Deezen

MARCH 23, 2024

An angular roof wrapped in translucent red-mesh panels crowns this Y-shaped pavilion in Sydney , designed by local studio Sam Crawford Architects. By utilising a sculptural Y-shaped layout, Sam Crawford Architects avoided creating a back to the building, ensuring a sense of openness from all directions.

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Deezen

MARCH 11, 2024

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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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. On the opposite side, where the gates are, the face of the structure is mostly glass. Its corners taper to sharp edges that "cut through the sky with precision".

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Deezen

MARCH 11, 2024

Chinese studio Wutopia Lab has used wave-shaped roofs of blue aluminium and translucent fabric to transform an industrial yard in Shanghai into a mixed-use cultural space. Read: Wutopia Lab wraps Shanghai Book City in perforated aluminium Inside, Wutopia Lab left the steel structure of the building exposed and painted it white.

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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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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Looklen Architects has created The Pomelo Amphawa Cafe It is the latest addition to The Pomelo Amphawa, a masterplan comprising five buildings intended to integrate with the greenery of the site in Amphawa. According to Looklen Architects , The Pomelo Amphawa Cafe building is also designed to explore the "relationship of geometries".

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

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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Deezen

MAY 3, 2024

This week on Dezeen , American studio Manica Architecture revealed its design for a stadium for the Chicago Bears football team featuring a translucent roof and a glass-curtain wall at its entrance. It was criticised by preservationists due to its site, which is located by a protected waterfront.

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Deezen

MAY 1, 2024

It's] a timeless intervention in an existing building that we will never tire of over time." A mezzanine with additional workspace sits above private meeting rooms Here, original wood and glass doors to the garden have been preserved, beyond which a series of new and existing paving stones provide access to the main studio.

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Archinect

JUNE 7, 2022

The eight-storey building at 550-558 Spencer Street in West Melbourne will cost $40m and has been designed by the architecture firm Kennon on behalf of Dr Bella Freeman. The first-of-its-kind structure for Australia will be covered by 1,182 solar panels with the equivalent thickness of a conventional glass façade.

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Local architecture studio Practice for Architecture and Urbanism has installed a glass office building with a vaulted roof inside the shell of the 19th-century Domino Sugar Refinery on the waterfront in Brooklyn. There was no building to adapt. According to the studio, the building also runs on all-electric power.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

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. The house has walls of translucent glass. This gives the building a graphic quality and allows it to stand out from its suburban surroundings.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2023

Specht Architects has designed a symmetrical glass pavilion in The Berkshires in Massachusetts that was created as a residence and a place to showcase antiques. The axial approach includes replanted natural grasses The roof extends to create a 15-foot (4.5-metre)

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Archinect

MARCH 1, 2022

San Francisco’s Millennium Tower is on the move once more, this time in an entirely different dimension as the 13-year-old building is sliding while it sinks and tilts. The reflection of a building and crane on Millennium Tower's (301 Mission Street) curtainwall glass. It’s doing it (again).

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Deezen

JANUARY 19, 2024

UK architecture studio Foster + Partners has completed an administration building in South Carolina with a winged roof that covers a skybridge. Located in Greenville, the Greenville County Administration Building contains offices and is part of a wider redevelopment of the county's central square by RocaPoint Partners.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Architecture studio Ingenhoven Architects has created a series of buildings topped with large, overhanging thatched roofs for the Lanserhof Sylt health resort on the Germany island of Sylt. Its building is topped with a thatch roof that measures 7,100 square metres – making it the largest in Europe.

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Architizer

JANUARY 22, 2024

If your brand is innovating in product design for architects, consider entering today: Enter the A+Product Awards It might be hard to believe in today’s see-through society, but glass was once a scarce resource used sparingly in architecture. In the early years, glass was a medium for divine storytelling. from 2021 to 2028.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Located along Battersea Power Station's pedestrianised high street, Foster + Partners designed the building and its interiors to function as flexible and adaptbale office space. "50 A glass-fronted entrance lobby on Electric Boulevard features touchdown workspaces and relaxed seating areas," Brooker said.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

A glazed skin hangs from a timber exoskeleton at this office building in France by French studio GRAAM Architecture, which has been shortlisted in the business building category of Dezeen Awards 2022. The Burgundy office building was designed by GRAAM Architecture. The building incorporates a timber exoskeleton.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Completed last year, the James A Volpe National Transportation Center brings all of the US Department of Transportation's (DOT) operations under one roof in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The studio opted for a vertical approach to the building, landing on a 13-storey building with a wide base and a set-back tower.

