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What Should I Ask A Landscape Contractor?

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Hiring the right landscaping Thomaston CT contractor is essential to create an outdoor space that will make jaws drop. This article outlines what you need to know before signing any contracts with a landscape contractor and provides helpful tips for getting the most out of your money. Experience is invaluable.

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This Arizona Home Uses the Desert Landscape as "Living Art"

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The desert city of Scottsdale, Arizona, is set within the sprawling Sonoran Desert and overlooked by the majestic McDowell Mountains, so it’s no surprise that this spectacular landscape plays a pivotal role in shaping much of the area’s architecture. The solution was found in the freestanding Bromic Eclipse Portable heater.

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Architectuur Maken designs sculptural staircase overlooking Dutch landscape

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Dutch studio Architectuur Maken has completed De Niewe Herdgang, a sculptural staircase rising 25 metres to create a watchtower over the landscape outside the city of Tilburg , the Netherlands. Landscape and people are inextricably linked. Client: Municipality of Tilburg. Contractor: J.A. Landscape architect: Eelerwoude.

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Support by Design Aids Ukrainian Landscape Architects

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The flexibility of remote work takes on a new dimension when American landscape architecture firms can bring on Ukrainian designers fleeing war. The Ukrainian landscape architect Anna Kulvanovska works as a contractor for SWA from a shared workspace in Malmö, Sweden. By Laurie A. Photo by Kim Öhrström. ?Anna

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Imbue Design completes glass-and-steel home in Utah desert landscape

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Salt Lake City architecture studio Imbue Design has built a house outside Zion National Park in Utah with sweeping views of one of the USA's most renowned landscapes. The Watchman Cabin was completed collaboratively with a nature-loving client who was "captivated" by the area's natural surroundings after visiting. Geotech: AGEC.

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World of Volvo by Henning Larsen set to open in Gothenburg

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Photo © Rasmus Hjortshõj Surrounded by a thriving landscape that extends onto an accessible roof, the building embraces the regional landscape, in form, materiality, and culture, bringing a native piece of Swedish nature to the middle of Gothenburg.

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

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Historic preservation guidelines limited the interventions that could be made "We were inspired by the client's desire to rethink cliches of contemporary domesticity and create a home to live with art but not be saturated by it," co-founder Dominic Leong told Dezeen. To reduce water usage, the landscaping is drought tolerant "xeriscape."

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