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SMStudio includes pool with underwater windows in “bold yet friendly” Vancouver house

September 27, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Gridded fibre-cement cladding and a swimming pool with underwater windows feature at the East Van Residence in Vancouver by Canadian firm SMStudio. The project is in Hastings-Sunrise, a residential neighbourhood in East Vancouver, a mixed residential and industrial area that borders the city’s harbour. The home replaces a “tired, 1950s bungalow” that did not accommodate

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Studio 804 completes gabled Kansas home with ADU

September 25, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Students in the Studio 804 design-build programme at the University of Kansas took cues from farmstead vernacular to create a primary home and accessory dwelling unit called 722 Ash Street. Named after its address, the residence is located in the city of Lawrence in northeastern Kansas. It was built as a speculative project, and the

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Mork-Ulnes creates black-clad San Francisco to be “laboratory” for creative work

September 19, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Mork-Ulnes Architects has completed the Silver Lining House, a crisp, gabled home clad in black-stained cedar that was designed for an architectural photographer and interior designer. Located on a sloped site in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighbourhood, the house sits among Victorian and Edwardian homes that line the area’s hilly streets. The project was designed

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NBBJ creates pediatric clinic in Seattle with “no blank walls”

September 18, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Salvaged wood and colourful murals by local artists are among the decorative features in the NBBJ-designed Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic, which combines medical services with public amenities like a basketball court and community kitchen. The healthcare facility is located in Seattle’s Othello neighbourhood, a diverse area that historically has been home to immigrant communities. The

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Hacker references nearby woods in revamp of athletic centre at Portland school

September 12, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Local studio Hacker Architects has renovated and expanded a 60-year-old athletic facility at the Oregon Episcopal School, aiming to make the building an “inclusive, equitable and future-forward campus hub”. The project – officially called the Oregon Episcopal School Athletic Center – sits within the campus of a co-ed private school in southwest Portland. The school

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Lake Flato clads Texas home in giant Corten steel panels

September 11, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Shingle-like panels made of weathering steel clad the pyramidal forms at the River Bend Residence, a project designed by Texan studio Lake Flato Architects to “sit lightly upon the land”. Located in a region known as Texas Hill Country, the house is in the city of New Braunfels, just north of San Antonio. The area

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Volcanic terrain informs design of Noir Peaks house by The Ranch Mine

September 5, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

US architecture studio The Ranch Mine has completed a holiday home in northern Arizona consisting of black, gabled forms that “burst vertically from the ground”. Rising up from a grassy, high-altitude plateau, the Noir Peaks house is located in the northern Arizona town of Flagstaff, known for its mountains, aspen stands and pine forests. The

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GO’C creates Washington house that “grounds itself to the earth”

September 1, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Black brick and lye-washed wood are among the materials used to build a family home in a coastal Washington forest for a founding partner at architectural studio GO’C. The project, called The Rambler, is tucked into a wooded site on the Kitsap Peninsula, which lies northwest of Seattle. The home is designed to be rooted to

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The LADG upends “traditional” organisation for Los Angeles bungalow remodel

August 30, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Stucco and asphalt are found on the exterior of a 1920s bungalow that has been fully revamped by local firm The LADG, which sought to challenge “traditional notions of how a house should be organised and how it should look”. The project – officially called House in Los Angeles 5 – involved updates and extensions to a

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Yu2e draws upon historic styles to create pink housing block in Los Angeles

August 28, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Architecture and engineering firm Yu2e has completed The Axolotl, a three-storey apartment building near public transit that is meant to be an “evolutionary hybrid of Los Angeles middle housing”. The building is situated on a rectangular property in the Los Feliz neighbourhood, described as a “middle density” area with many two-storey apartment buildings. For the

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