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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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David Baker Architects accelerates housing for homeless in San Francisco with modular construction

December 28, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Bay Area studio David Baker Architects has completed 145 units of social housing using modular construction and a weathering steel facade in San Francisco, California. The 63,000-square foot (5,850 metre) project – called Tahanan, the Tagalog word for “coming home” – was completed in November 2021 through a financing prototype that aimed to accelerate the

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EYRC tucks light filled spaces behind white walls in Venice Beach

December 23, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Los Angeles studio Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects has completed a sleek stucco home in Venice Beach, California. Completed in June 2022, the 3,400-square foot (315-square metre) home – known as Navy House – contains a two-storey primary unit and a flexible two-bedroom unit on the ground floor that could eventually be annexed into the

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Elemental references “double condition of castles” for cylindrical home in Mexico

December 22, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Chilean studio Elemental has created a round concrete house called Casa del Tec outside of Monterrey, Mexico that is the prize of a raffle that funds higher education at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey. Completed in 2022 in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, the three-storey textured reinforced concrete shell serves as a shell for

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Michael Hsu converts 1930s Austin church into spacious design office

December 20, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

US studio Michael Hsu Office of Architecture has adapted a former church in Austin, Texas into an open office that maintains the original gabled form and materials. Originally built in 1930, the church was converted into a 19,600-square foot (1,820 metre) flagship studio for Argodesign, a global product design office. Michael Hsu Office of Architecture

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Jenny Peysin Architecture creates concrete Southampton home with a glass pavilion

December 19, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Jenny Peysin Architecture has completed a house in the Hamptons with a poured-in-place concrete envelope and a glazed living space. Completed in 2019 on the eastern end of Long Island, New York, the 8,300-square foot (770-square metre) home has a board-formed mass with punched windows, natural materials and light-filled spaces. The concrete bar – which

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Paz Architectura creates a stacked structure meant to reflect “basic concepts of time”

December 15, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Paz Arquitectura created a compact mixed-use building in the middle of Guatemala’s capital city with “strict geometry interlocked with constant movement”. The 115,200-square foot (10,700-square metre) building known as AEME was completed in 2021. “AEME tries to reflect the basic concepts of time,” said studio founder Alejandro Paz. “Strict geometry interlocked with constant movement softens

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Alexander Jermyn Architecture clads a gabled California home with charred wood

December 9, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Alexander Jermyn Architecture has created a lake house in Lake Tahoe, California with blackened wood siding to withstand the mountain climate. The 3,200-square foot (300-square metre) home nestled in the Sierra Nevada Mountains was designed to shed snow with a steep gable form and looks out to the lake with floor-to-roofline windows. Berkeley-based studio Alexander Jermyn

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