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Winter Visual Arts Center, Franklin & Marshall by Steven Hall Architects

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On the historic campus of Franklin & Marshall College, the new Winter Visual Arts Center takes shape as a raised pavilion formed by the site’s 200-year old trees, the oldest elements of the campus. Inspiring Space for Making and Teaching Art The 33,000 sf Winter Visual Arts Center is the center of creative life on campus.

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La Base Studio wraps glass Buenos Aires house with shading screen

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Local architecture firm La Base Studio has renovated a glass and concrete home, wrapping it in a delicate privacy and shading screen on a lush site in Buenos Aires , Argentina. The home was first constructed in the mid-1970s by a civil engineer, and La Base Studio demolished part of it for its current iteration.

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Gehry Partners references icebergs and Hollywood for Warner Bros building

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For the glass facades, we adopted the image of icebergs for the dynamic angled geometry of their vertical faces," Gehry Partners told Dezeen. The glass facades are based on icebergs "As a counterpoint, we imagined metal volumes embedded within the crystalline glass forms," the studio continued. "We

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

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New York architecture studio HGX Design has created a linear, glass-fronted home in the Hudson Valley informed by the "individual notes of a music composition". The studio also explained the home defies "the traditional expectations of an open plan" with "no barriers to the visual or physical flow of the home".

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Bohlin Cywinski Jackson designs nature-infused Henry Island Guesthouse in Washington

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The material palette for the guesthouse mimics that of the main residence – Douglas fir , cedar , steel and glass. A cast-in-place concrete ledge marks the entrance of the guesthouse "We used these materials to visually link new and existing buildings," the team said. A wall made of weathering steel serves as a privacy screen.

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Westchester Square Library by Snøhetta

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Designed as a prismatic reading room lifted on a board-formed concrete base, the Library’s fritted glass facades are inspired by The Bronx’s status as the “greenest Borough of New York City” and depict abstract views of the borough’s tree canopies. Image © Snøhetta. These elements go above and beyond current energy code requirements.

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Beijing’s Huijing Twin Towers by CLOU Architects

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Photo © Zhu Runzi The glass curtain wall of the atrium creates complex layers between inside and outside, the hidden wall washer lighting enhances the comfortable and natural ambience of the space blurs the boundary of indoor-outdoor.