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MAD tops "clover-like" conference centre in Beijing with undulating green roof

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Global architecture studio MAD has unveiled ZGC International Innovation Center in Beijing , which features a curving green roof with rippled overhangs. Photo by CreatAR "The centre's biomorphic, clover-like form features a cantilevered roof characterised by soft, fluid shapes," said MAD. Lights on the roof form a rippling pattern.

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SO-IL designs Massachusetts museum with undulating CLT roof

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Architecture studio SO-IL has unveiled designs for the Williams College Museum of Art in the Berkshires , which will be topped with a tent-like cross-laminated timber roof. The undulating cross-laminated timber roof will be laid atop these volumes, unifying them below. It is punctuated by glazed openings dispersed along its facade.

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AECOM and Luis Vidal place sleek red roof on Boston airport terminal

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Infrastructure consultants AECOM and Spanish architecture studio Luis Vidal + Architects have created a terminal for Boston 's Logan Airport capped by a long, bright-red roof. The standing-seam metal roof was painted in Boston Red, a shade of prismatic paint custom-developed for the project at Monopol Color Lab in Switzerland.

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Dorte Mandrup team unveils Nunavut Inuit Heritage Center with rock and turf-covered roof

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” The winning team included Dorte Mandrup, Guy Architects, LEES+Associates, Adjeleian Allen Rubeli, EXP, Pageau Morel, Altus Group, and indigenous consultants Kirt Ejesiak and Alexander Flaherty. Emulating these natural shapes, the building will carve into the rocky hillside, echoing the features of the natural landscape.

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James Corner landscapes "magical lookout" at Battersea Power Station

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Landscape studio James Corner Field Operations has created a roof garden with 23,000 plants and 55 trees on top of a Foster + Partners -designed residential building alongside Battersea Power Station in London. At night, residents can continue to enjoy the roof garden thanks to subtle lighting within the landscaping.

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Construction reaches roof levels of landmark development above Hong Kong’s High Speed Rail West Kowloon Terminus by Zaha Hadid Architects

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Construction works have reached roof level at the new 3.2 Adjacent to the West Kowloon Cultural District, the development connects established and emerging neighbourhoods with a network of public gardens and landscaped plazas. million sq. development above Hong Kong’s High Speed Rail West Kowloon Terminus.

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Studio Zhu-Pei tops art centre in China with wave-like concrete roofs

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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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