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Oregon researchers build prototype mass timber home that ‘fits together like gingerbread house’

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A research team in Oregon has unveiled a mass timber prototype home that seeks to showcase a sustainable, energy-efficient alternative to traditional home construction. Unlike conventional timber construction, the home is constructed of mass plywood panels shaped to fit together like pieces of a gingerbread house, the team says.

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How one viral home survived the LA fires

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Amid the tragic footage, one home has gone viral for more positive reasons. pic.twitter.com/kpqfiRj49M — g chasen (@ChasenGreg) January 9, 2025 In an image that has been viewed on X over 14 million times, a brand new home in Pacific Palisades stands alone, seemingly unscathed, amid a landscape of charred and ruined structures.

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Best homes in Los Angeles honored at 2025 AIA|LA Residential Architecture Awards

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The new Resilient Design category, making its debut at the 2025 edition, recognizes homes designed to withstand fire, earthquake, flood, and other natural hazards.

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SCI-Arc faculty member Erik Ghenoiu studies rebuilding after losing home in Eaton Fire

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Architectural historian and SCI-Arc faculty member Erik Ghenoiu lost his home to the Eaton Fire despite proactive fire mitigation efforts. Yet, their home still succumbed to the fire, revealing the limitations of individual efforts in the face of extreme climate events.

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V8 Architects builds Rotterdam homes almost entirely from reused and recycled materials

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Dutch studio V8 Architects has created a pair of semi-detached homes in the Netherlands using recycled and reused materials above all else to demonstrate how circular design principles can be applied to housing. The upper floors of each home contain four bedrooms and two bathrooms.

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Karen Abernethy adds metal-clad pavilions to modernist Melbourne home

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Australian studio Karen Abernethy Interiors and Architecture has restored and extended a 1950s modernist home in Melbourne , Australia, nestling two small pavilions into a lushly planted site. Our solution was to carve two minimal pavilions into the rear of the site, on the 'back' of the coil," she continued.

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Eight homes where staircases fulfil additional functions

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For our latest lookbook , we've selected eight homes with multi-purpose staircases that double up as seating, storage and in one case even a climbing wall. In the eight examples below, we showcase homes that utilise their staircases in various ways, incorporating everything from a swing and a fireplace to a climbing wall.

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