Deezen

JANUARY 25, 2024

UK architecture studio DaeWha Kang Design has designed a pavilion and courtyard for The OWO hotel at the site of the former Old War Office in Whitehall, London. The pavilion is located in front of the 1906 Grade II*-listed building, designed by architect William Young, that was once used by the British government's military departments.

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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. Wutopia Lab focused on a former service yard and duty office at the site, transforming it into a multipurpose square with bold red concrete surfaces.

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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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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. The interiors of The Slab have been finished predominantly with dark wood, with custom pieces of furniture created to fit around the structure's slender concrete columns.

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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

JUNE 20, 2023

Shanghai-based studio Wutopia Lab has created Deep Time Palace, an underground museum in Changchun featuring a wavy concrete roof with eye-shaped openings. When envisioning the space, I aimed to utilize the underground structure as a starting point to convey the sense of 'depth'," Yu said.

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Deezen

MAY 31, 2023

A sweeping, grass-topped concrete roof creates an artificial hill to conceal the Gurdau Winery in the Czech Republic , which has been designed by local practice Aleš Fiala Studio. Where the sloping roof meets the ground, it blends with a series of winding concrete walls supporting planters around a paved patio.

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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.

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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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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. Elevated on parallel blockwork walls within a peaceful, wooded area, the home comprises a two-storey structure with a dramatic aperture in the roofline that forms a sheltered outdoor dining space.

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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

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. KPMB Architects developed the design in partnership with Architecture49 and Blackwell Structural Engineers.

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Deezen

MARCH 25, 2024

An inverted-pitch roof and angular brick cladding characterise the Butterfly House extension, which architecture studio The DHaus Company has added to a terraced home in north London. It is distinguished by its inverted-pitched roof, or butterfly roof, which references the surrounding 19th-century architecture and inspired the project's name.

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Deezen

JANUARY 31, 2024

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a mirrored cafe pavilion and courtyard at the site of The Old War Office in Whitehall, London. Designed by DaeWha Kang Design, the circular pavilion has a glass facade and mirrored stainless-steel roof panels. JZ agreed, calling it a "fantastic intervention". joked Noirmout.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

US architecture studio Schaum/Shieh has embedded a Virginia house with irregularly shaped volumes into the contours of a steep site. The house is organized along one long horizontal line The grey metal roof reflects the area's rolling hills. Our clients knew many hilly sites from growing up in the area and their time in Greece.

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Archinect

MARCH 23, 2023

The 35,000-square-foot distillery and adjacent 20,000-square-foot rick house structure dubbed ‘Meander’ will begin construction later this year at the Lanes Run Business Park located at the northeastern edge of the city, which is just 15 miles from the capital of Lexington. A single shingled roof of photovolt.

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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

MAY 23, 2023

Completed in January 2022, the airy, 2,000-square metre (21,500-square foot) facility reflects the products and services of the client, Quebec wood products manufacturer SmartMill , and has a structure made with glued-laminated ( glulam ) timber columns and floor plates.

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Architizer

AUGUST 9, 2023

While these patterns of circulation are usually reserved for inside a building or structure, they also extend to roofscapes. These “roof walks” are a response to unique environmental, social and urban conditions. Above the double height multi-media room, the roof structure touches down on the sunken garden.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Green Pavilion, a glass pavilion with a pyramidal roof, was designed by architect Odile Decq to evoke historic orangeries and installed in the Jardin des Tuileries as part of the Paris+ par Art Basel art fair. It has a pyramidal roof. The steel structure is left rough as it is.".

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Deezen

JULY 19, 2023

British studio Hopkins Architects has added an indoor tennis centre with an undulating timber-coated roof to the All England Lawn Tennis Club at Wimbledon , UK. It has an undulating timber-coated roof The building contains six indoor courts within a partially timber-clad structure punctuated by white, Y-shaped columns.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

US studio CLB Architects has created a retreat in rural Wyoming that has three wood-clad structures, with a creek running underneath the primary residence. Located on a 35-acre (14-hectare) property near the town of Wilson, the home was envisioned as a series of "tectonic structures" set within a diverse ecosystem.

