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Wonderforest Nature Preschool by Palette Architecture

Archinect

The façade provides opportunities for natural light, visual connection, and varying levels of privacy. The most public layer lies next to the glass and contains the welcome area, The Forest , and The Wetland. These areas receive borrowed light by way of acoustic interior windows.

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Biomorphic Overhead: 7 Glass Ceilings That Imitate Nature

Architizer

By design, glass ceilings tend to attract attention to themselves. Their functional purposes are fairly limited, and their shortcomings can be sizable (depending on how good the glass is at insulating), but we keep building them because they’re just so appealing. 44 Union Square/Tammany Hall. By BKSK Architects , New York, NY.

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From Float Glass to OLEDs: How Recent Advancements in Glass Technology Are Reshaping 21st Century Design

Architizer

If your brand is innovating in product design for architects, consider entering today: Enter the A+Product Awards It might be hard to believe in today’s see-through society, but glass was once a scarce resource used sparingly in architecture. In the early years, glass was a medium for divine storytelling. from 2021 to 2028.

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Photovoltaics, Often Misunderstood as Visual Nuisances, Are Powerful Architectural Features

Architizer

These sweeping expanses of glass and silicon on exposed latticework structures are naturally dramatic and expressive while providing a dappled shade or shelter from the rain. But you can’t look away: there they are in full sun atop the house: ugly, unloved, visually jarring. Solar panel and glass canopy.

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Aireys House uses nature as an architectural canvas

Habitus Living

The captivating union of architecture and nature often yields breathtaking outcomes. The building’s form is defined by the implementation of recessed fixed glass and rammed earth fin walls, which craft an alternating sequence of framed views and transparent vistas of the horizon.

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Courtyard House by Yellow Cloud Studio Ltd

Archinect

The length of the floorplan meant that there was a need for natural light to reach the middle part of the house, thus the idea was born to retain a part of the rear garden as a courtyard that would sit amongst the functional layout of the space and provide not only light but also vital cross ventilation and visual connection.

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Ten cabins with cosy interiors that frame views of nature

Deezen

From Norway to New Zealand, this lookbook explores rural cabins with cosy living areas that are animated by natural materials and views out over wild landscapes. As demonstrated by this roundup, little else is needed to make a cabin cosy, and keeping their interiors pared-back retains focus on the main event – the views out to nature.

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