From the street, a monolith of dark metal appears mysteriously between two columns of the building where the store is located. Familiar and foreign at the same time, it is an element that gives continuity to its surroundings but also defines a unique moment in the ensemble, an entrance.
The Mary Street House is a reimagining of a well-worn Federation-era home. Occupying the end of its street, the urban site is open to three sides, opening to the northern sun while simultaneously needing to overcome the challenges of facing a busy and noisy arterial road.
Gaoqiao Village is located in Yibin, Sichuan Province, next to the Yichangxing Hundred Mile Green Bamboo Corridor. It is a beautiful small village in southern Sichuan hidden in Lin Huiyin’s poem “A Small Village in November”. In recent years, with the theme of bamboo culture and bamboo industry, it has become a famous village for the integration of agriculture and tourism in rural revitalization with bamboo as its characteristic. Compared with other public buildings like commercial, cultural, or hotels, a public toilet is a public supporting facility that is easily ignored in the process of rural revitalization. They integrate the physiological needs of farmers with functions such as agricultural rest, tool storage, and agricultural tourism to form an agricultural supporting complex. The design aims to integrate technology with agricultural production through the application of appropriate local ecological technologies.
grotto studio adds to a humble cottage in perth with a ‘shadow house’ that recedes into the backdrop of the existing home.
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Located on the banks of the Somone lagoon in the Thies region, the AERYS VILLAGE project is a true haven of peace and natural beauty, totally preserved since 1987. The initial idea was to remain in osmosis with nature. We had to build in the middle of the existing Prosopis. Subsequently, around a hundred trees of different varieties were added to the site. The aim was to create a new reserve of plant biodiversity. The bioclimatic architecture of the project consists of a complex of 08 villas, each built on a plot of approximately 1000 m2.
US architecture studio Lever Architecture and a team of researchers have successfully tested the earthquake-resistant capabilities of a 10-storey, mass-timber building in California. Carried out early this year, the test featured a massive hydraulic table to prove the resiliency of a skyscraper constructed out of engineer timber against seismic magnitudes similar to 6.7 and 7.7 earthquakes.
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Ngâu is the name of a type of tree with small leaves, vigorous vitality, and exquisite beauty, which is the direct inspiration for this project’s design. This house is in a small alley, part of a collective residential area designated for university professors. Therefore, when conceptualizing the design for this house, the architects aimed to present something novel yet harmonious with the surrounding residences.
Passive cooling techniques in architecture, reflective paint and water-filled windows are featured among the methods that designers and architects are using to mitigate heat in energy-efficient ways. With a summer featuring record-breaking temperatures across the globe, we have gathered eight public and residential projects that use integrated cooling to provide much-needed relief from the heat.
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Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes and is a notion that holds truth for the residence of Kelly-Ann Myles and Julie Parker in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg. Their home, with its focal point being a magnificent Chinese Nettle tree, can be aptly described as an ever-evolving architectural marvel. It takes on a transformative journey, morphing through a series of geometric shapes, commencing with a triangle, and culminating in a circle.
james stockwell’s design seeks to erase the boundaries between structure and earth.
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