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Blue-timber gardeners' workshop topped with illuminating lantern

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Gardeners House is a blue-stained timber and terracotta-brick structure in a park in Geneva , designed by architecture studio Cabinet to provide workshops for gardeners and leisure space for locals. A central hall connects the workshops and public spaces, as well as an office and changing rooms.

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Google opens New York headquarters built on renovated 1930s train terminal

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Read: BIG and Heatherwick complete Google campus topped with "dragonscale" roofs Other sustainable design strategies incorporated into its design include solar panels, rainwater retention and the use of wood reclaimed from the Coney Island boardwalk after Hurricane Sandy. Lightswitch, Lighting Workshop Inc.

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GO’C creates Washington house that "grounds itself to the earth"

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An overhanging roof provides shade "The new structure grounds itself to the earth with its approach to material and form," said GO'C , a Seattle-based firm. A metal staircase leads to a herb garden on the roof Exterior walls are made of Norman-sized black bricks with deeply raked mortar joints.

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Kirkland Fraser Moor tops chalk-walled house with CLT arch

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With a grass-topped, arched roof it was designed to be both contemporary and integrated into the landscape. The building itself is a very simple rectangular form but set within a curved courtyard landscape to provide, together with the arched roof, an organic natural flowing form," explained Kirkland. Electrical engineer: Aura.

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Kuehm Malvezzi designs Montreal Insectarium to subvert "museological norms and expectations"

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Architecture studios Kuehn Malvezzi , Pelletier de Fontenay and Jodoin Lamarre Pratte Architectes have created an insect zoo and museum in a glazed sawtooth-roof building with interior spaces that emulate the experience of being a bug. The main component is a two-storey glass building with a rectangular plan and sawtooth roof.

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Tech Square 3 by Eskew+Dumez+Ripple

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Image © EskewDumezRipple The district’s exterior promenade and its connection to the surrounding areas is unified by a vertically stacked green roof terrace held atop a monumental architectural stair legible on the facade.

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A Brick Facade Is About All This Australian Home Shares With Its Neighbors

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The house is composed of three pavilions that step down along the contours of the long rectangular site; a barn-like structure forms the main living space in the center of the property and is bookended by brick clad forms that contain bedrooms at the front and a car workshop at the rear. Post it here.

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