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Viewfinder House combines great views with energy efficiency

In an initial meeting with Faulkner Architects, the client requested every room be oriented towards the Sierra...

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Solar-powered Menai Science Park offers sweeping views of Wales

U.K. architectural practice FaulknerBrowns Architects has completed the Menai Science Park (M-SParc), the first...

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Rammed earth walls tie this modern home to the Arizona desert landscape

Architect Brent Kendle of Kendle Design Collaborative married architecture with the desert landscape in Desert...

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Abandoned house gets a gorgeous, energy-efficient refresh

Few homes undergo the trials and tribulations of Boston Villa - and fewer still receive a gorgeous renovation that...

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Glass elements dramatically open up a solar-powered Sydney home

In Sydney’s affluent suburb of Kirribilli, a contemporary solar-powered home stands out from its Victorian manor...

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Origami-inspired Aqualagon water park is a site-sensitive extension of the landscape

With their bright, multicolored slides and tubes, most water parks stick out like unsightly sore thumbs in the...

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This contemporary light-filled home feels like an extension of Bali’s tropics

German architect Alexis Dornier of his eponymous Bali-based architecture practice recently completed a stunning...

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A prefab hotel with lakeside views pops up in northern Russia

St. Petersburg-based architecture firm Rhizome group designed and built Tochka na Karte Hotel, a prefabricated...

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Solar-powered multi-generational home offsets its energy consumption

Toronto-based architecture firm Williamson Williamson has completed a stunning home that embraces aging in place...

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Foster + Partners turn an office tower into Hong Kong’s newest luxury hotel

Foster + Partners transformed a former government headquarters tower into a luxury hotel in Hong Kong, and it has...

A rustic cabin and its modern white painted extension

This rustic Quebec cottage now has a beautiful, prismatic extension

When a client with a large family reached out to ACDF Architecture for an extension of their rustic country cottage...

aquarium design for Schönbrunn Zoo Poseidon’s Realm by 3XN and GERNER GERNER PLUS

Undulating green-roofed aquarium proposed for Vienna’s Schönbrunn Zoo

3XN and GERNER GERNER PLUS recently revealed their proposal for the design of a new aquarium for Vienna’s Schönbrunn...

Two-in-One House by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter

Multi-family timber home perches atop a Norwegian slope

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter recently completed their latest residence: a multi-family dwelling set atop a steep slope...

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Stellar views and a small footprint define this Tasmanian timber cabin

A small abode perched high on the eastern slopes of Tasmania’s Mount Wellington offers spectacular landscape...

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Green-roofed Copenhagen sports center is open to the public 24/7

Copenhagen’s Ørestad City just unveiled a green-roofed multipurpose sports facility next to Bjarke Ingels Group’s...

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