Archinect

MAY 17, 2024

BIG has designed a new remote hotel concept on Sagi Island, Japan, for the NOT A HOTEL brand, its sixth property overall. The new Setouchi project follows other hospitality designs from the firm, including the new Hôtel des Horlogers in Switzerland and Vollebak Island in Canada.

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ArchDaily

MAY 14, 2024

Courtesy of Powerhouse Company Powerhouse Company has revealed the design for the largest timber -built affordable housing complex in the Netherlands. Valckensteyn” is a circular design featuring a 12-story timber structure and 82 homes. Read more »

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designboom

MAY 29, 2024

the installation at the dakar biennale, crafted from repurposed building site materials, instills a sense of environmental responsibility. The post salu iwadi’s radial water basin totem urges preservation of africa’s natural resources appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

MAY 10, 2024

It was commissioned during the pandemic as a second home for the client The design team had multiple goals for the project. It was elevated to avoid humidity and provide greater views and more illumination The architects conceived a two-storey house that is partly lifted above the site by steel piers.

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Deezen

APRIL 16, 2023

Challenging site constraints informed the angular shape of this concrete house named Villa MKZ, designed by Japanese studio Takeshi Hirobe Architects. The footprint of this vacation home dances around the complex conditions of the site," studio founder Takeshi Hirobe told Dezeen. metres in the centre," said Hirobe. "By

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designboom

MAY 6, 2022

The post this immersive restaurant proposal frames dramatic views of iceland’s natural sites appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. the FRAMESCAPE greenhouse restaurant is set to offer a unique 'farm-to-table' experience against the pristine icelandic backdrop.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The design scheme won in the 'Future Project House' category at the 2019 World Architecture Festival. A demonstration column had to be constructed on the site in order to get the clients' final approval.

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designboom

MAY 10, 2024

the originally inaccessible site has pushed the architect to complete the entire project manually, without the use of heavy machinery. The post handcrafted casa VA by omar lópez bautista embraces the natural landscape of oaxaca appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Archinect

MARCH 1, 2022

An important designation has been granted to several of the globe’s most important underrepresented cultural landmarks after the World Monuments Fund (WMF) today announced its biannual World Monuments Watch list. Pictured: A French-mandate building in the upper part of the Fouad Boutros corridor after the blast. Image courtesy WMF.

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designboom

APRIL 28, 2024

Modus Operandi constructs Ansui House Nosara Ansui House Nosara, designed by Modus Operandi, is nestled in the tropical dry forest on Costa Rica‘s north Pacific coast, integrating nature and architecture.

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Habitus Living

JANUARY 23, 2024

At the heart of FR House’s architectural approach is integrating the structure with its steep, narrow site and focusing on natural ventilation as a primary cooling method. The design is a cluster of concrete volumes, each defining a separate room with a window framing unique views of the ocean, landscape, or sky.

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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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Archinect

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Built on the shores of Lake Revdor, the three-level Break Residence was commissioned to fulfill the client’s wish of building a home on the land of his ancestors and is described by the design team as “a place of welcoming and gathering” for the small surrounding community.

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Archinect

APRIL 25, 2024

The design challenge involved editing and synthesizing numerous additions to the original house, which had become increasingly incoherent. "Fairhaven Bay" is a renovation and addition to a 1950s mid-century residence located in Lincoln, MA.

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Archinect

JUNE 6, 2023

The team describes the project’s aesthetic as “directed by streamline automotive design,” with a split-level concept following the hilly topography of the site. Los Angeles-based Arshia Architects has completed RO54, a residential scheme perched on a hilltop in Bel Air.

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Archinect

MAY 27, 2024

The site faces the main road along the shores of Lake Biwa, giving it an overwhelming sense of scale, and is located in a corner of the parking lot of a large commercial facility. The simple gable roof, with its large protruding peak, is designed to provide a comfortable air space i.

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2024

Construction is progressing on a mass-timber academic building with a stone facade designed by architecture firm Studio Gang for the University of Chicago campus in Paris. It will be built from at least 50 per cent natural materials in line with the French sustainability law.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The pond is located in a former military training area Instead of treating the pond as a purely infrastructural project, White Arkitekter took the opportunity to create a biodiverse environment around the pond to "celebrate the joy of being part of nature". The photography is by Måns Berg.

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designboom

OCTOBER 16, 2022

the hotel will mark the latest addition to the solo houses site in spain. The post smiljan radic designs ‘solo hotel’ as a porous terrace suspended over wild nature appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Continuing our Designing for Disaster series, disasters expert Ilan Kelman shares advice for designers and architects on averting catastrophe. A generation ago, in 1999, a team led by disasterologist Dennis Mileti published a comprehensive review of disasters in the US titled "Disasters by Design". Disasters are not natural.

