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. Above, this curved ceiling forms a sloped roof terrace filled with plants, which is situated off the main bedroom on the upper floor. The photography is by Tom Ferguson.

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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. 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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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". Both buildings also have mass timber frames, wooden interior finishes and brick facades.

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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. The roofs – composed of two triangular planes each that slope toward the centre – collect rainwater and redirect it to river-rock basins.

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Deezen

MARCH 28, 2024

US studio Michael Hennessey Architecture has revitalised an ageing suburban house near San Francisco , adding black cladding and bright finishes to form a family home that bridges the past, present and future. The roof is covered in standing-seam metal. The ground level contains a family room and a garage.

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Habitus Living

MARCH 10, 2024

A staircase was erected to the roof cavity, that serves as a ‘relaxation zone’. The façade is heavily insulated with double-glazed windows, and where the large areas of glazing are provided, sculptural pavilion roofs were introduced to shade the windows from direct sunlight. Indaco’ and ‘Baia’ Windows.

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2023

The project's exterior material palette references the surrounding agricultural area with whitewashed cedar siding and an aluminium standing-seam roof. Read: Ryall Sheridan raises Wetlands House above coastal site on New York's Long Island This airy living room has west-facing windows that overlook the adjacent tree farm.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Completed in 2022 in the municipality of David Canabarro, Casa Trapézios – or the Trapezium House – is formed by two juxtaposed trapezoidal sections arranged back-to-back in a "reinterpretation of the gabled roof archetype". This conjunction of materials and shapes gives to Trapezium House the feel of a country house," the studio said.

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Dwell

JANUARY 4, 2024

It’s slotted in a row of brick residences but connects with the outdoors via the screens, glazing at the rear, and a skylight roof. The site now sits between two-story brick houses with pitched tile roofs built in the 2000s and already sub-divided into flats. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2023

It uses a blackened stained finish on its facade. Employing the Japanese aesthetic philosophy of wabi-sabi – the beauty of the imperfect and incomplete – the north volume uses a natural cedar finish while on the south volume, the cedar has been stained black. The home is topped with a green roof. Photo is by Lucy Call.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2023

The studio renovated the finishes and restored some of the original layouts. Each of the home's windows is unique — including narrow vertical fenestrations, triple arches, multicoloured "dalle de verre", cross-reeded privacy windows, domed skylights and floor-to-ceiling plate glass. Mechanical engineer : Monterey Energy Group.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2023

On the roof, a large terrace with an additional table, seating area and outdoor kitchen is surrounded by trees and sheltered beneath a metal pergola. There is a large roof terrace. Flooded with light from the full-height windows during the day, at night concealed strips of lighting bring an atmospheric feel to the interiors.

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Deezen

JULY 6, 2023

"The 24-acre property had been neglected for more than a decade, so our work involved refreshing finishes, opening under-lit spaces to the landscape, solving sources of water damage, and shaping a landscape to unify the domestic complex," said In Situ Studio founder Matt Griffin. The photography is by Cristóbal Palma.

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Deezen

JANUARY 31, 2022

The interiors of the home are finished with natural materials. "It For example, in the ground floor kitchen, the studio preserved a couple of structural masonry walls to evade having to replace them with supportive frames made from energy-intensive resources such as steel. The house's original timber roof has been preserved.

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Deezen

JUNE 26, 2023

Down one side, a series of steps finished in the same pigment offer outdoor seating and leads to open spaces at the top of the garden, where softer landscaping accommodates safer play for the client's children. The open living space extends towards the front of the house, where a bay window frames views of the front garden.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Read: Michael Hsu converts 1930s Austin church into spacious design office Bright finishes and high-quality lighting help create a feeling of spaciousness – particularly in areas where the ceiling height is just under eight feet (2.4-metres). In the open work area, original roof trusses were left exposed.

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2022

This standard was met by creating a heavily insulated external envelope for the dwelling, teamed with a Passivhaus-rated front door and triple glazed windows and roof lights. All the windows are triple glazed. Structural engineer: Osbourne Edwards. Douglas fir and spruce detailing features throughout.

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Deezen

AUGUST 26, 2022

The building's two wings are topped with green roofs planted with drought tolerant native species. These roof gardens help to collect excess rainwater that is used in the dwelling. The interiors are predominantly clad in timber sheeting chosen to provide a warm and natural finish without requiring additional finishing.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The pronounced topography provides the building with spectacular views of the city, so we incorporated windows that rotated on an imaginary axis at the corner of the building, which allowed each apartment to take advantage of those views," the team told Dezeen. On the interior, finishes are clean and simple The panels – each 3.15

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2022

Large windows and skylights illuminate the upper level. The upper level contains the main suite, an office and a roof terrace. Interior finishes include white oak flooring with a "purposefully pronounced grain", painted sheetrock walls and grey bathroom tiles. The largest window is 11 feet wide and 10 feet tall (3.3

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2023

While parts of the Floating House are enclosed by wood-framed windows, around 70 per cent of its spaces are left open to the outside, including cantilevering balconies and a rooftop terrace. It is elevated above ground to mitigate the impacts of flooding "We composed the house as three slabs floating above the ground," explained SDA.

