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Cava Arcari performance space by David Chipperfield captured in new photos

July 26, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

British photographer Edmund Sumner has captured the monolithic performance space that David Chipperfield Architects crafted within Cava Arcari, a cave near Vicenza in Italy. Completed in 2018, the project by David Chipperfield Architects transformed the cave from its former use as a Vicenza stone quarry. The new photos by Sumner capture the imposing details of the

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Hutton embeds off-grid research station into hills of rural Kansas

July 11, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Bands of local stone wrap the Youngmeyer Field Station, which was designed and built by Kansas studio Hutton to integrate with the natural topography and operate off the grid. Located in eastern Kansas, the building sits within the 4,700-acre (1,902-hectare) Youngmeyer Ranch, which is an active cattle ranch and research site for Wichita State University.

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Mountain landscapes inform perforated-granite-clad Chengdu Natural History Museum

June 12, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Faceted, rock-like forms clad with panels of perforated granite define the Chengdu Natural History Museum in China, which was designed by US studio Pelli Clarke & Partners and local studio CSWADI. Completed in 2022, the 50,000-square-metre museum is part of a developing “entrepreneurial hub” in Chengdu, combining public spaces, shops and a cafe with galleries,

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Brown & Brown uses reclaimed stone to create The Arbor House

June 6, 2023 Katie Last 0

Architecture studio Brown & Brown has married stone salvaged from a dilapidated farmstead with timber and board-marked concrete to create The Arbor House in Scotland. Located in a conservation area in Aberdeen, the home nestles in a dipped area at the north of its site and comprises cantilevering volumes clad in timber battens. Brown &

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Sculptural roof helps Taihang Xinyu Art Museum blend into mountainside

May 29, 2023 Katie Last 0

Chinese practice Wang Chong Studio used rustic stone walls and a sloping roof to help this art museum blend into its rocky site in China’s Henan Province. Named Taihang Xinyu Art Museum, the museum is built around an old warehouse on the site, which backs onto Taihang Mountain and sits alongside the Cangxi River. Wang

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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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Studio RC embeds geometric equestrian complex in Mexican mountain terrain

May 21, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

Stables linked by steel bridges and a clubhouse with a cantilevered terrace feature at the Hípico Piedra Grande equestrian complex in rural Mexico, designed by Studio RC. Located in Huixquilucan in the State of Mexico, the complex includes a rectilinear clubhouse and a block of stables surrounded by gravel roads and green areas and meandering

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HW Studio divides a rural Mexican house with large stone walls

May 11, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

HW Studio Arquitectos has completed a cruciform house with open-air corridors and courtyards tucked between locally quarried stone walls in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Based nearby in Morelia, HW Studio Arquitectos finished the 250-square metre (2,690-square foot) house, named Casa Enso II, in 2022, drawing on vernacular designs, cultural expression and local history of

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Morphogenesis creates stone-clad skincare factory in Himalayan foothills

March 12, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

Indian architecture studio Morphogenesis referenced traditional housing when creating this stone-covered skincare factory in the village of Lodsi in India. The 929-square-metre building provides production facilities for the skincare brand Forest Essentials, replacing its old facility on the same site in the Himalayan foothills. Morphogenesis’ aim for the building, named The Lodsi Community Project for

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