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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion

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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion 0 qpurcell Thu, 09/28/2023 - 10:37 Office Buildings IMEG's Edwin Dean, Joe Gulden, and Doug Sweeney, share seven key focuses for structural engineers when planning office-to-residential conversions. RELATED ARTICLE: About 11% of U.S.

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Architecture for London uses natural materials to renovate studio founder's home

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The interiors of the home are finished with natural materials. "It Although Ridley and his team at Architecture for London carried out extensive renovation work they aimed to using natural materials and only make sustainably minded interventions. Structural engineer: Architecture for London.

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TYPE combines elemental materials in Herne Hill House extension

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TYPE 's design centres around simple, quality materials that can be left exposed, so they don't need external finishes. Details include an exposed concrete structure, lime plaster walls, a floor of quarry tiles and furniture elements made from ash and Douglas fir. An upholstered window seat lines the picture window.

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They Spent Almost Two Decades Renovating Their Silver Lake Home. It Finally Feels Like Theirs.

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They enclosed a balcony to create a larger living area, finished it in cedar and Douglas fir, and then peppered in beloved furnishings. A wall of windows and an expansive built-in banquette with Opio Prussiana fabric by Pierre Frey frames and highlights the breathtaking Silver Lake views of sweeping hills. Have one to share?

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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. The buildings sit next to a grove of pine trees The materiality was influenced by the region's forests and the existing brick buildings at Bowdoin College, which was established in 1794, "at the dawn of the American republic".

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Studio KUNZ splits gabled Brazilian house into two trapezoidal forms

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This conjunction of materials and shapes gives to Trapezium House the feel of a country house," the studio said. Timber also features on the interior "Inclined slabs make up both the roof structure and the internal ceiling, maintaining the oblique lines of the facade in interior spaces," the studio explained.

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Sam Crawford Architects tops Sydney home renovation with "garden oasis"

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A curved concrete roof features in the kitchen "By extending the ground floor finishes through the full-width doors into the rear yard, the garden and high-level green trellises at the rear of the site form the fourth wall to the rear wing," studio director Sam Crawford told Dezeen. The photography is by Tom Ferguson.