aasarchitecture

APRIL 17, 2024

Photo © Rasmus Hjortshõj Spanning 22,000 m², the main timber structure, made of glulam and cross-laminated timber, forms three striking tree-trunk-like columns, fanning out to carry the entire load of the roof – enveloping visitors in a welcoming forest-like canopy.

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Deezen

MAY 12, 2023

Inside, the rooms are fractals of spaces The angled roof lines direct rainwater toward an internal gutter and tapered scupper that outline the distinct forms of the structure. "At At thresholds and entry points, concave inflections lined with brushed, amber-hued cypress are carved out of the volumes," the studio said. "At

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Deezen

JANUARY 13, 2022

Brooklyn studio CO Adaptive Architecture has renovated an industrial building in the New York borough's Gowanus neighbourhood to create bright and spacious theatre rehearsal spaces. The Mercury Store offers residencies, studio and co-working space, community and funding," according to the organisation's website.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. This structure was to be very strong, be as fire resistant as possible and require as little long term exterior maintenance as possible. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

A large stairwell takes up a third of the living space in Light-Filled Stair Hall, a compact family home designed by Tokyo -based Kiri Architects. Kiri Architects principal Keisuke Kiri decided to expand the staircase so that it could become a social space for occupants, rather than just a route between the home's two storeys.

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

Prioritising natural light, Oliver Leech Architects expanded the ground floor with an open living, dining and kitchen space, which meets the existing building with a large skylight and a window seat overlooking a small courtyard. We saw this central skylight as the central anchor to the new house, surrounded by all the key spaces," he added.

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Deezen

MAY 4, 2024

The teaching space is located on the 35-acre estate of the charity Harmeny Education Trust, which provides specialist education for children who have experienced severe trauma. These two blocks are linked by paved walkways that wrap around and between them, dotted with areas of planting. The photography is by Jim Stephenson.

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Deezen

MAY 18, 2022

A mix of textured timber cladding animates walls throughout the Creative Centre teaching space, which London studio Tate+Co has created for York St John University in England. Tate+Co has completed a teaching space for York St John University. The building's structure marries timber with steel and concrete.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

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. That space won multiple design awards, but it no longer met the firm's needs. "As The photography is by Casey Dunn.

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Deezen

APRIL 29, 2024

dMFK Architects renovated Voysey House The team aimed to revive the structure's original character reversing a series of renovations over the past 100 years following its conversion into offices after a fire in 1928. The photography is by Jack Hobhouse.

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Deezen

JANUARY 21, 2024

Atelier Koma and Eunsok raised it above ground level on a concrete terrace that is dug into this slope, sheltering an entrance route that leads directly into the elevated worship spaces. Alongside the main worship space on the first floor, which is named the Sea Chapel, the building contains two smaller prayer spaces.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It is built above and around an existing building Unemori Architects had originally planned to integrate the extension with the existing structure, but this wasn't possible due to the way it had been self-built. Unemori Architects deliberately chose the wood as it matches the existing structure. Large windows let the light in.

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Dwell

APRIL 23, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The kitchen, dining, and living spaces spill into each other and bleed into the outdoor gathering spaces to allow for easy exterior-to-interior gathering and entertaining. Have one to share?

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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Chicago architecture firm Studio Gang has expanded a California college through the addition of mass-timber structures that were informed by how fungi grow in the wild. Four buildings were designed to complement the existing structures – California modern-style buildings with stucco walls and splashes of colour – and the woodland environment.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Snøhetta created an 8,000 square feet (743 square metres) building for the museum, as well as adjoining outdoor spaces that connect the museum's Heritage Park to the street. "As The structure was built using a mass-timber frame fabricated in Minnesota, while locally sourced brick and concrete were used throughout the rest of building.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 9, 2023

The unique roof design features exposed rafter tails lined with Douglas fir A newly built porcelain-tiled living space sits adjacent to the kitchen and dining room and is also sheltered by the roof's large overhangs. The photography is by Nick Deardon.

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Dwell

APRIL 20, 2023

ROAR Architects turned a confined site into a light-filled social space with a vaulted ceiling inspired by ship-building techniques. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2024

It is an addition to a Long Island home The team conceived a two-storey addition that contains a painting studio on the upper level and an exhibition space down below that doubles as a garage. "We were drawn to that lineage; Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler and Jane Freilicher all painted out here." centimeters).

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Deezen

DECEMBER 2, 2023

The layout incorporates spaces for individual focus work, collaboration and meetings, but it can be reconfigured if required. The layout of the Today Design Workspace is deliberately non-linear, organised around a looping circulation route that largely follows a diagonal trajectory through the 900-square-metre space.

