonoma house in copper

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We looked to the bush – those forested, undeveloped areas of nature that surround the house – while allowing the built structures to adapt to the natural terrain," the studio said. Two stone bases serve as the foundation for the pavilions that house the living areas. the studio said. "By

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News: UPenn's Weitzman School of Design? announces 2023–24 McHarg Fellow and postdoctoral appointments

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The Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania has announced the appointment of their 2023–2024 McHarg Fellow in the Department of Landscape Architecture and the elevation of three other postdoctoral researchers within the Department of Architecture and Department of City and Regional Planning.

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GO'C places arts centre on former Seattle gas station site to "heal an urban problem"

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GO'C has created the City Park Mini Mart art centre in Seattle Initially attempting to renovate an existing structure, GO'C realised it did not provide enough space. The structure was built on the site of a former gas station Using references from the era, the structure features classic signage, an overhanging roof and divided metal windows.

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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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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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Atherton Pavilions by Feldman Architecture

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The Atherton pavilions consist of two accessory structures that are richly detailed and intimately connected to the landscape. The pavilions are delicately placed amidst the landscape of redwoods and other mature trees, blending in with the softscape and helping make the transition between garden and structure as seamless as possible.