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Kitchen Fix: Good Spots for a Stepladder (15 photos)

July 24, 2017 Becky Harris 0
Some of the most admired kitchens these days have floor-to-high-ceiling cabinets, with a glorious rolling library ladder keeping it all accessible. But not many of us have the room or the budget for that, and we’ve realized that precariously balancing on a swiveling counter stool while reaching for that…

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Clemson Dining and Housing / Sasaki

July 24, 2017 Rayen Sagredo 0

The Clemson University Core Campus Dining Facility is a 81,000 square foot, 1,200 seat modern food service facility that offers freshly prepared daily meals via a variety of open cooking venues and houses five different late night retail venues and a small P.O.D. convenience store. As part of Clemson’s redevelopment of its “Core Campus” construction of this dining facility proceeded in tandem with new student housing construction, designed by VMDO Architects. These projects as a whole address the growing demand for contemporary housing and dining options in support of the university’s goals of retaining more sophomore students on campus, and maintaining its position in the top 20 national public universities.

Jim Olson expands tiny cabin he built 60 years ago in rural Washington

July 24, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

Jim Olson, co-founder of Seattle architecture studio Olson Kundig, has made a series of additions to a bunkhouse he designed and built aged 18, as a first-year architecture student. The Olson Cabin is located on a forested site in Longbranch, a village situated on a peninsula in the Puget Sound. The site has been in

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College-Bound: 5 Decorating Ideas to Get a Dorm Room Ready (5 photos)

July 24, 2017 Houzz 0
The term “dorm room” can conjure up images of stale sheets, mountains of dirty clothing and potato chip crumbs scattered about. But dorm living doesn’t have to look like this. More and more with interiors in general, I’m seeing a trend toward thoughtful living, and the college-bound crowd is no

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7 Projects Announced as Winners of 2017 AIA National Healthcare Design Awards

July 24, 2017 Patrick Lynch 0

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) has selected seven recipients of 2017 AIA National Healthcare Design Awards, given to the year’s best projects in healthcare building design and healthcare design-oriented research. Projects were selected for displaying “conceptual strengths that solve aesthetic, civic, urban, and social concerns as well as the requisite functional and sustainability concerns of a hospital.”

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Casa FORASTE / TALLER 1+1

July 24, 2017 Cristobal Rojas 0

Casa Forasté is a single family dwelling that responds to the necessity of a young marriage that obtains a lot in a centric neighborhood of Guadalajara, Mexico. The goal was to provide a practical refugee, with an optimization of the resources.