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Taming Exterior Greenery: Landscape Design for Houses in Natural Environments

ArchDaily

One of the most successful ways of achieving this is through a thoughtful design of the landscape that complements the built project. Read more ยป

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Modu clads Houston building with "self-cooling" exterior

Deezen

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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Ways to Landscape Your Backyard

Aric Gitomer Architect

The visual celebration is a merger of varied materials for pathways, flower beds, and other elements. And thatโ€™s how you could landscape your backyard. Several homeowners participate in landscaping their backyards as a means of hobbies and family time. And others aspire for the professional touch. Review the Design.

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Red River Gorge Cabin by West Workshop

Archinect

Anchoring the home to the sloped landscape, the foundation terraces down the hill, going with the land. Inspired by traditional Kentucky barn materials with a modern upgrade, the home’s two towers feature an exterior vertical black shou-sugi-ban-rainscreen cladding paired with a galvanized metal roof.

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a modern take on traditional caserรญo farmhouses in the pristine garralda landscape

designboom

the exterior envelope employs only two materials, white mortar, and heat-treated pine wood, to celebrate the local architectural.heritage. The post a modern take on traditional caserรญo farmhouses in the pristine garralda landscape appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Mexico City renovation by Taller Hรฉctor Barroso includes dark exterior

Deezen

For the exterior walls, the team used concrete blocks, which were then covered with dark brown stucco that, when dry, appears black. Within the home, the corridors and the rooms of the interior gradually open up to the exterior landscape by means of the rear of the house which is open to the garden. Engineering: Tomรกs Rodrรญguez.

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Muza Lab's resort interiors are informed by Greek culture and landscapes

Deezen

Promotion: design studio Muza Lab has created the interior and exterior spaces of the One&Only Aesthesis resort, bungalows and villas in Athens , Greece. Textural local stone and marble are also used across the scheme, uniting the spaces by underpinning them with naturally occurring materials found in Greece.