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Deezen

JULY 18, 2022

The primary living volume is under the gable roof on the first floor. Standing-seam metal covers the roof. Ample glazing in the main suite – including a large window and bathroom skylight – offers an ever-changing interplay of light and shadow, the team said. Structural engineer: GOGO Structural Engineers.

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Deezen

JUNE 8, 2022

Stretching across a flat site, the house consists of intersecting, gabled volumes and a flat-roofed, pavilion-like volume in the rear. Large window openings are screened with wood slats to provide seclusion from the neighbours and admit filtered light into interior spaces," the team said. Windows open the home to the mountains beyond.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The house is resolved on three floors with a steel structure, an element that orders and organizes all the structural decisions. The directionality of the windows responds to the curvature of the corrugated sheets on the subfloor, making their connection appear much more harmonious.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Typical to apartments at the time, the existing floor plan presented a clear division between living and bedroom/ bathing spaces, and original large windows provided ample natural light and effective ventilation. The void reveals glimpses of previously concealed timber structure and frames an everchanging view of the sky. Post it here.

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Deezen

MARCH 3, 2022

In particular, it draws upon design principal Jim Olson's personal cabin in rural Washington, which features rectilinear volumes, overhanging roofs and a subdued colour palette. Flat, overhanging roofs shade patios and large stretches of glass. Visually speaking, the roofs contribute to the home's low, horizontal stature.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The structure was created simply by installing a roof over the RC foundation deeply rooted underground. Structural calculations dictate the roof slope of a 60-degree-angle to withstand the snow load. The interior is filled with natural light from a big triangle window. The triangular prism in nature. Team Members.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Structural Engineer: Structure Workshop / @ structure.workshop Photographers: Jim Stephenson / @ clickclickjim and Richard Chivers / @ richchiversphoto From the Architect: " Our clients founded Sussex Prairie Gardens, an eight-acre public garden, in 2008.

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Deezen

MARCH 6, 2023

While the renovation did not expand the footprint, unused attic space was extended from the top floor to the sloped, charcoal-coloured standing-seam metal roof. White walls provide a flat relief for the textured surfaces that feature Marakesh wall finish. The photography is by David Dworkind.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

This home at the foot of Camelback Mountain in Arizona has been thoroughly renovated by 180 Degrees Design + Build and CBTWO Architects with updated finishes and a new double-height living room. The team completely re-clad the exterior of the 4,930-square-foot (458-square-metre) home in a white stucco finish. Design team: James Trahan.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

The Refuge has a curved concrete roof that spans across the length of the pavilion. They are then used as a finish for the insulated inner shell of the pavilion.". The concrete roof of the pool house extends over an outside patio and curves around the pavilion. Structural engineer: Util. Windows: Allaert Aluminium.

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Deezen

MARCH 13, 2023

Interior finishes on this floor include walnut cabinetry and concrete flooring. Read: Sparano + Mooney positions cedar home over canyon in Utah To make the dining room feel like it extends outdoors, the team clad both the ceiling and adjoining roof soffit in plywood. Similarly, the concrete flooring continues outdoors to a patio.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Each of these blocks is topped by a steel butterfly roof, raised above the walls to provide natural ventilation and airflow through grille-like spaces and to facilitate the collection of rainwater into nearby tanks. Structural engineer: AECOM. Read: Termite mounds inform Kéré Architecture's design of Kenyan education campus.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Redwood surfaces and structural elements complete the warm interior landscape: from the sloping roof beams to partition walls and built-in shelves," the studio said. To the right is the library where sunlight from the large window brightens the dark panelling and sculptural furniture. Orama sliding window systems: Cooritalia.

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Deezen

JANUARY 8, 2022

The design draws upon two references: a cluster of shed-roof agricultural buildings and a Japanese courtyard house with sheltered, exterior walkways. Each of the five structures is positioned according to function, solar orientation and relationship to specific features of the landscape," the firm said.

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Deezen

JANUARY 24, 2022

"In this aspect, all structures are organised around an identity that emphasises the scenic surroundings as the primary active element," the studio said. Large windows offer views from the dining hall. The buildings' structural systems are made mostly of wood, with some steel columns and beams. Photo by Tim Street-Porter.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Owners and architects Saga Karlsson and Edouard Boisse designed their lakeside retreat with a matte finish that goes with the greens of spring or a winter whiteout. Upon arrival, internal large windows across the front façade blur the boundary between inside and out. Have one to share? Post it here.

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