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Sustainable Practice: 7 Legendary Designs Using the Landscape as an Architectural Material

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Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters. We’ve looked at a number of highly technical projects, nevertheless materials have usually been natural, or as natural as possible. They are a continuation of landscapes reimagined as materials. Building huge resorts is another.

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Snøhetta designs Saudi opera house inspired by traditional Najdi architecture

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Inspired by the surrounding desert landscape, local cultural heritage, and Najdi building traditions, the Royal Diriyah Opera House forms part of a wider master plan to redevelop the historic area. Snøhetta has unveiled its design for an opera house in Diriyah, on the outskirts of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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Esja Architecture’s Icelandic viewing platform draws inspiration from Viking traditions

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The scheme is secured to the landscape using four anchoring points, while the slightly sloping structure remains entirely wheelchair accessible.

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This Shed-Inspired Home in New Zealand Cleverly Complements Its Surrounding Landscape

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Contemporary architecture meets a mountain landscape with approved plans for growth. Tom’s House is a story of inspiration, meeting an architectural desire to challenge the status quo. The material palette of natural materials along with light and dark tones creates a cozy yet contemporary feel.

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Sallisa Rosa explores "erosion of memory" with ceramic landscape in Miami

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Brazilian artist Sallisa Rosa has installed a large-scale ceramic landscape with figurines and hanging orbs for Art Basel Miami Beach. Read: Tesla Cybertruck launched and now in showrooms Rosa, who often works with clay in pursuit of exploring human connection to earth, believes the material stores memory.

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Birmingham Residence // Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture

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The landscape design for the Birmingham Residence sculpts space into a dynamic context for the client’s home and art collection. © Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture. © Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture. © Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture. © Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture. . Year: 2015.

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Tembo Tembo lodge hides among landscape of South African game reserve

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Tembo Tembo's rammed earth walls blend into the landscape of the game reserve This setting was a large point of inspiration for Paris-based Studio Asaï , which decided to construct the home from rammed earth, emulating the materiality of towering termite nests that can be seen across the reserve.

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