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

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. The sand-coloured stone was extracted only 20 minutes from the rural site. The span of the roof was determined by the length of eucalyptus beams available at the local market.

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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

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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Deezen

MARCH 10, 2023

"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. The vertical, white-wood cladding and standing-seam metal roof reference regional agrarian buildings, but with contemporary refinement.

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Deezen

MAY 2, 2024

Architecture studio Elding Oscarson has extended the National Swedish Museum of Technology with Wisdome Stockholm, a timber building topped by a curving roof that bulges over a dome inside. Topping the rectangular building is an asymmetrical roof that bulges and curves over the visualisation dome inside.

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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. Envisioned as a home that embraces the outdoors, the residence is composed of four structures housing the home’s separate functions. Have one to share? P ost it here.

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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. The internal ceiling battens are made using an Ash facing piece with a softwood core to allow the battens to follow the roof curve," said Mawson.

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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

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.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2024

Nowhere has renovated a house in Hyderabad called Mayalogili Alongside brick and marble dust, the studio also used plants and soil from the site to create tactile internal finishes that "weave in the materiality of the landscape", it said. The photography is by Vivek Eadara.

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Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2023

Local practice Platform 5 Architects has completed NW10 House, a family home on an infill site in north London with exposed concrete interiors and a textured brick exterior. Centred around a skylit, concrete spiral stair, the home's spaces fan out to fill the triangular site, overlooking a paved terrace that wraps its eastern edge.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Located off the Bundesautobahn 72 motorway to the east of Leipzig, the centre sits alongside a new educational trail that celebrates the Leubinger Fürstenhügel site, which is one of the region's most important archaeological monuments. Read: Curving larch wood buildings with green roofs form school extension in Germany.

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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. The roof features a rounded triangle roof opening made of aluminium. The materials are durable and designed to weather over time.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Desai Chai Architects chose an uphill spot for the home's siting "The clients wanted flexibility to use their home as an extension of their gallery and leave portions of the site open for rotating and site-specific outdoor installations," the studio said. The team was mindful of managing rainwater on the site.

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Deezen

JANUARY 31, 2022

The building is oriented east to west and is positioned at a point where the site slopes upwards, allowing the church to be raised above the plaza in front of it. Sixty aluminium fins uniformly distributed along the building's length form the walls, roof and tower. Structure consultant: Hejie Architectural Consultant.

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Deezen

MARCH 18, 2022

Designed for a growing family, the House in Xalapa is a three-storey structure set against a backdrop of lush vegetation. The 528-square-metre residence sits on a slight slope that is mirrored in the angles of its roof. A roof terrace is hidden from view among the gable shapes. Black marble floors match the dark exterior.

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2022

Glazed brick and charred cypress wrap the exterior of a partly sunken North Carolina home designed by architecture firm In Situ Studio. The site formerly held a run-down, 1940s dwelling that was owned by the clients. It also has its own exterior entrance, allowing visitors to easily come and go. Contractor: Arrowhead.

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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. Reusing the rubble as a sub-base for the 330-foot (100-metre) long building, nARCHITECTS designed "a poignant transformation of a site previously defined by the presence of thousands of vehicles," the studio said.

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Dwell

MAY 17, 2023

The original architecture explored a garden-court concept: three detached structures around a generous enclosed garden inspired by Latin American courtyards. The slope to the west allowed a low-profile addition to be placed just low enough to maintain lake views across its roof from the main house.

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Deezen

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. During the project's inception, designers from Manhattan's Desai Chia Architecture visited the site in different seasons to understand the climate and terrain.

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Archinect

AUGUST 16, 2023

The Stories at City Modern is part of a four-block development by Bedrock that consists of four renovated Victorian homes and 19 new structures—a mix of townhomes and midrise apartment buildings comprising 400 individual dwellings. These are accompanied by Atas standing-seam metal panels, used for the roof and cladding.

