Archinect

MARCH 7, 2024

The Ismaili Centre uniquely responds to established Islamic building traditions, while incorporating contemporary architectural form, materiality, and construction methods. The architectural language distinguishes a community that is both informed by its past and modern in its outlook. Set within a 6.8

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Deezen

AUGUST 23, 2023

Belgian studio Notan Office has completed Duchesse, a series of homes positioned around a communal garden on an old industrial site in Brussels. Duchesse's design also aims to preserve the site's historic significance by retaining existing elements while revamping others with new tiled volumes.

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2024

Sited on La Brea Avenue, a prominent north-south artery in a diverse part of the city known for its multicultural shops and restaurants, the building's adventurous facade was informed by surrounding 1930s art deco buildings. "If "One was a design that fits into context, one was respecting environmental issues, and one was social."

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Architizer

JULY 7, 2023

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2023

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. The location of the trees around the edges of the plot informed the house's positioning at the northeast corner.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Instead, the studio decided to create a 1,500-square-foot (139-square-metre) structure on the site that consists of a gallery and gathering space and a utilities area, separated by a courtyard. Also important was the remediation of the contaminated site, often referred to as a brownfield site. The photography is by Kevin Scott.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

SOM explained that the building was informed by the principles of classical architecture. The courthouse's exterior will consist of fluted panels of metal and glass that are a contemporary interpretation of Corinthian columns and modulate the bright tropical sunlight," said the firm.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The home is sited on a slope. The site was difficult due to its slope, which made conventional construction unfeasible, and the area is threatened by wildfire. Shed roofs are covered with standing-seam metal, and facades are clad with James Hardie fibre-cement siding. The project came with several challenges.

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Deezen

MAY 28, 2022

It is the first Spanish site of The Hoxton hotel series. Similarly, material choices such as vivid toned glazed tiling were inspired by local Spanish building materials used for roofs and floors. Contemporary items include a Gustaf Westman Blob Table coffee table and Tino Seubert's Corrugation Pendant light.

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e-architect

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Transitional and contemporary design concepts were introduced, respecting and accentuating the historical Architecture of the home. The existing large steep roof and attic with no Architectural character or detail serves as a canvas. The 2nd story balcony Family Area above the main Entry features a fireplace and informal seating area.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

A sedum roof designed to "change colours with the seasons" tops Heatherhill Beach House, a wooden holiday home burrowed among the hills on the Danish coast by local studio Norm Architects. Together with the sedum roof, the house will change its colours as the seasons pass, being one with its surroundings."

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

US studio CCY Architects has clad a mountainside house in patinated copper panels and tilted the roof to adhere with the topography of its site in Colorado. Known as DNA Alpine, the 4,000-square foot (372-square metre) home was completed in 2022 and designed to "disappear into or somehow become" the 75-acre site in San Miguel County.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Informed by the greenhouses that once occupied the site, local architecture studio Hayhurst and Co added bamboo planting behind polycarbonate screens to the facade of a family home in London. An atrium at the centre of the home lets natural light into the interior and naturally cools the house by stack ventilation.

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Deezen

MARCH 14, 2024

Cupaclad was designed to have a natural, clean aesthetic that aims to adapt to any style of building, from the traditional to the contemporary. Projects that utilised Cupaclad include an A-frame house in Angers, France, and a house on Costa Street in London that has an extruded roof clad in slate.

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

For over 80 years the historic art deco National Institute for Medical Research, designed by the original Wembley Stadium architect Max Ayrton, was located on the site; the new development pays testament to Ayrton’s original design both in name and by reproducing the original building’s iconic green copper roof.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

The Lodge at Marconi sits on a 62-acre site next to Tomales Bay, within the picturesque Marconi State Historic Park – a 1.5-hour In the reception block, guests arrive to a series of lounges and other communal spaces that create a more informal setting than a traditional hotel lobby. hour drive up Highway Route 1 from San Francisco.

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e-architect

MARCH 27, 2023

Located within an urban city context, the small site is contained between building forms on three sides with a south facing street frontage. Residence 264 clearly demonstrates that a small site can overcome its limitations with carefully considered design and site configuration.

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e-architect

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The site is very prominent as it sits on a plaza next to Paddington Uniting Church; the site of famous weekly Paddington Markets. Also, the site housed a café which is a local institution. The site presented many streetscape challenges. There is a traditional of prominent buildings which celebrate the corner sites.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2022

French practice Bruno Gaudin Architectes has completed a 15-year project to renovate and open up the historic rue de Richelieu site of the National Library of France in Paris , incorporating new public routes and spaces. A glazed corridor offers views over the museum's roof. An aluminium-clad spiral stair has been introduced.

