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JUNE 22, 2023

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and Moody Nolan unveiled the International African American Museum The space underneath the structure was left completely open between the columns, except for the massing of the skylit staircase that rises up through the centre of it. The material choices on the exterior further reference the history of the site.

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MAY 17, 2022

Robert Gurney designed the house for a site near Washington DC. In addition to large stretches of glass, exterior walls are wrapped in stucco, brick and painted wooden clapboard – the same materials found on neighboring buildings. Structural engineer: United Structural Engineers, Inc.

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APRIL 6, 2022

Patinated brass panels and extra-clear glass form the facades of a weekend dwelling designed by Woods + Dangaran for a boulder-strewn site in southern California. Flanking the ends of the main bar are piers made of concrete masonry units (CMUs), which help anchor the home to the site. In the rear, 12-foot-deep (3.7-metre)

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APRIL 20, 2024

Named Bury Gate Farm, the five-bedroom house replaces a 1950s bungalow on a sloped site on the outskirts of Pulborough, which overlooks fields and woodland. The challenge was how to craft sensitive contemporary design that responds to and enhances this protected landscape without resorting to historic mimicry," he continued.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

It’s sculptural form and rich materiality serve as a gateway to the park at large. miles from the site. The cost of bringing a sanitary sewer to the site was $2.0M – threatening the viability of the entire development. © Tom Harris Photography What drove the selection of materials used in the project?

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Marion Mahoney and Walter Burley Griffin planned and designed the picturesque subdivision in 1915, with winding roads and community parklands that follow the curving topography, and dwellings that are secondary to the natural landscape. Proponents of modern architecture, the Griffins designed houses free from stylistic precedent.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

"We wanted our expansion to retain the qualities of surprise and free-spiritedness that have defined Kresge College, while at the same time opening it up to students of all abilities, the incredible natural ecology of its site, and the larger university community beyond." It also added a square at the building's primary entry.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

US studio CCY Architects has clad a mountainside house in patinated copper panels and tilted the roof to adhere with the topography of its site in Colorado. Known as DNA Alpine, the 4,000-square foot (372-square metre) home was completed in 2022 and designed to "disappear into or somehow become" the 75-acre site in San Miguel County.

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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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JANUARY 10, 2023

bath house out of two volumes with floor-to-ceiling glazed ends that float above the landscape. The north volume is oriented along a direct east-to-west axis and contains the private spaces, while the south volume, rotated 45 degrees along the canyon's axis, holds the public gathering spaces that overlook the landscape and city below.

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

British architecture practice Studio Bark has worked with students from the University of East London to devise a roof-supporting column with otherwise unusable timber at a site within ancient English woodland. If you were to draw a force diagram, you'd need more material in the middle, so naturally it's a win-win," she said.

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2024

Alabama forms the site for Fowl River Cabin "When looking at the site and analysing the client's goals for the project, we knew that the siting of the building and the way it interacted with the river and trees was going to be just as crucial as the design itself," the Tall Architects team told Dezeen. Contractor: C.

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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.

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MAY 30, 2024

The screens will juxtapose the brick and black structural steel that will be included to reference the site's industrial heritage, according to HOK. Using a large-scale, rooftop solar array for energy generation and various waste reduction strategies, the club is working towards "credible net zero" by 2040.

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Dwell

JANUARY 23, 2024

The secondary dwelling was part of the overall brief and master plan of the site; to maximize the site’s potential and create options for our client. Our aim was to achieve a timeless, warm, and unadorned materials palette that can fit the end user." Spaces are modest in size yet comfortable for functional contemporary living.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 18, 2024

Design for integration & Design for Discovery: The Science Station is integrated into the broader context of the high desert and the immediate context of the new OSU-Cascades campus in form and materiality. On-site renewable energy (rooftop solar panels) and energy-use reductions help realize the ambitious goals.

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JULY 20, 2022

The site sits on a north facing slope and looks down to the Martis Valley and up to Lookout Mountain through a natural screen of 100-year-old Jeffrey pine trees. The materiality of concrete and steel-sash tempered windows form a fire-resistant barrier and secure a native cedar-clad interior.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

South African architecture studio SAOTA has completed an angular residence in the Los Angeles hills meant to provide privacy while drawing in the "calmness and serenity" of the surrounding landscape. The elevated site provides sweeping views of the undulating terrain and the distant ocean. Different treatments were used on the facades.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Black brick and lye-washed wood are among the materials used to build a family home in a coastal Washington forest for a founding partner at architectural studio GO'C. The project, called The Rambler, is tucked into a wooded site on the Kitsap Peninsula, which lies northwest of Seattle.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

It shows an appreciation for the site's context and the rapid development unfolding around it." The studio also recently unveiled a steel-framed pavilion dedicated to the "father of genetics" and designed a reversible market from reclaimed materials. Renders are courtesy of Chybik + Kristof.