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Deezen

JANUARY 2, 2024

The ADU is part of a family estate During the design process, they looked to farm structures that dot Sonoma Valley, many of which are dilapidated and have "their own strange elegance", the team said. It was also designed to appear demure yet dynamic upon approach One volume is square-shaped and holds an open-plan communal space.

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Deezen

MARCH 25, 2024

"The attention in smart cities always goes to the technology, and our design of the Tencent residential complex certainly includes that, but in our conception, the technology-related aspects are inseparable from the social spaces, the green courtyards, the terraces – the technological goes hand-in-hand with the human."

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Deezen

AUGUST 30, 2022

The southern half of Torus House has been given over to an open-plan living space with fully-glazed walls, offering the owner expansive views over the surrounding mountains and sea. Apart from the bedroom, bathroom and storage area, the home has been kept as open as possible, with sliding doors that allow spaces to be combined.

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Deezen

JANUARY 3, 2024

It repurposes an abandoned 1970s structure to house bright interiors organised around courtyard gardens. Our approach involved a shift in programming: rather than forcing the existing structure to conform, we tailored the building's organisation to suit it," he added. The photography is by Stijn Bollaert & Mike Bink.

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Deezen

APRIL 5, 2024

Called Cité Angus II, the structure is part of Technopôle Angus, an urban revitalization project that its developers say is a "full-scale sustainable development". This also acts as a passageway from the street to a semi-paved open space between other buildings in the development. The photography is by David Boyer.

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Dwell

JUNE 15, 2022

Each of its three structures—a residence, artist’s studio, and bath house—features a catchment with a reservoir system that purifies harvested rainwater. The main residence takes the form of a pavilion that allows for outdoor use year-round, with over two-thirds of the building footprint dedicated to covered exterior space.

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Deezen

MAY 22, 2023

Daniel Joseph Chenin designed the house in the Las Vegas desert Named Fort 137, "the building pays homage to the old fort structures from the early settlement days of Las Vegas, which relied upon site-sourced materials along with tried-and-true techniques for designing and building in an arid climate," the team told Dezeen.

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2024

Toronto studio Workshop Architecture Inc has created a prefabricated home in Ontario with an exposed structure and blue-painted element on the interior. Located in Tiny, the Unfinished House is a 1,400-square-foot (130 square metre) two-bedroom, two-bathroom home with additional flexible spaces that double as accommodations for visitors.

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Deezen

JUNE 22, 2022

Oliver Leech Architects ' introduced a pair of brick extensions to the side and rear of the ground floor, creating a large skylit living, dining and kitchen space overlooking the garden and two planted courtyards. Structural engineer: Momentum Structural Engineers. Main contractor: Sutton Construction.

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Deezen

MARCH 28, 2024

Read: Boyd Architects creates monolithic-metal forms for South Carolina residence The outdoor spaces include a spacious, south-facing deck that receives bright sunlight. Interior finishes include ash cabinetry, large-format porcelain floor tiles, and ceramic tiles around the fireplace. Softer light flows in through the courtyard on the north.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The team overhauled the structure of a 1919 automotive repair facility from front to back, transforming it into a flexible black box theatre that seats 200 people. Our goal was to design a space that is true to Detroit without being stale or trapped by its own history." The corner exposes the raw brick along the sides of the building.

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aasarchitecture

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

First, it was rented space on South Lamar. Following that, the firm renovated an office building at 1010 West Lynn, a space which garnered multiple design awards. But as the firm’s projects have grown in size and complexity, so have the firm’s space needs.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Along with curling exterior walls that span the length of the houses's perimeter, they were created using a technique in which concrete is poured slowly into fabric formwork supported by a plywood rib structure. The team covered the structure with berms, which rise out of the flat landscape of the surrounding agricultural fields.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Helsinki-based JKMM Architects used glulam and black spruce cladding to relate the Chappe Art House to surrounding timber structures in the coastal town of Tammisaari, Finland. It has a glued laminated (glulam) timber structure and was clad in black-stained spruce as a nod to the nearby timber buildings.

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Dwell

JUNE 15, 2022

However, contrary to the exterior, the interior of the house is far from being conventional and has been developed as a one large shared space, with the hope that it would maximize the family time for the client’s family of three. It's an energetic jumble of arched doorways, many mezzanines, a grand piano, and plenty of plywood.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The house balances above a wooden terrace It features a large cantilever that elevates the living spaces 4.25 metres above ground and creates a sheltered outdoor space. Finished in white-washed oak, with vertical timber panelling to also reference treehouses, it has one main space with views out to the forest.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

IJBoulevard delivers new public space, bringing bicycles underground to free up space at street level whilst providing a new living room for the city," said the studio. Three prefabricated hollow elements were transported to the site by river and placed onto 72 concrete piles to form the internal spaces and the boulevard above.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Situated between two traditional gable residences, its rectangular plan is fronted with a steel structure that gives it a slick, institutional feel. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners.

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