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MARCH 20, 2024

Chinese architecture studio MAD has unveiled its design for the Lishui Airport in China , which will feature a swooping white roof informed by soaring birds. The planning and design try to respect the original site while ensuring accessibility, highlighting the characteristics of a mountain airport, and aiming to inspire tourism," said MAD.

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JANUARY 28, 2024

Northeast Pavilion is a permanent bamboo structure created by Mumbai studio AtArchitecture to showcase local craft and construction techniques from the northeast of India. Bamboo was also chosen as it is a traditional construction material in this region of India. This required 90 workers from around the region to travel to the site.

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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. On a secluded wooded site, the new structure grounds itself to the earth with its approach to material and form. "The Cedar milled on site was used to create the entry door, entry benches, and east privacy fence.

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2024

Construction is progressing on a mass-timber academic building with a stone facade designed by architecture firm Studio Gang for the University of Chicago campus in Paris. Construction has commenced on the University of Chicago centre in Paris. The centre will have a mass timber structure.

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Deezen

MAY 31, 2023

A sweeping, grass-topped concrete roof creates an artificial hill to conceal the Gurdau Winery in the Czech Republic , which has been designed by local practice Aleš Fiala Studio. Where the sloping roof meets the ground, it blends with a series of winding concrete walls supporting planters around a paved patio.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Cobb Architects / @ ecobbarch General Contractor: Dolan Construction Photographer: Jamie Leasure From the Architect: "A growing Seattle family needed guest space for visiting grandparents along with an office space to work from home. The main floor of the detached building is a studio dwelling open to the surrounding yard space.

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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. It sits at the edge of a nature preserve on Punta Cometa, or Comet Point, a peninsula that juts into the Pacific Ocean and was once the site of an Aztec fort.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

Peruvian architects Roman Bauer Arquitectos and ESArquitectura teamed up to design a cultural institution in Lima that includes a renovation and a new building with vernacular methods and pink accents. Concrete forms the base of the new building The second structure is new, tucked into the interior of the urban block.

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Deezen

JULY 27, 2023

Danish practice Henning Larsen Architects has unveiled its plans for a mass-timber university building on the Faroe Islands that draws on historic Faroese settlements and ancient North Atlantic island vernacular.

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Deezen

MAY 29, 2023

Chinese practice Wang Chong Studio used rustic stone walls and a sloping roof to help this art museum blend into its rocky site in China's Henan Province. Named Taihang Xinyu Art Museum, the museum is built around an old warehouse on the site, which backs onto Taihang Mountain and sits alongside the Cangxi River.

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Deezen

JANUARY 12, 2024

Infrastructure consultants AECOM and Spanish architecture studio Luis Vidal + Architects have created a terminal for Boston 's Logan Airport capped by a long, bright-red roof. The standing-seam metal roof was painted in Boston Red, a shade of prismatic paint custom-developed for the project at Monopol Color Lab in Switzerland.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Anji Culture and Art Center will be defined by a series of curving canopy roofs that were designed to look like scattered bamboo leaves. While the curving forms of the building largely reference the shape of leaves, it was also designed to echo the undulating terrain of the surrounding Anji tea-growing hills.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Satish Jassal Architects designed Haringey Brick Bungalow The 110-square-metre site and narrow passageway was "like building through a straw", dictating many design and construction decisions. Two green roofs top the building, characterised by their asymmetrical pyramid shapes topped with rooflights.

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Deezen

JUNE 4, 2023

An undulating green roof and timber cladding help this Suffolk house by MAP Architecture and Jon Broome Architects, which was designed to Passivhaus standards, blend into the surrounding wetland. The internal ceiling battens are made using an Ash facing piece with a softwood core to allow the battens to follow the roof curve," said Mawson.

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Archinect

JUNE 15, 2022

Construction of Studio Gang ’s planned Parcel F contribution to the Mission Rock development is officially underway in San Francisco, filling in the final puzzle piece of a 28-acre mixed-use scheme led by Tishman Speyer and the local Major League Baseball affiliate San Francisco Giants.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

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 !

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Dwell

APRIL 21, 2023

The homeowners created the structures using stones collected on-site to connect their rural residence to the land. The building also creates shelter for a small but stunning garden; this complex ecosystem sits in contrast to the rolling green pasture. "To Have one to share? Post it here.

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Dwell

JANUARY 5, 2024

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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Deezen

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The project is formed of five interconnected glazed buildings in a stepped arrangement, with the lowest volumes located next to the Kai Tak river. It also features landscaped spaces Inside, the lower buildings house 60,000 square metres of retail space, while the tower holds 100,000 square metres of office space.

