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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 house is for a landscape architect and his family, and the garden was a central focus from the beginning of the process.

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

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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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TAEP/AAP tops Kuwait burger restaurant with large stepped roof

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An oversized stepped roof that doubles as an "amphitheatre for the city" tops BBT Hilltop, a burger restaurant in Kuwait City designed by architecture studio TAEP/AAP. Above, the overhanging roof provides additional seating as well as a flexible events space that TAEP/AAP designed to be used for outdoor cinemas, parties and concerts.

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Timeless lines framing the landscape

Habitus Living

Simplicity – in the most complimentary sense – is the quality that carries all the way through from the clients’ brief to the finished object. The house is defined by its surrounding landscape, set as it is amidst four acres of land with a natural spring-fed dam acting as focal point.

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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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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.

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