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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion 0 qpurcell Thu, 09/28/2023 - 10:37 Office Buildings IMEG's Edwin Dean, Joe Gulden, and Doug Sweeney, share seven key focuses for structural engineers when planning office-to-residential conversions. faces a housing deficit of 3.8 million units.

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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. But looking at the wider area where this house is built the strictly controlled landscaping and city planning worked out very well.".

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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. The roof features a rounded triangle roof opening made of aluminium. Project credits: Client: North Carolina Museum of Art Contractor: Frank L.

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JULY 31, 2022

US studio Desai Chia Architecture designed a highly sculptural, waterfront home wrapped in concrete and charred cypress that has vaulted roofs resembling wings. Roughly rectangular in plan, the dwelling has cutouts, cantilevers and multiple sloped roofs that combine in a sculptural way. Windows provide framed views.

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Dwell

APRIL 4, 2023

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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Dwell

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The intervention sought to be as least intrusive as possible, keeping the original character of the land practically untouched and without affecting the shelter tree around which the house is implanted, molding itself to its imposing morphology and merging with the landscape.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The project transformed 12 acres of concrete parking lot into a sustainable structure and resilient landscape with native plants. The design includes a sawtooth mass timber roof that references the adjacent ocean waves and terracotta-coloured flooring that nods to the former brick bathhouse. It is topped by a sawtooth mass-timber roof.

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Deezen

MARCH 22, 2022

Kite-like canopies and geometric roofs shelter the spaces of this factory by Studio Saar , which sits atop a seasonal lake in Sanand, India. Four individual buildings housing an entrance area, utility bay, factory hall and canteen space set in a natural landscape comprise the development. The interiors have a brutalist look.

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2024

California studio TW Ryan Architecture has completed a wildfire-resistant house in the American West that features a Corten steel exterior and pyramidal roofs that allude to the mountainous terrain. Four Roof House features a Corten steel exterior Their chosen site was a bluff overlooking a lake near the town of Helmville. "The

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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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Architizer

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Vitrocsa, a pioneering Swiss glass manufacturer, has built on this idea through a revolutionary approach to window design. Vitrocsa seamlessly blends traditional craftsmanship with cutting-edge technology to create windows that transcend the boundaries of conventional architectural aesthetics.

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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. This DNA sequence, ever-present and unseen, underscores the subtleties of the landscape and the beauty of deferring to it." meters) above ground level.

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Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2024

A private roof terrace enclosed by greenery features in Hidden Garden House, a Sydney home reconfigured by Australian studio Sam Crawford Architects. metre-high glass openings that lead out to a landscaped patio. Down from the entry hall is a spacious ground-floor kitchen and dining area, which is illuminated by 4.5-metre-high

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Deezen

MAY 18, 2022

Search engine company Google has opened its BIG and Heatherwick Studio -designed Bay View campus in California's Silicon Valley , which features sweeping, scale-like panels across its roof. Its roof is covered in a solar skin. Automated window shades monitor light throughout the day and open and close when necessary.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Architecture studio Snøhetta and engineer Tor Helge Dokka have created House Dokka, a mass-timber home that perches on a hillside in Kongsberg, Norway. House Dokka comprises a stack of two timber-clad volumes, supported by large wooden stilts drilled into the rocky, tree-lined landscape. The photography is by Robin Hayes.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

The Refuge has a curved concrete roof that spans across the length of the pavilion. The architects used red concrete both to contrast with the green landscaping and to reference the nearby brick house. Cutouts in the solid concrete walls were located to frame views of the landscape. Structural engineer: Util.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 20, 2023

California studio Field Architecture designed this Sonoma Valley house out of a trio of fanning copper-clad pavilions with butterfly roofs. By surrendering the manmade environment to the same natural forces that shape the land, the house collaborates with the natural hydrological systems that nurture the landscape." the studio said. "By

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JULY 20, 2022

A thin steel shed roof pitches up to open the interior to the south sun and frame views to the ski runs on the mountain. Double-thick eight-inch concrete walls fitted with foam insulation extend up to the roof on the low side. Clerestory windows enclose the triangular space between the roof and concrete walls.

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Deezen

MARCH 18, 2024

Drawing on the local farmhouse typology, the home by Richard Parr Associates features a sloped-roof brick structure clad with charred timber and topped with corrugated metal roofing. An ensuite bathroom in the main bedroom features an oval bathtub fronted by a window framing views of the landscape.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Scottish architecture studio Loader Monteith has designed an office with a gabled roof , along with two private residences, for mountain bike tour operator H&I Adventures on a sloping brownfield site in Scotland. The first of two planned residences, it is distinguished by its lower height and butterfly roof.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

The design marries Japanese architecture with the surrounding Hudson Valley "The main building has a porch space with long eaves that links with canopy-style roof design, which serves to accent the exterior," said Jun Mitsui & Associates. "We and the landscape as an intermediate area, but also gently welcomes visiting guests."

