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Foster + Partners begins construction on Cambodia airport under canopy roof

Archinect

The central mass contains all passenger processing, security and immigration, and retail elements under an overarching roof canopy that stretches from the drop-off to the airside. The roof canopy itself is comprised of a lightweight steel grid shell with a screen to filter daylight into the terminal space.

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Wave-shaped roofs top cultural space in Shanghai by Wutopia Lab

Deezen

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. A fully glazed wall with a wave-like pattern fronts this space, overlooking the red-coloured square onto which it opens through golden doors.

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4 Solutions for Roofs without Eaves (and their Construction Details)

ArchDaily

Image © Sergio Camplone In his Robie House , Frank Lloyd Wright created an ingenious arrangement of public and private spaces that slowly moving away from the street through a series of horizontal planes. Pronounced eaves made the interior space expand toward the outside. Read more »

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Eight home interiors where mezzanines maximise usable space

Deezen

For our latest lookbook , we've rounded up eight home interiors that make clever use of mezzanines to optimise floorspace. These raised floors offer additional room to host a variety of spaces – including bedrooms, home offices and reading spaces, to name a few.

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COA Arquitectura tops Mexico winery with sawtooth roof

Deezen

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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Britsom Philips reconfigures Belgian home with minimalist interiors and thatched roof

Deezen

Belgian studio Britsom Philips has completed Villa VD, a timber-clad extension to a small rural home in Flanders with minimalist, light-filled living spaces. Extending southwards, the longest portion of the building contains a large kitchen and dining space organised around a stone island and breakfast bar.

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Eight buildings with inverted-pitched roofs that resemble butterfly wings

Deezen

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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