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Farm buildings inform Sonoma ADU by Schwartz and Architecture

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"Their original, steeply sloped roofs are now drooping into low-slung structures, peeling apart, allowing in unexpected puddles of natural light, and revealing fragments of their interior framing to the outside elements," the team said. Exterior walls are wrapped in Alaskan yellow cedar with a weathered finish.

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

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Called Zilker Studios, the structure includes 110 affordable apartments operated by local housing organisation Foundation Communities. The mid-rise housing complex consists of a long volume on a narrow site, flanked by outdoor public spaces with a breezeway and an open-air staircase on the far end.

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Japanese architecture informs design of Minnesota house by Salmela Architect

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Interior finishes include slate tiles, quartz countertops and ceilings sheathed in pale-toned basswood. In the main dwelling, there is a clear separation between public and private spaces. To the north is a two-stall garage and the "barn", which is a multipurpose space for playtime and storage. Paved walkways surround the home.

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HGA creates two mass-timber buildings for Bowdoin College in Maine

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Both buildings also have mass timber frames, wooden interior finishes and brick facades. Structural timber elements were left exposed inside Mills Hall contains four classrooms and 12 faculty offices, all of which are afforded views, daylight and operable windows for natural ventilation.

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Field Architecture clads flowing Sonoma house in copper

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Field Architecture has created a house in Sonoma Valley with copper-clad roofs Dry in the summers with heavy rainfall in the winter, the area's geography informed the design, as did the client's desire to co-inhabit the land with the region's plants and animals. "We the studio said.

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Oliver Leech Architects extends Pink House with materials that "age gracefully"

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Called Pink House, the project transforms the five-bedroom dwelling into a "private city oasis", informed by memories of the client's favourite holidays in Provence, Morocco and New York. Raw plaster walls coated in a sealant to keep the original pink finish provide a textured backdrop that runs throughout the ground floor.".

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Loader Monteith and Studio SJM create woodland school in Scotland

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The teaching space is located on the 35-acre estate of the charity Harmeny Education Trust, which provides specialist education for children who have experienced severe trauma. The vocational spaces have been designed to mimic workshop or creative environments to familiarise the students with potential types of future workplaces," they added.