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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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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. The axial approach includes replanted natural grasses The roof extends to create a 15-foot (4.5-metre) The terrace is natural 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. The apple tree was symbolic of his earliest encounters with nature as a child, and of the continuity of that connection years later while picking apples with his own children," ACDF added. ACDF Architecture arranged the structure around an apple tree.

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Bohlin Cywinski Jackson designs nature-infused Henry Island Guesthouse in Washington

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When new owners purchased the property in 2016, they engaged us to make additions to the site that respected the natural character of the sparsely populated island," the firm said. The material palette for the guesthouse mimics that of the main residence – Douglas fir , cedar , steel and glass.

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

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Hebra Arquitectos elevates a remote retreat on columns to minimize its impact on the surrounding landscape. 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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Glass Walls Make This New Zealand Beach House Look Like It’s Suspended in Midair

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The house is a simple response to this brief, providing a delicate intervention into the landscape with a small footprint that allows the owners to connect with the surrounding landscape without dominating it, whilst blurring the line between inside and outside. They wanted to spend their time relaxing outside, not inside.

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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. Post it here.

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