AA Design & Make students use a robotic arm to build a woodland barn
Students from London's Architectural Association have completed a robotically fabricated barn in a wood in Dorset, England, using timber harvested from the surrounding trees. More
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Moxon secures planning permission for house in a quarry surrounded by protected woodland
London studio Moxon Architects has released images of its design for a home nestled into a quarry in the Scottish highlands, which has been granted planning permission and will start construction later this year (+ slideshow). More
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Installations for Quebec garden festival to include stone pavilion and suspended cone
A shadowy room with gabion walls and a suspended canopy made of wooden slats are among the winners of a juried competition to design installations for this year's International Garden Festival, in Quebec, Canada. More
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Tengbom's completes pine cone-inspired trail centre in a Swedish nature reserve
Giant wooden shingles cover the curving walls of this woodland trail centre by Swedish architecture firm Tengbom, designed to mimic the form and texture of a pine cone (+ slideshow). More
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DP6 Architectuurstudio completes glass and timber home in a woodland setting
This glass and timber house by Dutch office DP6 Architectuurstudio was designed "like a little black box" with sections of dark larch cladding to help it merge with the surrounding trees. More
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Timber-clad houses raised up on stilts over ammunition vaults in Vilnius parkland
A pair of Lithuanian architecture studios have built a series of timber-clad houses on top of 1920s ammunition stores in parkland north of Vilnius (+ slideshow). More
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De Rosee Sa builds "strangely familiar" black cabin beside a lake in rural Belgium
Described by architecture studio De Rosee Sa as a "magical lakeside cabin", this small black hut in Belgium shares many characteristics with the witch's houses found in fairytales (+ movie). More
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Seung H-Sang clads South Korean mountain house in pre-rusted steel
Orange-hued panels of weathering steel encase the upper storey of this house in South Korea, which is elevated above the treetops of its mountain forest setting (+ slideshow). More
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Patrick Dillon's SaLo House is an off-grid forest dwelling overlooking the Pacific Ocean
Architect Patrick Dillon built this sustainable house on a forested hilltop in Panama from salvaged materials that had to be brought to the site by boat and horseback (+ slideshow). More
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The Wild Thing is a "creature-like" cabin that stands tall above a Latvian wildflower meadow
The sides of this 4.5 metre-high stilted cabin lift open to offer inhabitants an uninterrupted view of the Latvian landscape (+ slideshow). More
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Courtyard house by Levenbetts embraces its wooded landscape in Princeton
This house in Princeton, New Jersey by New York studio Levenbetts is organised around a courtyard, offering views of a private garden as well as out to the surrounding woodland (+ slideshow). More
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Canadian forest retreat by Christopher Simmonds stretches out towards lake views
The upper storey of this forest house near Ottawa projects out from the landscape, creating a cantilevered living room offering views through the trees towards a nearby lake (+ slideshow). More
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Woodland holiday home updated with rooftop extension facing up to the treetops
Dutch studio Bloot Architecture has added a larch-clad roof extension to a 1950s summer house, featuring a glazed wall angled to frame views of the trees overhead (+ slideshow). More
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Aketuri Architektai clads woodland house in Lithuania with shale tiles
The upper storey of this home in the Lithuanian countryside is contained within a pointy shale-clad roof, while glazed walls provide woodland views for rooms on the ground floor (+ slideshow). More
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Norwegian mountain hut is entered through a curving wooden orifice
A narrow wooden tunnel provides the entrance to this forest refuge built by students beside a mountain in Bergen, Norway (+ slideshow). More
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Bernd Riegger's see-through timber cabin provides shelter for a forest kindergarten
Openings in the walls of this wooden shelter in Austria create display compartments where children can show off treasures collected from the trails of the surrounding forest (+ slideshow). More
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Woodland home by Hiroshi Nakamura designed to resemble a cluster of timber tepees
Each room of this woodland retreat in Japan is topped by a "pointy hat" that gives the timber structure the appearance of a group of pitched tents (+ slideshow). More
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Haus Für Julia Und Björn is a wooden residence in Austria's picturesque Bregenz Forest
Innauer‐Matt Architekten sourced spruce from a nearby woodland for the inside and outside walls of this family house in a hamlet of western Austria (+ slideshow). More
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Stilted woodland cabin by ALT Architekti boasts a spiralling metal staircase
A metal staircase twists though a triangular well in one corner of this six-sided timber cabin by ALT Architekti, which is raised on stilts over a hillside in Central Bohemia (+ slideshow). More
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Work begins on Jean Nouvel's woodland arts complex in China
News: construction has started on a vast arts complex designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel for Qingdao, China, featuring a museum, artists' studios and a marina. More
