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Biomorphic Overhead: 7 Glass Ceilings That Imitate Nature

Architizer

By design, glass ceilings tend to attract attention to themselves. Their functional purposes are fairly limited, and their shortcomings can be sizable (depending on how good the glass is at insulating), but we keep building them because they’re just so appealing. Click here to sign up for our Jobs Newsletter. .

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Architectural Drawings: 6 Architectural Roof Walks Reaching New Heights

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Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters. These “roof walks” are a response to unique environmental, social and urban conditions. Drawn from a diverse range of scales and programs, the following roof walks reimagine the roof plane in projects both large and small.

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Webber + Studio restore a 1960s midcentury home in Austin

The Spaces

Over in its dining room, there’s a mezzanine and double-height glass walls with courtyard views. It also has a double-aspect master bedroom and a sunroom capped with roof trusses that capture elevated foliage views. Frank Lloyd-inspired Vancouver home lists for $5m CAD. Photography: Kuper/ Sotheby’s International Realty.

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Vintage Christmas Collectors Have Inspired a Revival

Dwell

She’s got cupboards stuffed with Santa mugs and slightly creepy ceramic angels , a mantle display of old glass tree-toppers , and a "gang" of plywood Santas artfully placed behind her living room sofa. I like how it looks, and I like the whimsy it inspires." I just like the old stuff," Romanaggi says. "I

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Dezeen Awards China Interiors project of the year "preserves built history"

Deezen

Instead, the practice adopted an "anti-siheyuan" approach, creating loose "sub-spaces" by removing all walls and partitions and substituting many of them with glass. Decorative materials were also removed to reveal the building's original triangular timber roof trusses and wooden columns.

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Studio Octopi adds mint-green extension to Georgian house in London

Deezen

This might be through restoration or oblique references to past histories uncovered through detailed research of the place," explained Romer-Lee. For example, the extension's vertical banding was determined by the glass house that used to span the full width of the property at the rear," he continued.

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Eight homes with light-filled kitchens from Australia to Slovenia

Deezen

These light-filled kitchens feature different finishes, including marble , concrete , wood and glass , but are joined together by the sunlight that streams through their large windows, glazed doors or skylights. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive.

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