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Undulating green roof helps Creek Cabin "live in harmony with the surrounding environment"

Deezen

Creek Cabin is a house in Suffolk by MAP Architecture and Jon Broome Architects "For me, this project was about finding a way to live in harmony with the surrounding environment," MAP Architecture partner Robert Mawson told Dezeen. The photography is by David Valinsky.

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Greenpoint’s New Library Connects Community, Education, and the Environment

Architizer

BPL required the new building to double the size of the previous building, provide additional exterior space, and integrate interest in environmental education. The greatest design challenge faced during the project was the potential limitations imposed by a particular portion of the zoning resolution.

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Ways to Landscape Your Backyard

Aric Gitomer Architect

A landscape designer might suggest utilizing focal points, harmony, or symmetry through shrubs or decorative elements such as a fountain or birdbath. Zoning and Linking. Several landscape architects might suggest creating micro zones within your backyard to designate roles. Hence, a well-drained environment is highly-suited.

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Mayo Clinic’s Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Building // HDR

Architizer

The 11-story building’s high-profile exterior communicates a mission that is aspirational, a catalyst for interdisciplinary innovation, and a symbol of hope. The research environment employs an innovative risk-based zoning approach. Only those spaces that absolutely require physical separation are enclosed.

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Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet: O

SW Oregon Architect

It has provided eligible individuals ever since with the opportunity to live independently, but in an environment that provides support activities such as cleaning, cooking, and transportation. The National Benevolent Association constructed Olive Plaza during the late 1970s as a HUD Section 202 project.

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Feel the Burn: 6 Strategically Scorched Buildings That Celebrate Shou Sugi Ban

Architizer

Prized for its dual protective and aesthetic qualities, this time-honored material treatment is now utilized all over the world. While it’s commonly seen across exterior wood siding, its applications are wide-ranging and extend to interior paneling, furniture, decking and other architectural elements.

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806_Marion Residency | i-con Architects & Urban Planners

ArchiDiaries

Built around the human experience, this residence expands spatial boundaries to structure light and environment around daily life. This tropical residence utilizes modernist ideas to create open, picturesque living places. This tropical residence utilizes modernist ideas to create open, picturesque living places.