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Eight buildings with inverted-pitched roofs that resemble butterfly wings

Deezen

An angular English home extension and a timber-clad Guatemalan retreat feature in our roundup of buildings with butterfly roofs. Otherwise known as inverted-pitched roofs, the V-shaped structures take their name from the angled form of a butterfly's wings. Here are eight buildings with butterfly roofs from the Dezeen archive.

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

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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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Coil Coating Solutions for Designing Unconventional Building Envelopes

ArchDaily

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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SO-IL designs Massachusetts museum with undulating CLT roof

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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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Sam Crawford Architects creates red-roofed community pavilion in Sydney

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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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AECOM and Luis Vidal place sleek red roof on Boston airport terminal

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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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SOM reveals design for Singapore’s tallest building

Archinect

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has unveiled the design for 8 Shenton Way, set to be the tallest building in Singapore. Seven terraces are included in the scheme, with one serving a hotel and three serving residential floors.

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