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Kendeda Building: A Model of Sustainable Design by The Miller Hull Partnership

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The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design – The Kendeda Building was created to foster environmental education, research, and a public forum for community outreach. As the first Living Building of its kind in the Southeast US, the project sets a new standard for sustainability. Budget: 10M – 50M.

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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. The interior palette uses natural materials like stone and oak and madrone wood finishes.

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Mass timber "definitely not the right way to go" says Benjamin Kromoser

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Mass timber will not become a mainstream building product because it uses too much wood, construction material expert Benjamin Kromoser claims in this interview for the Timber Revolution. "If That leads Kromoser to doubt its overall sustainability. Wood is a limited resource," he said.

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Leong Leong transforms 1970s Los Angeles ranch house into "suburban sanctuary"

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Additionally, the team added a 24-kilowatt Tesla solar roof array that powers the home, bringing it to a net-zero energy structure. The materials were meant to alternative between "austerity and softness" "The material exemplifies the Hancock Park House's play between austerity and softness," Leong said.

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Zeller & Moye and Katie Paterson align hundreds of glass cylinders for Apple campus sculpture

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The sculpture unfolds piece by piece, through gradually shifting color, surface texture and material consistencies." It consists of tall glass cylinders lined up along a path in an olive grove The team worked with both material scientists and traditional glassmakers to create the columns, each of which stands more than six feet (1.8

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LMN Architects connects learning centre with alumininium walkways

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LMN Architects created a learning center at the University of California in Santa Barbara The structure consists of two buildings facing one another to create an open-air causeway or "paseo", lined on either side with ramps and terraces.

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Snøhetta includes wooden oculus for Norwegian-American museum extension in Iowa

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Local materials and a mass-timber frame were used A terrace on the second floor looks out over the adjoining outdoor spaces and Heritage Park , a forested area which contains newly established greenspace and an assortment of historic immigrant-built buildings brought to the site from across the upper midwest region.