Archinect

JUNE 16, 2023

Zaha Hadid Architects has been revealed to lead the design of a new condominium project proposal at a site once occupied by the collapsed Champlain Towers South building in Surfside, Florida. Image courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects.

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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

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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Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

Located in Washington’s Kitsap Peninsula, the rambler-style home utilized the trees for the roof and a coffee table, too. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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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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Dwell

MARCH 21, 2023

Hé Architectuur redesigned an industrial building with plaster made of dirt, straw insulation sourced from hay bales, and plenty of exposed timber. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

APRIL 1, 2024

Located on the northern shore of Lake Constance in the Radolfzell district, the timber building contains sports courts and a stage for events, unified by a cantilevered roof overhead. Wood has always been a traditional building material in this region too. Wood has always been a traditional building material in this region too.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 31, 2022

A large steel-framed roof shelters the Misc restaurant in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta, which was designed by local studio Sam Crawford Architects to replace a cafe that was severely damaged by fire. An oversized roof shelters this restaurant pavilion in Sydney. It was designed by Sam Crawford Architects to replace a cafe.

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2023

A pair of stone towers and a thatched -roof palapa are among the features at a nature retreat in southern Mexico designed by architects Mauricio Rocha and Gabriela Carrillo. It sits at the edge of a nature preserve on Punta Cometa, or Comet Point, a peninsula that juts into the Pacific Ocean and was once the site of an Aztec fort.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Project Details: Location: Seattle, Washington Architect: E. The main floor of the detached building is a studio dwelling open to the surrounding yard space. Have one to share? Post it here.

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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. The standing-seam metal roof was painted in Boston Red, a shade of prismatic paint custom-developed for the project at Monopol Color Lab in Switzerland.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Architecture studio Proctor & Shaw has topped a home extension with a steeply-angled roof clad with red pigmented zinc in East Dulwich, London. Deep skylights punctured into the roof draw daylight into the space below, while sliding doors seamlessly connect the interior with an outdoor patio. The photography is by Nick Deardon.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

LMN Architects has completed an extensive renovation and expansion of the Buxton Center for Bainbridge Performing Arts on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Above, a wave-form roof and ceiling plane displays an exposed wood structure, tying the new program spaces together to give the building a clear identity.

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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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Roofing Landscape Glass Site 145

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. NW10 House was designed by Platform 5 Architects. Read: Platform 5 Architects completes shingle-clad home overlooking a private lagoon.

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Deezen

AUGUST 20, 2023

Undulating vaults shelter this multipurpose arts space in Ahmedabad , India, which local studio The Grid Architects designed to defy "conventional architectural norms". According to The Grid Architects , with an area of 279 square metres, it is one of the largest vaulted structures of its kind in India.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Beijing-based MAD Architects has referenced bamboo leaves for a sprawling, six-venue arts and cultural centre in Zhejiang Province in southeast China. 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.

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Architizer

JUNE 19, 2023

That is, moving away from the more human elements involved in their manufacture resulted in products that were standardized and more universally available, rendering their former manufacturing sites obsolete. Now, often decades after they were abandoned, some of these buildings are being given a second life.

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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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Deezen

MARCH 31, 2024

The 19th-century villas in the suburbs of Paris informed the arched windows and sloping roofs of this social housing block in France , completed by local studio SOA Architectes. Its design references 19th-century Parisian villas nearby SOA Architectes divided the apartments across three volumes.

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Deezen

AUGUST 25, 2023

An angular glasshouse for dining and food growth features at Steirereck am Pogusch, a restaurant that Viennese studio PPAG Architects has extended and renovated in Austria. Located on a forested site in the rural village of Pogusch, the glasshouse is intended as an eye-catching addition to the leading Viennese restaurant.

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Deezen

JUNE 4, 2023

An undulating green roof and timber cladding help this Suffolk house by MAP Architecture and Jon Broome Architects, which was designed to Passivhaus standards, blend into the surrounding wetland. An opening in the wall offers access to the garden, where a stepped patio leads to the house.

