Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

British architecture practice Studio Bark has worked with students from the University of East London to devise a roof-supporting column with otherwise unusable timber at a site within ancient English woodland. This is "an old technique", said Thorns, but one that opens up a lot of opportunities to use smaller trees.

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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 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

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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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2023

A pair of stone towers and a thatched -roof palapa are among the features at a nature retreat in southern Mexico designed by architects Mauricio Rocha and Gabriela Carrillo. It sits at the edge of a nature preserve on Punta Cometa, or Comet Point, a peninsula that juts into the Pacific Ocean and was once the site of an Aztec fort.

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Deezen

APRIL 1, 2024

Located on the northern shore of Lake Constance in the Radolfzell district, the timber building contains sports courts and a stage for events, unified by a cantilevered roof overhead. The building is largely made from spruce wood "The Lake Constance region is characterised by its rural structures," studio architect Michaela Afife told Dezeen.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

series, we've collected 10 recently completed and upcoming buildings that show the potential of structural stone as a modern construction material. It was designed by Diana Kellogg Architects to educate over 400 girls between the ages of five and sixteen and incorporates a paved courtyard and ten classrooms linked by shaded corridors.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Local architecture studio Practice for Architecture and Urbanism has installed a glass office building with a vaulted roof inside the shell of the 19th-century Domino Sugar Refinery on the waterfront in Brooklyn. What was really important was this idea of palimpsest and embracing what was on the site without becoming slavish to history."

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Deezen

MARCH 25, 2024

An inverted-pitch roof and angular brick cladding characterise the Butterfly House extension, which architecture studio The DHaus Company has added to a terraced home in north London. It is distinguished by its inverted-pitched roof, or butterfly roof, which references the surrounding 19th-century architecture and inspired the project's name.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Architecture studio Wallmakers has reimagined a traditional roof by adding skylights that double as seating for an arts centre and home in Kerala, India. Nisarga Art Hub is topped with a large roof Indian studio Wallmakers punctured skylights into the roof to draw natural light into the communal space below.

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Deezen

JANUARY 31, 2024

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a mirrored cafe pavilion and courtyard at the site of The Old War Office in Whitehall, London. Designed by DaeWha Kang Design, the circular pavilion has a glass facade and mirrored stainless-steel roof panels. JZ agreed, calling it a "fantastic intervention".

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

US studio CLB Architects has created a retreat in rural Wyoming that has three wood-clad structures, with a creek running underneath the primary residence. Located on a 35-acre (14-hectare) property near the town of Wilson, the home was envisioned as a series of "tectonic structures" set within a diverse ecosystem.

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Architizer

APRIL 30, 2024

They can be material structures that connect two (or more!) Architects are well aware of this dual meaning, and more and more designers are leaning into it for its symbolic potency. Architects are well aware of this dual meaning, and more and more designers are leaning into it for its symbolic potency.

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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. On the opposite side, where the gates are, the face of the structure is mostly glass. Its corners taper to sharp edges that "cut through the sky with precision".

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Archinect

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The project integrates three separate facilities for art, scientific education, and culture into one coherent design with a 1,200-seat grand theater, 500-seat Black Box theater, science center, and art museum arranged symmetrically on a central axis. Additional public spaces were also created at the site thanks to the careful p.

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Deezen

MAY 31, 2023

A sweeping, grass-topped concrete roof creates an artificial hill to conceal the Gurdau Winery in the Czech Republic , which has been designed by local practice Aleš Fiala Studio. Where the sloping roof meets the ground, it blends with a series of winding concrete walls supporting planters around a paved patio.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

US architecture studio Schaum/Shieh has embedded a Virginia house with irregularly shaped volumes into the contours of a steep site. The house is organized along one long horizontal line The grey metal roof reflects the area's rolling hills. Our clients knew many hilly sites from growing up in the area and their time in Greece.

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Deezen

MARCH 10, 2023

Local studio DKA Architects has designed a white wood-clad home with three connected gables in Terrebonne, Quebec , just outside of Montreal. The design was generally inspired by the vernacular language of the agricultural landscape based on the origins of the site and its surroundings," the studio said.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 18, 2023

From factories and warehouses to shop fronts and underpasses, Hicks explores the structures that make up the post-industrial landscape of the West Midlands region known as the Black Country. There are improvised and patched-up structures all over the region." "I It's the main structure of what remains of the Scala Theatre.

