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MARCH 19, 2024

US architecture studio Cannon Design has referenced the local landscape and "prioritized inclusion", drawing on the Native American heritage of the site for its design of a university student centre in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The roof is designed to accommodate solar arrays in the future.

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Deezen

APRIL 20, 2024

Named Bury Gate Farm, the five-bedroom house replaces a 1950s bungalow on a sloped site on the outskirts of Pulborough, which overlooks fields and woodland. The challenge was how to craft sensitive contemporary design that responds to and enhances this protected landscape without resorting to historic mimicry," he continued.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Norwegian studio Feste Landscape/Architecture has unveiled a series of wooden cabins that can be freely used by hikers exploring the mountainous coastal landscape of Norway 's Agder region. The challenge was to design an attractive and functional cabin that could be installed in any location, regardless of the landscape conditions.

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Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2024

hectare site near Maastricht to commemorate soldiers who died in the second world war. Concrete blocks provide seating at the building's front "Many wars and struggles for freedom are commemorated, all designed and built in a very solid manner with the intention of preserving these sacrifices for eternity," added Panhuysen.

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2024

Located in a remote part of central Montana , the Four Roof House was designed for a couple who wanted a low-maintenance home where they could age in place. Four Roof House features a Corten steel exterior Their chosen site was a bluff overlooking a lake near the town of Helmville. It also helps protect against wildfire.

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Deezen

MAY 5, 2023

The property has a main residence designed by Pennsylvania-based Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in 2012. Photo is by Benjamin Benschneider The site is reached by boat, and a winding path leads from a dock through a wooded area and into a sunlit meadow. Built into a gentle slope, the guesthouse partly cantilevers over the site.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

US studio CCY Architects has clad a mountainside house in patinated copper panels and tilted the roof to adhere with the topography of its site in Colorado. Known as DNA Alpine, the 4,000-square foot (372-square metre) home was completed in 2022 and designed to "disappear into or somehow become" the 75-acre site in San Miguel County.

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Deezen

MAY 4, 2024

Loader Monteith and Studio SJM won a competition to design it with their proposal to "embrace the students and the landscape" with a low-slung, L-shaped building that hugs the site's trees. High-level windows and sections of overhead glazing offer a constant, relaxing visual connection to the outdoors."

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Named after the community where it is located, the Cotton Patch Hills House sits on an oceanfront site in Bethany Beach, Delaware. For a sandy site that faces the water, the team created a rectilinear, three-storey building that totals 5,842 square feet (542 square metres). The staircase is made of white oak and steel.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Most of its campus was originally designed by American architects Charles Moore and William Turnbull in the early 1970s. 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 16, 2023

"Marco came to us with a brief for a refurbishment to a lower-ground space within an existing building, which – under previous management – was flagged for demolition," said Brad Wray, co-founder of Branch Studio Architects and the project's design architect.

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Deezen

MAY 24, 2023

Above: It is one of three independent structures. The retreat was designed by Seattle's Robert Hutchison Architecture and Mexico City-based Javier Sanchez Arquitectos (JSa), and was designed for JSa's founder and his family, which plans to make it their permanent residence in the future. The photo is by Jamie Navarro.

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Architizer

JANUARY 26, 2023

The Chicago Park District asked Valerio Dewalt Train to design an environmental center that serves as an education hub and a gateway to eco-recreation opportunities throughout the region. The design responded to the park’s past by marrying the industrial with the natural. miles from the site.

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Architizer

MARCH 24, 2022

Urban design critic John King of the San Francisco Chronicle described Township Commons as “a startling act of urban reinvention that, with time, should pull people from across the city to an area that until now has been off the map” The new park welcomes Oakland residents back to their waterfront with a bold and brave definition of a park.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 1, 2023

This emblematic site is a well-known hub of arts and culture, hosting thousands of free shows over the years," said Lemay , an architecture studio headquartered in Montreal. Lemay renovated the site to honour its history Despite being a beloved destination, the theatre fell into disrepair and was shuttered in 2014.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

South African architecture studio SAOTA has completed an angular residence in the Los Angeles hills meant to provide privacy while drawing in the "calmness and serenity" of the surrounding landscape. The elevated site provides sweeping views of the undulating terrain and the distant ocean. Different treatments were used on the facades.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Local studio Splyce Design has designed a light-filled, angled house with glazed corners and a sculptural staircase overlooking the Burrard Inlet in Vancouver , British Columbia. Settled in a quarter-acre site, the house sits 17 feet (five metres) above the sidewalk, lifting it up from the street's sightlines.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 7, 2024

BIG’s design proposal for the Joint Research Centre in Seville inspired by the architectural vernacular of the southern Spanish city, delivers on JRC’s commitment to sustainability, unites the European vision of the New Bauhaus initiative, and establishes a new benchmark for workspace that empowers knowledge sharing, collaboration and co-creation.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 23, 2022

Hidden in the bucolic landscape of Northern Vosges Natural Park, Site Verrier de eisenthal is a publicly funded active cultural center in a historic glass factory dating back to the 18th century. Photo © Iwan Baan. Our intervention unifies them to define a contemporary institutional identity in dialogue with an industrial heritage.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 18, 2024

Design for integration & Design for Discovery: The Science Station is integrated into the broader context of the high desert and the immediate context of the new OSU-Cascades campus in form and materiality. The design team drew on prior experience designing for the unique high-desert climate of Central Oregon.

