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OCTOBER 20, 2023

California studio Field Architecture designed this Sonoma Valley house out of a trio of fanning copper-clad pavilions with butterfly roofs. By surrendering the manmade environment to the same natural forces that shape the land, the house collaborates with the natural hydrological systems that nurture the landscape." the studio said. "By

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Seattle-based studio LMN Architects has created a university building in Santa Barbara, California , with two separate volumes connected by a series of walkways clad in perforated aluminium. It is the first new building on the campus in 50 years LMN Architects was founded in Seattle in 1979. The photography is by Patrick Price.

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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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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. The project consists of a main house, guest house and writer's studio The main house was "conceived as a geologic remnant in the landscape, located on the edge between field and forest".

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APRIL 18, 2024

Photo © Alan Brandt The 3,750-square-foot shed-roofed building, sited on the campus’ public threshold, puts science education on display. Low-flow plumbing fixtures and native landscaping minimize on-site water use. Native landscaping was salvaged and stored for re-planting upon completion of the building.

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JULY 31, 2022

US studio Desai Chia Architecture designed a highly sculptural, waterfront home wrapped in concrete and charred cypress that has vaulted roofs resembling wings. Roughly rectangular in plan, the dwelling has cutouts, cantilevers and multiple sloped roofs that combine in a sculptural way. Desai Chia created "winged" roofs for the house.

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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 photography is by Kevin Mak.

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JULY 20, 2022

The concrete-and-steel home by Faulkner Architects gives one family a refined escape in the mountains of Northern California. A thin steel shed roof pitches up to open the interior to the south sun and frame views to the ski runs on the mountain. Clerestory windows enclose the triangular space between the roof and concrete walls.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Its design is based on natural landscapes and prioritises helping visitors to connect to the outside, enticing them away from their screens. The columns flatten at their peaks to evoke a tree canopy One of the library's most notable details is its tall, slender columns that "mushroom into flat panels" at their peak to support the roof.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

The design marries Japanese architecture with the surrounding Hudson Valley "The main building has a porch space with long eaves that links with canopy-style roof design, which serves to accent the exterior," said Jun Mitsui & Associates. "We and the landscape as an intermediate area, but also gently welcomes visiting guests."

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A metal roof and glass facade contrast the brick station. Photo is by Aogvision These underground waiting halls havemetal roofs equipped with solar panels that power the station, contrasting the brick exterior of the old station front. Green outdoor space can be used for public events. Railway Siyuan Survey and Design Group Co.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

HGA has created a pair of mass-timber buildings at Bowdoin College in Maine While different in size and colour, the buildings have asymmetrical pitched roofs that "play off each other from different vantage points". Gibbons Hall holds a collection of Arctic objects The surrounding landscape was informed by Arctic topography.

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Deezen

APRIL 1, 2024

Leong Leong also added a second level above the kitchen that holds a dedicated playroom, topped with a roof deck that affords views of the skyline. Additionally, the team added a 24-kilowatt Tesla solar roof array that powers the home, bringing it to a net-zero energy structure. The photography is by Naho Kubota and Angela Hau.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Google has opened a building serving its North American operations in New York City that is housed in a 1930s rail terminal restored and adapted by architecture studios CookFox Architects and Gensler. CookFox Architects sliced through the historic building to expose aspects of its structure on the facade "The rail beds within St.

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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 photography is by Kevin Mak.

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Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2024

It topped the buildings with photovoltaic panels and green roofs to produce energy while also aiming to increase biodiversity. For the small amount of energy that will be consumed, the project plans to compensate for it by producing green energy via bio-solar roofs." The photography is by Julien Hourcade.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The stone-clad Connecticut retreat is surprisingly advanced with a steel frame, glass sliders, geothermal heating and cooling, and a motorized roof hatch to the deck. 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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MARCH 19, 2024

US architecture studio Cannon Design has referenced the local landscape and "prioritized inclusion", drawing on the Native American heritage of the site for its design of a university student centre in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The roof is designed to accommodate solar arrays in the future.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

The architects ended up conceiving a "theatrical destination integrated with nature". Framing the landscape of La Fontaine Park by opening onto it, the architecture of the theatre maximises views of both the stage and the surrounding green space," the team said. Facades are partly lined with light-grey metal poles.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Gehry Partners has created a building for Warner Bros in Burbank Second Century Burbank is divided into two large blocks connected by a two-storey volume that is topped by a landscaped courtyard. There are landscaped areas outside Beyond these references, the different facade types also indicate the interior programmes.

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Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2024

Kaan Architecten has created a visitor centre at the Netherlands American Cemetery In 2017, Kaan Architecten was commissioned by the American Battle Monuments Commission to add a visitor centre to the landscaped site, providing a small display space and an auditorium. The photography is by Simon Menges.

