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Drew Mandel blends old and new in the expansion of a 1920’s Toronto residence

January 23, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Drew Mandel Architects has renovated and expanded a 1920’s craftsman-style cottage in Toronto that “marries old and new” with a contemporary open floor plan, limestone terrace, historic touches and upscale details. Completed in the summer of 2022 – approximately 100 years after the original construction – the five-bedroom, 4.5 bath house keeps the historic character

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Strang Design tops Miami mansion with slatted volume and planter

January 19, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Strang Design has created a contemporary residence with a garden terrace in Miami, Florida, complete with Brazilian influences and vintage touches. The studio, which specializes in projects along Florida’s vast coastline dedicated to “environmental modernism”, completed the expansive, 8,500-square foot (2,590-square meter) house – known as the Angel Oaks Residence – in 2021.

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ZGF transforms Pittsburgh Ford Assembly plant into research facility

January 13, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Portland-based studio ZGF Architects has adapted a historic Ford Motor Company factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania into a biomedical research laboratory by renovating existing structures and creating a cantilevered terracotta-clad addition. ZGF – working with development group Wexford Science & Technology – reimagined the 224,866-square foot (20,890-square metre) factory to house state-of-the-art research labs, collaborative spaces,and community

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West of West experiments with “beautiful roughness” for Austin office complex

January 11, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

West of West has completed a concrete office complex in eastern Austin, Texas with flexible workspaces, community amenities and public greenspaces between buildings that reinterpret the neighbourhood’s industrial context. The 230,000-square foot (21,370-square metre) two-building creative complex was designed by West of West, a studio with offices in Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles, with American

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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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