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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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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. A suspended fireplace decorates the living space.

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Glass Walls Make This New Zealand Beach House Look Like It’s Suspended in Midair

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It juts from a hillside on steel columns that frame an indoor/outdoor living space. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here. They wanted to spend their time relaxing outside, not inside.

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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. Kitchen cabinetry matches the structural colour scheme. This opens to a generous patio via sliding glass doors. This space is set up with a desk and a pair of armchairs, and can be used as an office or for meetings.

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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. Their aim was to create a space with natural warmth and durability.

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Apollo Architects & Associates designs Tokyo home that blurs indoor and outdoor spaces

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Japanese studio Apollo Architects & Associates has completed Esprit House, a home in Tokyo with a blocky concrete form elevated on piloti above a garage space. The interior of the living space has been finished with a dark palette of tiled grey floors, and wood-lined ceilings and walls with large areas of built-in storage.

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Fuller Overby stacks cypress-wrapped spaces for North Carolina lake house

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Inside, the rooms are fractals of spaces The angled roof lines direct rainwater toward an internal gutter and tapered scupper that outline the distinct forms of the structure. "At At thresholds and entry points, concave inflections lined with brushed, amber-hued cypress are carved out of the volumes," the studio said. "At

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