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Formafatal creates series of rammed earth structures in Costa Rica

February 1, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Formafatal has constructed twin villas out of rammed earth on a jungled hillside in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica that open to the Pacific Ocean with expansive frameless glass. Named Achioté, two 95-square metre villas are embedded in a steep 11,000-square metre plot of jungle, 300 metres above the sea and are, according to the studio, the

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BattersbyHowat balances metal-clad cabin on a mountainside

January 30, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Vancouver-based studio BattersbyHowat Architects has completed a parallelogram-shaped, mountainside home clad in standing seam metal that includes a detached sauna structure in Whistler, British Columbia. Named Ambassador Crescent, the 3,130-square foot (290-square metre) house is tucked into a steep hillside near the popular ski resort town, so the three-storey house and garage had to be

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BattersbyHowat balances metal-clad cabin on a mountainside

January 30, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Vancouver-based studio BattersbyHowat Architects has completed a parallelogram-shaped, mountainside home clad in standing seam metal that includes a detached sauna structure in Whistler, British Columbia. Named Ambassador Crescent, the 3,130-square foot (290-square metre) house is tucked into a steep hillside near the popular ski resort town, so the three-storey house and garage had to be

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Drew Mandel blends old and new in the expansion of a 1920’s Toronto residence

January 23, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Drew Mandel Architects has renovated and expanded a 1920’s craftsman-style cottage in Toronto that “marries old and new” with a contemporary open floor plan, limestone terrace, historic touches and upscale details. Completed in the summer of 2022 – approximately 100 years after the original construction – the five-bedroom, 4.5 bath house keeps the historic character

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Strang Design tops Miami mansion with slatted volume and planter

January 19, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Strang Design has created a contemporary residence with a garden terrace in Miami, Florida, complete with Brazilian influences and vintage touches. The studio, which specializes in projects along Florida’s vast coastline dedicated to “environmental modernism”, completed the expansive, 8,500-square foot (2,590-square meter) house – known as the Angel Oaks Residence – in 2021.

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ZGF transforms Pittsburgh Ford Assembly plant into research facility

January 13, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Portland-based studio ZGF Architects has adapted a historic Ford Motor Company factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania into a biomedical research laboratory by renovating existing structures and creating a cantilevered terracotta-clad addition. ZGF – working with development group Wexford Science & Technology – reimagined the 224,866-square foot (20,890-square metre) factory to house state-of-the-art research labs, collaborative spaces,and community

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West of West experiments with “beautiful roughness” for Austin office complex

January 11, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

West of West has completed a concrete office complex in eastern Austin, Texas with flexible workspaces, community amenities and public greenspaces between buildings that reinterpret the neighbourhood’s industrial context. The 230,000-square foot (21,370-square metre) two-building creative complex was designed by West of West, a studio with offices in Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles, with American

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Sparano + Mooney positions cedar home over canyon in Utah

January 10, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Sparano + Mooney Architecture cantilevered two envelopes with blackened-cedar siding over a canyon outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. The home, called Wabi Sabi Residence and completed in 2020 is a 4,000-square-foot (370-square metre) structure on a nine-acre lot in the Wasatch Range. Sparano + Mooney Architecture constructed the three-bedroom, 3.5-bath house out

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Studio Schicketanz renovates Henry Hill’s mid-century house on the California coast

January 4, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Studio Schicketanz has completed a renovation of the former seaside home of modernist architect Henry Hill. Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, the cedar house was originally constructed in 1961 and expanded in 1969 and again in 1971, with unusually shaped rooms, rounded seating spaces and colourful glass accents. Studio Schicketanz updated the two-bedroom, three-bathroom house in

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Austin’s Pease Park revitalized to “integrate fun with nature”

December 29, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Ten Eyck Landscape Architects has restored a “recreational heart” to a downtown park in Austin, Texas with vernacular buildings, play spaces and a revitalized ecosystem. In 2014, the city of Austin adopted a vision plan for the future use and care of the 84-acre Pease Park, the oldest public park in the Texan capital, that

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