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The architects remixed the retreat by using its window coverings as doors, ceiling beams for dining tables, and lots of loud color. The home, built in the ’70s as a summer house, had no insulation of any kind, nor did it establish any kind of direct relationship with the landscape or surroundings. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

APRIL 24, 2023

The home is located by a lake in southern Chile Large windows on all sides of the upper level provide views of the surrounding landscape, including the lake, mountains and nearby Mocho Choshuenco volcano. In the kitchen, wooden units are arranged in a U shape with windows above looking out to the landscape.

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Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2024

The building has a gabled roof In response to strict zoning rules and environmental sensitivities, the studio created a small-footprint building that preserved existing trees and minimised the overall impact on the landscape. The black cladding is interrupted on the upper level by a band of ribbon windows.

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Deezen

JANUARY 21, 2024

A horizontal window frames views of the ocean in the main chapel In the Sea Chapel, pews face an altar that stands in front of a large horizontal window, framing a view out over the ocean and distant mountains. On the roof is the Sky Chapel, which offers 360-degree views of the surrounding landscape to create a "complete sense of awe".

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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. Simple lines and geometries create a striking contrast with the undulating landscape and stunning coastline in the distance," the team said.

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Deezen

APRIL 17, 2023

The studio gutted and expanded the 4,650-square-foot (430-square metre) rectangular home into an L-shaped plan with overlapping roofs. The home was informed by vernacular agricultural buildings Clad in a dark metal roof and custom dark green stained cypress in a varied batten pattern, the main house references and updates agrarian vernacular.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

HGA has created a pair of mass-timber buildings at Bowdoin College in Maine While different in size and colour, the buildings have asymmetrical pitched roofs that "play off each other from different vantage points". Gibbons Hall holds a collection of Arctic objects The surrounding landscape was informed by Arctic topography.

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

Local architecture studio Daniel Canda & Asociados has renovated a 1980s country club residence in Argentina , opening up the interior and wrapping the second floor in ribbon windows. The team kept much of the bottom half of the house intact, removing interior walls and flattening its original gabled roof.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2024

Underneath the roof, the top floor will have floor-to-ceiling windows that give gym visitors views of the park around the athletics centre. Read: MAD reveals design for Lishui Airport with swooping "bird-like" roof This includes cooling towers on the second floor for underground ventilation and air circulation.

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2022

Dutch studio Unknown Architects has completed a cabin-like holiday home in the Netherlands with panoramic windows for looking out at the surrounding landscape of dunes and hills. It is surrounded by panoramic windows. A built-in bench sits beneath the windows wraps around the interior and doubles as storage.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Located on a farm in Canada, the house was covered with berms that rise out of the landscape The technique allows the concrete to continuously cure during the installation process, reducing the risk of pressure at the base and weaknesses at the column's joints. Interior planting beds were also installed in the gathering space.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Gehry Partners has created a building for Warner Bros in Burbank Second Century Burbank is divided into two large blocks connected by a two-storey volume that is topped by a landscaped courtyard. There are landscaped areas outside Beyond these references, the different facade types also indicate the interior programmes.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Photo © Andrew Pogue The cantilevered and folded biophilic roof form inspired by Oregon’s canyons, and extensive curtainwall glazing, reflect the Port’s sloped and cantilevered headquarters building and ticket lobby entrance glazing, directly adjacent from the site. The entire south-facing roof of the concourse is solar ready.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The largest of these protrusions features a smaller lecture hall on the top level, with a roof that slopes up and out in a sizeable lip. These buildings are five storeys tall and have a central core set back from the wood-clad exterior, with large window boxes on each end that create sheltered patios on the second storey.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A sloping fibreglass roof and a glass facade characterise New York studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro 's first completed single-family residential project, which has been photographed officially for the first time by Iwan Baan. It is really surreal and magical in the whole; the whole roof just feels like it's floating."

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

Named Ferndale Flightdeck, the 400-square foot (37-square metre) extension holds a recreation room, yoga studio, home office and a rooftop observation deck that allows the owners to watch birds in the surrounding diverse and ecologically rich landscape. Great effort was taken to translate that as a window to frame views," the team said.

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