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Learning Landscapes under Roof Landscapes by Sehw Architektur

Archinect

The challenge was to renovate two ageing buildings from the 1950s and combine them into a holistic ensemble through the addition of several new structures. The newly created “learning village” with its four buildings in the centre of the city achieves just that.

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Budapest's new Museum of Ethnography features a green roof that arcs down from the sky into the ground plane, connecting park to city

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Photos of the recently inaugurated award-winning new Museum of Ethnography in Budapest’s Városliget City Park by NAPUR Architect Ltd have been released. As NAPUR describes: “The gently curving lines enable the building to function as a gateway and a passage linking the city and the park.

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Ten city and landscape design projects by the University of Bologna

Deezen

Particularly, dealing with the challenges of climate change, cultural integration, circular development and population growth while preserving and evolving cities' identities. The walkway serves as a connection between different parts of the campus, opening to the city and providing a convenient space for students to relax and study.

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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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This Arizona Home Uses the Desert Landscape as "Living Art"

Dwell

The desert city of Scottsdale, Arizona, is set within the sprawling Sonoran Desert and overlooked by the majestic McDowell Mountains, so it’s no surprise that this spectacular landscape plays a pivotal role in shaping much of the area’s architecture. Modern Sunset House is located on 14 acres of hillside.

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MVRDV designs WärtZ district as "second city centre" for Zwolle

Deezen

MVRDV will complete four mixed-use buildings for the 120,000-metre-square development, named WärtZ, with the ambition of creating a "second city centre" south of Zwolle railway station, it said. At the heart of the project will be the revamped warehouse, named Wärtsilä Hall, which will retain its distinctive undulating roof.

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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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