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Loader Monteith completes "invisible" restoration of Peter Womersley's High Sunderland house

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The project focused on restoring as many of High Sunderland's original features as possible, while carefully introducing environmentally friendly systems that meet the latest sustainability criteria. The renovation restores Womersley's original design following a fire. Structural engineer: ? metre grid. David Narro Associates.

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Desai Chia creates “winged" roofs for Copake Lake House in New York

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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. Desai Chia created "winged" roofs for the house.

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nARCHITECTS tops New York nature centre with a mass-timber roof

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"As an example of holistic integration between architecture, landscape, ecology, engineering, and exhibition content, the Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center provides a public laboratory for learning how feats of human engineering and forces of nature intertwine and overlap," the studio said. MEP engineer: FPM Group, Ltd.

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BIG and Heatherwick complete Google campus topped with "dragon scale" roofs

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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. The roof will provide 40 per cent of the offices' energy. The structures are surrounded by 17.3

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Snøhetta creates library to emulate feeling of "sitting under a tree"

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Beijing City Library also incorporates spaces for performances and book restoration. The columns flatten at their peaks to evoke a tree canopy One of the library's most notable details is its tall, slender columns that "mushroom into flat panels" at their peak to support the roof.

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Historic Harlem House Modern Restoration, NYC

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Historic House Modern Restoration, Large Harlem Home, New York City Residential Building, Manhattan Architecture Design Images. Historic House Modern Restoration in Harlem. Historic Harlem House Modern Restoration. The facades and roof were air sealed and insulated with ample blown-in cellulose insulation. Dec 21, 2021.

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The Top 10 Prefab Homes of 2023

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If the umbrella term for a host of building styles was once shorthand for "cheap," the ideas we featured this year shrug off that perception by proving how well-designed residences can come as a kit of parts, an arrangement of modules, or a panelized system, and can be made of everything from CNC-milled engineered lumber to corrugated steel.

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