Deezen

APRIL 8, 2024

An angular English home extension and a timber-clad Guatemalan retreat feature in our roundup of buildings with butterfly roofs. Otherwise known as inverted-pitched roofs, the V-shaped structures take their name from the angled form of a butterfly's wings. Here are eight buildings with butterfly roofs from the Dezeen archive.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Architecture studio Proctor & Shaw has topped a home extension with a steeply-angled roof clad with red pigmented zinc in East Dulwich, London. Home to a family of seven, Proctor & Shaw designed the project as an extension to an existing Edwardian house, extending the ground-floor kitchen and dining room.

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designboom

AUGUST 15, 2023

fusing heritage and contemporary living, the home features a traditional gable roof, rounded eaves, and classic ‘bobrovka’ clay roof tiles. The post terracotta gable roof tops martin zizka’s organic house, echoing czech republic’s landscape appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Anji Culture and Art Center will be defined by a series of curving canopy roofs that were designed to look like scattered bamboo leaves. While the curving forms of the building largely reference the shape of leaves, it was also designed to echo the undulating terrain of the surrounding Anji tea-growing hills.

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Deezen

MARCH 11, 2024

Tokyo-based studio Klein Dytham Architecture has designed a bookstore wrapped with an undulating steel roof resembling "outstretched arms" in Nagano, Japan. Located at the foot of Mount Asama, the space was designed by Klein Dytham Architecture to be a community hub for the local residents.

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Dwell

MARCH 12, 2024

The desert city of Scottsdale, Arizona, is set within the sprawling Sonoran Desert and overlooked by the majestic McDowell Mountains, so it’s no surprise that this spectacular landscape plays a pivotal role in shaping much of the area’s architecture. The solution was found in the freestanding Bromic Eclipse Portable heater.

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Deezen

MARCH 23, 2024

An angular roof wrapped in translucent red-mesh panels crowns this Y-shaped pavilion in Sydney , designed by local studio Sam Crawford Architects. The building is raised on a low-lying concrete step The red-mesh roof pitches towards the building edges and is designed to provide solar protection to clerestory windows along the facade.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

The Japanese restaurant is raised on an existing jetty that extends out from the shore and has a bamboo structure with tree-like columns to support its wavy roof. Drawing inspiration from the surrounding water, Atelier Nomadic designed its form to resemble the shape of pink whiprays, a species of stingray found in the lagoon.

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Architecture Ideas

MAY 25, 2023

A popular trend in architecture is the construction of buildings topped with flat roofs. Specialized windows for flat roofs are a solution dedicated to buildings of this type, improving their functionality. The issue of meeting the functional conditions also applies to glazing in the form of windows for flat roofs.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

An oversized stepped roof that doubles as an "amphitheatre for the city" tops BBT Hilltop, a burger restaurant in Kuwait City designed by architecture studio TAEP/AAP. Above, the overhanging roof provides additional seating as well as a flexible events space that TAEP/AAP designed to be used for outdoor cinemas, parties and concerts.

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Deezen

JANUARY 12, 2024

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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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Set in a lychee garden overlooking the Mekong River, the north-facing cafe is contained within a rectangular glazed volume framed by the stepped circular landscape. According to Looklen Architects , The Pomelo Amphawa Cafe building is also designed to explore the "relationship of geometries".

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Deezen

MAY 1, 2024

American studio Walker Warner Architects has completed Hale Kiawe, a family retreat with simple, gabled forms are set within an undulating landscape dotted with chunky lava rocks. Walker Warner Architects designed the retreat with simple, gabled forms For a 4.7 (1.9-hectare) The interior was designed by local firm Philpotts Interiors.

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Deezen

JANUARY 6, 2022

Mumbai studio Sanjay Puri Architects has designed a building for Prestige University in India that will feature a stepped green roof punctuated with courtyards. The building's grass-covered roof will be stepped up from its north side, making its entire surface area an accessible terrace to be enjoyed by students and staff.

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Deezen

MAY 4, 2023

A curved roof tops Byró Architekti's Cabin Above the Town, a red timber-clad cabin informed by the surrounding Czech hills. Cabin Above Town was designed by Byró Architekti Taking inspiration from the local landscape, Prague studio Byró Architekti designed the home to have a sweeping form following the curves of the surrounding landscape.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 21, 2022

London studio Hayhurst & Co has completed the Edith Neville Primary School near King's Cross, with pockets of landscape and external play spaces wrapped by a filigree screen of white aluminium mesh. Edith Neville Primary School is a school in King's Cross that was designed by Hayhurst and Co. It was designed as a school in a park.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Xokol has won Dezeen Awards 2023 interiors project of the year following the announcement of all nine interiors category winners, which were revealed at this evening's ceremony. It was also named restaurant and bar interior of the year. The suspended corn contrasts with the dark walls and softens the interiors." "The

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Deezen

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Rammed earth walls and an organic colour scheme help this South African family lodge designed by architecture practice Studio Asaï to blend into its natural surroundings. The property's flat steel roof is meant to give the home a lower, more discrete profile.

