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Joshua Tree refuge Más O Menos is welcoming weary travellers

The Spaces

Travellers along California’s Highway 62 can recharge and refuel at new desert oasis, Más O Menos, a coffee shop and bar designed by sibling studio, Plow and Grain. The pair worked on a tight budget, re-staining the exterior facade and pulling materials from salvage yards for Mas O Menos’ white-washed interiors.

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Optimising consumption with Hager's new energy management system flow | News | Architonic

Architonic

TV, stereo, console, router, kitchen appliances, hairdryer, heating elements, various lamps and lights, plus the devices that need to be charged – from mobile phones to cars: so as long as the electricity is flowing, relaxation is assured.</p> <p>A typical night in with the family uses a lot of energy.

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The Lodge at Marconi is a coastal sanctuary in northern California with echoes of its past

The Spaces

That means mustard yellow and grass green shades in the hotel’s bedrooms – which start at around $280 per night – plus plenty of terracotta tiles and glowing wood in the communal areas. Tomales Bay is around 30 miles northwest of San Francisco. The building itself has a fascinating history.

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Joe Doucet's Airiva wind turbines are made for city streets and buildings

Deezen

Designer Joe Doucet has revealed his Airiva turbine – a modular wind power system that was conceived to have the necessary visual appeal to fit into urban settings. The Airiva wind energy system complements and co-exists with other renewable energy systems while expanding the applications for distributed wind energy," Doucet told Dezeen.

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The Architect's Questionnaire: Daniel Toole

Portland Architecture

While at Allied, Daniel worked on celebrated projects like the Corvallis Museum. A number of former Allied Works and Rick Joy staffers now comprise Toole's small staff. Born in Vienna, Austria and raised in the Portland area (first Southeast, then Milwaukie), Toole has traveled and worked extensively throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.

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Alexander & Co carves out spaces for calm and play inside Pacific House

Deezen

Its form nods to the architectural style of P&O – an offshoot of modernism that was popular in 1930s Sydney and drew on the streamlined curves of Pacific and Orient-line cruise ships. In the principal bedroom – which features another P&O-style curved window – walls are rendered in concrete.

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O'Neill McVoy inserts a mass-timber filled children's museum into 1920s Bronx powerhouse

Deezen

Brooklyn studio O'Neill McVoy Architects has adapted a historic powerhouse into a museum for children in the Bronx that highlights the historical building while adding playful details such as a curved mass-timber walkway. The LEED Gold-certified project is the "first use of curved cross-laminated timber (CLT) in the U.S.," according to the studio.