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Deezen

MARCH 9, 2023

Read on for 11 upcoming buildings with mass-timber structures: Image by Negativ Eco Park, UK, by Zaha Hadid Architects Set to become the world's first timber football stadium, Eco Park by Zaha Hadid Architects will be built in England as the home of Forest Green Rovers football club.

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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. The shape of the gable, how it is detailed, and its style depends on the structural system used, which reflects regional aesthetics, climate and material availability.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Snøhetta also designed landscaped plazas and roof terraces for Airside, which sits above the Kai Tak MTR station in the district that formerly held Kai Tak, Hong Kong's international airport from 1925 to 1998. The project's design is informed by Hong Kong's legacy of textile manufacturing and draws on different aspects of tailoring.

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Deezen

JANUARY 8, 2022

Gort Scott's scheme focused on unifying these buildings and their relationship to the landscape, removing a small residential building at the centre of the site that diverted the riverside route and blocked views from the rest of the college. The project reconnects the college to its riverside site. Photo is by Jim Stephenson.

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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. It was criticised by preservationists due to its site, which is located by a protected waterfront.

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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. It sits on the site of Armstrong’s family summer home, Hoover Hall, which burned down in 2003. Views of the Connecticut coastline are foregrounded by 3.15

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Architizer

AUGUST 22, 2022

The nature-forward design of the restaurant takes a lot of inspiration from the site itself. The site’s northern edge is flanked by farmland and trees and the southern side is surrounded by water. The total height of the roof canopy is just below forty feet. These larger columns are combined with three slender columns.

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Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2023

Local practice Platform 5 Architects has completed NW10 House, a family home on an infill site in north London with exposed concrete interiors and a textured brick exterior. Centred around a skylit, concrete spiral stair, the home's spaces fan out to fill the triangular site, overlooking a paved terrace that wraps its eastern edge.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Raised above its sloping site on a concrete podium containing garage space, GRAAM Architecture 's design was informed by a desire to use materials and companies local to the area. Its wooden structure echoes the local resources of the Burgundy region, whose reputation for hardwood and softwood forests is well known," it continued.

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Deezen

JUNE 6, 2022

Francois Verhoeven Architects has completed a house in a Dutch village featuring a roof with three sloping sections that incorporate skylights , sedum and concealed solar panels. Villa K2 features a multi-pitched roof. Read: Villa SG21 is a monolithic blackened-wood house topped with a turfed roof.

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Deezen

MAY 10, 2022

New York office SO-IL and Parisian studio FREAKS have completed the renovation and extension of an 18th-century glass factory in France, adding a sweeping concrete plaza that unites a series of cultural spaces. SO-IL and FREAKS have extended a former glass factory in France. The team added a sweeping concrete plaza.

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Deezen

JUNE 3, 2022

Harding Huebner designed a house that sits on a sloped site in North Carolina. Designed by local firm Harding Huebner, the home sits on a sloped, forested site that overlooks the downtown district and the mountainous terrain. The home has two storeys and a low-lying, flat roof. The exterior is clad in garapa.

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2022

The site formerly held a run-down, 1940s dwelling that was owned by the clients. For the sloped site, the team conceived a 4,233-square-foot (393-square-metre) dwelling with facades clad in glazed brick and charred cypress. The upper level contains the main suite, an office and a roof terrace. Grey tiles feature in the bathroom.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A faceted roof on slender columns tops this home by Gluck+ in Los Angeles ' Hollywood Hills neighbourhood, covering the residence "like a parasol". Simply named California House, the single-family residence was completed by New York City firm Gluck+ on a "spectacular" steep site overlooking LA. Bedrooms are located on the lower level.

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