The Ranch Mine optimises Arizona home for indoor-outdoor living
The Ranch Mine has completed a low-slung, minimalist home in Arizona's Paradise Valley, drawing cues from a style of house that was popular in the 1930s. More
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Preen designs Prime steakhouse for a casino in the Arizona desert
Designer Alexis Readinger of US studio Preen has incorporated earthy hues, wide arches and textured plaster into an Arizona eatery and bar that is part of a casino owned by a Native American community. More
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The Ranch Mine designs Arizona desert home informed by surrounding boulders
The organisation of this home in Arizona's Sonoran Desert was inspired by a rock formation that architecture firm The Ranch Mine noticed during a site visit early in the design process. More
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Mid-century Phoenix home receives updates and expanded living space
This home at the foot of Camelback Mountain in Arizona has been thoroughly renovated by 180 Degrees Design + Build and CBTWO Architects with updated finishes and a new double-height living room. More
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ASU students design and build Orange 1 breezy outdoor classroom
A group of students from Arizona State University has completed an outdoor classroom pavilion as part of a design-build studio programme. More
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Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix enclosed with polycarbonate walls
American firms 180 Degrees and CoLab Studio have created an educational facility and a greenhouse in the Arizona desert with polycarbonate facades that bring soft daylight indoors. More
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Concrete home by HK Associates looks onto the Arizona desert
American practice HK Associates has completed a geometric concrete home on a desert site at the base of the Catalina Mountains in Tucson, Arizona. More
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Kendle Design Collaborative imbues Phoenix home with "zen-like quality"
Concrete blocks, stucco and glass form the exterior of a home by architecture firm Kendle Design Collaborative that embraces its setting in the Arizona desert. More
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The Ranch Mine builds casiTa guesthouse in Phoenix backyard
A massive pivot door enables an interior room to open onto a covered patio in casiTa, a guesthouse in Arizona designed by architecture firm The Ranch Mine. More
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The Ranch Mine creates board-marked concrete home in Phoenix for a ceramicist
Board-marked concrete, creamy stucco and weathering steel form the facades of Foo house in Arizona, designed by US firm The Ranch Mine for a ceramicist and her family. More
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The Ranch Mine creates O-asis home in the Arizona desert
Architecture studio The Ranch Mine built a courtyard house for a musician in Arizona with white stucco walls and solar panels paired with a Tesla battery for power outages. More
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Frank Lloyd Wright's School of Architecture at Taliesin is moving to Paolo Soleri's Cosanti
Frank Lloyd Wright's School of Architecture at Taliesin will change its name and move its campuses to the Cosanti and Arcosanti sites Italian-American architect Paolo Soleri designed in Arizona. More
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Eight designs that make use of waste products
The Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined exhibition at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art features projects that repurpose waste products. Here are eight highlights including vases sculpted from PVC pipes. More
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The Ranch Mine creates modern courtyard home in the Arizona desert
American studio The Ranch Mine has completed a residence in Phoenix that features a mix of gabled and flat volumes wrapped in corrugated metal, white stucco and honey-toned wood. More
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Student builds rammed-earth shelter at Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture school
Tapered, rammed-earth walls support the roof of this small shelter that architecture student Conor Denison has built on the desert campus of Frank Lloyd Wright's School of Architecture at Taliesin in Scottsdale. More
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The Ranch Mine's Weave house in Phoenix draws upon work by Georgia O’Keeffe
American studio The Ranch Mine has completed a modern courtyard home in Arizona that alludes to Georgia O'Keeffe paintings and prioritises "simple materials, distinctive geometries and the desert sky". More
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Markzeff channels desert modernism at Mountain Shadows resort
New York City designer Mark Zeff has looked to 1960s desert-modern trends for the interiors of the rebuilt Mountain Shadows resort in Arizona. More
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The Little Art Studio by Chen + Suchart reflects desert landscape in Arizona
Architecture firm Chen + Suchart Studio has added an art studio to a Phoenix area home, cladding the new building in large sheets of reflective glass and silver-hued weathering steel. More
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Frank Lloyd Wright house intended for Taliesin architecture school up for sale
The Phoenix residence that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for his son is back on the market, because funding to support its donation to the School of Architecture at Taliesin fell through. More
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Dancing Light House by Kendle Design Collaborative features dramatic pointy roofs
Expansive angled roofs crown this desert house by Arizona firm Kendle Design Collaborative, protecting and shading spaces between walls of rammed earth and exposed concrete. More
