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TAEP/AAP tops Kuwait burger restaurant with large stepped roof

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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. Glass hatches for ordering and picking up food are sheltered by the roof, the underside of which has also been finished in a bold shade of red.

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StudioAC plays with gabled forms for an ‘unapologetically contemporary’ Toronto home

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Toronto-based Studio AC has offered a look inside their “unapologetically” residential scheme in the Canadian city. “This approach was integral to working with the client's budget strategy and thesis: The three-story home reads as a series of stacked boxes from the outside with echoes of traditional residential forms.

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Estudio Estudio unveils "hidden architectural treasures" in Mexico City house

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Located on a 195-square-metre site in Mexico City 's Hipódromo Condesa neighbourhood, the project serves as a full-time residence for a client who is a social entrepreneur and collector of Mexican craftwork. Moreover, a small storage room on the roof was replaced with a 43-square-metre studio building.

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IKEA city center by querkraft

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Car-free + urban This building makes an important contribution to the future of a living and ecological city and also to the future of retailing – this is an urban IKEA with excellent connections to the public transport system and an inviting roof terrace – a good neighbour. Source by querkraft.

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Noe Valley by Faulkner Architects

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On the boards in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood is a new house for a three-peat client of Faulkner Architects. Four levels that include a shared garage, pool and garden along with roof top deck allow uncommon amenity for a city lot. An open plan builds spatial connection between the neighborhood and garden.

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Barde vanVoltt orients renovated Mexico City house around mezcal bar

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A private mezcal bar forms the heart of this house that Amsterdam interior architecture firm Barde vanVoltt has overhauled in Mexico City 's La Condesa neighbourhood. In the central courtyard, Barde vanVoltt removed the roof from the double-height space and replaced it with operable glass panels to let in more light.

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OFIS Arhitekti adds looping extension to modernist villa in Slovenia

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Located in the suburbs of the capital city Ljubljana, the modernist villa required updating to improve its connection to the garden, as it had no direct access from the ground floor. This included replacing the pitched roof from the 1980s with a flat roof that follows the original design. The open end contains a dining area.

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