Dwell

MAY 22, 2024

Nicola and Patrick had been dreaming of an extension for almost two decades—and 4 S Architecture managed to pack everything they wanted into a smaller footprint than they expected. The clients originally wanted teak cabinets, but 4 S Architecture suggested an alternative. "We The client was really pleased with the result."

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2023

Wood and cement wrap the exterior of a hillside, family home designed by California studio Feldman Architecture to feel like a "space of serenity". Wood elements were included inside "It was important for the clients that this roof deck was publicly accessible without compromising the privacy of their bedroom," the team said.

Architecture 122

Architecture Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering 122

Architizer

MAY 11, 2022

Atherton pavilions – The two pavilions nestled in this verdant landscape were a response to the clients’ vision for a deeper engagement with their lovely yard. Architizer chatted with Anjali Iyer, project manager and senior associate at Feldman Architecture to learn more about this project. © Feldman Architecture.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A sloping fibreglass roof and a glass facade characterise New York studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro 's first completed single-family residential project, which has been photographed officially for the first time by Iwan Baan. It is really surreal and magical in the whole; the whole roof just feels like it's floating."

Housing 139

Housing Consulting Roofing Engineering 139

Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

US studio Klopf Architecture has completed the Sonoma Hilltop New Residence, a horizontal house in wine country that takes cues from mid-century modern architecture and has dangling chains that collect rainwater. Rectangular in plan, the 4,068-square-foot (378-square-metre) house has a flat roof and low profile.

Housing 97

Housing Architecture Modern Structural Engineering 97

Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Mexican architecture studio RED Arquitectos has completed a cement -covered residence with screens made of stones used for preparing food on the coastline of Cerritos, Mexico. The client named the house Casa que Da (House that Gives) to reference the act of "giving" in a culinary context.

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

Local studio Oliver Leech Architects has extended a Victorian terrace house in south London, introducing a four-metre-wide skylight at its centre that offers views of a wildflower meadow roof. The extension features a window seat overlooking the rear courtyard Oliver Leech Architects was founded in 2016. The photography is by Jim Stephenson.

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Home Architect Structural Engineering Windows 109

aasarchitecture

APRIL 2, 2024

Conventionally, the program would generate a low volume with a protruding dome, but to utilize the unique dome to create a strong interior space as well as a telling exterior form, the dome is given a focal position under a free form timber structure. The gridshell structure is constructed from flat standard LVL panels.

Structural Engineering 69

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 17, 2024

Photo © Rasmus Hjortshõj Spanning 22,000 m², the main timber structure, made of glulam and cross-laminated timber, forms three striking tree-trunk-like columns, fanning out to carry the entire load of the roof – enveloping visitors in a welcoming forest-like canopy.

Structural Engineering 75

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Habitus Living

MARCH 10, 2024

The former accommodates the client’s need for a home suitable for hosting and conducive to the contemporary lifestyle of a family of four. WOWOWA collaborated with the clients to weave the stories and narratives that resonate with them into the fabric of their interiors. The latter is perhaps more aesthetically oriented.

Windows 97

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2022

Structural plywood was used to help reduce the carbon footprint of an Oregon office building designed by Lever Architecture for a nonprofit organisation. Local studio Lever Architecture designed the facility to embody the foundation's commitment to equity and sustainability. A jagged roof tops the project.

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Building Architecture Roofing Civil Engineering 100

Deezen

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Located an hour outside of central Tokyo, the home was designed by Architecture studio Tan Yamanouchi & AWGL's founder to be a comfortable space for his cats with an interior arrangement that takes cues from climbable, cat trees. The entire house is thus divided into fine stripes, between which our feline clients spend all day travelling."

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Housing Design Roofing Structural Engineering 142

Deezen

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Local architecture studio Partisans has completed a house with an undulating yellow brick facade designed to look pixelated in Toronto , Ontario. Inspired by the client's Larry Poons paintings, the bricks are choreographed to convey movement. The roof design accommodates a future green roof.

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Deezen

JANUARY 8, 2022

A cluster of wood-clad buildings surround a central courtyard at this Minnesota residence by US firm Salmela Architect that was designed for clients who formerly lived in Japan. The house rests on a fifty-acre (20-hectare) parcel, the majority of which the clients granted to the Minnesota Land Trust for permanent conservation.

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

Open-air bedrooms and terraces are raised above the treetops at this holiday home designed by Italian architecture studio PAT on Kenya 's Manda Island. PAT teamed up with fellow Italian architect Ferdinando Fagnola on the project, which involved renovating a 2oth-century "white house" and adding a series of elevated, pavilion-like structures.

Home 121

Home Renovation Structural Engineering Regulation 121

Deezen

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A cluster of wood-clad, gabled volumes form a sculptural home by architectural studio Young Projects that nods to historic Long Island architecture while reimagining the barn typology. Photo is by Alan Tansey To create visual continuity, the team aligned the roof ridges of all six volumes.

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Project Home Roofing Structural Engineering 122

aasarchitecture

JUNE 15, 2023

Photo © Koichi Torimura By necessity, the detached building housing a two-car garage and guest room is situated on the east side, where the elevation gap is smallest, but the client requested that the main house weave around the difficult site conditions. Source by Takeshi Hirobe Architects.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Steel canopies shade the spaces of the Kamwokya Community Centre in Kampala, Uganda , designed by Berlin studio Kéré Architecture. Kéré Architecture has created the Kamwokya Community Centre in Kampala. Read: Termite mounds inform Kéré Architecture's design of Kenyan education campus. The photography is by Kéré Architecture.

