Articles by Jenna McKnight

Oak trees inform design of northern California home by Field Architecture

February 21, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

American studio Field Architecture has created a spacious house for a wooded site near San Francisco, where preserving conditions for local flora and fauna was a guiding concern for the architects. Called Forty-One Oaks, the residence is named after the precise number of oak trees found on the property – a hilly site in Portola

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Oak trees inform design of northern California home by Field Architecture

February 21, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

American studio Field Architecture has created a spacious house for a wooded site near San Francisco, where preserving conditions for local flora and fauna was a guiding concern for the architects. Called Forty-One Oaks, the residence is named after the precise number of oak trees found on the property – a hilly site in Portola

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Terra e Tuma creates narrow concrete house for dense area of São Paulo

February 20, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

Brazilian studio Terra e Tuma has designed a slender urban home with concrete block walls and rooms organised around two interior courtyards. The Mipibu House occupies a long, slender lot in a dense neighbourhood in São Paulo. The dwelling is surrounded by low-scale dwellings with red-tiled roofs. “This house represents a very common situation in

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Gluck+ designs coastal laboratory in North Carolina to withstand extreme weather

February 19, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

The broken-up massing of this Duke University research facility by US firm Gluck+ is meant to help protect the building from storm surge. The Dr Orrin H Pilkey Research Laboratory is situated on the southern tip of Pivers Island, in the village of Beaufort, North Carolina. The building is part of Duke University’s Marine Lab

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Uber builds and tests self-driving cars at engineering centre in Pittsburgh

February 14, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

Assembly Design Studio has converted a large warehouse in Pittsburgh into a workspace for Uber where self-driving cars are engineered, built and tested. The Advanced Technologies Group Center is located in a former warehouse encompassing 80,000 square feet (7,432 square metres). The engineers working here for the ride-sharing platform are charged with imagining a “city

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Uber builds and tests self-driving cars at engineering centre in Pittsburgh

February 14, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

Assembly Design Studio has converted a large warehouse in Pittsburgh into a workspace for Uber where self-driving cars are engineered, built and tested. The Advanced Technologies Group Center is located in a former warehouse encompassing 80,000 square feet (7,432 square metres). The engineers working here for the ride-sharing platform are charged with imagining a “city

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Uber builds and tests self-driving cars at engineering centre in Pittsburgh

February 14, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

Assembly Design Studio has converted a large warehouse in Pittsburgh into a workspace for Uber where self-driving cars are engineered, built and tested. The Advanced Technologies Group Center is located in a former warehouse encompassing 80,000 square feet (7,432 square metres). The engineers working here for the ride-sharing platform are charged with imagining a “city

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Miller Hull clads Washington fire station in red cedar and black metal

February 13, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

American firm The Miller Hull Partnership has completed a firehouse in the Pacific Northwest with large bi-fold glass doors that enable a quick exit for emergency trucks. The Mercer Island Fire Station 92 is located on a small island directly east of Seattle. The two-storey building replaces an older station built in 1962 that was

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Miller Hull clads Washington fire station in red cedar and black metal

February 13, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

American firm The Miller Hull Partnership has completed a firehouse in the Pacific Northwest with large bi-fold glass doors that enable a quick exit for emergency trucks. The Mercer Island Fire Station 92 is located on a small island directly east of Seattle. The two-storey building replaces an older station built in 1962 that was

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Black stairwell cuts across front of North Carolina home by In Situ Studio

February 12, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

American firm In Situ Studio has completed a compact, L-shaped family dwelling that makes the most of a challenging suburban site. The Medlin Residence is situated on a suburban property in Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina. The clients requested a four-bedroom home with generous public spaces and a connection to the outdoors. The relatively

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