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Deezen

MARCH 16, 2022

Historic structures including a silo building and an old factory have been incorporated into the University of the Arts Helsinki's new home, which was designed by local architecture studio JKMM. The complex is comprised of a silo, an old factory and a new brick structure. The building features raw materials throughout.

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Deezen

APRIL 2, 2024

million square foot (116,1300-square metre) structure – including 275,000 square feet (25,550 square metres) of interior space – to modernize the complex and add contemporary amenities and hospitality offerings, as well as transform the racetrack into a multi-purpose venue for both racing and non-racing events.

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2022

US studio Heliotrope Architects has minimized site disturbances while creating a cedar -clad holiday home on a wooded hillside in the Pacific Northwest. The clients initially tapped Seattle's Heliotrope Architects to consult on the site selection and then hired the firm to design the dwelling itself. "We

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Deezen

JULY 15, 2022

Rather than opting for a new-build house like so many of the other properties nearby, the owners asked A202 Arhitekti to develop a proposal that would retain the character of the existing pitched-roof dwelling while adapting it for modern living. The studio added a timber extension to an existing structure. Architektura d.o.o

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Deezen

APRIL 16, 2024

Telugu Medium is located in the Jubilee Hills neighbourhood and housed in a vaulted structure of exposed brick and concrete, designed to suit the area's arid climate and reference its vernacular architecture. These finishes are combined with minimal furniture made of dark wood, chosen by the studio to be "timeless, simple, and evocative".

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Deezen

APRIL 17, 2024

Located alongside a dyke on a coastal promenade in Sankt Peter-Ording, the centre contains event spaces, a shop and restaurant and lookout points, housed in a series of "cubes" that slot into the structure's gridded framework. metre timber grid, elevated on concrete pile foundations due to the site's status as a flood protection zone.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 9, 2024

This repetition continues into the residence and is then transitioned into voids in the roof between rooms, subtly separating the spaces and allowing for penetrating light. The common spaces radiate around a fireplace which conceals existing columns needed to maintain the structure. Source by zyme studios.

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Deezen

APRIL 14, 2023

Aron Himmelfarb, founder of design studio Auver, has created a tasting room with a glulam structure wrapped in Corten steel , which adjoins a craft brewery in Hudson Valley , New York. Corten steel wraps the exterior Himmelfarb was informed by the site's natural landscape and traditional hospitality settings when designing the tasting room.

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JANUARY 18, 2022

Sreenidhi’s Residence Making Structure. The roof will be fitted and waterproofed once the walls and roof framework have been completed. The brick masonry will entail the rendering and painting of the exterior walls. Archana’s Residence Making Structure. Project Type: Contemporary style.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Compact bedrooms for adults and kids are located at opposite ends of the house while a tarpaulin-like roof strings them together, providing luminous social spaces in between. The soothing macrocarpa interior, the central stone fireplace and broad windows beautifully complement the tranquil exterior. Photos by Jeremy Toth.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2022

Brazilian architecture studio Debaixo do Bloco Arquitetura has built a concrete home in Brasília made up of three volumes, each lit by a central light well carved out of its angular roof. Each of the volumes has an angular roof that pitches towards the centre, forming a light well. Wood flooring features inside.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Named after the community where it is located, the Cotton Patch Hills House sits on an oceanfront site in Bethany Beach, Delaware. For a sandy site that faces the water, the team created a rectilinear, three-storey building that totals 5,842 square feet (542 square metres). The staircase is made of white oak and steel.

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Deezen

MARCH 16, 2024

The cabin's exterior has been clad with black-metal panels with standing seams Sanina Arch Club and its sister studio Gubar Architects set Krasnyk House on a concrete plinth at the top of a steeply sloping site. A central wooden staircase separates the living space from a bedroom to the east and leads up to an attic bedroom.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

River Bend Residence is a tranquil home designed to sit lightly upon the land, minimising disruption to the site and existing trees," said Lake Flato Architects , which has offices in San Antonio and Austin. The buildings are topped with tall, pyramidal hipped roofs. A portion of the dwelling is lifted above the site by concrete piers.

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