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LACMA shares custom-built glass facade details in new spring construction update

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According to the museum's most recent April 5th update, interior walls and exterior glazing are being installed on the site’s western side, facing north to Wilshire Boulevard. Work on the building’s MEPs is now underway, and the concrete pour for the roof decks has been completed to the east side of the site.

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Vestiges of industry inform hotel complex on former factory site in Bordeaux

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A 36-metre-tall concrete silo has been converted into a dramatic hotel lobby at Bacalan Block – the transformation of a former factory site in Bordeaux into a mixed-use development by Colboc Sachet Architects. The post Vestiges of industry inform hotel complex on former factory site in Bordeaux appeared first on Dezeen.

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Hebra Arquitectos tucks Lone Oak House within wooded site in Chile

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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. Exterior walls consist of cypress wood screens and large stretches of glass. A glass-enclosed bridge links the two zones.

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Chicago's Thompson Center begins demolition ahead of $280 million Google takeover

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Work will cover the exterior glass curtain facade and interior atrium. NBC Chicago is reporting on the start of planned demolition work for the Thompson Center in advance of a $280 million makeover that will turn the famed Helmut Jahn -designed building into a new office space for Google for 2026.

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Looking Glass Lodge features glass facades that reflect the surrounding woodland

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Looking Glass Lodge is situated within the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and was developed for a client whose parents established a nature reserve there in the 1960s. The building is set on a sloping site in the grounds of the client's family home. Looking Glass Lodge is clad in timber.

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La Base Studio wraps glass Buenos Aires house with shading screen

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Local architecture firm La Base Studio has renovated a glass and concrete home, wrapping it in a delicate privacy and shading screen on a lush site in Buenos Aires , Argentina. Sliding glass doors open to the garden The sliding glass doors open to the garden and pool deck, blurring the interior and exterior relationship.

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UNESCO's restoration of Iraq's historic Al-Nouri mosque site has been placed on hold

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Rendering by Salah El Din Samir Hareedy and team The team of Egyptian architects selected last spring to oversee the overhaul will now redraw its plans for a glass-paneled modern update to the hall. Exterior elements like sun shading will be thrown out as well.