Deezen

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

US studio The Miller Hull Partnership has completed the Health Sciences Education Building in Seattle , which features corrugated metal cladding and a warm interior that departs from the "hospital-like environments found in most university medical buildings". The general contractor was Seattle-based Lease Crutcher Lewis.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 17, 2024

Photo © Rasmus Hjortshõj Spanning 22,000 m², the main timber structure, made of glulam and cross-laminated timber, forms three striking tree-trunk-like columns, fanning out to carry the entire load of the roof – enveloping visitors in a welcoming forest-like canopy.

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

Local studio Oliver Leech Architects has extended a Victorian terrace house in south London, introducing a four-metre-wide skylight at its centre that offers views of a wildflower meadow roof. The extension features a window seat overlooking the rear courtyard Oliver Leech Architects was founded in 2016. The photography is by Jim Stephenson.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 2, 2024

The building splices together museum functions around an unused courtyard, and though the dome function is tall, the addition is sensitive to the vaulted hall and lower buildings defining the courtyard today. The roof mediates between the tall dome and the low facades of the one-story building, spanning 26x48m across the dome.

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Deezen

MARCH 18, 2024

Drawing on the local farmhouse typology, the home by Richard Parr Associates features a sloped-roof brick structure clad with charred timber and topped with corrugated metal roofing. UK architecture studio Richard Parr Associates has completed a single-storey family residence on a wild countryside site in Oxfordshire.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2022

Structural plywood was used to help reduce the carbon footprint of an Oregon office building designed by Lever Architecture for a nonprofit organisation. Located in Portland 's Albina neighbourhood, the building serves as the headquarters for Meyer Memorial Trust , a charitable foundation focused on racial, social and economic justice.

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Render by Negativ The centre’s layered roofs feather outwards and cascade from their highest points along this axis, framing the entrance lobbies of the performing arts theatre and the conference centre. A smart building management system will automatically adjust shading, lighting and ventilation for optimum comfort and efficiencies.

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Deezen

JANUARY 13, 2023

A colourful collection of buildings in Palma de Mallorca have been designed by architecture studios MVRDV and GRAS Reynés Arquitectos to echo the playful style of Camper shoes. Project Gomila features seven buildings informed by Camper shoe design. Read: MVRDV creates 600-metre-long orange walkway that bridges Rotterdam roofs.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Dutch architecture firm Powerhouse Company has used cross-laminated timber to construct an off-grid office building that floats on water. Floating Office Rotterdam is a three-storey building floating in Rotterdam's Rijnhaven. The building is constructed on a pontoon of 15 "concrete barges". Photo is by Sebastian van Damme.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 15, 2023

Photo © Koichi Torimura By necessity, the detached building housing a two-car garage and guest room is situated on the east side, where the elevation gap is smallest, but the client requested that the main house weave around the difficult site conditions. Source by Takeshi Hirobe Architects.

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e-architect

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The 23-storey mixed-use building, MVRDV’s first completed project on the west coast of the United States, is part of a masterplan that creates the wholly new neighbourhood “Mission Rock” overlooking San Francisco Bay. MVRDV’s residential complex The Canyon on San Francisco’s waterfront is complete.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Tan Yamanouchi designed A Cat Tree House for his family and cats "The main aim behind this project was to design a house regarding our two cats as two clients," studio founder Tan Yamanouchi told Dezeen. This building is for my home and studio where my wife and I live with our two cats.

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

The new rooms were raised up from the ground The house reminded the client of a trio of modernist villas in Sardinia, which he had admired since childhood stays at his family's vacation home on the Mediterranean island. We had to resort to sleeping on the roof for relief." The photography is by Filippo Romano.

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Deezen

JULY 10, 2022

Neubau was approached by St Mary's Junior School for girls to transform the 1970s greenhouse into a specialised lab for teaching classes in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Neubau added an internal timber frame to form the main structure, with insulation and acoustic panels incorporated between the pillars and beams.

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Deezen

JANUARY 9, 2024

Peruvian architects Roman Bauer Arquitectos and ESArquitectura teamed up to design a cultural institution in Lima that includes a renovation and a new building with vernacular methods and pink accents. Concrete forms the base of the new building The second structure is new, tucked into the interior of the urban block.

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2024

Alabama forms the site for Fowl River Cabin "When looking at the site and analysing the client's goals for the project, we knew that the siting of the building and the way it interacted with the river and trees was going to be just as crucial as the design itself," the Tall Architects team told Dezeen. Contractor: C.

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Dwell

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Structural Engineer: Martin Wünsche Fire Safety Engineering: Pavla Tvrdá EPC: Tomáš Brückner Footprint: 1,560 square feet From the Architects: " The clients specified that the building program should include a home for a family of four and a separate unit for their grandparents.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Helsinki-based JKMM Architects used glulam and black spruce cladding to relate the Chappe Art House to surrounding timber structures in the coastal town of Tammisaari, Finland. It has a glued laminated (glulam) timber structure and was clad in black-stained spruce as a nod to the nearby timber buildings.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 18, 2022

London studio Crawshaw Architects has transformed a former cow shed in Dorset into a library and office , organised around a wooden, barrel-vaulted arcade that references the client's collection of books on classical Palladian architecture. This plan references classical architectural forms, which are the focus of many of the client's books.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

Jun Mitsui & Associates and Pelli Clarke & Partners have converted a grocery store into a sake brewery The site contains three buildings – the brewery, housed in the shell of a former Stop & Shop grocery store, a small rice polishing building and a wastewater treatment facility.

