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Architectural Drawings: 6 Architectural Roof Walks Reaching New Heights

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These “roof walks” are a response to unique environmental, social and urban conditions. Drawn from a diverse range of scales and programs, the following roof walks reimagine the roof plane in projects both large and small. Above the double height multi-media room, the roof structure touches down on the sunken garden.

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Eight renovated mid-century homes that marry period and contemporary details

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The renovations below see many of these original features retained and restored, supplemented with contemporary additions such as double-height ceilings and furniture by the likes of Tadao Ando and Mario Bellini. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive.

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Biomorphic Overhead: 7 Glass Ceilings That Imitate Nature

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By design, glass ceilings tend to attract attention to themselves. Their functional purposes are fairly limited, and their shortcomings can be sizable (depending on how good the glass is at insulating), but we keep building them because they’re just so appealing. Click here to sign up for our Jobs Newsletter. . Bálna Budapest.

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La Brea Affordable Housing in West Hollywood is a contemporary take on art deco

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The design incorporates outdoor areas to encourage tenants to socialise While the lobby appears to be enclosed by glass from the street, the space is in fact open-air, with the exterior bands visible from the inside. The post La Brea Affordable Housing in West Hollywood is a contemporary take on art deco appeared first on Dezeen.

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Villa KD45 is a concrete house in Delhi with a plant-covered roof

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Studio Symbiosis has completed a villa in Delhi, India , that rises up from its landscaped grounds, forming a terraced roof that is covered with plants to maximise the site's green area. A stepped walkway built into the ramp-like roof form leads up from the entrance to a shaded outdoor living space. Photography is by Niveditaa Gupta.

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Mjölk Architekti adds "glittering glass extension" to century-old cabin

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Mjölk Architekti has renovated a 130-year-old dwelling in the north of the Czech Republic , adding a glass extension , sunken living area and domed skylight. This levels off at a 90-degree angle from the steeply pitched existing roof. Behind the curtain of the original cabin, a glittering glass extension has sprung up.".

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Eight key collaborations and projects by contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama

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An inflatable replica of Kusama was placed peering over the roof of Paris' polka-dot-clad Champs-Élysées store, while a large-scale sculpture of the artist was positioned next to oversized mirrored balls at a pop-up outlet in Tokyo. The post Eight key collaborations and projects by contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama appeared first on Dezeen.