Process Architecture designs low-cost houses in Florida for recovering drug addicts

July 9, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

American studio Process Architecture has completed four drug rehabilitation homes that had to meet stringent design requirements, including a budget of under $200,000 per dwelling. The project was commissioned by Aspire Health Partners, a healthcare provider in Orlando, Florida, that specialises in rehabilitation services for drug users. Rehab facilities have become increasingly critical in America,

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Cascading boxes with green roofs form coastal Washington home by Prentiss Balance Wickline

July 7, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

American firm Prentiss Balance Wickline Architects has created a dwelling in the Pacific Northwest that consists of timber-clad volumes that step down a rocky hillside. The Bailer Hill house is anchored to a boulder-strewn slope on San Juan Island, which is part of an archipelago just off the coast of Washington state. The clients – a

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Robert Young’s East Lake House in Montauk is designed to weather over time

July 6, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

American studio Robert Young Architects has created a weekend home in a coastal hamlet on Long Island, clad in rough-sawn cedar planks that were left untreated so they can age naturally. The East Lake House is located in Montauk, a village at the eastern tip of New York’s Long Island. Robert Young Architects, which has offices

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San Francisco’s art-deco McClintock Building transformed into “maker spaces”

July 4, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

Pfau Long Architecture has converted a 1930s building that once housed a dress manufacturer into a creative workspace with an openable glass roof. The project involved transforming the art-deco-style McClintock Building in San Francisco’s design district, just west of the Mission Bay neighbourhood. Situated along a major thoroughfare, the complex occupies an entire city block. The

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Land Ark unveils modern take on classic American RV

June 27, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

Colorado startup Land Ark has revealed its first mobile home, which features angled walls, black metal cladding and an interior wrapped in white-washed pine. Encompassing 357 square feet (33 square metres), the Drake is the debut camper from Land Ark. The company was founded in 2016 by husband-and-wife team Brian and Joni Buzarde and is

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Geoffrey von Oeyen designs jagged-roof office addition for Malibu home

June 26, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

American designer Geoffrey von Oeyen has created a home office in southern California that features wooden exterior walls and a highly abstracted sawtooth roof. The project, called Case Room, entailed creating a home office for a pair of attorneys living in a two-storey, late-1980s dwelling in the beach city of Malibu. The couple wanted a

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Bates Masi’s Georgica Cove residence in East Hampton is modelled after historic farmsteads

June 25, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

American firm Bates Masi Architects took cues from vernacular architecture for this Hamptons home, which consists of sharply gabled forms wrapped in oversized shingles. Georgica Cove is located on a waterfront property in East Hampton, an affluent village on the southern side of New York’s Long Island. It was designed for a couple who wanted

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Matthew Baird’s Somes Sound House in Maine “sits lightly on the ground”

June 20, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

Cedar-clad volumes connected by a breezeway form this residence in Maine by American studio Matthew Baird Architects, which was designed to respect its forested surroundings. The Somes Sound House is located on the edge of Acadia National Park, on a remote site blanketed with evergreen trees. Situated at the end of a peninsula, the dwelling

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Prefab metal structures form True North housing complex in Detroit by EC3

June 19, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

American studio EC3 has created a residential development in central Detroit, comprising a cluster of different-sized Quonset huts made of steel and polycarbonate panels. The True North complex is located in Core City, a quiet neighbourhood that sits a few miles west of the downtown district. The development is the neighbourhood’s first new construction project

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Lake Flato creates pavilions with concrete “petals” for San Antonio’s Confluence Park

June 18, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

American firm Lake Flato has designed a riverfront park in southern Texas, with sculptural pavilions that provide shade on sunny days and help collect rainwater during storms. Confluence Park is located on a bluff overlooking the point where the San Pedro Creek merges with the San Antonio River. Covering three acres (1.2 hectares), the public

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