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. The house is 1,700 square feet, and reaches into the landscape with a sheltering roof and screen walls to create usable outdoor spaces on all sides. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

JANUARY 30, 2024

California architecture studio Brooks + Scarpa has created a central structure for a sports complex in Florida with a sloped concrete shell designed to "make a spectacle of rainfall". The rain cascades from the roof into a rain garden where the water is infiltrated back into the aquifer." The photography is courtesy of Brooks + Scarpa.

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Dwell

JULY 20, 2022

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. Double-thick eight-inch concrete walls fitted with foam insulation extend up to the roof on the low side. Clerestory windows enclose the triangular space between the roof and concrete walls.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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. Meanwhile, the roof has integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) construction elements to generate renewable energy. Libraries are here to stay.”

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

Jun Mitsui & Associates and Pelli Clarke & Partners sought to marry elements of Japanese architecture with small-scale manufacturing and its location in upstate New York.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Chinese architecture studio MAD has rebuilt a historic station and created an underground terminal at the central train station in Jiaxing, China. A metal roof and glass facade contrast the brick station. Heritage consultant: Shanghai Shuishi Architectural Design & Planning Corp. Railway Siyuan Survey and Design Group Co.

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Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2024

French architecture practice TVK has completed a neighbourhood in Paris made up of limestone buildings surrounding a garden and designed as a sustainable development that aims to increase biodiversity. It topped the buildings with photovoltaic panels and green roofs to produce energy while also aiming to increase biodiversity.

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Architizer

MAY 11, 2022

Architizer chatted with Anjali Iyer, project manager and senior associate at Feldman Architecture to learn more about this project. © Feldman Architecture. © Feldman Architecture. © Feldman Architecture. © Feldman Architecture. © Feldman Architecture. © Feldman Architecture. Same with the wood decks.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 10, 2023

OOIIO Architecture completes a new singular residential project in Toledo, to build a spectacular house in the well-known neighbourhood of Valparaíso. An architectural and urban wonder that completely conditions the life of Toledo and the configuration of the city. Source by OOIIO Architecture.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Skylab Architecture has created a set of prefabricated A-frame cabins in Winter Park, Colorado that reinterpret traditional ski chalets with contemporary practices. The cabins were prefabricated and assembled on-site The steep black metal roofs give way to warm vertical cedar boards. The photography is by Stephan Werk and Kylie Fitts.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

US studio CCY Architects has clad a mountainside house in patinated copper panels and tilted the roof to adhere with the topography of its site in Colorado. Known as DNA Alpine, the 4,000-square foot (372-square metre) home was completed in 2022 and designed to "disappear into or somehow become" the 75-acre site in San Miguel County.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Local architecture studio Lemay aimed to rethink the relationship between "the built and the natural" in its revamp of Théâtre de Verdure, which consists of a stage on an island and a fan-shaped seating area. The architecture invites discovery, both inside and outside the site," the team said. The photography is by Adrien Williams.

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aasarchitecture

AUGUST 25, 2022

To commemorate the 60th anniversary of its founding and contribute to the community, Japanese civil engineering firm Qilu Construction recently invested around 250 million yen (approximately HK $ 14.5 The roof will be a covered observation space, where people can eat and drink outdoors while enjoying the view of the dunes.

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Deezen

APRIL 3, 2024

Phipps' visual exploration of modernism in Wales follows six other publications by the London-based artist capturing post-war architecture in Britain, including Brutal North and Brutal London. All of the images in the book are in black and white because that is the way I approach architectural photography," Phipps told Dezeen.

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Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2024

Dutch studio Kaan Architecten has added a visitor centre to the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, with a concrete form that references American memorial architecture. Supported by the internal concrete walls, this allows a small light gap to be created between the facade and the roof.

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Deezen

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 space is shaded by a large cantilevered roof that is designed to "hover weightlessly overhead while focusing views to nearby mountain ranges".

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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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aasarchitecture

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.

