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Taming Exterior Greenery: Landscape Design for Houses in Natural Environments

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The art of landscaping is the arrangement of nature’s raw material elements, like vegetation and planting, combined with nonliving elements, such as exterior structures, paving, and decking, in order to create site-specific solutions that enhance the exterior spaces of a project. Read more »

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Pushing Boundaries: 11 Exteriors That Use Fabric For Protection, Shape, and Longevity

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These early portable structures were primarily supported by wooden frames and were used by various ancient civilizations, including the Bedouins in the Arabian Peninsula and the Native American tribes in North America. Image © Fernando Alda Architecture – once it moved out from under its cavernous beginnings – started off largely nomadic.

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Exterior finishes of Gehry's Warner Bros. Second Century expansion nearly complete

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Second Century expansion, and exterior finishes are climbing the hulking concrete buildings. Now, as seen through new photos, the exterior finishes of the Warner Bros. Just north of the SR-134 Freeway in Burbank, vertical construction is all but finished for the Warner Bros.

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Four Retractable Shade Solutions for Residential Exteriors

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Image Courtesy of ShadeFX Shade refers to a region or state where sunlight is partially obstructed by objects or structures. This concept plays a crucial role in architectural design, as it significantly impacts comfort and functionality. It offers relief from direct sunlight, helps regulate temperature, and reduces glare.

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Lucas Museum of Narrative Art begins exterior finishes ahead of 2025 debut

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The finish line for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art may still be out on the horizon, but the exterior of the $1-billion project from Star Wars and Indiana Jones creator George Lucas is starting to take shape. We’re building an institution, a 200-plus-year proposition," Director Sandra Jackson-Dumont had said previously.

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Bridge Building: 7 Inhabitable Structures Spanning Spaces and Ideas

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They can be material structures that connect two (or more!) Beyond spanning from point A to B, architects are designing bridges as inhabitable structures to build connections between people and places. Bridges are both physical and metaphorical.

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Modu clads Houston building with "self-cooling" exterior

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Brooklyn-based studio Modu has created a building envelope that lowers the ambient air temperature in order to help cool the interior and exterior of this Houston building. Each tenant will be provided with both an interior and exterior space. A bamboo grove will also provide additional shade.

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