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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Image © Resul Muslu via Shutterstock The UN-Habitat Urban Lab has published “My Neighborhood ,” a publication that offers a checklist of urban design principles aimed at creating more sustainable and resilient cities. Barcelona, Spain. Read more »

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JULY 20, 2023

When the couple, who met working in Manhattan’s fashion industry, decided to return to city living, they immediately fell for a compact row house in Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill neighborhood. "In This collection of terraced homes was built in 1877 by philanthropist Alfred Tredway White in that style as low-income housing.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

But as compact as it is, every space has a use: floor-to-ceiling cabinets store household items and clothing; a breakfast table pulls out from the wall; the cooking area features a full stove; and a loft above the kitchen houses a king-size bed. The cabin is clad with corrugated metal panels.

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SW Oregon Architect

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

This post marks my one thousandth entry since I started SW Oregon Architect back in 2008. Though the accomplishment hardly ranks up there with the greatest of human achievements, I will pat myself on the back for my dedication to writing on a regular basis. I embarked on my blogging journey with only modest goals.

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JANUARY 28, 2023

Kari’s family has lovingly named it the Inside-Out House as it stays cool in the summer and California’s temperate climate means al fresco winter meals on the patio are never out of the question. "I In another twist of fate, Kari’s roommate moved to Los Angeles and rented a room in Ken’s family’s house.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 3, 2016

Buying a new house is stressful for just about everyone, myself included. The actual act of trying to find a house that doesn’t make me want to claw my eyeballs out is a challenge … because I am ridiculously picky and I actually see all the crap that most people miss. This seriously make my face hurt.

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AUGUST 31, 2022

"The building was old with thin windows and lots of gaps," says Jack. It’s a hopeful sign: If you can retrofit this, you can retrofit anything."

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SW Oregon Architect

MAY 12, 2024

This is the next in my Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet series of blog posts, the focus of each being a landmark building here in Eugene. My selection criteria for each will be threefold: The building must be of architectural interest, local importance, or historically significant. The Shedd (photos by Brian Davies unless noted otherwise).

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SW Oregon Architect

MARCH 24, 2024

The meeting featured speakers who collectively described some of the paths architects can follow toward fulfilling the role of a Citizen Architect: AIA Oregon Leadership Summit The Eugene Section’s representative on AIA Oregon’s Emerging Professional Committee is my colleague at Robertson/Sherwood/Architects, John Webster, AIA.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 24, 2021

“The Eames House is one of the prime exemplars that have shaped my mind,” he said in a 1989 interview of the Pacific Palisades Home built by the Eameses in 1949. We raced around California, seeing as many of the Case Study houses as possible," Rogers recalled in his 2017 memoir A Place for all People. "I

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Portland Architecture

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A recent Seattle house was featured in a New York Times article called " A Modern Home That Looks Toward the Sky and the Water." Daniel Toole: I became interested in architecture in junior high by receiving a book on Frank Lloyd Wright given to me by my aunt, an art teacher in Vancouver, Washington.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

row house with the intent to preserve Black ownership. Despite the city’s explicitly discriminatory housing practices against Black residents, in December 1973, Guiyard went from renting to owning her three-level row house in the Petworth neighborhood. When Black was born, he lived in the house with his mother and grandmother.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 11, 2014

Home / Life in General / The Lantern House The Lantern House Bob Borson — May 12, 2014 — 19 Comments The Life of an Architect playhouse competition for 2014 is coming to a close – all the entries for this year are required to me in my email inbox by midnight tonight (May 12th). Don’t know what MDO is?

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Deezen

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Dezeen School Shows: an art gallery designed in the shape of a jumping fish and a lotus-shaped stadium are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at My ArchiSchool. My ArchiSchool School: My ArchiSchool Courses: Architectural Design Programme 1.0 The glass enclosure will also keep the house warm,' said Lam."

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Dwell

MAY 9, 2024

My love affair with wallpaper has been pretty much lifelong, starting back to when I was a child in my grandparents’ summer home in West Hampton Beach," says Payton Turner, cofounder of the wallpaper and fabric brand Flat Vernacular. Vermilion is my favorite red hue. I think of wallpaper as a form of narrative."

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Dwell

APRIL 23, 2024

Sims’ most popular videos are builds, where viewers watch her create homes in which every room in the house is built with a different budget or color , for example. There are tools like that are more professional, but if you already play The Sims and you’re like, where am I going to put my couch?

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The Spaces

APRIL 11, 2024

Dancing House in Prague. For this, I had to revisit my UCAS (University entry) application where I talked about my fascination with architecture. The ‘Dancing House’ by Frank Gehry in Prague featured prominently. This was the subject that I eventually went on to write my dissertation on.

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30X40 Design Workshop

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

For me, this process always starts with a design brief and my sketchbook (or iPad ). And, quite often, if I'm stuck on a design brief, I’ll zoom in and begin sketching a detail. There’s something about the scale and how manageable it is to solve simple problems that helps me move forward.

