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Big Windows and White Interiors Punch Up a Gloomy ’60s California Beach House

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We chose to utilize a dark cedar exterior to ground the home within the surrounding dunes and a contrasting natural cedar to accentuate the point of entry. The house was very inwardly focused with low-lying windows that you couldn’t see out of unless you ducked or sat down. The client described it as living inside a tree.

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SPF Architects creates Obama Sports Complex from pre-engineered metal structures

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Architecture studio SPF Architects has completed a sports facility in Los Angeles consisting of two separate buildings that were built using pre-engineered metal structures in order to not disrupt activity at the site. The complex consists of two pre-engineered metal buildings. General contractor: Pinner Construction.

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Telescope House by Wendell Burnette offers framed views of Sedona

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Bedrooms feature surrounding views Exterior walls are wrapped in weathering steel , which helps protect the home against wildfire. It is naturally fireproof along with steel-plate window frames." To reduce energy usage, the team added exterior shading devices to windows and integrated operable windows to facilitate cross ventilation.

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Atelier Koma creates concrete chapel to offer "separation from the secular world"

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A horizontal window frames views of the ocean in the main chapel In the Sea Chapel, pews face an altar that stands in front of a large horizontal window, framing a view out over the ocean and distant mountains. Equipment engineer: Jusung Eng. Mechanical engineer: Jusung Eng. Electrical engineer: Hangil Eng.

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TW Ryan Architecture clads pyramidal Montana house in weathering steel

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California studio TW Ryan Architecture has completed a wildfire-resistant house in the American West that features a Corten steel exterior and pyramidal roofs that allude to the mountainous terrain. Four Roof House features a Corten steel exterior Their chosen site was a bluff overlooking a lake near the town of Helmville.

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Baldridge Architects converts Austin commercial units into its own studio

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Bright white plaster clads the exterior of a 1960s concrete building that has been turned into the self-designed studio of Baldridge Architects, which acted as the designer and contractor. On the exterior, crisp-white plaster was added to the original concrete masonry. The photography is by Casey Dunn.

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

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Its facade is interspersed with many skinny windows The seven-storey structure has a ground-level podium clad in green-painted concrete interspersed with steel gates. These aspects are set back slightly from the primary envelope, a massing clad in black-painted plaster with many long windows spread across it.

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