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This Landscape Architect Disguised His Backyard Addition in Sydney With a Green Roof

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A new tw0-story structure on the rear lane contains the bike and garden storage, laundry area, bathroom, and a studio space. The house is for a landscape architect and his family, and the garden was a central focus from the beginning of the process.

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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion

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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion 0 qpurcell Thu, 09/28/2023 - 10:37 Office Buildings IMEG's Edwin Dean, Joe Gulden, and Doug Sweeney, share seven key focuses for structural engineers when planning office-to-residential conversions. faces a housing deficit of 3.8 million units.

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Sam Crawford Architects tops Sydney home renovation with "garden oasis"

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A private roof terrace enclosed by greenery features in Hidden Garden House, a Sydney home reconfigured by Australian studio Sam Crawford Architects. metre-high glass openings that lead out to a landscaped patio. Down from the entry hall is a spacious ground-floor kitchen and dining area, which is illuminated by 4.5-metre-high

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SO-IL designs Massachusetts museum with undulating CLT roof

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Architecture studio SO-IL has unveiled designs for the Williams College Museum of Art in the Berkshires , which will be topped with a tent-like cross-laminated timber roof. The undulating cross-laminated timber roof will be laid atop these volumes, unifying them below. It is punctuated by glazed openings dispersed along its facade.

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Michael Hennessey Architecture clads renovated California house with black cedar and metal

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Michael Hennessey Architecture created Courtyard Hous Designed for a couple with two young children, the budget-conscious project involved the renovation of a suburban-style house that was "in sore need of upgrades". The roof is covered in standing-seam metal. Softer light flows in through the courtyard on the north.

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AECOM and Luis Vidal place sleek red roof on Boston airport terminal

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Infrastructure consultants AECOM and Spanish architecture studio Luis Vidal + Architects have created a terminal for Boston 's Logan Airport capped by a long, bright-red roof. The standing-seam metal roof was painted in Boston Red, a shade of prismatic paint custom-developed for the project at Monopol Color Lab in Switzerland.

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Gabion Walls Made of Volcanic Rock Flank a Flat-Roofed Farmhouse in Australia

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We utilized stone from both the site and neighboring farms to anchor the building into the site, with rough-sawn timber cladding talking to the lost bush land, and a galvanized steel roof that is a nod to the vernacular Australian farmhouse. Have one to share? Post it here. The clients erected and filled the gabion walls themselves.

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