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JUNE 12, 2023

the complex consists of two semi-cylindrical, prefabricated steel warehouse buildings, notable for their arching roof forms and con-nected via an enclosed walkway. The interiors will feature an industrial aesthetic: exposed concrete floors, aluminum windows, and an exposed steel roof. Source by Skylab.

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Deezen

APRIL 6, 2023

Stirling Prize-winning studio Niall McLaughlin Architects has completed a seven-storey museum in Limerick, Ireland , with vaulted ceilings and walls designed to "reflect the forces found in rugby". The museum's highest point is 33.8 metre-tall tower set back from the street front by a portico.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

bath house out of two volumes with floor-to-ceiling glazed ends that float above the landscape. The north volume is oriented along a direct east-to-west axis and contains the private spaces, while the south volume, rotated 45 degrees along the canyon's axis, holds the public gathering spaces that overlook the landscape and city below.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

Architects John Friedman and Alice Kimm have stacked a concrete mass with sinuous cutouts into a hillside as a home for their family in Los Angeles , complete with a crane in the kitchen and an accessory dwelling unit. Nearby in Los Angeles, Anonymous Architects recently embedded a concrete house into a hillside with a two-storey pool.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Most of its campus was originally designed by American architects Charles Moore and William Turnbull in the early 1970s. The largest of these protrusions features a smaller lecture hall on the top level, with a roof that slopes up and out in a sizeable lip. Kresge College is a part of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

As such, the design of the center will unfold from the landscape—a welcome center not so much sitting on the land but embedded in it. A series of glass walls on the far side of the entryway will provide unobstructed views out—a mediating surface between building and landscape. Image © EskewDumezRipple. Source by EskewDumezRipple.

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Deezen

APRIL 3, 2024

Built between 1959 and 1963 according to plans by Basil Spence, Blocks A and B housed the Magnox reactors and were intended to reference the look and feel of medieval castles. "Remarkably, they do seem to sit as comfortably in the landscape as a nuclear reactor can.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

US studio Jensen Architects has created a tall hillside home featuring expansive views and an elevator that will enable the owners to stay in the home as they age. A code-required exit led the architects to design a bridge between the terrace and the garden. The landscape design was informed by Asian garden traditions.

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JUNE 16, 2022

The main volume of the 3,632-square-foot house is oriented along an east-west axis, which allows the living spaces to take full advantage of southern light, while its asymmetrically gabled roof orients the interiors toward the primary views. Source by CLB Architects. Civil Engineer: Agrostis, Inc. Photo © Matthew Millman.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

With a grass-topped, arched roof it was designed to be both contemporary and integrated into the landscape. The primary concept was driven by a desire to integrate building and landscape seamlessly in order to ensure that the new dwelling 'emerges' from the land and context," said David Kirkland, co-founder of Kirkland Fraser Moor. "The

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Seattle-based studio LMN Architects has completed the mass-timber Founders Hall building for the University of Washington's Foster School of Business in Seattle. LMN Architects designed Founders Hall for the University of Washington. Read: nARCHITECTS tops New York nature centre with a mass-timber roof. Project credits: .

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JUNE 23, 2023

Blacktown Animal Rehoming Centre (BARC), located adjacent to the Western Sydney Parklands, was designed by Sam Crawford Architects (SCA), and is the largest building of its type in the Southern Hemisphere, housing up to 380 dogs and cats. The landscape acts as bio-filtration at multiple points, promoting stormwater absorption across the site.

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MAY 15, 2023

An event pavilion and aerial tree walk are among the enhancements to Portland's Leach Botanical Garden, which is being upgraded by a team that includes US studios Land Morphology and Olson Kundig Architects. The pavilion, dubbed the Fireside Terrace, is an open, roofed structure with slatted wooden walls. Top: photo is by Aaron Leitz.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson used engineered timber and a cantilevered roof for Caymus-Suisun Winery to create a contemporary winery with a "new architectural language for the region". The tasting room – which totals 5,500 square feet (511 square metres) – is a glass pavilion looking out at the landscape. For a 29-acre (11.7-hectare)

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The spatial composition activates the existing park landscape by creating an unexpected social and contemplative gathering place for visitors and staff to relax, to lay down on the grass, to have a picnic or to play," said Zeller & Moye co-founder Ingrid Moye. Zeller & Moye has offices in Berlin and Mexico City.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Hennebery Eddy, in partnership with Fentress Architects, designed an extension of Concourse E and airline relocations to balance passenger and infrastructure demands on the north and south sides of the facility. Vast window walls provide views north to the airfield and landscape beyond, offering a sense of place.

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