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Deezen

JANUARY 30, 2024

Brooks + Scarpa has created a concessions building for a sports complex in Florida The Field House consists of a glass building wrapped with a board-formed concrete shell, which forms a wrap-around porch with a yellow-painted metal lattice on the north elevation. The design is made of highly durable and cost-efficient materials."

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Each section has curved edges that wrap inwards where the two volumes meet, creating an opening that serves as the entrance to the building. The facades are made up of long bars of pigmented concrete – meant to reference the "domed roofs of the city's cathedrals and old colonial buildings covered with local tiles", the developer said.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Roofs are one of the most defining elements of architecture. As the most iconic roof form, the gable is the result of intersecting roof pitches. Looking closely at glass gabled roofs across diverse typologies, we’ve gathered a collection that showcases novel and iconic designs. Summerhouse Lagno?.

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The Architecture Designs

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

While traditional conservatories often feature glass roofs, tiled conservatory roofs are gaining popularity for their numerous benefits, including improved thermal efficiency, durability, and aesthetic appeal. Benefits of a Tiled Conservatory Roof: Enhanced Thermal Efficiency: source: norwichconservatoryroofs.co.uk

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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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Archinect

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

LACMA ’s Unframed blog recently profiled the work of contractor Clark Construction to build the concrete structure for the Peter Zumthor -designed $750 million new David Geffen Galleries extension. The building has no columns!," Chris Bell, the project executive for Clark Construction, shared with Unframed.

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Archinect

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

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

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The complex features two distinctive facades – glass intended to evoke the form of icebergs is interspersed with steel facades modelled on the art deco-style buildings of early Hollywood. Ah yes, the dystopian corporate hellscape building is finished," said Richard Nelson. "Do Do you like it, corporate overlords?" they asked.

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Deezen

MAY 17, 2024

Arkansas has claimed its first bikeable structure – a ramped office building in Bentonville designed by Michel Rojkind, Callaghan Horiuchi and Marlon Blackwell Architects. There is also a concrete parking garage The paved concrete pathway ramps approximately 1,900 feet (580 metres) back and forth across the building's eastern facade.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Chinese studio MUDA Architects has designed a lakeside bookshop in Chengdu featuring a roof that resembles an upturned book and windows that extend below the water level. The building has a curved roof. The building has a curved roof. Part of the building is submerged beneath water.

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Deezen

JUNE 6, 2022

Francois Verhoeven Architects has completed a house in a Dutch village featuring a roof with three sloping sections that incorporate skylights , sedum and concealed solar panels. Villa K2 features a multi-pitched roof. Read: Villa SG21 is a monolithic blackened-wood house topped with a turfed roof.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Green Pavilion, a glass pavilion with a pyramidal roof, was designed by architect Odile Decq to evoke historic orangeries and installed in the Jardin des Tuileries as part of the Paris+ par Art Basel art fair. It has a pyramidal roof. Read: Odile Decq builds all-glass Maison de Verre for client with vision loss.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

First, the roof ridge was located in the center of the volume, to allow for the highest interior space. Secondly, the entire facade in this segment is made of glass, even above the sliding glass doors. Hebra Arquitectos elevates a remote retreat on columns to minimize its impact on the surrounding landscape. Have one to share?

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Architizer

AUGUST 9, 2023

While these patterns of circulation are usually reserved for inside a building or structure, they also extend to roofscapes. These “roof walks” are a response to unique environmental, social and urban conditions. Understood as a series of moments, they are found the world-over, dynamic spaces discovered in sequence.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

By design, glass ceilings tend to attract attention to themselves. Their functional purposes are fairly limited, and their shortcomings can be sizable (depending on how good the glass is at insulating), but we keep building them because they’re just so appealing. Click here to sign up for our Jobs Newsletter. .

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