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The Kitchen in This Pacific Northwest Retreat Is Made From Douglas Fir Felled On-Site

Dwell

Located in Washington’s Kitsap Peninsula, the rambler-style home utilized the trees for the roof and a coffee table, too. On a secluded wooded site, the new structure grounds itself to the earth with its approach to material and form. Cedar milled on site was used to create the entry door, entry benches, and east privacy fence.

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Closets: Understanding the concept, types & features

Building and Interiors

The world is now one large country, people are traveling to different time zones and seasons. The skill here is to design and manufacture and install flawlessly as opposed to creating a site by carpenters. The challenge, when one opts for a factory-made product, the civil work at the site has to be to the T. Walk-in concepts.

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DOXS NKLN by GRAFT

aasarchitecture

Image © GRAFT The concept envisages a mixed-use development consisting of office and commercial units as well as educational and cultural facilities. Taking up motives from the shipping industry and the surrounding industrial architecture, the design draws on the special character of the site and its canalside location.

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How to design for adaptive reuse: Don’t reinvent the wheel

BD+C

Best Practices: Work with What You Have Any architect can look at a dilapidated site and suggest tearing it down and starting from scratch. That’s not to say that these types of sites won’t present their own challenges that may require making adjustments to bring the project up to current code. Utilize existing infrastructure.

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Tech for Architects: 7 Top BIM Tools for Architectural Design

Architizer

In other words, a wall designed in a BIM environment goes beyond the typical “3D extrusion”, carrying information that can be utilized throughout the duration of a design project — from inception to completion and even for future maintenance. It seamlessly bridges the gap between pen, paper and BIM.

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Competitions: International Competition for the development of the master plan for the "Adem Jashari" Memorial Complex in Prekaz, Municipality of Skenderaj, in the Republic of Kosovo.

Bustler

This Memorial Complex is the most significant site of memory in Kosovo. The design approach of the Master Plan of “Adem Jashari” Memorial Complex should be coherent concept of spatial organization with the urban rehabilitation and should include conservation and interpretation of buildings, items, events, and people memories.

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Building Bridges: How Architects Are Ripping Up the Rulebook on Water Treatment Facility Architecture

Architizer

Typically associated with utility infrastructure, these facilities comprise organized elements such as tanks, pipes, sedimentation basins, filtration systems and extensive water storage and distribution tanks. Like the broader concept of WRRFs, Concept WRRF Yixing goes beyond merely treating wastewater. Spanning a 19.7-acre

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