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California Gardener’s September Checklist (12 photos)

September 1, 2017 Lauren Dunec Design 0
From September to the middle of fall, California enjoys some of the year’s best weather: cooler evenings followed by warm days, when the sun washes the hillsides with golden light. It’s a perfect season for planting. Planted perennials, ornamental grasses, lawns, shrubs and trees now settle easily

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Mama Gaia Restaurant / archimania

September 1, 2017 Daniel Tapia 0

The design strategy uses minimal gestures with a natural material pallet allowing the restaurant’s signage and the menu of raw, whole foods provide the only color within the space. As a relief to the massive scale of the existing building, the restaurant offers a variety of more intimate conditions with the enclosed booth seating, expansive community table, four-top tables, bar seating, and two-top tables in the corridor.

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What to Know About Adding a Deck (13 photos)

September 1, 2017 Mitchell Parker 0
Good weather should be enjoyed to its fullest extent. To do that you have to actually go outside. But if your home lacks an enticing outdoor living space, there’s little incentive to venture out.
Outdoor living is seeing a bit of an explosion lately: Adding…

Grimshaw unveils Sydney office tower designed to appeal to the “millennial worker”

September 1, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Grimshaw has revealed plans for an office tower overlooking Sydney harbour, which will comprise three district sections and a curving roofline that references the vaulted shells of the nearby Opera House. London-based Grimshaw designed the AU $90 million (£55 million) scheme for a plot spanning 210-220 George Street. The tower, which will take the name of the lot,

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Ro House / Aarón Carrillo Díaz

September 1, 2017 Daniel Tapia 0

Located in Pachuca, in a private complex with geography and particular climates, the residence Ro poses a specific problem from the beginning. Due to a climate where in the afternoon the temperature drops considerably and there are cold winds coming from the mountains, outdoor spaces, green courtyards and terraces have become ornate elements and not spatial resources to promote family coexistence, Integrating and dignifying the meaning of home.

OMA builds city-inspired engineering school for Ecole Centrale Paris

September 1, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Rem Koolhaas’ firm looked at urban-design patterns when drawing up plans for this laboratory building at an engineering school on the outskirts of Paris. Called Lab City, the building was designed by OMA to provide a new facility for Ecole Centrale Paris, a French university that specialises in science and engineering. But the design team – led by

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