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Taming Exterior Greenery: Landscape Design for Houses in Natural Environments

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© Derek Swalwell A healthy environment that is also visually appealing in our homes has become increasingly sought when it comes to designing houses and residential spaces, especially during the world’s current context. Read more »

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Omer Arbel balances nature and form in this award-winning Canadian Pacific Northwest house

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Vancouver-based Omer Arbel Office (OAO) has completed work on their award-winning project 75.9 , a new construction of a private home located adjacent to a hayfield in rural British Columbia. A demonstration column had to be constructed on the site in order to get the clients' final approval.

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Olson Kundig references natural surroundings for Swedish holiday home

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Dark timber and stone feature throughout Dalarö House, a summer holiday home that US studio Olson Kundig has added to a rocky waterside site in Sweden. Designed to blend in with the landscape, the home is built around rocks and features exposed natural materials that reference the surrounding stones and pine trees.

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StudioAC completes coastal Canadian home embedded into a steep ridge

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Toronto-based StudioAC has completed a residence east of the city, in a landscape characterized by an “intricate coastline and a bourgeoning wine-making industry.” ” The home, named Cherry Valley House, sits on a steep ridge that descends to the lakeshore.

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Studio Gang to design new home for the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Upstate New York

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Studio Gang has revealed plans for the new home of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Upstate New York. Nelson Byrd Woltz will provide landscaping for the site, a 98-acre former golf course that was donated to the company in 2020.

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Eureka! This $3.3M Home Stands on the Site of a 19th-Century Gold Mine

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Designed by Atelier Bow Wow and built in 2008, the minimalist home opens to the Sierra Nevada with immense glass doors and an airy top floor. The 2008 Mountain House—which took nine years to complete—is the first and only home Atelier Bow-Wow has built in the U.S. The Iconic Evans House Lands Back on the Market for $2.2M

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Grass-topped home in Czech Republic bridges "the urban and the natural"

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Located alongside a wildlife corridor at the edge of the Hlubocepy district in Prague, the family home is designed to be a "bridge between the urban and the natural". Czech studio RO_AR has created a house in the Hlubocepy district "Urban space surrounds the site on the south and east sides," explained studio founder Szymon Rozwałka.

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