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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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SMStudio includes pool with underwater windows in "bold" Vancouver house

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Gridded fibre-cement cladding and a swimming pool with underwater windows feature at the East Van Residence in Vancouver by Canadian firm SMStudio. The project's swimming pool features underwater windows The studio conceived a 251-square-metre, three-storey house that was designed to be a "bold yet friendly addition to the neighbourhood".

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Midcentury-Style Butterfly Roofs Top Off These Luxe Prefab Homes

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Welcome to Prefab Profiles , an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. Each project Stillwater has the pleasure of partaking in is special, since every project possesses its own unique attributes and design requirements, tailored to reflect the distinct vision of our clients.

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Villa KD45 is a concrete house in Delhi with a plant-covered roof

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Studio Symbiosis has completed a villa in Delhi, India , that rises up from its landscaped grounds, forming a terraced roof that is covered with plants to maximise the site's green area. A stepped walkway built into the ramp-like roof form leads up from the entrance to a shaded outdoor living space. It was constructed from concrete.

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Noe Valley by Faulkner Architects

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On the boards in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood is a new house for a three-peat client of Faulkner Architects. Four levels that include a shared garage, pool and garden along with roof top deck allow uncommon amenity for a city lot. An open plan builds spatial connection between the neighborhood and garden.

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Plastic Windows, Plywood, and Pluck Bring Together This $56K DIY Cabin in the Czech Republic

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The owners, a pair of architects, used the "least expensive materials possible" to build a rough-and-ready retreat near the mountains. The cabin is situated on the edge of the plot and the access road, where its gable smoothly transitions into the entrance gate and fence, which, like the facade of the house, is made of rough-cut roof battens.

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