Deezen

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Red tiles envelop the roof and walls of this family home , which Vietnamese studio The Bloom Architects has arranged around a central courtyard in the city of Bao Loc. Tile House is defined by its inverted trapezoid roof, with all surfaces pitched towards the central courtyard. The photography is by Oki Hiroyuki.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

360 house is located atop a hill in the secluded back woods of Park City, Utah. Four structural volumes disrupt the concentric windows and separate the floor plan into flexible rooms defined by the roof geometry. 2800 SF round footprint is enveloped by a glazed skin to maximize the impressive mountain views.

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Deezen

JULY 3, 2022

From circular openings in an Indonesian dwelling to the lofty skylights of an English barn-style house, our latest lookbook features 10 residential interiors with striking windows. Architects and designers often use unusual windows in their projects to create visual interest within both residential and commercial interiors.

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Dwell

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Location : 473 North K Street, Salt Lake City, Utah Price : $1,850,000 Architect : Steve Simmons Year Built : 2001 Footprint : 3,565 square feet (five bedrooms, two full and three half baths) Lot Size : 1.9 The vaulted ceilings, along with a bank of floor-to-ceiling windows, create a harmonious connection between the indoors and outdoors.

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Deezen

JANUARY 11, 2024

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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Archinect

APRIL 19, 2024

MBB designed the expansion of an existing building for Grace Church School in New York City, adding a new top floor structure for a double-height gymnasium and athletic center. The design solution creates a warm and inviting interior environment filled with natural light from an array of long skylights and large windows.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Gridded fibre-cement cladding and a swimming pool with underwater windows feature at the East Van Residence in Vancouver by Canadian firm SMStudio. The project is in Hastings-Sunrise, a residential neighbourhood in East Vancouver, a mixed residential and industrial area that borders the city's harbour. The photography is by Ema Peter.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Solar windows, also called solar glass windows, function as windows while also generating electricity from the sun. Solar windows’ potential impact on world energy generation is enormous. What are Solar Glass Windows? This means solar windows do not need to be angled towards the sun to catch the energy-giving rays.

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Deezen

JANUARY 16, 2024

Named Shanghai Book City, the 12,000-square-metre building has been overhauled to transform it from a traditional bookstore into a cultural hub and public landmark. This aims to set the store apart from neighbouring buildings on Shanghai's Fuzhou Road while evoking a bird's eye view of the city.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Mexican architecture studio Productora has restored a concrete industrial complex in Mexico City into a series of studios including its own office. The post Productora converts Mexico City textile factory into green-trimmed artist studios appeared first on Dezeen. Gathering spaces have been included in the courtyards.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Toronto-based StudioAC has completed a residence east of the city, in a landscape characterized by an “intricate coastline and a bourgeoning wine-making industry.” Large windows on the shore-facing facade frame views of the lake, while panoramic windows at ground level face an adjacent meadow.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The original house was clad entirely with cedar shingles both inside and out: the walls, roof, and ceilings. The house was very inwardly focused with low-lying windows that you couldn’t see out of unless you ducked or sat down. The client described it as living inside a tree.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 3, 2023

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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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

US company Ubiquitous Energy has invented a thin coating that turns windows into transparent solar panels, providing other ways to harvest renewable energy in buildings beyond rooftop panels. Ubiquitous Energy's transparent solar windows (above) are installed at Michigan State University (top). Any surface could become a solar panel.

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Deezen

JULY 9, 2022

Japanese architecture studio Abanba has completed a temple in Shinagawa, Tokyo , featuring a gently curving roof that shelters a glazed entrance and reflects daylight into a triple-height atrium. The building, named Shinagawa Branch Temple, has a swooping, metal-clad roof that marks the position of its entrance on a small communal plaza.

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Architizer

JANUARY 9, 2024

It’s not just a building; it’s a micro-city set within a bustling metropolis. The ground floor might house a café, a shared workspace, a fitness center, an art gallery or a dental clinic, creating a dynamic ecosystem that mirrors the diverse heartbeat of a city.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The site is located in a cottage village outside the city, surrounded by a variety of modern manor buildings. The original shape of the house in the longitudinal direction does not have a clear distinction between walls and roof, being associated with the natural landscape - the outcropping of rocks near the Dnipro River.

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Archinect

JANUARY 19, 2024

Johnston Architects, in association with James Cutler Architects, designed the new library for the city of Maple Valley. The site for the project is one of the few remaining areas of second growth forest within city limits. A simple shed roof is supported by trusses. Large vine maples frame the entry to the building.

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Dwell

APRIL 25, 2023

The cabin is situated on the edge of the plot and the access road, where its gable smoothly transitions into the entrance gate and fence, which, like the facade of the house, is made of rough-cut roof battens. The curved roof was something extra we wanted to add to the simple cabin from the beginning.

