Dwell

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A man-made object in nature may exist in harmony or disparity. In this part of California, it is no longer legal for homes to be suspended over a creek. Most importantly, the new home had to follow the exact outline of the existing house and decks. Rather than hide this support system, it is exposed on all the floors.

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Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

Located in Washington’s Kitsap Peninsula, the rambler-style home utilized the trees for the roof and a coffee table, too. The house is 1,700 square feet, and reaches into the landscape with a sheltering roof and screen walls to create usable outdoor spaces on all sides. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

Known as DNA Alpine, the 4,000-square foot (372-square metre) home was completed in 2022 and designed to "disappear into or somehow become" the 75-acre site in San Miguel County. This DNA sequence, ever-present and unseen, underscores the subtleties of the landscape and the beauty of deferring to it." meters) above ground level.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Located in Austin, Texas , the r usted steel-clad home was completed for a retired professional golfer. Visitors enter directly into the home's open-concept kitchen, living, and dining room – a large space overlooking the ravine below. The home is clad in rusted-steel siding. "My The home contains four bedrooms.

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Dwell

JULY 20, 2022

The concrete-and-steel home by Faulkner Architects gives one family a refined escape in the mountains of Northern California. The site sits on a north facing slope and looks down to the Martis Valley and up to Lookout Mountain through a natural screen of 100-year-old Jeffrey pine trees.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Completed in 2019 on the eastern end of Long Island , New York, the 8,300-square foot (770-square metre) home has a board-formed mass with punched windows, natural materials and light-filled spaces. The home has a poolhouse with an outdoor shower. Read: Ten of the best homes in the Hamptons. Landscape: The Bayberry.

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Deezen

JUNE 8, 2022

The home was designed to achieve three main goals – to make the most of the natural setting, provide ample space for visitors, and accommodate the client's impressive art collection, which features work by artists such as Richard Serra, Deborah Butterfield and Roy Lichtenstein. Windows open the home to the mountains beyond.

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e-architect

JULY 13, 2023

Located on a working dairy farm within the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, this forgotten historical artefact has been brought back into use, recently opening its doors to guests. The bunker otherwise remains submerged in the landscape, as it was originally designed to be. I think we have managed to achieve this.”

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Deezen

JANUARY 19, 2023

"We carefully located the home amongst the existing oaks, from which its name was derived," the Strang Design team said. The careful placement of the home gives the sense that it has been there for ages and grew amongst the trees." The second storey is wrapped with vertical ipe wood fins that jut out from a densely landscaped planter.

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Dwell

AUGUST 2, 2023

Denis Joelsons crafts a home that embraces the Atlantic Forest with wide-open spaces and chic black tile that runs inside and out. Instead, the focus point within this landscape is defined by the tree canopy. In order to work with the terrain’s natural slope and existing clearings, intermediate-level terraces were established.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Located on a 35-acre (14-hectare) property near the town of Wilson, the home was envisioned as a series of "tectonic structures" set within a diverse ecosystem. It was envisioned as a series of tectonic structures Both homeowners are also authors, and they desired a second home in rural Wyoming where they could write while immersed in nature.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

"With less need for air conditioning and generous access to landscaped areas, they offer a more natural, less tempered experience with the environment." The studio said the home has achieved net-zero emissions At the northern end of the site lies a small two-storey volume that holds a media room and a private suite.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 18, 2024

The nonprofit’s new home is a light-flooded learning laboratory on the Oregon State University-Cascades (OSU) campus providing state-of-the-art facilities for STEM education, research, and teacher training serving K-12 students and teachers of Central Oregon. Low-flow plumbing fixtures and native landscaping minimize on-site water use.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

John's Terminal revealed in the cut facade as if in a section drawing, now feature a landscape that visually connects pedestrians and occupants to nature while enhancing the newly opened streetscape," said Cookfox Architects. Landscape architect of record: Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc.

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e-architect

MAY 17, 2023

One of the primary design goals was to ensure that the home had a sense of connectivity, despite its size. They also incorporated strong natural materials like rough-cut Jerusalem tiles for the exterior walls, exposed board form concrete, and teak millwork accents throughout the home.

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e-architect

JULY 24, 2023

Situated on an extraordinary estate with several existing traditional-style buildings, including an adjoining pool house, the 18,194-square-foot home was designed to extend the contact between living space and landscape through transparency and erosion of mass.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Immersing guests in the natural landscape of the wooded site along the Fraser River, the project touches lightly on the land with elevated cabins and a network of boardwalks that maximise interaction with the mountain site while preserving the trees and natural watershed. A historic saloon building holds the corner of the site.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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 location exposes the home to onlookers, so the design responds to views differently between the levels. The photography is by Cristóbal Palma.

