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On Canada’s Sunshine Coast, a Radiant Green-Roofed Home Asks $1.75M

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This custom-designed modern home is sure to satisfy the most discerning buyers. Notable features include: vaulted ceilings, clerestory windows, a chef’s kitchen, and bright living space with spectacular water, mountain, and island views. The home has major curb appeal with its thriving green roof and bright-orange front door.

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House with pink windows by Objekt Architecten

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We were commissioned by our clients to transform an outdated Flemish 3-fronted house with traditional rear extension into a contemporary home with plenty of light. The new home had to feel especially spacious and, above all, take advantage of the view to the green area behind. During the renovation, the entire roof was renewed.

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Proctor & Shaw tops London home extension with serrated zinc roof

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Architecture studio Proctor & Shaw has topped a home extension with a steeply-angled roof clad with red pigmented zinc in East Dulwich, London. Home to a family of seven, Proctor & Shaw designed the project as an extension to an existing Edwardian house, extending the ground-floor kitchen and dining room.

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COA Arquitectura tops Mexico winery with sawtooth roof

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Mexican studio COA Arquitectura has enclosed a winery outside of Guadalajara with a corrugated steel sawtooth roof and rammed earth walls. The main building is divided into two volumes A sawtooth steel roof covers the length of the facilities, lying exposed and uncovered by the stone walls on its far side.

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Eight buildings with inverted-pitched roofs that resemble butterfly wings

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An angular English home extension and a timber-clad Guatemalan retreat feature in our roundup of buildings with butterfly roofs. Otherwise known as inverted-pitched roofs, the V-shaped structures take their name from the angled form of a butterfly's wings. Here are eight buildings with butterfly roofs from the Dezeen archive.

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StudioAC completes coastal Canadian home embedded into a steep ridge

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” The home, named Cherry Valley House, sits on a steep ridge that descends to the lakeshore. Large windows on the shore-facing facade frame views of the lake, while panoramic windows at ground level face an adjacent meadow. Above, large dormer windows bring additional natural light into the space.

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Angular clay-tile roof crowns Jakarta home by Ismail Solehudin Architecture

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Indonesian studio Ismail Solehudin Architecture has playfully adapted the forms and materials found in traditional Javanese homes for Distracted House, a family residence in Jakarta. To the west, a rectilinear block contains the home's bedrooms across two storeys. The photography is by Andhy Prayitno of Mario Wibowo Photography.

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