Best Practice Architecture adds scalloped shingles to renovated 1950s house in Seattle

A retired mother enlisted the help of her daughter, a principal at Best Practice Architecture, to convert a neglected home into a wooden shingle-clad “multigenerational home base” with a basement level that can serve as its own apartment. The house, called Lil Shingle, involved the renovation of a 1950s house in Seattle’s Mt Baker neighbourhood, […]

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Dezeen Agenda features an urban district in Iraq

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a masterplan for an urban district in Baghdad. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Architecture studio Gensler‘s Baghdad Sustainable Forests project in Baghdad, Iraq, will include landmark towers alongside residential, retail and commercial spaces, surrounded by parks, green corridors and one million trees. High-tech pioneer Nicholas Grimshaw […]

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Reclaimed materials shape Copenhagen Architecture Biennial pavilion by Slaatto Morsbøl

Reclaimed bricks, timber and ventilation pipes determined the form of the Inside Out, Downside Up pavilion, hand-built by architecture studio Slaatto Morsbøl for the inaugural Copenhagen Architecture Biennial. Opened today at Søren Kierkegaards Plads, the pavilion was designed by Slaatto Morsbøl as a demonstration of the value of salvaging, processing and repurposing discarded materials and […]

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