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Albert Frey’s all-metal 1930s Aluminaire House reassembled in Palm Springs

March 22, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

The Palm Springs Art Museum has unveiled the reconstructed Aluminaire House in California, a modernist house originally designed in the 1930s by architect Albert Frey and editor A Lawrence Kocher. After “languishing for decades” in upstate New York, the house has been relocated to Palm Springs, California, where the museum plans to showcase and preserve

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Studio Octopi adds mint-green extension to Georgian house in London

March 21, 2024 Betty Owoo 0

Architecture practice Studio Octopi has added a rear extension clad in mint-green metal to The Saddlery, a Georgian house in southeast London. Wedged between a pub and a row of Georgian homes in Lewisham, the dwelling has been extended to create an additional entertaining space and a secondary entrance. Studio Octopi’s design uses the extension to

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Studio VARA designs Sonoma County house to stand up to wildfires

March 18, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

Local firm Studio VARA has completed Fire Country Lookout, a rural retreat in northern California that is wrapped in a protective shell made of standing-seam metal and is equipped to operate off the grid. Located near the town of Healdsburg in Sonoma County, the house sits on a hilltop dotted with oak trees. A long,

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Traditional cabins inform mountain retreat in the Ukrainian Carpathians

March 16, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Lviv studios Sanina Arch Club and Gubar Architects used a “combination of modern and local traditions” for Krasnyk House, a holiday cabin in the Carpathian mountains in Ukraine. Krasnyk House’s form mimics the typical architecture of the Hutsuls – an ethnic group from the mountains of western Ukraine – and blends it with contemporary materials

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Boyd Architects creates monolithic-metal forms for South Carolina residence

March 7, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

US studio Boyd Architects has wrapped a house in standing seam metal and pine boards and articulated each form with a vernacular hip roof in Summerville, South Carolina. Based in Charleston, Boyd Architects completed the 3,611-square foot (335-square metre) Summerville House in 2023, as a “process of form-making”. “This inspiration for the project was the

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LCA Architetti nestles angular cork-clad home into Italian valley

February 28, 2024 Katie Last 0

An angular black volume sits atop a cork-clad ground floor to form Casa 9, a home that Italian studio LCA Architetti has added to a valley on the border between Italy and Switzerland. Located within a hilly landscape near Lake Lugano, the house was designed to showcase non-traditional building materials and features a timber structure

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Eight living spaces that go heavy on metal furniture

February 17, 2024 Jennifer Hahn 0

Although more commonly associated with industrial applications, furnishings made of cool-toned steel, aluminium and chrome are infiltrating every room of the home. This lookbook rounds up eight living spaces that show how it’s done. In recent years, a growing cohort of young designers has been experimenting with humble, industrial metals – often using only one

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Kendle Design clads Arizona “micro building” in weathering steel

January 26, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

US architecture studio Kendle Design Collaborative has designed an accessory building for a family home with a metal roof extension meant to frame an outdoor garden while “celebrating the Arizona sky”. The Flex Pavilion was designed as a companion to a modern-style residence that was built in 2016 and was also designed by local studio

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“Robust and utilitarian” materials define infill home in Dublin by Gró Works

January 15, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Red brickwork and perforated metal panels bring an industrial feel to this compact infill home in Dublin, which has been completed by Irish architecture studio Gró Works. Located on Dublin’s southern perimeter, the home by Gró Works was designed to reflect both the nearby Victorian redbrick terraces and the more “utilitarian” quality of the backstreet

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Metal screens and interior courtyards feature in Córdoba office building

January 8, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local architects Santiago Viale and Juan Manuel Juarez have wrapped the offices of an animal feed plant in Córdoba with a perforated metal screen. The 18,040 square foot (1,676 square metre) administrative building is part of a larger 199,000 square foot (18,460 square metre) industrial complex for Biofarma, which produces feed for animals including poultry, swine

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