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TW Ryan Architecture clads pyramidal Montana house in weathering steel

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While the daylight is welcome, it needed to be carefully managed in order to protect the client's art collection from harmful UV rays. As the client chose the location of the site for the beauty of its natural environment, maintaining and supporting this environment became a driving factor in the design," the team said.

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This Rammed Earth Home in Remote New Zealand Has Some Sizzling Fireplace Moments

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Project Details: Location: Ophir, Central Otago, New Zealand Architect: NOTT Architects Builder: Down to Earth Builders and Shamrock Builders Structural Engineer: Paula Hugens Photographer: Biddi Rowley / @ biddirowley From the Architect: " We worked closely with the clients to form a raw house for a raw landscape.

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Arsenit nestles one-legged "treehouse" in Estonian pine forest

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"Using steel as the load-bearing truss-like-carcass minimised the building size – important for transporting modules – helped achieve a cantilevered structure, resulted in a system of modules for quick assembly on site, and could be done by the client, a metal manufacturer, in-house," Timofejev explained. "At

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Build an Eichler-Esque Home—or Whatever You Dream Up—With These Customizable Prefab Frames

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The system allows for large, unsupported spans of structure with thin profiles to be deployed in either slab-on-grade environments or in elevated off-grade projects, such as on his boulder-strewn property," says Kurt Christy, a partner at the company.

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Springfield University Hospital by C.F. Møller Architects

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Daylight and gardens The design is focused on creating non-institutional environments with good sightlines and acoustics, ample daylight, natural ventilation, access to gardens and outdoor spaces are key design objectives. The design has sought to eliminate blind corners where possible.

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Loader Monteith and Studio SJM create woodland school in Scotland

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The vocational spaces have been designed to mimic workshop or creative environments to familiarise the students with potential types of future workplaces," they added. The photography is by Jim Stephenson.

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Subterranean WW2 bunker holiday home Dorset

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After discovering a series of these abandoned, subterranean bunkers on their land, the client commissioned the architects to convert one into a functioning holiday letting. The brief was to celebrate the enormous historical significance of the structure whilst ensuring a habitable and commercially viable space for the client.

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