Deezen

JANUARY 2, 2024

Exterior walls are wrapped in Alaskan yellow cedar with a weathered finish. The structural system is mostly wood with an occasional steel beam. The kitchen countertops are quartzite , and the island is clad in the same cedar found on the exterior facades. The other, which is set at an angle, holds a bedroom and bathroom.

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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. Kresge College is a part of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Deezen

APRIL 14, 2024

Floor-to-ceiling windows line the majority of the exterior, with the remainder clad in a vertical cedar siding. Project credits: Design/Architecture firm: HGXDESIGN Managing partner: Hal Goldstein Creative director: Hal Goldstein Lead designers/architects: Hal Goldstein/Stefan Kusurelis Contractors: CofH Builders Inc.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Instead, the studio "planned a new independent structure outside the existing structure," Unemori Architects team member Keita Komori told Dezeen. Unemori Architects deliberately chose the wood as it matches the existing structure. Large windows let the light in. The photography is by Atelier Vincent Hecht.

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aasarchitecture

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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. Baldridge Architects has had many homes since its founding in 2005. First, it was rented space on South Lamar.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It is located in a three-storey, Italian Mediterranean-style building While the building's original architect is unknown, the firm Soule, Murphy & Hastings performed a renovation following a 1925 earthquake. The exterior facades, featuring white stucco and arched windows, were kept largely intact.

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2022

Glazed brick and charred cypress wrap the exterior of a partly sunken North Carolina home designed by architecture firm In Situ Studio. Local firm In Situ Studio was charged with designing a contemporary residence for a couple – the husband is an electrical engineer, and the wife is a German and history teacher.

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

The Portland firm of Broome, Oringdulph, O’Toole, Rudolf & Associates (BOORA) was the architect. Because it was an unreservedly plain and straightforward design strapped by a miserly budget, BOORA chose to rely upon the superficial application of a distinctive exterior color scheme to provide Olive Plaza with visual interest.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Lumi Shala is covered in shiny copper shingles Designed to convey a feeling of lightness and connection to nature, the studio space is enveloped by a layering of bamboo forms, designed in collaboration with Kul Kul Farm , Bamboo Pure and structural engineering firm Atelier One.

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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 team cut away portions of the boxy exterior to create balconies, which vary in size. The opportunity came with challenges. The photography is by Casey Dunn.

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Deezen

APRIL 18, 2022

White siding and a curvy aluminium screen make up the exterior of a residential building in Los Angeles designed by American firm Brooks + Scarpa. Local firm Brooks + Scarpa designed the project to serve as "a model for more compact, responsible urban living". Distinct perforated-aluminium screens undulate on the exterior.

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Dwell

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Design firm Neiheiser Argyros stripped a grid-like ’70s home to its essence in service of the Mediterranean setting. A simple and regular concrete structural grid creates a variety of interior and exterior spaces with views across the Eubean Sea. Have a project to share? Post it here.

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Dwell

MAY 1, 2024

Originally purchased by the couple 17 years ago, Chinlund and Crespo enlisted architect Alan Koch and designer Karen Spector of firm Lovers Unite for the renovation they had always intended where a selection of carefully plotted architectural interventions and material shifts completely reimagined the interior of the home. Post it here.

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Deezen

AUGUST 12, 2022

Polycarbonate walls and a row of tall window boxes bring diffused sunlight into the Iowa City Public Works building by US firm Neumann Monson Architects. The exterior facade is made of concrete panels. The exterior panels were maximised in width as much as possible to reduce the number of joints," the studio said.

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2022

Architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa has created a North Hollywood apartment building that prioritises social areas over private space and includes units for low-income tenants. The building has a white exterior that helps enhance natural light and reduce heat gain – the latter being an important consideration given the area's hot climate.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Each building responds to its immediate surroundings Local firm CLB Architects carved away portions of the 6,000-square-foot (557-square-metre) building to form recesses and openings. The other two buildings are tucked within the woods and feel more intimate. The roof is undulating, and the facades are clad in burnt wood.

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Deezen

JULY 6, 2023

Raleigh-based architecture firm In Situ Studio transformed the 4,200-square foot (390-square metre) residence – known as Morgan Creek – for New York-based art collectors Eric Diefenbach and James Keith Brown , who purchased the property at auction. "The The basement level has two bedrooms and a den that opens to the pool deck.

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Deezen

AUGUST 8, 2023

At 93 storeys and 1,066 feet (325 metres) tall, the supertall skyscraper topped out in March 2023 , but the intricate cladding of its exterior was only recently completed. Local interior firm Gachot Studios carried out the design of most of the residences.

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Deezen

MAY 5, 2023

When new owners purchased the property in 2016, they engaged us to make additions to the site that respected the natural character of the sparsely populated island," the firm said. The main house sits within this meadow, overlooking a shallow bay. The rectangular building holds a main living area and two bedrooms.