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designboom

JANUARY 10, 2023

a stone cloister-like configuration surrounds the site, helping the structure blend seamlessly into the topography. The post sculptural carbon fiber roof funnels light into atelier deshaus’ meditation hall in china appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Architizer

AUGUST 9, 2023

While these patterns of circulation are usually reserved for inside a building or structure, they also extend to roofscapes. These “roof walks” are a response to unique environmental, social and urban conditions. The design includes a 5.4-acre

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BD+C

JUNE 5, 2023

How to properly assess structural wind damage 0 dbarista Mon, 06/05/2023 - 16:17 Engineers Properly assessing wind damage can identify vulnerabilities in a building's design or construction, which could lead to future damage or loss, writes Matt Wagner, SE, Principal and Managing Director with Walter P Moore.

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Dwell

APRIL 21, 2023

The homeowners created the structures using stones collected on-site to connect their rural residence to the land. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Instead of putting everything under one roof, architecture firm Lake|Flato created a network of smaller volumes to minimize impact on the forested plot. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? P ost it here.

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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. Named Taihang Xinyu Art Museum, the museum is built around an old warehouse on the site, which backs onto Taihang Mountain and sits alongside the Cangxi River.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Architecture practice Heatherwick Studio has completed the Azabudai Hills development in Tokyo , which is defined by curving roofs topped with greenery. Heatherwick Studio added trees, flowers and meandering routes between the building and on the sloping roofs, aiming to create spaces that invite exploration and encourage social gatherings.

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Architizer

MAY 11, 2022

The design sensitively accommodating the need for more space and program for a young family without detriment to the surrounding landscape. The distinctly modern forms contrast with the organic surrounds they occupy but the materiality and scale of the structures make them ‘of the landscape’… like they fit right in.

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Dwell

JANUARY 5, 2024

Photo by Stillwater Dwellings What’s the most exciting project you’ve designed to date? Each project Stillwater has the pleasure of partaking in is special, since every project possesses its own unique attributes and design requirements, tailored to reflect the distinct vision of our clients.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Satish Jassal Architects designed Haringey Brick Bungalow The 110-square-metre site and narrow passageway was "like building through a straw", dictating many design and construction decisions. Two green roofs top the building, characterised by their asymmetrical pyramid shapes topped with rooflights.

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Deezen

MARCH 9, 2023

Read on for 11 upcoming buildings with mass-timber structures: Image by Negativ Eco Park, UK, by Zaha Hadid Architects Set to become the world's first timber football stadium, Eco Park by Zaha Hadid Architects will be built in England as the home of Forest Green Rovers football club.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Norwegian studio Snøhetta drew on textiles and tailoring for its design of the Airside skyscraper, which has opened at the old Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong. The project's design is informed by Hong Kong's legacy of textile manufacturing and draws on different aspects of tailoring.

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Deezen

JULY 19, 2023

British studio Hopkins Architects has added an indoor tennis centre with an undulating timber-coated roof to the All England Lawn Tennis Club at Wimbledon , UK. It has an undulating timber-coated roof The building contains six indoor courts within a partially timber-clad structure punctuated by white, Y-shaped columns.

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Deezen

AUGUST 22, 2023

Defined by their steeply pitched roofs that extend to reach near ground level, A-frame homes became popular in the 1950s, 60s and 70s and are now seeing a resurgence with modern interpretations being designed around the world. The studio placed an open-plan living and dining room at the centre of the home.

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Deezen

AUGUST 12, 2022

An enormous thatched roof structure with open sides covers the communal areas of this home perched on a rocky cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Mexico by Zozaya Arquitectos. The structure features an enormous open thatched roof. Two levels make up the home, which is accessed from the top due to the site conditions.

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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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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

GO'C has created the City Park Mini Mart art centre in Seattle Initially attempting to renovate an existing structure, GO'C realised it did not provide enough space. The structure was built on the site of a former gas station Using references from the era, the structure features classic signage, an overhanging roof and divided metal windows.

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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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