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Deezen

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. At L'échappée, the material is complemented with stone in reference to a historic nearby quarry. "We

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Deezen

JANUARY 31, 2024

Known as Espina, the pavilion sits high above a cattle ranch in Santiago de Querétaro, opening visitors to a 360-degree, panoramic view of the mountain landscape of central Mexico. Bridging the concrete walls is an open platform Bridging the concrete walls is an open platform that extends from the hillside out over the landscape.

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Deezen

APRIL 5, 2024

Ædifica has created a six-storey housing block in Montreal Sitting on a narrow site, the six-storey housing block has two roughly L-shaped structures that frame a significant courtyard. Parts of the facade have a metal-mesh second skin The architecture studio employed different material schemes for the outside and the inside facades.

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Deezen

MAY 5, 2023

Large openings and earthy materials feature in a guesthouse that architecture studio Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has added to a private residence on a secluded island in the Pacific Northwest. 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.

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Deezen

APRIL 23, 2024

The timber cabin is wrapped by an external skin clad with cedar shingles "The idea behind the Monocoque Cabin was inspired by the construction techniques used in the aerospace and automotive industries, which are renowned for their efficient material utilization," Markos told Dezeen. The photography is by Peter Markos and Efe Onikinci.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

The buildings sit next to a grove of pine trees The materiality was influenced by the region's forests and the existing brick buildings at Bowdoin College, which was established in 1794, "at the dawn of the American republic". Gibbons Hall holds a collection of Arctic objects The surrounding landscape was informed by Arctic topography.

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JUNE 29, 2023

Texas studio Tobin Smith Architect has completed a home for an irregular site facing a nature preserve that was envisioned as a "series of shields" clad in limestone and stucco. The team's goal was to create a home that could not only accommodate family life, but also serve as a peaceful refuge where occupants feel immersed in the landscape.

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APRIL 17, 2023

Worrell Yeung also added a free-standing garage and studio; and a single-slope spa shed, each with its own material treatment. The home's multi-layered gabled forms engage the site, interact with each other and frame interior spaces, studio co-founder Jejon Yeung said.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Diller Scofidio + Renfro designed a home with a dune-like roof in East Hampton The home, which sits on the Atlantic Double Dunes, has an expressive white roof made from a similar material to that used for the hulls of racing yachts. Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineers: Polise Consulting Engineers, P.C.,

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

We focused on the function, the material, the proportions. We wanted to build a place open to people, full of greenery, with its own structure and order," Basan added. The site is accessible from all directions in the cemetery, with paved routes weaving between each of the chambers and around curved areas of planting. "It

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Deezen

JANUARY 7, 2023

Yashima Mountaintop Park is a "three-dimensional pathway" by architecture studio SUO that offers views over the mountainous landscape of Setonaikai National Park in Japan. It rises and falls with the site's level changes. Read: BAU designs winding bridge in China as a "hybrid" of landscape and infrastructure.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

These natural materials will age gracefully over time without loss of their inherent character and life, to safeguard the long-term visual quality of the building and the sense of place and community that it represents," he added. The photography is courtesy of John McAslan + Partners.

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Deezen

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. He felt strongly that this building should be singular, much like its site. Interiors were created from a palette of "simple and clean" materials.

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Deezen

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. The team selected materials for their longevity and lower environmental impact.

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Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2024

metre-high glass openings that lead out to a landscaped patio. White walls and wooden furniture feature throughout the interior Hidden Garden House's consistent material palette of bright white walls and wooden furniture ties its living spaces together, while decorative square tiles line both the kitchen and bathrooms.

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aasarchitecture

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. The building is designed and positioned on the site to allow for future redevelopment and modular expansion.

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

Local materials and a mass-timber frame were used A terrace on the second floor looks out over the adjoining outdoor spaces and Heritage Park , a forested area which contains newly established greenspace and an assortment of historic immigrant-built buildings brought to the site from across the upper midwest region.

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