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In Situ Studio cuts "hoop" opening in cantilevered welcome centre roof

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Local architecture firm In Situ Studio wrapped an art museum visitor centre in Raleigh, North Carolina with darkened steel and cantilevered a roof with an aperture over its patio. The roof features a rounded triangle roof opening made of aluminium. Project credits: Client: North Carolina Museum of Art Contractor: Frank L.

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Snøhetta creates library to emulate feeling of "sitting under a tree"

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The columns flatten at their peaks to evoke a tree canopy One of the library's most notable details is its tall, slender columns that "mushroom into flat panels" at their peak to support the roof. Meanwhile, the roof has integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) construction elements to generate renewable energy.

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TVK designs limestone buildings for "first zero-carbon district" in Paris

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It is located on a triangular site next to a railway TVK designed Îlot Fertile to have a minimal carbon footprint in its construction and operation. It topped the buildings with photovoltaic panels and green roofs to produce energy while also aiming to increase biodiversity. "This brings diversity to a building complex of this scale."

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Leong Leong transforms 1970s Los Angeles ranch house into "suburban sanctuary"

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Historic preservation guidelines limited the interventions that could be made "We were inspired by the client's desire to rethink cliches of contemporary domesticity and create a home to live with art but not be saturated by it," co-founder Dominic Leong told Dezeen.

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GH3 creates sculptural Stormwater Facility for new Toronto neighbourhood

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The clients, Waterfront Toronto and Toronto Water, wanted a landmark building that would help to signal a new and distinctive city precinct," the firm said. The plant features an angled roof. GH3 constructed the project in Toronto. Client: Waterfront Toronto and Toronto Water. Contractor: Graham Construction.

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Kirkland Fraser Moor tops chalk-walled house with CLT arch

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With a grass-topped, arched roof it was designed to be both contemporary and integrated into the landscape. The distinctive two-storey house is positioned next to a historic walled garden and house that, along with the client's desire for large amounts of light, informed the home's design. Electrical engineer: Aura.

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John Friedman and Alice Kimm include dining room crane in Los Angeles house

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"We could do whatever we want, and we did in fact integrate some ideas and elements that other clients turned down for their particular houses." The ground floor includes a multipurpose family room that leads out to the pool deck, which is set at the same height as the roof of the pink accessory dwelling unit (ADU).

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