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Deezen

APRIL 10, 2024

Read on to find Zeta's views on the five projects that best reflect her work: Hall of Visions, Faena Art for Miami Art Week, 2021 "My first large-scale installation, called Hall of Visions, was exhibited during Miami Art Week 2021 at Faena Arts. "It Working with Coldplay has greatly influenced my career as a graphic designer and art director.

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APRIL 15, 2024

It’s actually a completely new house, but with an old soul," explains architect Sara Lunneryd of Lunneryd Arkitekter. Photo by Cecilia Magnusson When Cecilia bought the original house on the coast of Halland in southwest Sweden, a region famed for its sandy beaches and windswept fields of rye, her intention was to restore it.

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MARCH 14, 2024

The Southern California architect spun Frank Lloyd Wright’s philosophies into an iconoclastic body of work that includes the Kellogg Doolittle House in Joshua Tree. Kellogg designed the Lotus House in La Jolla, California, in 1978. Kendrick Bangs Kellogg’s career spanned more than 60 years.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

I gave up my apartment and much of my old life in exchange for a valuable lesson—learned via sweat equity—about where our resources come from. And after years of working at the frenzied frontlines of news and media, I needed to create a wellness destination not only for financial purposes, but for my own healing process.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Welcome to Prefab Profiles, an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. From prefab tiny houses and modular cabin kits to entire homes ready to ship, their projects represent some of the best ideas in the industry. and houses 520 square feet across two levels. and the E.U.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Dezeen School Shows: a Californian house extension that appears to melt down a hillside as a warning about global warming is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at UCLA. The house offers a harmonious blend of functionality and aesthetics, emphasising the connection between indoor and outdoor living."

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The 1986 bestseller by architect Witold Rybczynski informed my steadfast belief that beauty actually isn’t what matters most when it comes to aesthetics. A time-honored tradition in my childhood home was, for some reason, fighting with my sister over sections of the Sunday edition of The New York Times.

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Habitus Living

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Caroline House by Kennedy Nolan How did you come to photography? Dianna Snape: My father was an aerial photographer in the Royal Australian Air Force and he gave me my first Hanimax compact camera when I was nine. Through his own engagement and love of photography, he introduced me to the medium and spurred my interest.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

Dezeen speaks to residents of new council housing in London about what their homes mean to them as part of our Social Housing Revival series. It's such a weird feeling" Bennett and her children previously spent 12 years in a one-bedroom flat, bidding unsuccessfully for social housing where they would have more space.

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MAY 7, 2024

In the early 2000s, the creative director commissioned a home in Woodstock, New York, based on the architect’s Kaufmann House in Palm Springs. When he began looking for a new home in his native Los Angeles in late 2012, it only made sense to find one by Neutra, who designed nearly 100 houses across Southern California.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

When I was in the ninth grade, our family’s neighbor, a man who had been living on our suburban Los Angeles block for more decades than he could remember, came to my father with an offer. Our neighbor was getting older, he explained to my father, and he really didn’t have much use for the cabin anymore.

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MAY 16, 2024

Well, my boyfriend did, but I supervised—and the process was surprisingly painless. It’s a highly affordable option, which explains why it was in this house.) And I had someone who could basically do the whole thing for free: my partner, who is extremely handy.

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The Architect's Newsletter

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Paved Paradise | Henry Grabar | Penguin Random House | $30 As I write these words, the clock is ticking. Just outside, a parking meter stands guard over my Prius, The post <em>Paved Paradise</em> is a useful survey on the state of parking appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Deezen

APRIL 24, 2024

In this week's comments update , readers are discussing a skinny house with exposed concrete walls in Japan , designed by local studio IGArchitects. IGArchitects slots skinny 2700 house into narrow plot in Japan "Doing more with less is always commendable" Several readers were impressed with how the design utilised the space available.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Sure, it was in her parents’ house, but, really, it was Clarissa’s own little world. You’ve got to think that Clarissa’s dad, Marshall Darling, got what she was going for given that he was a programmatic architec t, working in salt shaker houses and beehive-shaped hair salons.)

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A Better Built Environment

MAY 7, 2024

I wrote about my experiences and opinions, but more importantly I highlighted the work of inspiring people and organizations, and shared interesting points of view from things I was reading. Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Thanks for reading A Better Built Environment! This post is a personal story.

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Shades of Grey

MAY 12, 2024

I used to have a friend there, and it was walking distance from my room in Vrededorp. Just trying to get a feel and resurface my memories to a level where they can mingle with other experiences of "the way we build" in different places, eras, climates, whatever. It would be easy to blame the software, but that's not my style.

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APRIL 23, 2024

There’s about as much storage as my husband and I could ever need. The wardrobe is by far the biggest splurge of my renovation, and it’s also an item I didn’t know that I needed, until my cabinetry dealer-designer, Ezio Mattiace, first showed it to me on his design software. But that’s not it. You can hide some things.

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MARCH 21, 2024

Calling this [art direction] style ‘grandpa's lake house’" tweeted Elizabeth Goodspeed in August 2022, attaching campaign images from Bode, Nike, Aimé Leon Dore, and J.Crew, all of which featured similar backdrops with dark-wood wall paneling and vintage-inspired decor like quilts and chess sets.

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