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Deezen

MARCH 17, 2023

The original building was designed in a modernist style by the Boston office of Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbott – the firm started in 1870s by noted American architect Henry Hobson Richardson. The building's formerly opaque stone walls were carefully and selectively removed to allow light in," the firm said.

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Dwell

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The exterior is a rugged pine to blend in with surrounding nature. The heart of the vessel is the sauna oven, which the blacksmith designed with glass on each side to provide the same ambiance to every seat, and so the fire could be seen from the exterior. "A

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Curving walls and windows placed "like notes in a melody" define the latest Maggie's Centre , designed by architecture firm Studio Libeskind for the Royal Free Hospital in London. Timber panels clad the exterior Reaching 11.4 Curtains can be drawn to separate the open-plan communal spaces.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2023

The building, called Mississippi has structural elements made from cross-laminated timber ( CLT ) panels and glued-laminated timber ( glulam ) beams. The rest of the structure – walls decking, and beams – were erected and later clad with the weathering steel exterior.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 19, 2023

NEAC Margraten was originally designed by American landscape architect Michael Rapuano, sculptor Joseph Kiselewski, and architecture firm Coolidge, Sheply, Bulfinch and Abbott, in collaboration with local architect Alphons Boosten of Maastricht.

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Deezen

JUNE 8, 2022

To design the residence, local firm CLB took inspiration from Swiss mountain chalets and the vernacular architecture of the American Mountain West. Exterior walls are clad in vertical cedar siding, which is paired with local grey stone that mimics the area's rock formations. Civil engineer: Nelson Engineering (Dave Dufault).

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Deezen

MARCH 23, 2023

Engineered by international firm Arup , it is suspended by steel trusses, and supported on one side by a chunky steel-concrete column and the pitched roof of the community building on the other. The photography is by Trevor Mein.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Instead of putting everything under one roof, architecture firm Lake|Flato created a network of smaller volumes to minimize impact on the forested plot. Cor-Ten siding was used on the exterior for its robust qualities and minimal maintenance. Have one to share? P ost it here.

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Deezen

MAY 11, 2022

The rescue company is trained to respond to various emergency scenarios, from fire and building collapses to water rescues and scuba operations," said US firm Studio Gang. On the exterior, various anchor points similarly allow the firefighters to practice using the building itself. Civil engineer: Langan , civil engineer.

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Deezen

AUGUST 24, 2022

Thai firm IDIN Architects has completed an office building in Bangkok , featuring angled metal cladding that reflects sunlight away from a nearby shrine and helps prevent the interior from overheating. IDIN is an acronym for Integrating Design into Nature, which describes how the firm's projects respond to Thailand's tropical climate.

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Dwell

JUNE 29, 2022

Design firm Architensions tops a house with another house, subverting the notion of a traditional second-story addition. On the exterior, the striking geometry of the cylinder appears subtracted from the square volume to create a street-facing, semi-circular outdoor patio, which extends from the second-floor bedroom.

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Deezen

JUNE 9, 2023

Grimshaw and Architekton designed a research facility in Arizona Designed by global firm Grimshaw Architects and local studio Architekton , the building – formally known as the Rob and Melani Walton Center for Planetary Health – is the latest addition to a science-and-research district on the desert campus.

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Deezen

AUGUST 28, 2022

The Gallatin Passive House was designed and built by North River Architecture , a firm based in the nearby town of Stone Ridge. Deep overhangs provide a buffer between the interior and exterior spaces. Structural engineer: Kaaterskill Associates. The ground floor has an open-plan living area.

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Deezen

AUGUST 21, 2023

One of the buildings is a brutalist 1950s volume "As part of this important historic site, the buildings are protected and any change to the exterior is carefully reviewed." The largest structure, called Building 54, houses the Children's National Research Institute and totals 332,000 square feet (30,844 square metres).

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Habitus Living

JUNE 6, 2023

Situated within 100 metres of the water’s edge, on the fringe of a heritage precinct, “Harold” is a spectacular residence in Middle Park, Victoria that has been given new life by a skyward extension and reconfiguration by local architecture firm Coy Yiontis and built by CBD Contracting Group.

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Deezen

APRIL 10, 2022

A lush green wall and back-lit fibreglass panels are found on the exterior of an electrical substation extension that was designed by TEF Design to achieve net-zero energy consumption. It adjoins a concrete structure built in 1962 to supply power to the northeastern part of San Francisco. Civil engineering: BFK Engineers.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Sliding glass walls dissolve the transition between interior and exterior Disappearing sliding glass walls dissolve the transition between interior and exterior. Large windows open the various rooms to the forest-like landscape on each side of the house, while skylights and interior glazing allow sunlight to reach deep into the plan.

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Deezen

JUNE 21, 2023

Local architecture firm In Situ Studio wrapped an art museum visitor centre in Raleigh, North Carolina with darkened steel and cantilevered a roof with an aperture over its patio. In Situ Studio designed the 1,158-square foot (108-square metre) welcome building for the large park that surrounds the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA).

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