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Avontuura

JANUARY 14, 2024

The entrance to Dragon Mountain natural tourist site is marked by a view of the mountain within the axis of the site’s entrance alley.

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2023

A pair of stone towers and a thatched -roof palapa are among the features at a nature retreat in southern Mexico designed by architects Mauricio Rocha and Gabriela Carrillo. It sits at the edge of a nature preserve on Punta Cometa, or Comet Point, a peninsula that juts into the Pacific Ocean and was once the site of an Aztec fort.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Elkin, ASLA “For me garden design is not just about plants, it is about emotion, atmosphere, a sense of contemplation.” A kind of manual for designing nature without ecology is found in the series of artful drawings that reveal a strategy for working with plants through quantity, species, spacing, and cultivar. © Piet Oudolf.

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designboom

JUNE 16, 2023

the site-specific diptyque project by matière première architecture features a split saltbox roof bridged by a transparent walkway. The post monochromatic house’s geometric forms frame natural plateau in canada appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Architecture firm Alterstudio has completed a tower-like house in Texas that rises up from a steep, wooded site that was long overlooked "as a possible home site". The site had long been overlooked as feasible for home construction. Alterstudio saw potential and let the constraints guide the home's design.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Habitable Form has created a timber-clad house on Kiawah Island in South Carolina The site conditions drove the design by architecture studio Habitable Form , which has an office nearby, on Johns Island. The post Habitable Form creates vertical house for woodsy site on South Carolina island appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

US architecture practice StudioSC teamed up with Colombian studio Base Taller to design a triangular concrete commercial office building in Medellín, Colombia. Known as Indie Lab, the 69,632-square foot (6,469-square metre) complex is situated on a steeply sloped site next to a nature preserve outside the city of Medellín.

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Architizer

MAY 6, 2024

Nowhere else in North America does nature feel so powerful, otherworldly and sublime than the Pacific Northwest. Shipley and Bates accomplished this feat through site-responsive design that blurs the line between interior and exterior. This site has a huge number of challenges on it,” Bates noted bluntly. “As

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ArchiDiaries

MARCH 19, 2022

Excerpt: Teng, designed by Nature Times Art Design, is an exquisite, classy restaurant sited in the heart of Shenzhen, mainly offering Japanese & French teppanyaki. Teng is an exquisite, classy restaurant sited in the heart of Shenzhen, mainly offering Japanese & French teppanyaki. Project Description.

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Archinect

MAY 11, 2023

Tadao Ando ’s design for the 10th MPavilion in Melbourne has been revealed, showcasing the architect’s ambition towards placemaking and the social cohesion of memory and his related desire to "find a scene of eternity within the oasis" that is the city’s 12-acre Queen Victoria Gardens.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

US architecture studio Schaum/Shieh has embedded a Virginia house with irregularly shaped volumes into the contours of a steep site. The house is clad in insulated stucco "The hillside as an old problem in house design was a major motivator. Our clients knew many hilly sites from growing up in the area and their time in Greece.

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MLL Atelier

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The beauty of design is that you can uncover unique ways to respond to a site and all of its features. By seeing site features — like water, a hill, or even a tree.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Italian studio Stefano Boeri Architetti has unveiled its masterplan for a meditation centre and landscaped gardens at the Ramagrama stupa, a Buddhist pilgrimage site in Nepal. The heart of the masterplan is the Peace Meadow The site is located in Ramagrama, a municipality on the banks of the Jharahi River in western Nepal.

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Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. On a secluded wooded site, the new structure grounds itself to the earth with its approach to material and form. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Habitus Living

APRIL 12, 2022

The trail was established by Parks Victoria and consists of 11 new campsites designed by McGregor Coxall, Noxon Giffen and OPS Engineers. The trail and sites explore the rich Aboriginal culture of the Jardwadjali and Djab Wurrung Peoples who have lived in these ranges for thousands of years. Communal shelter at Barigar.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Japanese architecture studio Archipatch has completed a house in the seaside city of Kagoshima that is built from timber and features a material palette chosen to complement its natural surroundings. Wood is also used extensively for cladding the walls and ceilings, with other natural materials chosen to complement the timber.

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Archinect

JANUARY 8, 2024

Its natural topography is as picturesque as a fairyland on earth, which prompted HAS Design and Research to create a unique space that coexists with eternity and spirituality. On the building's facade, the design uses a sequence of shells to frame the continuous view.

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