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Deezen

AUGUST 2, 2023

Local architecture studio Romero de la Mora has created an expansive concrete and wood holiday home with a protected courtyard in Tepeji del Río, just outside Mexico City. Within the warm, neutral interior, the living space is sunken, allowing residents to sit on benches the level of the floor, while surrounded by windows.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Four levels that include a shared garage, pool and garden along with roof top deck allow uncommon amenity for a city lot. A photovoltaic array on the roof deck earns a planned net-zero annual energy usage. A photovoltaic array on the roof deck earns a planned net-zero annual energy usage.

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Archinect

JANUARY 26, 2024

A floating pavilion roof hovers over the interior and exterior spaces while sliding glass panels and corrugated concrete walls define its courtyards. “It’s right in the middle of the city, yet you really can’t perceive any other houses. The Preston Hollow House blurs the lines between indoors and out.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2023

Architecture practice Studio Zhu-Pei drew on traditional Chinese architecture to create the sweeping concrete roofs and stone walls of the Zibo OCT Art Centre in the eastern province of Shandong. In between these blocks, a number of alleyway-like spaces between the high masonry walls are sheltered by the oversized eaves of the concrete roofs.

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Deezen

MAY 18, 2022

Search engine company Google has opened its BIG and Heatherwick Studio -designed Bay View campus in California's Silicon Valley , which features sweeping, scale-like panels across its roof. Its roof is covered in a solar skin. Automated window shades monitor light throughout the day and open and close when necessary.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Netherlands-based Studio Job has created a curved bronze-and-glass sculpture named The Embrace for Dutch art institute KunstKerk as a humourous update on traditional stained-glass windows. The final design features two undulating "windows" that seem to stretch towards each other above a smaller, central window.

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Deezen

MAY 4, 2023

A curved roof tops Byró Architekti's Cabin Above the Town, a red timber-clad cabin informed by the surrounding Czech hills. Situated on the border between the city and the countryside, the cabin is nestled into the side of Svatobor Hill, a forested site in the foothills of the Czech Republic's Šumava mountains.

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Deezen

AUGUST 31, 2022

An oversized gabled roof sits atop this Mexican countryside home by local architecture studio Estudio Atemporal, creating a covered space that extends the living room outside. Located roughly two hours driving from the Mexican capital, the 143-square-metre house was completed as a retreat for a city-dwelling family.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

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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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. But looking at the wider area where this house is built the strictly controlled landscaping and city planning worked out very well.".

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The rules determine the slope of a gable roof, the orientation of the roof ridge, and even demand a lateral entrance into the building, vertical timber cladding, and so forth. On the ground floor, the living room and kitchen open through large windows toward the southern and northern woods.

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Deezen

AUGUST 8, 2023

Local studio Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados has completed a wooden A-Frame house with underground bedrooms in a forested area outside Mexico City. Rainwater is collected from the pitched roof, which is then ushered into an open water deposit for reuse. The photography is by Rafael Gamo.

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Hotel Designs

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Hotel Designs Inside W Edinburgh – a contemporary ode to the city Inside W Edinburgh – a contemporary ode to the city Seven years on from when Marriott first teased the arrival of W Hotels debut property in Scotland, Jestico + Whiles can breathe a sigh of relief as the design and architecture studio completes W Edinburgh.

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Deezen

MARCH 18, 2022

Mexico City -based Lopez Gonzalez Studio has carved a terrace into a gabled rooftop on a black house in Xalapa, Veracruz. The 528-square-metre residence sits on a slight slope that is mirrored in the angles of its roof. The 528-square-metre residence sits on a slight slope that is mirrored in the angles of its roof.

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Deezen

AUGUST 26, 2022

"BIG's vision for Esbjerg Strand is to create an entire city in one building," explained the studio. The vision for the project Masterplan Esbjerg Strand is to form the framework for a city and campus environment that will rethink the approach to education.". There will be an accessible green roof.

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Hotel Designs

JUNE 14, 2023

Hotel Designs Hotel San Fernando opens in Mexico City Hotel San Fernando opens in Mexico City The reimagined boutique Hotel San Fernando, marks Bunkhouse’s second property in Mexico. “CDMX has absolutely everything we love in a city, and more,” said Amar Lalvani, Executive Chairman, Bunkhouse Group.

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Deezen

JANUARY 3, 2022

o de Buen and Luis Young have used a green metallic frame to form the structure of an airy apartment built atop an existing building in Mexico City. ngel neighbourhood, a sought-after area in the south of the city. Cascada House is topped with two sloping roofs. The Cascada House was designed by Mexican architects Nun?o

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Deezen

AUGUST 28, 2022

The homes are designed to offer qualities that typically wouldn't be affordable in inner-city apartments, such as high ceilings, large windows and access to outdoor space. High ceilings and large windows create a sense of spaciousness. Residents share a communal roof terrace. Photo is by Maitreya Chandorkar.

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