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It’s Your Average Off-Grid Shipping Container Home—Just Set on a Tall Metal Tower

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When Mark Derenthal couldn’t find an architect or builder to take on his ambitious concept, he worked directly with an engineer to create the treetop retreat. 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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Page Southerland Page integrates "past and future" at Texas Capitol Complex

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It includes two new high-rise office buildings that measure over one million square feet (92,903 square metres), a central utility plant for efficient cooling and a five-storey, below-grade structure with over 3,000 square feet (280 square metres) of parking space. The photography is by Albert Vecerka/Esto. & Elec. (AOR

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Wisdome Stockholm by Elding Oscarson

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Conventionally, the program would generate a low volume with a protruding dome, but to utilize the unique dome to create a strong interior space as well as a telling exterior form, the dome is given a focal position under a free form timber structure. The building opened in December 2023. Source by Elding Oscarson.

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This Suburban Australian Home Isn’t Afraid of a Little (More Like a Lot) of Plywood

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An enfilade along the southern side of the house provides the internal circulation, efficiently coupled with a service strip accommodating the kitchen bench, utility zone, and extra spaces for storage or study. Each room has a sliding door which opens onto the veranda, allowing the narrow deck to augment the internal circulation.

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Forge Craft uses "hammock" approach to create outdoor space for transitional apartments

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We intentionally designed open sightlines throughout the building, utilizing an open-air interior courtyard riding through the center of the structure and a layout that allows residents to observe what’s happening on floors below them before choosing to leave their units and join the communal environment downstairs."

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AECOM and Luis Vidal place sleek red roof on Boston airport terminal

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metres) above grade "to allow for a rapid return to service in a flood event and to protect capital-intensive utility investments", according to Rookard. MEP engineering, special systems, asset management: Arora Engineers, Inc. Resident engineering: Keville Enterprises, Inc.

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Fulldraw Vineyard by Clayton Korte

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Responding to site topography and climatic influences of sun and prevailing breezes, the steel-framed building houses open-air fermentation spaces that foster cross-ventilation, utilize night cooling, and provide well-lit working environments with ample natural daylight.