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ARQBR creates circular church with monumental steeple in Brasilia

June 12, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio ARQBR has used concrete and wood for a round church in Brasilia, Brazil that lifts off the land with 360-degree, ground-level windows. ARQBR completed the 3,900-square metre (40,000-square foot) concrete facility for the Church of the Holy Family in 2022, as an extension of Lucio Costa’s Pilot Project for the capital of Brazil. The

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Hemsworth Architecture wraps Canadian mass timber factory in cedar slats

June 8, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Canadian studio Hemsworth Architecture has completed a mass timber factory wrapped in vertical cedar slats, nestled in British Colombia’s Squamish Valley. Hemsworth Architecture created a 2,700-square-metre industrial facility for Leon Lebeniste Fine Furnishings & Architectural Woodworking in the region near Vancouver in 2021. The studio aimed to create an industrial structure that complemented the natural

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Docks inform design of ERRE Arquitectos’ stilted Chilean beach house

June 7, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio ERRE Arquitectos has wrapped a seaside house in pine and lifted it on silts in order to optimise views of the coastline in Chile. Located in Matanzas, Chile, the 128-square metre Prat House was completed in 2021 by Raimundo Gutiérrez of ERRE Arquitectos. The narrow house – arranged like a dogtrot-style house that

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Colectivo C733 tops brick music school with soaring timber roof in Mexico

June 5, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Mexican studio Colectivo C733 has created a brick music school in Nacajuca, Mexico that includes two structures and a lofty, cantilevered roof made of coconut wood. The Mexico City-based collective completed the 1,325-square metre (120-square metre) Casa de Música in 2021. The facility is part of the state’s urban development program and “provides a space

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HW Studio creates austere white home in Mexico to evoke “sense of security”

June 1, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local firm HW Studio Arquitectos has completed an all-white stucco home in Morelia, Mexico, whose hermetic design serves as a haven for the residents. Morelia-based HW Studio completed the 375-square metre (4,036-square foot) house in 2023, taking up an entire corner plot in the city in the state of Michoacán. In their previous home, located

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Dumican Mosey includes red staircase for “sculptural relief” in San Francisco renovation

May 26, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Dumican Mosey has completed a renovation of a 1907 house with a four-storey, red staircase in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighbourhood. Dumican Mosey completed the 3,300-square foot (300-square metre) house, named the Red Stair House, in 2022. The completed residence preserved the original building footprint but expanded the living space by excavating a

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Atelier Guy uses mass-timber structure for Canadian wood company facility

May 23, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Atelier Guy Architects has completed an all-timber office and factory for engineering firm SmartMill in Lévis, Quebec. Completed in January 2022, the airy, 2,000-square metre (21,500-square foot) facility reflects the products and services of the client, Quebec wood products manufacturer SmartMill, and has a structure made with glued-laminated (glulam) timber columns and floor

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Daniel Joseph Chenin uses passive building strategies for stone-clad Nevada house

May 22, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Daniel Joseph Chenin has placed a sprawling stone residence around an 1850s fort-inspired rotunda outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. Daniel Joseph Chenin settled the 7,800-square foot (725-square-metre) house on an acre rock outcrop near government-protected land in Las Vegas Valley, looking out to Red Rock Canyon. Named Fort 137, “the building pays homage

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SOM connects block-long glulam bridge to the High Line

May 18, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Global architecture studio SOM has installed a block-long timber truss bridge called Timber Bridge, which connects Manhattan’s High Line to the renovated Penn Station. Designed by global studio Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), the 128-ton, two-section, Warren truss bridge was constructed out of glued-laminated timber (glulam), an engineered wood product made by combining multiple smaller

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Studio MM wraps rural New York home in Corten steel

May 16, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

New York City-based firm Studio MM Architect has completed a Corten steel-wrapped house with a dogtrot-style breezeway that connects to a home studio in North Branch, New York. Known as the Bully Hill House, the home was completed in 2019 by Studio MM Architect, which is led by founder Marica McKeel. The 1,290-square-foot (120-square metre)

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