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Omar Gandhi Architects balances cedar house on rocky Nova Scotia coastline

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Omar Gandhi clad the home in naturally weathering cedar boards Naturally weathering cedar boards were interspersed with detail elements of Corten steel to form picture frame hoops around the windows. Approaching the building from the public side, a sense of privacy and shelter welcomes visitors," the team said.

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Forge Craft uses "hammock" approach to create outdoor space for transitional apartments

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The upper levels are for the residential units and were clad in an exterior insulation finishing system (EIFS) to protect from sun and street sounds on two sides, while the lower levels hold communal areas. The internal common areas on the ground floor have surfaces painted with bright colours and internal windows to help spread light.

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Studio Gang nestles Kresge College expansion in Pacific forest

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Three simple, bow-shaped structures were placed to its southeast to house students. The residential buildings were clad in timber The Kresge College Academic Center sits on an uneven site next to a steep ravine. The expansion's centrepiece is an academic centre with a series of protrusions that jut out asymmetrically from a core.

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

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Floor-to-ceiling windows line the majority of the exterior, with the remainder clad in a vertical cedar siding. Constructors: Pete Mostaccio Engineers: DiSalvo Erickson (Structural Engineers), Crawford Associates (Civil Engineers) Landscape architects: Wagner Hodgson Lighting consultant: Claude R.

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Field Architecture clads flowing Sonoma house in copper

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Upstairs, stone flooring transitions to wood and a windowed wall in the staircase looks out to the surrounding forest. Field Architecture often uses local, reclaimed wood to outfit its designs like in a nearby synagogue and ranch house further south in Portola Valley.

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CCY architects wraps Colorado house in patinated copper

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DNA Alpine was designed with multiple flexible spaces The public areas sit in the center of the floor plan with the dining and living spaces wrapped in floor-to-ceiling windows that look out to a wrapping porch and the mountains beyond.

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Hopson Rodstrom Design creates jagged-roof Los Angeles building with interior courtyard

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Its facade is interspersed with many skinny windows The seven-storey structure has a ground-level podium clad in green-painted concrete interspersed with steel gates. These aspects are set back slightly from the primary envelope, a massing clad in black-painted plaster with many long windows spread across it.

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