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MAY 17, 2023

Stairs follow the pitch of a steep slope to connect the original home with the extension, a reflective, glass-wrapped box set on steel piles. The original architecture explored a garden-court concept: three detached structures around a generous enclosed garden inspired by Latin American courtyards. Have one to share? Post it here.

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APRIL 4, 2024

New York firm RKTB Architects has completed One Sullivan Place, a mixed-income apartment building that rises 12 storeys and cantilevers in two directions over the rooftop of an adjacent structure. Appearing as two distinct buildings, the structure has a front facade along Sullivan Place and a front facade along Washington Avenue.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

hectare site near Maastricht to commemorate soldiers who died in the second world war. To respect the cemetery's existing "monumental ensemble" and reference American memorial architecture, the studio created a concrete and glass form that would "claim its own space while blending into the greater whole".

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JULY 28, 2023

The spaces are sited between two natural mounds in the surrounding tussock. Two cubic masonry structures anchor the house. Between these forms, interior spaces are laid out around a sheltered courtyard, under an engineered-timber roof plane. Have one to share? Post it here.

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APRIL 16, 2024

Ross Barney Architects has created a deep-space technology research centre in Ohio The building forms part of a master plan for the NASA site, which has also been designed by Ross Barney Architects. The outer portion of the glass building has meeting spaces and work areas.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

Located near the coast of Gangwha County, the chapel sits at the top of a site that slopes down towards the sea, hugged from behind by dense forest and mountains. On the opposite wall, an organ is built into the exposed concrete, while narrow stained-glass windows are set within deep, faceted reveals on the southeast side.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The 117,150 square foot office building will transform an underutilized site into a vibrant setting with creative offices above 7,960 square feet of restaurant and/or retail space on the ground floor. The surrounding urban context heavily influenced the site response – particularly the activation of the streetscape.

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Dwell

MAY 15, 2024

Blue Sky Building Systems makes steel structures to your specifications, whether for a suburban dwelling or Joshua Tree retreat. The main structure of the home was constructed within a four-day period. Welcome to Prefab Profiles , an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Chicago architecture firm Studio Gang has expanded a California college through the addition of mass-timber structures that were informed by how fungi grow in the wild. Four buildings were designed to complement the existing structures – California modern-style buildings with stucco walls and splashes of colour – and the woodland environment.

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MAY 23, 2022

Hidden in the bucolic landscape of Northern Vosges Natural Park, Site Verrier de eisenthal is a publicly funded active cultural center in a historic glass factory dating back to the 18th century. An undulating poured-in-place concrete surface alludes to glass production as it unites the buildings. Photo © Iwan Baan.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Named after the community where it is located, the Cotton Patch Hills House sits on an oceanfront site in Bethany Beach, Delaware. For a sandy site that faces the water, the team created a rectilinear, three-storey building that totals 5,842 square feet (542 square metres). The staircase is made of white oak and steel.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Called The Lindemann Performing Arts Center (The Lindemann) the 101,000 square-foot (9,383-square-metre) structure consists of a shoebox theatre with a long bridge-like walkway. And then you go into the main hall and it's this massive space and there's no structure. So it's this weird inversion." The photography is by Iwan Baan.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The elevated site provides sweeping views of the undulating terrain and the distant ocean. SAOTA has completed a residence on an elevated site in Los Angeles The project was designed by Cape Town-based SAOTA , alongside US architect and developer David Maman and the Belgian interior designer Dieter Vander Velpen.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Architect Eric Owen Moss describes the design and engineering approach to constructing the (W)rapper office building in Los Angeles in this exclusive film produced by Dezeen in collaboration with MATT Construction. The (W)rapper expresses how it's made, the structural engineering behind it and how the building performs. "The

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Occupying a long narrow site in Herblay sur Seine, L'échappée – meaning "escapade" in English – faces a road to the north with a stone and glass facade and opens up to a field to the south with a large wooden colonnade. It has a timber structure According to Atelier WOA, this design acts as "an invitation to enter".

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

The building comprises three blocks with limestone and glass facades adorned by ornate metal screens, chosen to be in keeping with the rest of Baitul Futuh Mosque. The building has been designed to utilise passive and active measures to maximise its sustainable credentials and long-term future," Ravenscroft said.

