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Piuarch tops Fendi factory with green roof to blend into Tuscan landscape

Deezen

Italian architecture studio Piuarch has completed a production factory for fashion brand Fendi in Florence , which features a green roof to "look like a raised garden". The green roof was designed to blend into the landscape. The architecture thus establishes an open dialogue with its natural surroundings," he told Dezeen.

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SO-IL to convert Detroit warehouses into multi-purpose art space

Deezen

SO-IL will provide critical restorations of the structures and unify the campus through a courtyard area that will connect to the buildings as well as to the street and adjacent marina. According to SO-IL, these interventions will "reclaim the industrial locale, restoring its natural beauty".

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Brixton Windmill Education & Community Centre by Squire and Partners

Archinect

Squire and Partners’ consented designs create a new Education and Community Centre adjacent to Brixton Windmill for Lambeth Council and Friends of Windmill Gardens (FoWG), the charity who manages the restored Grade II* listed windmill.

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AWARDS FOCUS: NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF UTAH

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Design Workshop. Image courtesy Design Workshop, Inc. The museum’s environmental features include a campus with one of Utah’s largest solar panel installations, a green roof, and two 10,000-gallon cisterns for irrigation. With grading and revegetation, 90 percent of the site’s disturbed area was restored.

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Clementine Blakemore Architects transforms stone barns into accessible holiday homes

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The Wraxall Yard complex, which also features a community space and a workshop, is part of a wider project by the owners of the site to provide universal access to the landscape and enhance the area's biodiversity. There is also a workshop and a community space. Structural engineer: Structure Workshop. Photo is by Emma Lewis.

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Productora converts Mexico City textile factory into green-trimmed artist studios

Deezen

Mexican architecture studio Productora has restored a concrete industrial complex in Mexico City into a series of studios including its own office. In the future, Productora plans to build wooden workshops on top of the preexisting structure to create flexible and modular extensions to the current program.

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Snøhetta, Brooks + Scarpa among studios to create birdhouses for San Antonio exhibition

Deezen

Members of ten architecture studios including Snøhetta , Brooks + Scarpa and Gensler have designed birdhouses for an exhibition on display at Brackenridge Park in San Antonio , Texas for an initiative to support restoration projects in the park. Birdsong Brackenbridge will raise money for the park's restoration. Washington D.C.