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  • Teresa Bergen
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If you look at an aerial view of Hot Springs, Arkansas, you see a few rows of buildings squeezed in between wild, green mountains. This resort town, about an hour southwest of Little Rock, is an unusual place where you can walk out the door of your downtown hotel and within minutes be shopping at boutiques, taking...

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  • Lucy Wang
  • 12/09/2020

Toronto-based design firm BDP Quadrangle has fulfilled a long-held dream of the late Sonja Bata of Bata Shoes fame with the transformation of the decommissioned Bata Shoe Factory in Batawa. Designed in collaboration with Dubbeldam Architecture + Design, the adaptive reuse project aims to reinvent the former factory...

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Modular home in Delft boasts low-carbon timber build and a green roof

  • Lucy Wang
  • 12/08/2020

Building information modeling (BIM), modular construction and low-carbon timber materials combine in the sustainable Buitenhuis, a small, low-impact home with beautiful farmland views in Heinenoord, the Netherlands. Dutch architecture firm VLOT architecten designed Buitenhuis with a strong connection to the outdoors...

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  • Bonface Landi
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  • Teresa Bergen
  • 12/08/2020

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  • Dawn Hammon
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