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This Tehran office building features a sloped green roof and exterior structure

Avontuura

The volume of the building is drawn out of the ground, creates a visually beautiful skyline and harmony with the environment. The post This Tehran office building features a sloped green roof and exterior structure appeared first on Åvontuura.

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Pushing Boundaries: 11 Exteriors That Use Fabric For Protection, Shape, and Longevity

ArchDaily

These early portable structures were primarily supported by wooden frames and were used by various ancient civilizations, including the Bedouins in the Arabian Peninsula and the Native American tribes in North America. Read more »

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Hopson Rodstrom Design creates jagged-roof Los Angeles building with interior courtyard

Deezen

Local studio Hopson Rodstrom Design placed a sawtooth roof on top of this black-clad apartment building with an interior courtyard in southern California. Located in West Los Angeles on a busy thoroughfare, the project is called The Jagger – named after the massive sawtooth roof that tops it.

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Ten contemporary buildings that showcase the versatility of structural stone

Deezen

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. This week, Stone Age 2.0

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Lucas Museum of Narrative Art begins exterior finishes ahead of 2025 debut

Archinect

The finish line for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art may still be out on the horizon, but the exterior of the $1-billion project from Star Wars and Indiana Jones creator George Lucas is starting to take shape. We’re building an institution, a 200-plus-year proposition," Director Sandra Jackson-Dumont had said previously.

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Bridge Building: 7 Inhabitable Structures Spanning Spaces and Ideas

Architizer

They can be material structures that connect two (or more!) Beyond spanning from point A to B, architects are designing bridges as inhabitable structures to build connections between people and places. More than just a building, it fosters community engagement and connection, again, echoing the essence of a “bridge.”

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Henning Larsen’s ‘forest canopy-like’ World of Volvo opens in Sweden

Archinect

Housed under an expressive timber canopy, the 237,000-square-foot building will serve as an experience center for the car brand Volvo, designed around “Scandinavian values of freedom of movement, access to nature, and openness and inclusion.” Anchoring the structure is a 485,000-square-foot exhibition space.

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