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Eco-Friendly Roofing Materials

Aric Gitomer Architect

Every homeowner must replace their roof shingles at some point. You must keep this in mind if you are building a new home. Roofs are the “guardians” of your home. Their primary job to withstand harsh weather makes it necessary for you to select a high-quality roof for your home. Solar Power Roof. Corrugated Roof.

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Klein Dytham Architecture wraps Karuizawa Commongrounds Bookstore with "flowing" steel roof

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Tokyo-based studio Klein Dytham Architecture has designed a bookstore wrapped with an undulating steel roof resembling "outstretched arms" in Nagano, Japan. It sits at the centre of a larger complex comprised of five neighbouring buildings that include a delicatessen, restaurant and pre-school.

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Odile Decq builds all-glass Maison de Verre for client with vision loss

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Architect Odile Decq has completed a house in France with walls of translucent glass, to create the optimal lighting conditions for a client with vision impairment. By contrast, this building is constructed from innovative double-glazed panels that provide greater sculptural opportunities and conceal the steel structural framework.

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Midcentury-Style Butterfly Roofs Top Off These Luxe Prefab Homes

Dwell

Welcome to Prefab Profiles , an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. Given that prefab construction can move at a pretty quick pace, attention to detail becomes all the more critical as a project progresses. Do you know a prefab brand that should be on our radar? Get in touch!

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Gabion Walls Made of Volcanic Rock Flank a Flat-Roofed Farmhouse in Australia

Dwell

We asked ourselves how our clients could live on this land in a modern but thoughtful way, what a modern farm and farmhouse should and could look like, and how we could integrate the building into a site that has been cleared of its bushland. The clients erected and filled the gabion walls themselves.

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This Landscape Architect Disguised His Backyard Addition in Sydney With a Green Roof

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The private spaces are stacked vertically in the original part of building while the new lower ground living space stretches out horizontally. The roof to the living space is densely planted and its concrete structure provides enough depth for the plants to thrive.

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Technology and Building: Human-Free Construction

Architizer

Architecture and construction go hand-in-hand. Designing and building profoundly shape how we live; the two disciplines are also tied to processes of imagination and bringing ideas to life — uniquely human endeavors. If such a thing exists, what exactly is human-free construction? Check out the full schedule !