Archinect

JANUARY 12, 2023

Mecanoo has designed a distinctive residence with a striking double-curved roof and ceramic tile-covered façade in Schoorl, a village in northern Holland. Called Villa BW, it spans three floors, with an additional level within the hood of the roof. Image: Ossip van Duivenbode, courtesy Mecanoo.

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Deezen

APRIL 22, 2024

The structure will serve as an educational building for the University of Kansas ( KU ) School of Architecture & Design in Lawrence, Kansas. It will have an all wood structure It will have chamfered edges on all of the corners, creating entrance canopies on the ground floor and terraces up top.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The firm’s second foray into the country, open-air Tainan Market features a publicly-accessible green roof, punctuated at one end by an office structure, that can be further adapted for agricultural use while providing users a stepped vista onto the market floor and surrounding landscape beyond.

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Deezen

APRIL 6, 2024

Built as a prototype for the studio's Sprout concept, the Netherlands home was designed to feature as many bio-based materials as possible, including a wooden frame structure and hemp insulation. For this prototype, which is located in Olst, Woonpioniers created a small house comprising a two-storey volume topped with a mono-pitched roof.

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Aric Gitomer Architect

JULY 12, 2022

Every homeowner must replace their roof shingles at some point. You must keep this in mind if you are building a new home. Roofs are the “guardians” of your home. Their primary job to withstand harsh weather makes it necessary for you to select a high-quality roof for your home. Solar Power Roof. Corrugated Roof.

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ArchDaily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Image Courtesy of Euramax Building envelopes create a physical boundary or shell integrated to the outer skin of a structure, separating indoor and outdoor environments. Through multiple styles and shapes, they are key to giving character to a building, its visual appearance and integration with the surrounding environment.

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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Image Cortesia de BDG Architects Zwolle Greenhouses are elegant and ingenious structures that incorporate simplicity in design while creating light-filled spaces that shape indoor climates. With walls and roofs composed mainly of transparent or translucent materials, these structures harness solar energy to create a controlled environment.

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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 9, 2023

A stadium by Zaha Hadid Architects and housing by Adjaye Associates feature in this roundup of upcoming wooden buildings , curated as part of our Timber Revolution series. Also featured on the list are towers, university buildings and an airport terminal, illustrating mass timber 's potential for use in a variety of architectural projects.

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Deezen

MARCH 8, 2024

Architecture studio SO-IL has unveiled designs for the Williams College Museum of Art in the Berkshires , which will be topped with a tent-like cross-laminated timber roof. The undulating cross-laminated timber roof will be laid atop these volumes, unifying them below. It is punctuated by glazed openings dispersed along its facade.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Local studio Medprostor has covered and partially repaired a 900-year-old Romanesque church in Slovenia , placing an operable roof on top of the open structure to create a space "between a ruin and a reconstruction". The post Medprostor tops 12th-century church in Slovenia with folding roof appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

APRIL 1, 2024

Located on the northern shore of Lake Constance in the Radolfzell district, the timber building contains sports courts and a stage for events, unified by a cantilevered roof overhead. Wood has always been a traditional building material in this region too. The photography is by Brigida González.

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Archinect

MARCH 13, 2024

A new home design that stands as North America’s first three-story 3D printed structure has been completed in Canada using a special printer from the Danish construction technology firm COBOD. The 4,500-square-foot townhouse also includes the world's first 3D printed basement.

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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

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

JANUARY 26, 2024

British architecture practice Studio Bark has worked with students from the University of East London to devise a roof-supporting column with otherwise unusable timber at a site within ancient English woodland. We were there in midsummer. The spindle shape — fatter in the middle, thinner in the ends — is also useful.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Architecture studio Proctor & Shaw has topped a home extension with a steeply-angled roof clad with red pigmented zinc in East Dulwich, London. Deep skylights punctured into the roof draw daylight into the space below, while sliding doors seamlessly connect the interior with an outdoor patio.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Located at the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas in California, the Mountain House sits as a “meticulously designed and thoughtfully crafted residential structure” in sixty acres of forest, according to the property’s realtors, Sotheby's.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 18, 2023

From factories and warehouses to shop fronts and underpasses, Hicks explores the structures that make up the post-industrial landscape of the West Midlands region known as the Black Country. Letterforms have the ability to locate a building in a certain time period". The vivid colours in the images are all as they appear.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

US studio CLB Architects has created a retreat in rural Wyoming that has three wood-clad structures, with a creek running underneath the primary residence. Located on a 35-acre (14-hectare) property near the town of Wilson, the home was envisioned as a series of "tectonic structures" set within a diverse ecosystem.

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The Architecture Designs

APRIL 25, 2024

Are you in need of top-notch roofing services in Overland Park, KS? In this comprehensive guide, we’ll delve into everything you need to know about roofing in Overland Park, KS, ensuring your home is protected and beautiful for years. Ensuring your roof is well-maintained and durable is crucial. Look no further!

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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.

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BD+C

JUNE 5, 2023

How to properly assess structural wind damage 0 dbarista Mon, 06/05/2023 - 16:17 Engineers Properly assessing wind damage can identify vulnerabilities in a building's design or construction, which could lead to future damage or loss, writes Matt Wagner, SE, Principal and Managing Director with Walter P Moore.

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Archinect

APRIL 16, 2024

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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Deezen

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Japanese architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates is set to create a sculptural block of buildings that will serve as retail locations for the Miami Design District. The post Kengo Kuma unveils colourful structure for Miami Design District appeared first on Dezeen.

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Architizer

JUNE 17, 2022

These buildings feel light and in motion. Below are just a few examples of origami-inspired structures that can offer some out-of-the-box inspiration. White sloped roofs of the house stand out against the lush vegetation of the forest behind. Cutouts and inward folds help carve out windows, balconies and terraces.

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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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designboom

JANUARY 26, 2022

this mixed-use building has been transformed in an extensive urban renewal project that included structural reinforcement and façade renovation. The post URBANUS adds a brick curtain wall and roof garden to beijing office building appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The monolithic structure features cascading terraces The 165-square-metre home contains live and work spaces for a young family across 11 levels that are reflected on the facade by its staggered windows. The post PSLA Architekten tops urban townhouse with cascading roof terraces appeared first on Dezeen.

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Archinect

APRIL 30, 2024

The composition of timber structure, walls, and stone is organized under a rectangular wooden ceiling plane. The house was built using shop fabricated structural insulated panels supported on post and beam glulam timbers. Building materials were chosen to be responsible and durable.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Above, a wave-form roof and ceiling plane displays an exposed wood structure, tying the new program spaces together to give the building a clear identity. “We took advantage of the scale and tectonic identity of the original structure.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2024

Designed by DaeWha Kang Design, the circular pavilion has a glass facade and mirrored stainless-steel roof panels. Some were in awe of the design, with Ken Steffes describing it as a "beautiful structure placed in the perfect location". JZ agreed, calling it a "fantastic intervention". Do you agree?

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion 0 qpurcell Thu, 09/28/2023 - 10:37 Office Buildings IMEG's Edwin Dean, Joe Gulden, and Doug Sweeney, share seven key focuses for structural engineers when planning office-to-residential conversions. faces a housing deficit of 3.8 million units.

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Architizer

APRIL 17, 2023

Steel is a rather overlooked material when it comes to building facades. Most commonly used for structural purposes, its function is often limited to framing systems and building foundations. What happens when we bring steel to the forefront of a building’s design? Consequently, C.F.

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