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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". Both buildings also have mass timber frames, wooden interior finishes and brick facades. The photography is by Michael Moran.

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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.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2023

Local studio Sparano + Mooney Architecture cantilevered two envelopes with blackened-cedar siding over a canyon outside of Salt Lake City , Utah. Sparano + Mooney Architecture constructed the three-bedroom, 3.5-bath The home is topped with a green roof. Project credits: Architect: Sparano + Mooney Architecture.

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Deezen

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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Deezen

JUNE 22, 2023

Called Sheerness Dockyard Church, the grade II*-listed building has been upgraded with a new roof and interior spaces designed by Hugh Broughton Architects to replace ones gutted by fire in 2001. This includes the church's parapets and its roof, which is animated by steel and timber flitch trusses. It features steel link bridges.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Bridges and terraces fill the interior space "The resulting formal and material qualities of these spaces take inspiration from the local vernacular architecture and the adjacent seaside cliffs, recalling the sedimentary sandstone in its curvilinear, polished concrete block walls," said the studio. The photography is by Patrick Price.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

LA architecture studio Gehry Partners has completed the extension of media company Warner Bros' headquarters in Burbank, which juxtaposes two distinctive facade styles. Warner Bros contracted international architecture studio NBBJ for the interior fit-outs. Photovoltaic panels are installed on the roof.

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Deezen

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 worked with global architecture studio Gensler on the interiors.

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Deezen

JULY 29, 2022

Placed parallel to this space, another tunnel-like form contains the guesthouse's kitchen and toilets, with the roofed area between acting as a seating area. A roof covers an area between the tunnel-like forms. The main archive space was placed in a 40-metre-long tunnel that has glass windows at each end.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

The JArzm house features a pink accessory dwelling unit The 3,725-square foot (346-square metre) residence is "intensely livable and playful, as well as architecturally inventive, open, and highly crafted" according to the architecture studio. The studio said that "functional domesticity" was a key requirement for the home.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Architecture studio Zeller & Moye has collaborated with artist Katie Paterson to create Mirage, a massive sculpture made from glass cylinders for technology company Apple 's campus in California. The sculpture was placed in an olive grove near the visitor's centre at Apple Park , the main campus for the company.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2022

Local firm GH3 was charged with designing a utilitarian building that would make an "urban, landscape and architectural statement". The plant features an angled roof. Project credits: Architecture and landscape architecture: GH3. Structural, mechanical, electrical, civil engineering: RV Anderson.

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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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Deezen

MAY 11, 2022

On the roof, the architects included planted areas and a space for the firefighters to enjoy the outdoors. The concrete building is fronted with terracotta tiles that recall the red colour typically used for fire engines. Project credits: Structural engineer: Thornton Tomasetti. Civil engineer: Langan , civil engineer.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Architecture studios Kuehn Malvezzi , Pelletier de Fontenay and Jodoin Lamarre Pratte Architectes have created an insect zoo and museum in a glazed sawtooth-roof building with interior spaces that emulate the experience of being a bug. The main component is a two-storey glass building with a rectangular plan and sawtooth roof.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The structure was built on the site of a former gas station Using references from the era, the structure features classic signage, an overhanging roof and divided metal windows. GO'C wanted to create a functional space that used as much of the 1930s-era gas station aesthetic as possible. Skylights were included in the gallery space.

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aasarchitecture

MARCH 5, 2024

Photo © Andrew Pogue The cantilevered and folded biophilic roof form inspired by Oregon’s canyons, and extensive curtainwall glazing, reflect the Port’s sloped and cantilevered headquarters building and ticket lobby entrance glazing, directly adjacent from the site. The entire south-facing roof of the concourse is solar ready.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Chicago architecture firm Studio Gang has expanded a California college through the addition of mass-timber structures that were informed by how fungi grow in the wild. 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.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 20, 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. Simple, modern furniture complements the architecture. © CLB Architects. © CLB Architects.

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