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This Unassuming Edwardian-Era Home in Australia Conceals a Crisp, Airy Extension

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This space boasts a northern window opening to a small pocket garden and allowing the afternoon sun to pour in. The adjacent kitchen flows to the dining zone, and to the back behind a brick wall, a garage offers rear laneway access. Post it here.

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

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Pasadena-based studio Hopson Rodstrom Design ( H/RD ), designed the structure to "embrace" the higher-scale zoning that exists along thoroughfares in areas of the city generally filled with low-lying structures. Office interiors on the ground floor open up to the courtyard via floor-to-ceiling windows.

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Inaba Williams creates mirrored stucco-clad residences in California

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Having far fewer windows, the buildings reduce heat gain and energy use, while allowing residents to enjoy indoor outdoor living," the studio told Dezeen. With less need for air conditioning and generous access to landscaped areas, they offer a more natural, less tempered experience with the environment."

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Skylab reveals design for their new Portland headquarters

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Visual and physical connections to the surrounding landscape and urban environment are being enhanced through expansive new glazing on the north and south facades and four large 10-foot-by-10-foot operable window walls along the east. ink Studio Civil engineering: Humber Design Group Inc.

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Daniel Joseph Chenin uses passive building strategies for stone-clad Nevada house

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The five-bedroom house was conceived as a series of connected rock masses, oriented to maximise views of the surrounding landscape and arranged to create thermally protected communal zones on the interior. Fort 137 is characterised by its stone facade The house is heralded by a 28-foot tall (8.5

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Skylab arranges series of A-frame Colorado cabins in snowflake-like pattern

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Tall triangular windows under the eaves bring natural light into the interiors and direct views toward mountain vistas. The panelized structure of the 475-square foot (44-square metre) cabins was prefabricated by Plant Prefab in Los Angeles and then assembled on-site.

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Beijing Chang’an Huijing Twin Towers Renovation by CLOU

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Day-to-night uses, from co-working gardens to health and wellness facilities and dining establishments, ensure the vibrancy of the five above-ground levels of this central zone beyond office hours, while the basement offers extended daily services in direct connectivity to Yong’anli metro station. Image © CLOU.