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This French fixer-upper boasts a barrel-vaulted glass roof

The Spaces

A weathered stone staircase connects each level of the house, and a glass-roofed garden room is at the rear. One of the more inspiring spaces is the gallery, crowned by a glass and timber barrel-vaulted roof with a neo-gothic stone balustrade.

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The DHaus Company revamps London house with butterfly-roof extension

Deezen

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. The DHaus Company has created an extension with a butterfly roof "The butterfly roof is visually striking," The DHaus Company told Dezeen.

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Specht Architects creates austere glass house in the Berkshires

Deezen

Specht Architects has designed a symmetrical glass pavilion in The Berkshires in Massachusetts that was created as a residence and a place to showcase antiques. The axial approach includes replanted natural grasses The roof extends to create a 15-foot (4.5-metre) The terrace is natural concrete.

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Klein Dytham Architecture wraps Karuizawa Commongrounds Bookstore with "flowing" steel roof

Deezen

Tokyo-based studio Klein Dytham Architecture has designed a bookstore wrapped with an undulating steel roof resembling "outstretched arms" in Nagano, Japan. Named Karuizawa Commongrounds Bookstore, the 495-square-metre bookstore is an extension of a two-storey building previously used as a seminar house by Tokyo's Aoyama Gakuin University.

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A Brick and Glass Extension Telescopes Out Across the Roof of a London Home

Dwell

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Suddenly the family were outgrowing their house and needed more space and a refuge from the rest of the busy youth-filled household. The existing roof tiles were retained and reused to minimize waste.

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Laura Killam Architecture tops beachside cabin with slanted roof in Canada

Deezen

Vancouver studio Laura Killam Architecture has created a beachside cabin in British Columbia with a slanted roof that responds to the site's climate. The 650-square-foot (60-square metre) cabin is organised into two offset volumes that are connected by an interior passageway while a tilted, cedar-shingled roof covers the structure.

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Villa K2 is a timber-clad house with a multi-pitched roof

Deezen

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. The bungalow is intended to fit into the existing neighbourhood, which comprises detached houses built alongside a series of manmade waterways.

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