Deezen

MARCH 23, 2024

An angular roof wrapped in translucent red-mesh panels crowns this Y-shaped pavilion in Sydney , designed by local studio Sam Crawford Architects. By utilising a sculptural Y-shaped layout, Sam Crawford Architects avoided creating a back to the building, ensuring a sense of openness from all directions.

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Deezen

MARCH 11, 2024

Chinese studio Wutopia Lab has used wave-shaped roofs of blue aluminium and translucent fabric to transform an industrial yard in Shanghai into a mixed-use cultural space. Read: Wutopia Lab wraps Shanghai Book City in perforated aluminium Inside, Wutopia Lab left the steel structure of the building exposed and painted it white.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Architecture studio Ingenhoven Architects has created a series of buildings topped with large, overhanging thatched roofs for the Lanserhof Sylt health resort on the Germany island of Sylt. Its building is topped with a thatch roof that measures 7,100 square metres – making it the largest in Europe.

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Deezen

MARCH 11, 2024

Tokyo-based studio Klein Dytham Architecture has designed a bookstore wrapped with an undulating steel roof resembling "outstretched arms" in Nagano, Japan. It sits at the centre of a larger complex comprised of five neighbouring buildings that include a delicatessen, restaurant and pre-school.

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Deezen

JULY 13, 2022

Designed for a young family with two children, the dwelling sits on a narrow plot bordered by residential buildings and roads in the city's Aichi Prefecture. Tokyo-based Nori Architects responded with a compact two-storey home characterised by its exposed timber structure and simple interior and exterior finishes.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

Design studio HGA has completed a pair of educational facilities , Mills Hall and Gibbons Center, that are among the first "commercially scaled mass-timber buildings" in the state of Maine. Both buildings also have mass timber frames, wooden interior finishes and brick facades.

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Deezen

MARCH 22, 2022

Kite-like canopies and geometric roofs shelter the spaces of this factory by Studio Saar , which sits atop a seasonal lake in Sanand, India. Four individual buildings housing an entrance area, utility bay, factory hall and canteen space set in a natural landscape comprise the development.

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Dwell

JANUARY 5, 2024

Welcome to Prefab Profiles , an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. The cost to build a Stillwater home varies significantly depending on factors such as geographic location, site conditions, and client-specific requirements. Stillwater homes emphasize indoor/outdoor living with walls of windows.

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Deezen

APRIL 17, 2023

Brooklyn-based studio Worrell Yeung has updated a historic property in New York with a series of gabled buildings clad in various timber finishes and details. The studio gutted and expanded the 4,650-square-foot (430-square metre) rectangular home into an L-shaped plan with overlapping roofs.

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Dwell

APRIL 25, 2023

The owners, a pair of architects, used the "least expensive materials possible" to build a rough-and-ready retreat near the mountains. The cabin is situated on the edge of the plot and the access road, where its gable smoothly transitions into the entrance gate and fence, which, like the facade of the house, is made of rough-cut roof battens.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2023

Architecture practice Studio Zhu-Pei drew on traditional Chinese architecture to create the sweeping concrete roofs and stone walls of the Zibo OCT Art Centre in the eastern province of Shandong. In between these blocks, a number of alleyway-like spaces between the high masonry walls are sheltered by the oversized eaves of the concrete roofs.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2022

Designed for a family local to the area, the three-storey 100JOA home occupies a tight row-house site, with a small walled garden at its rear surrounded by neighbouring buildings. We envision the courtyard as another room in the house, without a roof," it added. Vallribera Arquitectes has created a three-storey row house in Barcelona.

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Dwell

APRIL 4, 2023

At the front of the properties, two sheds connected by a roof also connect to the house on either side, forming a square around this central courtyard. The materials were also chosen to be recessive, including a dull silver roof, black sheets, and ironbark timber. To the east is the main bedroom, en suite, and walk-in wardrobe.

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Dwell

JANUARY 23, 2023

Design studio Mast also inserted windows into its original brick facade and attached a glass-wrapped extension that opens onto a sunken patio. A pigsty and multiple sheds had been attached onto the back of the house and the roof had partially collapsed. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

MAY 10, 2024

The two additions feature matching terracotta tile cladding, angular forms and large windows. All of the new rooms feature windows that stretch to the ceiling and opportunities have been found to bring greenery and planting right up to the interior spaces."

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Deezen

APRIL 14, 2022

The form of the structure mimics the typical profile of a detached home – a largely rectangular form with a pitched roof. The exterior walls, roof and windows of Red Cave feature a completely flush finish that allows all of these surfaces to merge into one. Large windows and skylights funnel light into the interior.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

A greenhouse window can serve as the individual home for your plants. Let’s explore first the definition of a greenhouse window. Afterward, we will jump into the discussion regarding the old window greenhouse. What are Greenhouse Windows? These windows angle outward from the house at a 90-degree angle.

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Deezen

MAY 14, 2024

Collective Works has expanded the home, which it said was previously "run down", with two adjoining pitched-roof volumes at the rear and a full dormer to expand its loft. It is topped by skylights in its wood-lined pitched ceilings and overlooks the garden from a large window box with a seat.

