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A Skeletal Roof Gives "Good Bones" a Whole New Meaning at This Country Home

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The building is organized around a repeating grid of slender quadripartite columns that frame views and support a lightweight trussed roof structure. This large overhanging roof canopy unites the four volumes and forms a perimeter verandah. The metal frame is painted in a rich golden and the roof is lined with copper.

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Villa K2 is a timber-clad house with a multi-pitched roof

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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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MAD unveils sunken Train Station in the Forest in Jiaxing

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A metal roof and glass facade contrast the brick station. Photo is by Aogvision These underground waiting halls havemetal roofs equipped with solar panels that power the station, contrasting the brick exterior of the old station front. Heritage consultant: Shanghai Shuishi Architectural Design & Planning Corp.

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Gehry Partners references icebergs and Hollywood for Warner Bros building

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Gehry Partners has created a building for Warner Bros in Burbank Second Century Burbank is divided into two large blocks connected by a two-storey volume that is topped by a landscaped courtyard. There are landscaped areas outside Beyond these references, the different facade types also indicate the interior programmes.

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Studio Gang nestles Kresge College expansion in Pacific forest

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The largest of these protrusions features a smaller lecture hall on the top level, with a roof that slopes up and out in a sizeable lip. These hold classrooms and utilise the slope with three storeys that line up with the two-storey central structure. It also added a square at the building's primary entry.

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Michael Hennessey Architecture clads renovated California house with black cedar and metal

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The home is U-shaped in plan "The home was thought not only as a shelter, but also as a bridge: from past to present, from one landscape condition to another, and from what a family wanted to what they could have," said Michael Hennessey Architecture , which is based in San Francisco. The roof is covered in standing-seam metal.

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Omer Arbel uses fabric formwork for concrete pillars in Canadian house

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Located on a farm in Canada, the house was covered with berms that rise out of the landscape The technique allows the concrete to continuously cure during the installation process, reducing the risk of pressure at the base and weaknesses at the column's joints. Interior planting beds were also installed in the gathering space.

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