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Specht Architects creates austere glass house in the Berkshires

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Specht Architects has designed a symmetrical glass pavilion in The Berkshires in Massachusetts that was created as a residence and a place to showcase antiques. metre) wide porch that wraps around the entire house and shades the interior spaces, reducing the home's heating and cooling load. The photography is by Dror Baldinger.

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This Wood, Glass, and Metal Cabin Hovers Above the Forest Floor in Chile

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First, the roof ridge was located in the center of the volume, to allow for the highest interior space. Secondly, the entire facade in this segment is made of glass, even above the sliding glass doors. Have one to share? Post it here. With the same logic of keeping costs down, the floor was defined as polished concrete."

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ACFD Architecture wraps glass home around apple tree in Quebec

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The Apple Tree House is a modernist-style glass residence. ACDF Architecture arranged the structure around an apple tree. Glass walls throughout the public areas of the home give sightlines of the tree and the other living areas from a variety of different positions. Structural engineer: Poincaré – Paul-Henry Boutros.

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Charles F. Bloszies inserts glass addition into San Francisco cathedral complex

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The studio added a metal and glass extension to the school The extension included the "careful inssertaion" of a modern, glass-lined structure between the cathedral and the school. For the restoration, the team revamped large portions of the school building's, extending the programme of the addition's interior throughout.

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Glass and steel form rooftop Cascada House apartment in Mexico City

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These rooflines open up the interior spaces to views of the surrounding treetops. This opens to a generous patio via sliding glass doors. Through large glass panels that open widely, the house integrates with the ambient vegetation, dissolving the boundary between interior and exterior," they explained. noma de Me?xico

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A Wood Canopy With Netting Fills Out a Glass-Wrapped New York Apartment

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Continuing to interrogate the fundamental nature of a partition, the installation of a garden folly responds to the inhuman proportions found in the newly combined double-height space, which opens to the city through 22-foot-tall glass walls on three sides, and takes on the scale of landscape.

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Hopson Rodstrom Design creates jagged-roof Los Angeles building with interior courtyard

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Local studio Hopson Rodstrom Design placed a sawtooth roof on top of this black-clad apartment building with an interior courtyard in southern California. Its facade is interspersed with many skinny windows The seven-storey structure has a ground-level podium clad in green-painted concrete interspersed with steel gates.

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