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Deezen

APRIL 27, 2023

House by the Sea belongs to an artist and a surfer, who told Of Architecture that they wanted a home without extravagant finishes, instead preferring a living space that appears "simple, robust and utilitarian". The post Of Architecture builds beachside home for surfer-and-artist couple in Cornwall appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

MARCH 17, 2022

A hipped roof covered in stepped tiles tops this extension to a home on a suburban estate in Epsom, Surrey , designed by London-based studio Oliver Leech Architects. spoke to every tile company in England to find something bespoke, and ended up looking to the Danish company Petersen for the grey roof tiles," he continued.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Gehry Partners has created a building for Warner Bros in Burbank Second Century Burbank is divided into two large blocks connected by a two-storey volume that is topped by a landscaped courtyard. These are used across the building's highway-facing elevations and have an "icy white appearance" intended to evoke the form of icebergs.

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Architizer

MAY 20, 2024

Utah’s native tribes, including the Navajo, Ute and Paiute, have long inhabited the region, leaving behind a legacy of buildings that reflects their close relationship with the land. This LEED Gold building celebrates natural light with a sky-lit atrium and a sculptural glass art installation by James Carpenter.

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Deezen

JULY 31, 2022

US studio Desai Chia Architecture designed a highly sculptural, waterfront home wrapped in concrete and charred cypress that has vaulted roofs resembling wings. Built as a second home for a family of four, the building sits on a ribbon of land between a golf course and Copake Lake in Upstate New York. Windows provide framed views.

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Dwell

MAY 10, 2023

A soaring roof in exposed Monterey cypress and wood floors in a matching hue emphasize a view of the seaside setting. As well as the living pavilion, there is a two-story sleeping pavilion at the back of the site with a roof terrace capturing the evening sun. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Design and build studio Localworks has created the Mustardseed Junior School in Uganda with organically shaped classrooms built from natural and locally sourced materials. The 1,146-square-metre building, located in the town of Sentema, is used as both a kindergarten and primary school for local children.

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Deezen

APRIL 17, 2022

WeStudio and Made chose to preserve some of the original building's stone walls but designed the replacement house so that its living areas look onto the private garden instead. It follows the line of the existing stone wall facing the street but its gabled roof projects up above it, maintaining a consistent height along its length.

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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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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Chinese practice Arch Studio has renovated and extended a courtyard home called Mixed House on the outskirts of Beijing , China, by inserting a timber structure topped by a wavy roof. Topped with a wave-like roof and filled with new living areas, this wooden volume also splits the existing courtyard into a series of smaller external spaces.

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Deezen

APRIL 13, 2024

Located on a triangular plot to the south of the city, the building provides 72 apartments across seven storeys and is clad with vertical panels of terracotta-coloured glass-reinforced concrete. Two large cuts divide the housing into three smaller, "porous" blocks with planted pathways in between. The photography is by Adrià Goula.

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Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2022

The building's angular design responds to an unusually shaped site slotted between two other suburban homes, which narrows significantly at one end due to the curve of the adjacent street. A detail-free facade helps to further disguise the building's scale. Trees are set into small courtyards within the building.

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Deezen

APRIL 23, 2024

"The North Fork is a place of simple barns, farms and quaint harbors, and it is from there that we drew our inspiration for the buildings of the house," said Texas-based Lake Flato Architects , the founders of which recently received the AIA Gold Medal. During the summer, windows can be opened up to bring in cool breezes from the bay.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

This provides a smooth and even finish, emphasising the linearity of the various ground-floor window bays. A spiral staircase leads up to the first-floor roof terrace Sketch Design Studio founder Shipra Singhania designed Stone House for a couple whom she said "have long been our neighbours and cherished family friends".

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Deezen

MAY 19, 2023

Spanish practice Arquitecturia has completed a home in the Catalan town of Caldes de Malavella, which is comprised of six small buildings organised around a courtyard at its centre. Each of the home's blocks is topped by an angular butterfly roof finished with green ceramic tiles, designed to channel rainwater down into the central garden.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Here he picks 10 buildings that are "givers rather than takers". In his book named Humanise , along with the Radio 4 series and recently launched initiative , Heatherwick takes aim at boring buildings. Thomas Heatherwick is campaigning to end boring buildings. There's no reason not to build them anywhere.

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Deezen

AUGUST 17, 2022

Iridescent aluminium sheets clad the rhomboid-shaped D2 building, a creative workplace by Cambridge studio Mole Architects that forms the latest addition to London's Design District. Headed by architect Meredith Bowles, Mole Architects previously completed a larger building called C2 that opens onto the district's central courtyard.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Mighty Buildings has delivered what it claims is the world's first 3D-printed zero-net home as part of a 40-unit community in Desert Hot Springs that explores environmental and economic development strategies. Mighty Buildings designed the home in California. "We Read: ICON and Lake Flato build 3D-printed House Zero in Austin.

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Deezen

APRIL 16, 2024

Traditional materials and building techniques "celebrate the essence" of south Indian architecture at Telugu Medium, a restaurant in Hyderabad by local practice Sona Reddy Studio. These finishes are combined with minimal furniture made of dark wood, chosen by the studio to be "timeless, simple, and evocative".

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