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A Mighty Corrugated Metal Roof Ties Together a Compound in Rural Australia

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Project Details: Location: Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia Architect: MRTN Architects / @ mrtn_architects Landscape Design: SBLA Studio Builder: J & S Contracting Structural Engineer: W.J. The materials were also chosen to be recessive, including a dull silver roof, black sheets, and ironbark timber.

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David Kohn celebrates English eccentricities with Red House in Dorset

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The red tone of the brickwork heavily contrasts the green that colours the doors, window frames and the underside of roof canopies. Other details include bulging bays that span entire rooms, circular and semi-circular windows, and drainpipes that draw bold graphic lines. Windows come in various shapes and sizes.

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Morphosis completes terracotta-clad Orange County Museum of Art

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Los Angeles-based Morphosis , which was founded by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, designed the structure to have a "gradient of architectural intensity, from complex forms at the museum's entry to rectilinear and flexible forms within the galleries". Windows bring light into the atrium. Civil engineer: KPFF.

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Olson Kundig creates floating Water Cabin in Seattle's Portage Bay

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In particular, it draws upon design principal Jim Olson's personal cabin in rural Washington, which features rectilinear volumes, overhanging roofs and a subdued colour palette. Flat, overhanging roofs shade patios and large stretches of glass. Visually speaking, the roofs contribute to the home's low, horizontal stature.

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Marylebone Mews House, London, England

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Occupying the space with the least amount of external connection, it allows habitable spaces to benefit from windows and doors (both existing in the original envelope and new within the recently carved lightwells) – there are now only two rooms without a window, the dressing room and the guest bathroom.

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Castle Black, Sea Ranch California

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The windows and interior spaces also follow the vertical and horizontal orientation. The bedroom loft captures views of the forest through tall vertical windows that mimic the trees outside. A steep sloping roof line flows downward where the living spaces have wider horizontal windows framing the seascape.

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Woodinville Whiskey barrel storage facility by Graham Baba Architects

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The transition between office and process areas is demarcated with a long vertical window that folds from wall to ceiling, transforming into a skylight. Horizontal windows on the north wall of the processing area frame the adjacent agricultural landscape and farmstead. Photo © Ross Eckert. Photo © Ross Eckert.