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Deezen

MARCH 29, 2024

Mumbai-based architecture studio Sanjay Puri Architects has designed a swirling community centre with a sloping green roof in Rajasthan, India. Between the museum and library, further multifunctional spaces curve through the building and flank the stepped amphitheatre and stage outside.

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Deezen

MAY 29, 2023

Chinese practice Wang Chong Studio used rustic stone walls and a sloping roof to help this art museum blend into its rocky site in China's Henan Province. Named Taihang Xinyu Art Museum, the museum is built around an old warehouse on the site, which backs onto Taihang Mountain and sits alongside the Cangxi River.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The project is formed of five interconnected glazed buildings in a stepped arrangement, with the lowest volumes located next to the Kai Tak river. It also features landscaped spaces Inside, the lower buildings house 60,000 square metres of retail space, while the tower holds 100,000 square metres of office space.

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Deezen

MAY 1, 2024

American studio Walker Warner Architects has completed Hale Kiawe, a family retreat with simple, gabled forms are set within an undulating landscape dotted with chunky lava rocks. Walker Warner Architects designed the retreat with simple, gabled forms For a 4.7 (1.9-hectare) The interior was designed by local firm Philpotts Interiors.

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Dwell

APRIL 21, 2023

The homeowners created the structures using stones collected on-site to connect their rural residence to the land. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A blocky form animated by hit-and-miss brickwork defines Peckham House, a self-build project by architecture studio Surman Weston that draws on its surroundings in southeast London. There is a greenhouse on the roof It was also critical that Peckham House felt "rooted in its context", Surman said. "We

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A public footpath running through the building links the green park on the north side to the Pingshan River on the south, while a large roof terrace mirroring the surrounding landscape provides a space for leisure and city views. The Administration and Maintenance buildings are LEED Silver certified. Spanning a 19.7-acre

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Deezen

APRIL 26, 2024

London studio Mae Architects has created Harriet Hardy House in Southwark, a block of 119 social homes complete with a community centre and cafe. A tower-like volume on the site's southeastern corner is topped with a rooftop terrace. Among its 119 homes are 54 extra care flats – a form of specialist housing for older residents.

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Architizer

AUGUST 9, 2023

Architects: Want to have your project featured? 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. Architecture shapes how we move through space.

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Deezen

APRIL 23, 2024

American firm Lake Flato Architects has completed a family retreat on Long Island that consists of three barn-like structures wrapped in cedar and constructed using prefabricated timber elements. The three buildings create a loosely defined central farm courtyard out of the soft, tree-covered sand dune," the team said.

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The Spaces

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Golden louvres cover the exterior of Prague’s newest building, designed as a testament to the capital’s ‘golden city of one hundred spires’ moniker. The Masaryčka building encompasses a new railway entrance, plaza, and set of retail spaces and offices, all built on a brownfield site in the city’s New Town.

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Dwell

JANUARY 5, 2024

Welcome to Prefab Profiles , an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. Stillwater homes are built by LEED-certified architects, and the company says it is committed to sustainable practices. Our pricing structure is also inclusive, covering various aspects of the home building process.

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Architonic

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Hadi Teherani Architects, an architectural bureau active on an international scale, has completed a new building complex that marks the cityscape of Freiburg im Breisgau and bears the name Volksbank-Areal. The architecture incorporates local references and transposes them into a contemporarily elegant design language.

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2023

Italian architecture studio Piuarch has completed a production factory for fashion brand Fendi in Florence , which features a green roof to "look like a raised garden". Located in the municipality of Bagno a Ripoli, Piuarch collaborated with landscape architect Antonio Perazzi to design a factory that would resemble its surroundings.

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Deezen

AUGUST 15, 2023

Salvaged brick and aluminium screens feature on the exterior of a round building designed by local studio John Ronan Architects to house the Chicago Park District Headquarters and a community field house. The two-storey building overlooks a 17-acre (6.9-hectare) The two-storey building overlooks a 17-acre (6.9-hectare)

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