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Habitus Living

AUGUST 13, 2023

Their brief was simple: to provide a contemporary and timeless four-bedroom home which champions the landscape, one that is as equally well suited to entertaining as their day-to-day rituals,” says Ed Davis, principal at Davis Architects. Meanwhile, the interior features spotted gum timber flooring for softness and warmth.

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designboom

MAY 21, 2023

a large 'floating' roof encloses a landscape of abstract, geometric volumes finished in a bold color palette. The post trace architecture office (TAO) builds new school in haikou as a landscape of color appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2024

Chinese architecture studio MAD has revealed its design for Cloud 9 Sports Center, a mirrored athletic complex designed as "a luminous cloud" with a wavy shape. A warm orange colour was used for the interiors Inside, orange hues contrast against the silvery facade.

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Dwell

APRIL 21, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The final design touches each of those questions in a subtle and restrained way. "We Have one to share? Post it here. The clients erected and filled the gabion walls themselves.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Brooklyn-based nARCHITECTS has designed a nature centre and exhibition space that produces as much energy as it consumes on the New York coastline. The project transformed 12 acres of concrete parking lot into a sustainable structure and resilient landscape with native plants. It is topped by a sawtooth mass-timber roof.

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Deezen

JUNE 21, 2023

Local architecture firm In Situ Studio wrapped an art museum visitor centre in Raleigh, North Carolina with darkened steel and cantilevered a roof with an aperture over its patio. In Situ Studio designed the 1,158-square foot (108-square metre) welcome building for the large park that surrounds the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA).

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Architizer

AUGUST 9, 2023

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. The design includes a 5.4-acre

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

New York studio Post Company has designed warm, wood-filled interiors for a boutique hotel in Aspen , Colorado, which offers a pared-back take on the Arts and Crafts style. Mollie Aspen occupies a new timber-clad building designed by CCY Architects and developed and operated by HayMax in the mountain city's downtown area.

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Deezen

JUNE 4, 2023

An undulating green roof and timber cladding help this Suffolk house by MAP Architecture and Jon Broome Architects, which was designed to Passivhaus standards, blend into the surrounding wetland. An opening in the wall offers access to the garden, where a stepped patio leads to the house.

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Architizer

AUGUST 24, 2022

Designed as adjunct interior spaces for year-round entertaining, the landscape design is sculpted to Aidlin Darling Design’s architecture, forming a roof garden, balconies that extend from the living spaces, and a lower, more secluded garden carved into the hillside. © Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture.

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Deezen

MAY 29, 2023

Chinese practice Wang Chong Studio used rustic stone walls and a sloping roof to help this art museum blend into its rocky site in China's Henan Province. Taihang Xinyu Art Museum was designed by Wang Chong Studio The architects also topped the museum with a sculptural tiled roof designed to appear to grow out of the landscape.

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Deezen

JANUARY 24, 2022

Salt Lake City architecture studio Imbue Design has built a house outside Zion National Park in Utah with sweeping views of one of the USA's most renowned landscapes. Imbue Design built the house outside Zion National Park. The cabin sits against the Utah landscape. Interior spaces offer views of the landscape.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

Architecture studio BIG has released images of Not A Hotel Setouchi, a trio of holiday villas it has designed for Sagishima island in Japan. Organised around courtyards and marked by sweeping tiled roofs, the three rounded structures are being created in collaboration with hospitality brand Not A Hotel.

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Deezen

MAY 21, 2023

From a plant-enclosed terrace in Mexico to a large rooftop garden set beneath a metal pergola in Tokyo, Dezeen's latest lookbook highlights eight interiors with impressive balconies and terraces. For more inspiration see previous lookbooks featuring cave-like interiors , gallery interiors , and garden swimming pools.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Lime-washed bricks and a black overhanging roof characterise this house that Dutch studio Chris Collaris Architects has completed in a verdant garden near Eindhoven , the Netherlands. Together with the big roof extensions [and] minimal detailing, the house looks familiar yet strangely familiar," studio founder Chris Collaris told Dezeen.

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designboom

OCTOBER 19, 2022

sixty dwellings step up from the sea, transforming the site into a grassy topography with folding green roofs. The post WORKac transforms disused coast in lebanon with residential landscape ‘marea’ appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

JUNE 6, 2022

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. Francois Verhoeven Architects has designed Villa K2 in the Netherlands. Villa K2 features a multi-pitched roof. Skylights illuminate the interior.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In suburbia you’d be a zoo animal, but out in the country, architect Sigurd Larsen’s transparent gable design is a refreshing alternative to a dusty attic. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Every day is a new experience. "In

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Deezen

AUGUST 26, 2022

There are practically no doors in this Hawaii retreat by Craig Steely Architecture that has a triangular inner courtyard , massive skylight and a cantilevered roof. Though the low-slung roof is quadrilateral, the living areas were placed in a rounded triangular floor plan. Musubi was designed to celebrate its surrounding landscape.

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