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PAT completes off-grid Kenyan holiday home with raised bedrooms

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Recycled timber clads the bathroom blocks Cast concrete provides flooring, intended to help regulate temperatures in the bedrooms. The bathroom blocks are meanwhile clad in recycled timber boards, salvaged during the dismantling of some other structures that stood on the site previously.

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Lemay redesigns open-air theatre in Montreal’s La Fontaine Park

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Project credits: Architecture: Lemay Landscape architecture: Lemay Mechanical and electrical engineering: Bouthillette Parizeau Structural engineering: Calculatec Inc.

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Meet the Team: Who Works with an Architect on a Design Project?

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From building contractors, civil engineers, and even interior designers — we’re here to help you find out exactly who works with an architect. Architectural and engineering companies often work together in a variety of areas, but three engineers that commonly work with architects include: 1.

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Kirkland Fraser Moor tops chalk-walled house with CLT arch

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The distinctive house was built under the Paragraph 80 planning regulation. Another house completed under this regulation, which was formally called Paragraph 79, is a rural Passivhaus in Devon hidden behind a linear red-brick wall. In Kent, architect Charles Holland has also designed a house approved under the regulation.

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MVRDV tops Tainan food market with "rolling hills"

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The earth and planting on the roof help to further regulate the temperature and passively cool the market to a comfortable level. Ltd, Jiuyang Electric And Plumbing Engineering Co. Ltd Landscape architect: The Urbanists Collaborative Structural engineer: Columbus Engineering Consultants Inc.

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Ménard Dworkind adds sculptural mezzanine to 1980s Quebec home

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We originally wanted to keep this element but the updated municipal regulations and building code constraints made it impossible to preserve so we took inspiration from its curved forms and materiality which translates throughout the design of the renovation." The photography is by David Dworkind.

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GBBN creates set of housing blocks that reinterpret historic fabric of Cincinnati

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The studio recently expanded a 19th century brick house in Pennsylvania into an education facility with a glass bridge connection and metal-clad, barn-like structure. The photography is by Ryan Kurtz.

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