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

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The timber box, for sleeping and bathing, is placed above the deck and the area below is enclosed with glass to create a semi-outdoor living space on the deck. The large timber shutters hide the full-height windows that slide into a hidden cavity behind the cedar rainscreen.

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Glass and steel form rooftop Cascada House apartment in Mexico City

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Kitchen cabinetry matches the structural colour scheme. 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. Structural engineering: CAFEL Ingenieri?a.

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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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RED Arquitectos integrates corn millstone into facade of Mexican house

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Casa que Da is conceived as a pre-Hispanic codex, which expresses through its spatiality and iconography, the knowledge of the earth and its materiality," RED Arquitectos principal Susana LĂ³pez GonzĂ¡lez told Dezeen. The bedrooms and bathrooms are stacked on the opposite end with windows that look out east and west.

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Ascent skyscraper in Milwaukee becomes world's tallest timber building

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Wherever possible, materials in the building are exposed natural materials – timber – or products that have a natural look or component," KA principal Jason Korb told Dezeen. The 19 stories above hold apartments and culminate in a top floor with floor-to-ceiling glass windows and two sky decks.

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HGX Design creates house that "flows like music" in the Hudson Valley

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New York architecture studio HGX Design has created a linear, glass-fronted home in the Hudson Valley informed by the "individual notes of a music composition". Floor-to-ceiling windows line the majority of the exterior, with the remainder clad in a vertical cedar siding.

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