Architizer

MAY 20, 2024

Utah is a land of striking contrasts and otherworldly landscapes, and its architectural identity is deeply rooted in the state’s history and culture. The 120-foot (35-meter) cantilevered roof to the west creates a covered exterior social space, shielding the west-facing glass façade from direct solar gain and glare.

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

The renovation included removing interior walls and flattening a gable roof "As architects, we must rethink the impact of replacing a piece where it can be re-functionalized. The team kept much of the bottom half of the house intact, removing interior walls and flattening its original gabled roof.

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Archinect

JANUARY 26, 2024

“The architects immersed the concrete and glass house in the landscape so that a series of green rooftop terraces gently step down from the street to the river below.” ” – Architectural Record The roof is the first thing you’ll see when arriving by the windy road from a cliff above.

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Dwell

MARCH 12, 2024

The desert city of Scottsdale, Arizona, is set within the sprawling Sonoran Desert and overlooked by the majestic McDowell Mountains, so it’s no surprise that this spectacular landscape plays a pivotal role in shaping much of the area’s architecture. The solution was found in the freestanding Bromic Eclipse Portable heater.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2023

Specht Architects has designed a symmetrical glass pavilion in The Berkshires in Massachusetts that was created as a residence and a place to showcase antiques. The axial approach includes replanted natural grasses The roof extends to create a 15-foot (4.5-metre) The photography is by Dror Baldinger.

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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. Concave wooden eaves designed to "evoke the highland terrain" extend beyond the glass facade to shelter an external terrace.

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Deezen

MARCH 8, 2024

Architecture studio SO-IL has unveiled designs for the Williams College Museum of Art in the Berkshires , which will be topped with a tent-like cross-laminated timber roof. The undulating cross-laminated timber roof will be laid atop these volumes, unifying them below. It is punctuated by glazed openings dispersed along its facade.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

An oversized stepped roof that doubles as an "amphitheatre for the city" tops BBT Hilltop, a burger restaurant in Kuwait City designed by architecture studio TAEP/AAP. Above, the overhanging roof provides additional seating as well as a flexible events space that TAEP/AAP designed to be used for outdoor cinemas, parties and concerts.

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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

AUGUST 15, 2023

Landscape studio James Corner Field Operations has created a roof garden with 23,000 plants and 55 trees on top of a Foster + Partners -designed residential building alongside Battersea Power Station in London. At night, residents can continue to enjoy the roof garden thanks to subtle lighting within the landscaping.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Indian studio 3dor Concepts has completed The Slab, a family home in Kerala that is protected from the elements by a facade of wooden louvres and a large concrete roof. Its previous residential projects include a house in Kerela sheltered by a large roof clad in locally-sourced tiles and House of Ayoob that is animated by curves.

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Deezen

JANUARY 12, 2024

Infrastructure consultants AECOM and Spanish architecture studio Luis Vidal + Architects have created a terminal for Boston 's Logan Airport capped by a long, bright-red roof. On the opposite side, where the gates are, the face of the structure is mostly glass. Its corners taper to sharp edges that "cut through the sky with precision".

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Deezen

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Lama is formed of a vertical staircase tower, offering views out over the Andes Mountains, while Rosa is a glass room set into a hillside beneath a horizontal concrete roof slab. Instead, the concrete roof slab is supported by four columns positioned in the middle of each wall.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Anji Culture and Art Center will be defined by a series of curving canopy roofs that were designed to look like scattered bamboo leaves. Its roofs were designed to look like scattered leaves The interior will be arranged beneath the overlapping metal roofs and organised around a central corridor that divides the main event spaces.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

After Junya Ishigami unveiled a kilometre-long art museum that emerges from an artificial lake , Dezeen rounds up 10 recent Chinese architecture projects that play with arresting landscapes. Japanese architect Ishigami said he wanted his project to address a tendency for buildings in China to be "closed off" from their environment.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Architecture studio Zeller & Moye has collaborated with artist Katie Paterson to create Mirage, a massive sculpture made from glass cylinders for technology company Apple 's campus in California. It is meant to be experiential Mirage derives its name from the effect that the glass gives off when hit by light.

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Deezen

MARCH 13, 2024

Vancouver studio Laura Killam Architecture has created a beachside cabin in British Columbia with a slanted roof that responds to the site's climate. The 650-square-foot (60-square metre) cabin is organised into two offset volumes that are connected by an interior passageway while a tilted, cedar-shingled roof covers the structure.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Local studio Hopson Rodstrom Design placed a sawtooth roof on top of this black-clad apartment building with an interior courtyard in southern California. Located in West Los Angeles on a busy thoroughfare, the project is called The Jagger – named after the massive sawtooth roof that tops it.

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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. The building is raised on a low-lying concrete step The red-mesh roof pitches towards the building edges and is designed to provide solar protection to clerestory windows along the facade.