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2024

Students from London's Architectural Association have used timber battens and foraged waste wood to build a demountable forest pavilion called Field Station. The students constructed Field Station as part of the Architectural Association's Design + Make Programme, which also saw the construction of Sawmill Shelter in 2017.

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Deezen

APRIL 3, 2024

A crematorium clad in ribbed concrete and a geometric university bell tower feature in this roundup of 10 brutalist buildings photographed by Simon Phipps for his Brutal Wales book. I'm interested in the sculptural qualities of each building and the ways in which light and shade articulate them," he continued.

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2023

Italian architecture studio Piuarch has completed a production factory for fashion brand Fendi in Florence , which features a green roof to "look like a raised garden". The green roof was designed to blend into the landscape. A courtyard at the centre of the building lets light into the interior.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Local architecture firm In Situ Studio wrapped an art museum visitor centre in Raleigh, North Carolina with darkened steel and cantilevered a roof with an aperture over its patio. In Situ Studio designed the 1,158-square foot (108-square metre) welcome building for the large park that surrounds the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA).

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MAY 2, 2024

Architecture studio Elding Oscarson has extended the National Swedish Museum of Technology with Wisdome Stockholm, a timber building topped by a curving roof that bulges over a dome inside. Topping the rectangular building is an asymmetrical roof that bulges and curves over the visualisation dome inside.

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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. Located on a triangular site in Paris's 19th arrondissement, the project is "the capital's first zero-carbon district", according to TVK.

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Archinect

APRIL 16, 2024

ODA-Architecture has revealed plans for a new residential project under construction in Brooklyn that will deliver 336 units of studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments.

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Deezen

AUGUST 23, 2023

Belgian studio Notan Office has completed Duchesse, a series of homes positioned around a communal garden on an old industrial site in Brussels. Duchesse's design also aims to preserve the site's historic significance by retaining existing elements while revamping others with new tiled volumes.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

Design studio HGA has completed a pair of educational facilities , Mills Hall and Gibbons Center, that are among the first "commercially scaled mass-timber buildings" in the state of Maine. Both buildings also have mass timber frames, wooden interior finishes and brick facades.

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APRIL 24, 2023

With water on three sides, the site is rich in natural beauty and ecological diversity. The design team aimed to draw the most possible natural scenery into the building, while at the same time grasping the delicate balance between landscape and architecture. The end result is an ecologically friendly and well-built wetland cabin.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

With the right shapes, he argues, we could create high-rise buildings with far less concrete and, in many cases, almost no steel reinforcements whatsoever. Reducing the amount of concrete used in construction would have a major impact on climate change. Photo by J. Kurt Schmidt. Used with permission from Block Research Group.

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MARCH 7, 2024

The Ismaili Centre uniquely responds to established Islamic building traditions, while incorporating contemporary architectural form, materiality, and construction methods. The centerpiece of the project is the prayer hall, whose crystalline glass roof creates ever-changing interior lighting conditions. Set within a 6.8

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

series, we've collected 10 recently completed and upcoming buildings that show the potential of structural stone as a modern construction material. has explored the viability of stone as a modern, low-carbon building material that could help the construction industry minimise its vast carbon footprint.

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DECEMBER 24, 2022

Architecture studio Dallas Pierce Quintero has completed a cluster of houses in London with sawtooth roofs and corrugated-metal cladding that nod to the site's former use as a builders' yard. The Forest Houses have sawtooth roofs and corrugated-metal cladding. Their design references the site's former use as a builders' yard.

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APRIL 18, 2024

Building or renovating a home is an exciting yet challenging endeavor. This comprehensive guide explores the intricate process of home, floor, and basement construction, offering insights, tips, and recommendations to help you navigate this complex journey successfully. This includes installing siding, roofing, windows, and doors.

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Deezen

MAY 4, 2023

A curved roof tops Byró Architekti's Cabin Above the Town, a red timber-clad cabin informed by the surrounding Czech hills. Situated on the border between the city and the countryside, the cabin is nestled into the side of Svatobor Hill, a forested site in the foothills of the Czech Republic's Šumava mountains.

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MARCH 7, 2023

An oversized roof lined with terracotta tiles shelters this home in the centre of a walled garden in Quang Yen, Vietnam , designed by local studios Ra.atelier and Ngo + Pasierbinski. Completed for a family that has owned the garden for generations, House in Quang Yen transforms the site into a space suitable for large gatherings and sleeping.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

The project is formed of five interconnected glazed buildings in a stepped arrangement, with the lowest volumes located next to the Kai Tak river. It also features landscaped spaces Inside, the lower buildings house 60,000 square metres of retail space, while the tower holds 100,000 square metres of office space.

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