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Dwell

APRIL 21, 2023

The homeowners created the structures using stones collected on-site to connect their rural residence to the land. 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

JUNE 9, 2023

Architecture studios Grimshaw and Architekton looked to natural elements such as rocks and saguaro cacti while designing the Walton Center of Planetary Health at Arizona State University. The centre's design is "rooted in resiliency, site-specificity and inspiration", the team said.

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Deezen

JANUARY 31, 2024

Suspended gabions weights provide a counterweight to the steel cantilever in this hilltop pavilion designed by Emiliano Domínguez and Santiago Martínez in Querétaro, Mexico. Bridging the concrete walls is an open platform Bridging the concrete walls is an open platform that extends from the hillside out over the landscape.

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Dwell

MAY 31, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The brief was to design a house that was strong but simple in form, merged with the landscape, and had a sustainable story. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

British architecture practice Studio Bark has worked with students from the University of East London to devise a roof-supporting column with otherwise unusable timber at a site within ancient English woodland. We need to look to alternative sources and design buildings that make timber go a lot further," she said.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

Design studio HGA has completed a pair of educational facilities , Mills Hall and Gibbons Center, that are among the first "commercially scaled mass-timber buildings" in the state of Maine. Skylights punctuate the gabled roofs "Gibbons has a more mysterious, introverted quality," said Nat Madison, design principal at HGA.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2023

bath house out of two volumes with floor-to-ceiling glazed ends that float above the landscape. The north volume is oriented along a direct east-to-west axis and contains the private spaces, while the south volume, rotated 45 degrees along the canyon's axis, holds the public gathering spaces that overlook the landscape and city below.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2024

Wendell Burnette Architects used Corten steel to clad a cabin in Arizona designed to capture views while disappearing into the landscape like a "dark shadow". The home was designed "to recede into the landscape" "This home is designed to recede into the landscape as a dark shadow," said Phoenix-based studio Wendell Burnette Architects.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Home to a family of seven, Proctor & Shaw designed the project as an extension to an existing Edwardian house, extending the ground-floor kitchen and dining room. It is designed to be pulled back (with the shortest overhang) at the mid-window point to allow the maximum amount of light directly from above."

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

Jun Mitsui & Associates and Pelli Clarke & Partners have converted a grocery store into a sake brewery The site contains three buildings – the brewery, housed in the shell of a former Stop & Shop grocery store, a small rice polishing building and a wastewater treatment facility.

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BD+C

AUGUST 17, 2023

How to design for adaptive reuse: Don’t reinvent the wheel 0 qpurcell Thu, 08/17/2023 - 09:52 Adaptive Reuse Gresham Smith demonstrates the opportunities of adaptive reuse, specifically reusing empty big-box retail and malls, many of which sit unused or underutilized across the country. Take a multidiscipline approach.

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Deezen

MARCH 13, 2023

Architecture firm Ueda Design Studio has completed the Eola Hills Residence, a spacious Oregon family home that takes cues from Japanese design and "serves as refuge from work life". When low clouds descend over the valley in the morning, the house appears to be on top of the world," said Seattle-based Ueda Design Studio.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 19, 2023

KAAN Architecten was commissioned by the American Battle Monuments Commission to design a Visitor Center for the only American Cemetery on Dutch soil. Guided by the landscape setting and the monumental atmosphere of the site, the building complements the serenity of this vast memorial. Source by KAAN Architecten.

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Deezen

APRIL 5, 2024

Ædifica has created a six-storey housing block in Montreal Sitting on a narrow site, the six-storey housing block has two roughly L-shaped structures that frame a significant courtyard. This also acts as a passageway from the street to a semi-paved open space between other buildings in the development.

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e-architect

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Sandy Hook Memorial Design USA, Connecticut Landscape Images, US Public Realm News. Sandy Hook Memorial Design in Connecticut. Newtown Commemoration Proposal, CO design by SWA Landscape Architects, USA. Design: SWA Group. Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Designed by SWA Group Opens to Public.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The chambers are enclosed by sandstone-clad walls of varying heights and designed by BDR Architekci to provide space for "peaceful reflection" without religious references. We wanted to build a place open to people, full of greenery, with its own structure and order," Basan added.

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The simple concrete structure sits on top of the rugged landscape and hovers over the edge offering a spectacular view over the fjord and to the Atlantic Ocean. photo © Design Team 360° Experience The ring has a diameter of 32 meters, with a walkway and bench spanning the entire 100 m circumference.

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