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Category: Architecture, Master Plan, Residential Tags: Courtyard architecture, David Baker, Green architecture, LEED, USA architecture
This project works on every level, creating a haven for its occupants without forgetting to engage its communities. The team preserved embodied energy by artfully repurposing an existing building. Variety and articulation of different building and unit types are expressed both on the exterior facing the street, as well as the interiors facing the public [...]
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Category: Architecture, Industry Tags: Architectural Resources Group, David Wakely, LEED, Refurbishment / Extension, USA architecture, Winery
The Jackse Winery, one of St. Helena’s oldest wood-framed winery buildings, has recently been restored and expanded to serve as the permanent offices for the Napa Valley Vintners, a non-profit organization responsible for protecting and promoting the smaller wineries in this premier winegrowing region. Built between 1905 and 1913 by Austrian immigrant and vintner Stephen [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel Tags: Balcony, David Baker, ESD design, Green architecture, Lattice screen, LEED, Refurbishment / Extension, Swimming pool, USA architecture
In Healdsburg, California, h2hotel, is a new eco-conscious hotel designed by David Baker + Partners, the hotel has recently opened its doors to guests. A glimpse of the undulating green roof of this sustainable inn signals your arrival in historic downtown Healdsburg. The sister property to an acclaimed luxury hotel down the street, h2hotel offers [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Coates Design, Concrete, Landscape architecture, Stair, Timber, USA architecture
Coates Design has designed the Dorsey Residence in Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA. This custom island house symbolizes its owner. From the outside, the home is an anonymous, almost austere, monumental concrete facade anchored deep into the hillside on a waterfront property. Much of the home is hidden behind the two-story concrete face. Upon entering, it [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: USA architecture, Valerio Dewalt Train
Valerio Dewalt Train Associates, in partnership with Webcor Builders, has recently completed a nine-story, 226-unit residence hall that anchors UC San Diego’s new medical school campus. Faced with a projected increase in the enrollment of graduate and professional students, a shortfall of on-campus residences, and the goal of housing half of the student population in [...]
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Category: Book, Landscape Tags: Green architecture, New York, Publication, USA architecture
Every city needs parks, but how about those highly developed cities like New York City, London, Hong Kong? It is impossible to squeeze and create a green park from their exiting dense contexts. The April issue of the National Geographic magazine features a really neat piece on how an abandoned rail line in New York [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Balcony, Bates Masi + Architects, Concrete, Landscape architecture, Swimming pool, Timber, USA architecture, Waterfront architecture
Designed by Bates Masi + Architects, the Lion’s Head house was designed to set on a narrow property atop a bluff overlooking Gardiner’s Bay, this house replaces a vacation home shared by two brothers and their families for over 25 years before it was destroyed by fire. Since originally building on the site, new regulations [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Bates Masi + Architects, Cladding, Landscape architecture, Stair, Timber, USA architecture
The client, a New York actor, sought a retreat for relaxation and casual entertaining on a restrictive narrow lot fronting the tidal estuary of Noyack Creek. The house became a study in architectural theatre: a series of spaces in a carefully scripted sequence that subtly reflect his professional life. The path begins at the front [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Bates Masi + Architects, Landscape architecture, Stair, Swimming pool, Timber, USA, USA architecture
American architectural firm Bates Masi + Architects completed the Pryor house located in Montauk, NY. The house occupies a hill in Montauk with a distant view of ocean. A site that the owners, a couple with two young boys, spent years to find. It is the couple’s reprieve from their home in the city, to [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Coates Design, ESD design, Landscape architecture, LEED, Stair, Timber, USA, USA architecture
American architectural practice Coates Design has completed the Ellis Residence in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Ed, house owner, describes the first morning in their home, When I saw the sunrise with the skyline of Seattle as a backdrop the whole process was all worth it. Perched high upon Yeomalt Bluff, the Ellis Residence enjoys a commanding [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Lattice screen, Leddy Maytum Stacy, Ramp, Tim Griffith, Timber, USA, USA architecture
Commemorating the life of an international leader and educator in the disability rights movement, the Ed Roberts Campus recently opened in Berkeley. When Ed Roberts founded Berkeley’s Center for Independent Living (CIL) in 1972, it was the world’s first organization to be run by and for people with disabilities. After Roberts’s death in 1995, the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Random pattern, School, USA, USA architecture, Valerio Dewalt Train
Valerio Dewalt Train Associates has designed the new Laboratory Schools, Early Childhood Center for University of Chicago. Founded by John Dewey in 1886, the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools have been a successful and evolving experiment in an educational model that prioritizes the learning environment as teacher. In 2007, the Schools embarked on one of [...]
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