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Lina Ghotmeh wraps Hermès leather workshop in "galloping arches"

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French-Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh has created a brick workshop in Louviers, France , for luxury brand Hermès that is the first industrial building to achieve France's highest environmental labelling. These were designed to preserve biodiversity and have a system for recovering rainwater and diverting it back into the water table.

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Mississippi Workshop, Portland, Oregon

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photo © Lara Swimmer photo © Lara Swimmer Located on a prominent site in Portland’s vibrant Mississippi Avenue district, the 9,550-square-foot building offers a new model for sustainable and sensitive infill development. photo © Lara Swimmer At the same time, Mississippi is a commercial building with a civic heart.

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ZMMA references landscape paintings for revamp of Gainsborough House in Suffolk

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London practice ZMMA has transformed the home of artist Thomas Gainsborough in Sudbury, Suffolk , into a gallery and museum with a material palette of redbrick and flint informed by his landscape paintings. The studio referenced Gainsborough's local landscape paintings. Gainsborough House was renovated by ZMMA.

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Izat Arundell clads remote Outer Hebrides home with local stone

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Thick walls of local stone shelter Caochan na Creige, a home in Scotland 's Outer Hebrides by local practice Izat Arundell designed to "sit respectfully in the landscape". The site's remote nature informed the simple material choices, as well as making it more viable to construct the timber frame on-site rather than prefabricating it.

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Piuarch tops Fendi factory with green roof to blend into Tuscan landscape

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Located in the municipality of Bagno a Ripoli, Piuarch collaborated with landscape architect Antonio Perazzi to design a factory that would resemble its surroundings. The green roof was designed to blend into the landscape. Large spans of glazing give views of a central courtyard and the outdoor landscape.

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Mississippi Workshop by Waechter Architecture

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Designed and developed by Waechter Architecture, the Mississippi Workshop was conceived as a proving ground for sustainable building systems and “all-wood” construction technologies and equally, as a forum for new creative conversations. At the same time, Mississippi is a commercial building with a civic heart.

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Loader Monteith and Studio SJM create woodland school in Scotland

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Loader Monteith and Studio SJM won a competition to design it with their proposal to "embrace the students and the landscape" with a low-slung, L-shaped building that hugs the site's trees. The photography is by Jim Stephenson.