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Deezen

MARCH 13, 2024

Pyramidal Corten steel roofs define a distillery designed by ODOS Architects on the outskirts of Monasterevin in rural County Kildare, Ireland. The buildings of the old Ballykelly mill now contain exhibition halls and flexible office space for the Church of Oak, and are topped with a new roof terrace.

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Archinect

MARCH 7, 2024

The centerpiece of the project is the prayer hall, whose crystalline glass roof creates ever-changing interior lighting conditions. During the day, as sunlight is filtered and diffused through the translucent glass, the serene prayer hall inspires users to physically and spiritually connect with both the sky above and the ground below.

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Architizer

MAY 22, 2024

But what about when the setting, the landscape onto and into which we build, is utilized as an integral part of the structure? They are a continuation of landscapes reimagined as materials. The post Sustainable Practice: 7 Legendary Designs Using the Landscape as an Architectural Material appeared first on Journal.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Architecture studio Edition Office has created a three-bedroom house with a cutout roof and fibre-cement cladding in Mossy Point, Australia. A solid balustrade lines the perimeter of the northern deck, establishing privacy for the interior, which features walls of floor-to-ceiling glass.

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Deezen

JUNE 5, 2023

Mexican studio Colectivo C733 has created a brick music school in Nacajuca, Mexico that includes two structures and a lofty, cantilevered roof made of coconut wood. The west end is transparent with rectangular glass panels shielded from the street by a porous brick screen, while the east end holds a service core.

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designboom

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

enclosed with full-height glass and an organic green roof, the guesthouse harmonizes with the tyrolean landscape. The post grassy and organic, this ‘freiform’ house is embedded into italy’s tyrolean landscape appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A spiralling cable-net roof modelled in the image of a Fibonacci sequence tops a new public greenhouse designed by Canadian studio KPMB Architects in Winnipeg. The centre's roof significantly impacted the design and takes the form of a Fibonacci spiral The building's unique roof was a crucial part of the design.

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The Spaces

MAY 30, 2023

Thomas Phifer drew on a long history of glass houses to inspire this Fishers Island home in New York, which disappears into the landscape while framing ocean views. Walls are scaled to hang a hefty art collection, with half-a-dozen skylights set into the 11-ft-high ceilings overhead.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Roofs are one of the most defining elements of architecture. As the most iconic roof form, the gable is the result of intersecting roof pitches. Looking closely at glass gabled roofs across diverse typologies, we’ve gathered a collection that showcases novel and iconic designs. Modern Countryside Villa.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The tower's rational form contains office, auditorium, and tenant amenity space, including the Doosan History Museum and a café that opens up to the landscaped roof terrace. Glass facades allow plentiful daylight into the interior space while limiting solar gain through vertical and horizontal exterior shading devices.

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Architizer

AUGUST 9, 2023

These “roof walks” are a response to unique environmental, social and urban conditions. Drawn from a diverse range of scales and programs, the following roof walks reimagine the roof plane in projects both large and small. Architecture and landscape come together three-dimensionally.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Hebra Arquitectos elevates a remote retreat on columns to minimize its impact on the surrounding landscape. First, the roof ridge was located in the center of the volume, to allow for the highest interior space. Secondly, the entire facade in this segment is made of glass, even above the sliding glass doors. Post it here.

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Habitus Living

AUGUST 13, 2023

Their brief was simple: to provide a contemporary and timeless four-bedroom home which champions the landscape, one that is as equally well suited to entertaining as their day-to-day rituals,” says Ed Davis, principal at Davis Architects. The post Timeless lines framing the landscape appeared first on Habitusliving.com.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Image credit: Atchain, courtesy of KPF Externally, the 635-foot-tall tapered tower is defined by a glass facade containing terraces on all office floors. Image credit: Atchain, courtesy of KPF At the base of the tower, a podium holds retail spaces, bicycle, and car parking, and a landscaped roof accessed by a restaurant.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Local studio Geddes Ulinskas Architects has completed an expansive home in Cow Hollow, San Francisco with indoor-outdoor spaces, a cast glass staircase and stone detailing. Geddes Ulinskas Architects added wood-wrapped roof eaves to the structure. Sliding glass doors continue throughout the home. "We

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Dwell

OCTOBER 24, 2022

All rooms overlook the open landscape to the west and have access to the large covered terrace. When the long row of glass doors is open, the small bedrooms and shower feel like alcoves along the covered terrace. "The The wooden structure of the roof forms a greenhouse on the first floor.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

By design, glass ceilings tend to attract attention to themselves. Their functional purposes are fairly limited, and their shortcomings can be sizable (depending on how good the glass is at insulating), but we keep building them because they’re just so appealing. Click here to sign up for our Jobs Newsletter. .

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Deezen

MAY 3, 2024

This week on Dezeen , American studio Manica Architecture revealed its design for a stadium for the Chicago Bears football team featuring a translucent roof and a glass-curtain wall at its entrance. The post This week Manica Architecture unveiled glass-fronted stadium for Chicago Bears appeared first on Dezeen.

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