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Architizer

APRIL 24, 2022

The day when I stood on the site, facing the vast ocean, the complex feeling I had in that moment inspired me. As this is an all-glass box with no dead space, the biggest challenge was to hide the pipework and structure. The architects and structural engineers worked together to achieve an overhang of 8 meters.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

miles from the site. The cost of bringing a sanitary sewer to the site was $2.0M – threatening the viability of the entire development. Working with our civil and plumbing engineers, we developed a design for an on-site black water treatment system where the outflow was clean water.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

On the opposite side, where the gates are, the face of the structure is mostly glass. The roof was made using standing-seam metal The terminal was meant to stand out while adhering to the strict requirements of the site and integrating with the existing airport facilities. The photography is by Ema Peter.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Architecture studio Rex has revealed the translucent-marble-clad Perelman Performing Arts Center at New York's World Trade Center site. Located alongside One World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan, the Perelman Performing Arts Center by Rex comprises a cubic structure with thin marble cladding.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

As it stands, the plan for the three-acre site has gained approval for the smaller towers, but is still seeking approval for the supertall tower. The supertall skyscraper will be relatively flat with a uniform shape that tapers up slowly towards the structure's crown.

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MAY 5, 2023

Photo is by Benjamin Benschneider The site is reached by boat, and a winding path leads from a dock through a wooded area and into a sunlit meadow. 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.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Settled in a quarter-acre site, the house sits 17 feet (five metres) above the sidewalk, lifting it up from the street's sightlines. The glazed front is characterized by a deep triangular covering with a thin structural shell, while "a continuous dark band of cementitious panels defines the silhouette of the east elevation," Parish added.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The two structures are mirrors of each other and are divided by a courtyard with a privacy wall in the middle Set on 40-foot (12-metre) wide lots, the linear homes measure only 20 feet (6 metres) at their widest, leaving plenty of space for outdoor areas on either side of the house for residents to enjoy.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Brazilian practice Studio KUNZ has created a compact gabled house that cantilevers from a sloped site in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Vertical wood slats wrap the base The arrangement creates makes the structure appear balanced atop a slate staircase that provides a rustic base for the home's clean white lines.

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Dwell

JUNE 30, 2022

This project is in the Glen Ellen region of Sonoma Valley in California and comprises three prefab structures—a Connect 6L model main house, a detached 400-square-foot, two-module prefab garage/playroom, and a 640-square-foot Connect 2 guest house.

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APRIL 24, 2024

The Opticum is an interdisciplinary research building for Leibniz University of Hanover currently under construction on the Science Park site located in the urban district of Marienwerder. In the conference rooms, large expanses of glass provide vistas of the green surroundings.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

US architecture studio GBBN preserved and expanded a 19th-century home in Erie, Pennsylvania into an educational facility with a glass bridge connection and metal-clad, barn-like structure. A glass bridge is included in the design. The structure features two conceptual elements: the barn and the bridge.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

An open-tread staircase has been added to the hallway Alterations to the 198-square-metre home's interior are first seen in its entrance, where a stair with open treads and a white-steel balustrade replaces a solid timber structure that previously restricted light from a skylight above. The photography is by Tom Ferguson.

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JUNE 28, 2022

American architecture studio Thomas Phifer and Partners has built a concrete structure at the Glenstone Museum in Maryland to house an artwork by sculptor Richard Serra. To hold the artwork, the studio created a rectilinear block made completely of cast-in-place structural concrete with skylights and doors made of stainless steel.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

Completed in the spring of 2021, the 6,060-square-foot (563-square-metre) House on a Bay is composed of two distinct bars that sit atop a steep site overlooking a bay in Southport, Maine. Elliott Architects demolished the main house and relocated the other two structures to start the design with a clean slate. "The

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NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Bright white plaster clads the Burnet Road Offices Dating to 1961, the complex, which consists of three semi-connected structures, had served a range of functions over the years. These spaces contain various rooms Energy-efficient glass was provided by the California company Panelite , whose founder is a longtime friend of Baldridge.

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MAY 9, 2023

American architect Eric Owen Moss has completed the (W)rapper office tower in Los Angeles , which was named for a structural support system that covers the facade. Moss, who runs an eponymous studio in LA and has been planning the tower for decades, recently completed the 235-foot (72 metres) structure in Los Angeles.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It provides parking storage for 4,000 bicycles at Amsterdam Central Station IJboulevard sits within the River IJ and was prefabricated off-site, allowing the station to continue to function optimally throughout the construction process. Both lead down from the pedestrian boulevard above.

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MAY 31, 2023

Project Details: Location: Ophir, Central Otago, New Zealand Architect: NOTT Architects Builder: Down to Earth Builders and Shamrock Builders Structural Engineer: Paula Hugens Photographer: Biddi Rowley / @ biddirowley From the Architect: " We worked closely with the clients to form a raw house for a raw landscape. Have one to share?

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MARCH 19, 2024

US architecture studio Cannon Design has referenced the local landscape and "prioritized inclusion", drawing on the Native American heritage of the site for its design of a university student centre in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The structure comprises a maze of cavernous spaces separated by arched openings and stalagmite-like columns, all crafted from concrete that is covered in mud. This construction method means that the building is positioned within the ground and concealed at street level, and takes on the curves and imperfections of the excavated site.

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