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Dwell

MAY 12, 2023

This new home in the hamlet feels obliged to honor the area’s historical context. A negative volume forms around these stacks, comprising a landscape of open living spaces that are interconnected vertically and horizontally. This ‘stacking’ creates a sculptural interior, a positive spatial volume within the building.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Built near the village of Aldbury, the home is set within the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. With a grass-topped, arched roof it was designed to be both contemporary and integrated into the landscape. Ashraya stands next to a historic house and walled garden. The house sits under a CLT arch.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

FROM THE NOVEMBER 2021 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. At my side were Paul Mills, ASLA, and David Tuch, who designed the landscape that has brought the place back to life. The area has always been a gathering place, even as the landscape has changed dramatically through the centuries. BY BRIAN BARTH.

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e-architect

JULY 4, 2023

images courtesy of architects practice Bristol Zoo Gardens Clifton homes in southwest England Developed through extensive public consultation, the mixed-use masterplan restores and re-purposes the iconic site as a residential-led development with significant public realm, offering free public access to the gardens for the first time.

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Deezen

JULY 16, 2023

The ground-floor lobby of 44 East Avenue includes a glazed atrium that divides the space Local studio Michael Hsu Office of Architecture took an organic approach when designing the communal spaces, introducing soft shapes and natural materials to the glass and concrete structure. "44 The photography is by Chase Daniel.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The friend, a landscape architect, said her office had vied for the project during a 2014 competitive solicitation, but, obviously, didn’t get it. It is the longtime home of a noted independent botanist, Lilla Leach, and her husband, John Leach, who was a pharmacist. They also loved plants of the southeastern United States.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

With Hudson Valley Residence, our goal was to express a ‘New York’ character while using materials that echo the surrounding landscape. Framed around views of the fourteen-acre site, the design of this weekend home is based on classic proportions while incorporating modern elements suitable to its rural East Coast setting.

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Deezen

JULY 26, 2023

New glazing and an angular lobby crossed by a catwalk are among the enhancements that US architecture studios Eskew Dumez Ripple and CambridgeSeven have made to a 1990s nature museum in Louisiana. Located in the heart of New Orleans , the Audubon Aquarium and Insectarium sits on a site overlooking the Mississippi River.

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e-architect

AUGUST 12, 2023

Gracefully cascading down the steep terrain from the south, the home creates an inviting entry courtyard through the strategic separation from the adjacent slope, featuring descending terraced gardens that lead visitors to the glass-enclosed foyer.

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e-architect

JANUARY 2, 2022

Barrow House Lincolnshire Property, English Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Home, Building Photos. Our Clients approached ID Architecture with this previously farmed arable site in the open countryside, to create a family home for their young family. Barrow House in Lincolnshire. 2 Jan 2022. Architects: ID Architecture.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

To conclude our Designing for Disaster series, we round up 10 design and architecture projects that aim to prevent, manage or aid recovery from natural-hazard events. Located next to a river, its site often floods, so the studio lifted the structure one metre above ground to reduce the risk of water entering the home.

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Deezen

AUGUST 12, 2022

The natural light helps reduce energy usage. The natural light "provides a superior work environment" and helps reduce the building's energy consumption, the team said. Structural engineer: Raker Rhodes Engineering. MEP engineer: Modus. Civil engineer: Snyder. The photography is by Integrated Studio.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The Atherton pavilions consist of two accessory structures that are richly detailed and intimately connected to the landscape. After searching extensively for their perfect home, the homeowners fell in love with a contemporary house on a flat lot in Atherton. Photo © Adam Rouse. Photo © Adam Rouse. Source by Feldman Architecture.

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Architizer

APRIL 20, 2022

The compound of buildings represents the evolution of the family’s developing design aesthetic from the first structure, a traditional log home, to the most recent, a steel and glass pavilion. When viewed from a distance, it tempers the glass expanses and helps integrate the building into the landscape. © CLB Architects.

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e-architect

JULY 6, 2023

Sumu Yakushima, Kagoshima Prefecture home, Japan residence, Japanese sustainable architecture design photos Sumu Yakushima in Kagoshima Prefecture 6 July 2023 Design: tono Inc. The name Sumu means both “to live” and “to become clear”, expressing its core concept of living in a way that positively impacts the landscape.

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aasarchitecture

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The school’s identity is rooted in their Oregon home, with its natural beauty and diverse people and history. Photo © Lara Swimmer Beyond A Gym While part of its focus serves as home to varsity sports and physical education classes, it also serves as a hub for activities and multi-purpose gatherings.

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aasarchitecture

JANUARY 19, 2023

We want to make an exciting community space where people can come together with friends and family and experience the wildness of nature alongside spaces for food, performance and play. In one direction, the Hub will provide views of the handsome brick buildings of the original home of Harley-Davidson.

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The simple building form is bent and rounded, reinforcing the natural and historical character of the past by evoking the natural forces that formed the adjacent Sullivan’s Gulch while honoring the rounded corners of the existing art deco and Streamline Moderne buildings of the neighborhood.

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BD+C

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Mick Schaefer, AIA, NCARB, LEED GA MFPRO+ Blog Senior Living Design Designers Designers / Specifiers / Landscape Architects Coronavirus The architectural domain constantly offers challenges. Stepping down the hill also meant the lower level would have a long retaining wall on at least one side, cutting off natural light.

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