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Deezen

JUNE 13, 2023

"As you get closer you will see the sharp edges and geometries that come from a digital fabrication workshop rather than a traditional construction site." An art gallery occupies the arched space While its shape is informed by rural barns, it is also designed to create an interior that is an impressive space for displaying art.

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2023

It is clad in untreated green English oak and features pitched roofs that were informed by Oxford's river boathouses and traditional wooden barns. A temporary exhibition space was topped with a saw-tooth roof. Its mono-pitched roofs mean water can drain easily and quickly.

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e-architect

AUGUST 24, 2023

The language is robust and contemporary, with charred timber cladding, off-form concrete and fine steel work. Below this space is the living space, which extends outside to the boundaries of the site. The design increased the net amount of green space on the site by introducing a planted roof to ground floor.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Spiralling tiled roofs informed by the contours of the surrounding mountains cover the Jiuzhai Valley Visitor Centre in Sichuan Province, China , designed by The Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University. Parametricism was used to create its roof forms. The building is nestled within a mountain valley.

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Deezen

MARCH 10, 2023

This stepped form will be topped with a roof terrace and allow for the offices on every floor to have access to outdoor spaces. At the west, in conjunction with the neighbouring former Financial Times building, a centralised, tranquil pocket park is created in association with a new north-south route through the site."

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e-architect

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The site, spanning over 1,000 sqm, gradually slopes down seven meters from the mountain to the sea, and the house is laid out to minimize its interference with the landscape. The three areas—the residence, beauty salon, and terrace—are loosely connected under a shed roof following the site’s slope.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Decorative materials were also removed to reveal the building's original triangular timber roof trusses and wooden columns. The discovery of a century-old well on the site informed the installation of a rain chain suspended from the roof to the mouth of the well, to represent "a rejuvenation of life in the courtyard."

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Deezen

JANUARY 11, 2024

British studio Will Gamble Architects has completed an extension and refurbishment to a family home in Croydon, London , defined by a contemporary colonnade spanning across the rear facade. The dormer's internal walnut reveals host a large window seat and desk with floor-to-ceiling glazing overlooking the site's context.

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e-architect

JUNE 15, 2023

Located on a corner block in historic conservation zone, extensive restoration and repair work was undertaken on the external façade, whilst a modern, light filled extension married both heritage and contemporary elements. Steel portal frames were adopted as bracing elements, allowing the roof structure to appear to float.

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2024

It is a nautical reference, as the studio was informed by the vernacular architecture of rural Ontario for the house's design, materiality, and colour selection, which includes a mixture of seasonal and permanent beach houses and farms.

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Situated into the hillside, the hill’s landscape transitions into a roof garden creating an earthen insulation for thermal comfort, water recapture and moonlight gardens. The terraces are also active in shaping the on-site water into cisterns, reservoirs and water features to support the natural building systems and agricultural production.

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e-architect

JUNE 6, 2023

Knit House, Nagano Building, Japan, Japanese Real Estate, Residential Architecture, Photography Knit House in Nagano 6 June 2023 Design: UID architects Location: Nagano, Japan Photos: Koji Fujii / TOREAL Knit House, Japan The concept was for a large roof that gently outlines the earth and the sky.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

A historic theatre building and the remnants of a 1920s garage are incorporated into a cluster of contemporary glass and metal blocks at this new performance and arts venue in Hobart, Tasmania. The interior speaks to the remnants of the older buildings on the site. The studios clad the building in metal, glass and masonry.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Described by Core Design Workshop as "introverted", the house is designed to look inward at its main garden rather than out towards views surrounding the site. There is a square courtyard Introverse's finishes are kept deliberately simple, with white walls, concrete floors and wooden ceilings that express the sloping roof inside.

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e-architect

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Vista House appears to float above its steep rocky site. The extensive roof provides protection from the sun and rain, creating year round outdoor rooms, while pairs of columns march across the façade creating a sense of rhythm and order. Vista House in Victoria, BC – Building Information. Project size: 6675 sqm.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The roof is undulating, and the facades are clad in burnt wood. The interiors were informed by the client's love of layers and texture Throughout the home, large stretches of glass offer sweeping views of the majestic terrain. A fourth structure is planned for the site and will have a spiritual function.

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Deezen

JULY 21, 2023

The volumes were built on concrete platforms that rise up the hillside in one-metre intervals, following the natural slope of the site. Large rectangular concrete tiles with a pink hue cover the home's exterior, each featuring a fluted form informed by the site's geology.

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