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2023

A pair of stone towers and a thatched -roof palapa are among the features at a nature retreat in southern Mexico designed by architects Mauricio Rocha and Gabriela Carrillo. Earthy hues are meant to engage the surrounding terrain Some platforms were left open as voids, while others has buildings placed atop them.

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aasarchitecture

JANUARY 22, 2023

Car-free + urban This building makes an important contribution to the future of a living and ecological city and also to the future of retailing – this is an urban IKEA with excellent connections to the public transport system and an inviting roof terrace – a good neighbour. This about 4.5-metre-deep, Source by querkraft.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Berlin studio Behles & Jochimsen Architekten has renovated and extended the Nuremberg Chamber of Commerce and Industry offices in Germany , adding sandstone-clad buildings that tie in with the area's historic architecture. The extensions are designed to align with the existing buildings. The atrium is lit by skylights.

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e-architect

MAY 25, 2023

Comprising a loosely-stacked series of individual homes, the design is open and porous, allowing light and air to permeate the entire building and creating plenty of open and green spaces for residents of all ages to enjoy and share. The design of the building targets LEED-Platinum certification.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Chinese studio FOG Architecture has turned a courtyard house in Beijing into a flagship store for fragrance brand ToSummer with exposed wooden roof trusses and columns. The studio exposed the wooden roof trusses and columns of the original building "We 'skimmed' the building to expose its 'skeleton'," said the studio.

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Deezen

JANUARY 21, 2024

Alongside the main worship space on the first floor, which is named the Sea Chapel, the building contains two smaller prayer spaces. It is illuminated by a skylight that projects from the southeastern side of the building. This rooftop space can be accessed independently of the building using an external spiral stair made of metal.

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Deezen

MARCH 2, 2023

US studio CLB Architects has designed a cedar-clad home and barn in Wyoming for clients who love horses and wanted to return their property to its historic roots as a working ranch. CLB Architects gave the home a long, low roof To design the project, the team drew upon the site's history as a working cattle ranch.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Photo is by Alan Tansey To create visual continuity, the team aligned the roof ridges of all six volumes. The roof planes vary, however, contributing to the home's sculptural look. Photo is by Alan Tansey Roofs and outer walls are clad in a grey rainscreen made of charred accoya wood.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Clair West at the edge of Corso Italia, the under-utilized building was in decline and disrepair from more than a decade of neglect before the studio began the process of transformation. Dubbeldam’s studio occupies the top floor of the building. © Dubbeldam Architecture + Design. © Dubbeldam Architecture + Design.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Composed of three distinct buildings – a main house, guesthouse and writer's studio – the project was designed for a California-based couple who manage an independent record label. Each building responds to its immediate setting. The other two buildings are tucked within the woods and feel more intimate.

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Deezen

APRIL 23, 2024

Timber flooring and furniture feature on the interior The cabin was constructed as a self-build project undertaken by Markos, along with help from prefabrication specialists at BlokBuild and Price & Myers. Other recently completed cabins include a cabin in Arizona clad with Corten steel and a beachside cabin with a slanted roof in Canada.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2023

The clients hired Texas-based Specht Architects to build a 2,000-square-foot (186-square metre) minimalist house with floor-to-ceiling glass walls that afforded views of the surrounding meadow and large old-growth trees. The axial approach includes replanted natural grasses The roof extends to create a 15-foot (4.5-metre)

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Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The columns were created using a technique in which concrete is poured into fabric formwork "The hay field is treated as if it were a carpet, draped over the volumes of the residence in a series of berms, allowing the entire building roof to be traversed from the exterior and contributing to the archaeological reading," said the team.

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2024

Hewitt created a residential tower in Seattle informed by a stack of magazines The 33-storey-high building consists of a glazed tower with four facades of angled planes that rises from a rectangular base clad in brick. Photo is by Tim Rice Photography Mechanical elements were encased in a two-level block on top of the building. "We

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2022

Like other parts of the city, the area is experiencing a lot of new development and building renovations. Local firm In Situ Studio was charged with designing a contemporary residence for a couple – the husband is an electrical engineer, and the wife is a German and history teacher. They opted to raze the old building and start anew.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 1, 2023

The City of Vilnius has issued the building permit for Business Stadium Central designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. m of landscaped terraces, roof gardens and plazas that open directly onto the public square designed by Martha Schwartz. m design also connects its two towers via a skybridge at level five.

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Deezen

JANUARY 28, 2024

Manna hotel is housed in a former sanatorium for tuberculosis patients The building sits within a fir forest on Mount Mainalo, the tallest peak in the mountainous region. When the sanatorium closed – made obsolete following the introduction of penicillin in 1938 – the building had been emptied to prevent looting.

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