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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. Hardwearing materials were used for its construction.

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Oliver Leech Architects extends Pink House with materials that "age gracefully"

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Local studio Oliver Leech Architects and interior designer Juliet O'Caroll used a palette of pale pink colours and materials for this extension and refurbishment of a Victorian terrace in London. A pale pink material palette was developed with Juliet O'Caroll. "[We] Structural engineer: Momentum Structural Engineers.

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Natural materials form "seamless connection" between English woodland and nursery

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Timber and rubber are among the natural materials used at this nursery in Stoke-on-Trent, which British practice Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has designed to echo an adjacent nature reserve. To reduce material waste, the whole building's structure was sized to available timber sizes.

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Loader Monteith adds charred-timber-clad office to brownfield site in Inverness

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Located in Inverness, northern Scotland, the two-story office building features a steep gabled roof and is defined by its charred timber cladding and black metal detailing – materials chosen to maximise its durability. The structures share a timber-and-metal material palette designed to create a "common language", the studio said.

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RED Arquitectos integrates corn millstone into facade of Mexican house

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Casa que Da is conceived as a pre-Hispanic codex, which expresses through its spatiality and iconography, the knowledge of the earth and its materiality," RED Arquitectos principal Susana López González told Dezeen. The client named the house Casa que Da (House that Gives) to reference the act of "giving" in a culinary context.

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World of Volvo by Henning Larsen set to open in Gothenburg

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A right to nature The expansive round structure encourages visitors to create their own journeys both indoors and outdoors, regardless of whether they hold tickets to the exhibition inside. “As a brand Volvo is rooted in a Swedish pride for producing and manufacturing quality for everyone.

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Exposed Rafters Bridge This Australian Home With Its Lushly Landscaped Yard

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Marion Mahoney and Walter Burley Griffin planned and designed the picturesque subdivision in 1915, with winding roads and community parklands that follow the curving topography, and dwellings that are secondary to the natural landscape. Proponents of modern architecture, the Griffins designed houses free from stylistic precedent.