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nARCHITECTS tops New York nature centre with a mass-timber roof

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The project transformed 12 acres of concrete parking lot into a sustainable structure and resilient landscape with native plants. The design includes a sawtooth mass timber roof that references the adjacent ocean waves and terracotta-coloured flooring that nods to the former brick bathhouse. MEP engineer: FPM Group, Ltd.

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Villa K2 is a timber-clad house with a multi-pitched roof

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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. But looking at the wider area where this house is built the strictly controlled landscaping and city planning worked out very well.".

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Field Architecture clads flowing Sonoma house in copper

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California studio Field Architecture designed this Sonoma Valley house out of a trio of fanning copper-clad pavilions with butterfly roofs. Palo Alto-based Field Architecture designed the home around the presence and absence of water in the unique microclimate, with the project completed in 2021. the studio said. the studio said. "By

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SKY IS THE LIMIT

Landscape Architecture Magazine

FROM THE MARCH 2022 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. From the outset, the landscape elevated the street experience, and occupants in the office towers above benefited from building setbacks with exquisitely groomed terrace parterres overlooking Fifth Avenue. BY MARGARET SHAKESPEARE. Photo © Tishman Speyer.

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John Friedman and Alice Kimm include dining room crane in Los Angeles house

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John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (JFAK) completed the house – and 540-square foot (50-square metre) accessory dwelling unit (ADU) – in November 2021. The ground floor includes a multipurpose family room that leads out to the pool deck, which is set at the same height as the roof of the pink accessory dwelling unit (ADU).

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Tokyo Institute of Technology Hisao & Hiroko Taki Plaza by Kengo Kuma and Associates

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Above ground, the building takes on a lush mound-like form, seamlessly integrating with the surrounding landscape. Photo ©︎ Kawasumi-Kobayashi Kenji The “roof” which is composed of stepped greenery and bleachers, resonates with the green slanted wall of the adjacent library, collectively creating a green valley.

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Villa MKZ by Takeshi Hirobe Architects

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At our first client presentation, we proposed a plan comprised of interconnected triangles, but this design was not rigidly fixed; rather, our approach allowed for the forms to be adjusted by “pinching” the roof peaks as we developed a more detailed plan. Source by Takeshi Hirobe Architects.

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