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Inspiration Architecture Foundation Structural Engineering 104

Deezen

MARCH 1, 2024

Alabama forms the site for Fowl River Cabin "When looking at the site and analysing the client's goals for the project, we knew that the siting of the building and the way it interacted with the river and trees was going to be just as crucial as the design itself," the Tall Architects team told Dezeen. The photography is by Andrew Welch.

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Architizer

JULY 28, 2022

The resulting soft and dusky palette sets the stage for numerous interventions, notably the lush, vegetal interior at the main lounge and lobby, and the south-facing new roof lounge and roof deck. Architizer chatted with Jean-Gabriel Neukomm, AIA, Principle at JG Neukomm Architecture to learn more about this project.

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Development Developer Architecture Transportation 75

Deezen

OCTOBER 18, 2022

London studio Crawshaw Architects has transformed a former cow shed in Dorset into a library and office , organised around a wooden, barrel-vaulted arcade that references the client's collection of books on classical Palladian architecture. Structural engineer: Hardman Structural Engineers.

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Architect Structural Engineering Clients Client 101

Deezen

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

In Finnish architecture there is a long tradition of people's houses or halls that have been important public meeting places particularly for village communities. It has a glued laminated (glulam) timber structure and was clad in black-stained spruce as a nod to the nearby timber buildings. The photography is by Tuomas Uusheimo.

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Art Architect Foundation Engineering 120

aasarchitecture

APRIL 26, 2024

BIG, together with executive architect BNIM and the University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design, unveil a new mass timber building for learning and collaboration, titled the “Makers’ KUbe.” The Makers’ KUbe is a 50,000-square-foot mass timber cube structure.

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Deezen

APRIL 23, 2024

"Drawing inspiration from the monocoque design of the world war two de Havilland Mosquito fighter planes, which stand out as prime examples of monocoque construction, the Monocoque Cabin seeks to bring this level of ingenuity and efficiency to architecture and domestic spaces." metres-wide, 3.5-metres-tall

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Technique Structural Engineering Structure Construction 105

aasarchitecture

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Photo © Kéré Architecture. These spaces are covered by two butterfly roofs raised by steel structures to allow for air flow, which give a strong identity to the site in its urban context. Source by Kéré Architecture. Photo © Kéré Architecture. Photo © Iwan Baan. Photo © Iwan Baan. Photo © Iwan Baan. Section.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Deep overhangs shade pavilions and walkways at a lush nature retreat in Costa Rica by architectural practice Studio Saxe. We designed a strategy of aggregation by creating a network of triangular pergolas that can grow or contract, depending on the necessity of the client throughout the project," the firm said. Builder: Cr-Eco.

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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. Partly because the client was a Japanese brewer who mainly makes sake, we also incorporated 'Japanese-ness' into the design."

Civil Engineering 112

Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering Windows 112

Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Portholes and semi-circular motifs characterise this colourful renovation and extension of a Victorian terrace house in Hackney, London , by architecture studio Gundry & Ducker. Project credits: Structural Engineer: Feres Ltd Contractor: Nika Projects The photography is by Jim Stephenson.

Housing 117

Housing Windows Renovation Client 117

Deezen

MARCH 2, 2023

US studio CLB Architects has designed a cedar-clad home and barn in Wyoming for clients who love horses and wanted to return their property to its historic roots as a working ranch. CLB Architects gave the home a long, low roof To design the project, the team drew upon the site's history as a working cattle ranch.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2023

The clients hired Texas-based Specht Architects to build a 2,000-square-foot (186-square metre) minimalist house with floor-to-ceiling glass walls that afforded views of the surrounding meadow and large old-growth trees. The axial approach includes replanted natural grasses The roof extends to create a 15-foot (4.5-metre)

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Glass Housing Architect Structural Engineering 142

Deezen

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The clients had few requests for their new home, specifically that it be environmentally progressive and offer a high level of flexibility while embracing the desert landscape," the studio noted. The shed roof – capped in standing seam metal – creates a series of narrow, slanted interior spaces. Contractor: Forest City Made.

Housing 145

Housing Exterior Roofing Landscape 145

aasarchitecture

JANUARY 22, 2023

Car-free + urban This building makes an important contribution to the future of a living and ecological city and also to the future of retailing – this is an urban IKEA with excellent connections to the public transport system and an inviting roof terrace – a good neighbour. Source by querkraft.

Cities 95

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aasarchitecture

MARCH 15, 2024

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) presents the Mobile World Capital Barcelona pavilion at the Mobile World Congress 2024. The structure has been manufactured by Tallfusta, using Kerto laminated wood and has a total height of six meters.

Technology 52

Technology Technology Manufacturing Structural Engineering 52

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. The site's central building is an open-sided, timber -framed structure with a thatched roof known as a palapa.

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Site Housing Structural Engineering Landscape 145

Deezen

JANUARY 9, 2024

A slanted pyramidal roof illuminates the research offices In addition to the reuse of local materials with a low environmental impact, the traditional construction technique recognises the area's heritage and responds to the climate and seismic activity of the Peruvian coast.

Technique 121

Technique Construction Construction Consulting 121

Dwell

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Project Details: Location: Melbourne, Australia Architect: MRTN Architects / @ mrtn_architects Footprint: 86 and 235 square feet Builder: Rod Greaves Structural Engineer: C. Couple Bought, and Then Built the Best ADU They Could The Green Roof ‘Planter’ Softens This Cor-Ten Steel Backyard House in Seattle

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Clients Client Structural Engineering Technique 86

Deezen

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

A thatched roof and large cardboard tubes form part of the structure of the Farmer's Restaurant on Awaji Island, designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban 's studio. Its architectural design pays homage to traditional Japanese farmhouses, most visibly in its large thatched roof.

Structural Engineering 98

Structural Engineering Roofing Structure Engineering 98