Dwell

MARCH 12, 2024

The desert city of Scottsdale, Arizona, is set within the sprawling Sonoran Desert and overlooked by the majestic McDowell Mountains, so it’s no surprise that this spectacular landscape plays a pivotal role in shaping much of the area’s architecture. Modern Sunset House is located on 14 acres of hillside.

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Archinect

JANUARY 26, 2024

“The architects immersed the concrete and glass house in the landscape so that a series of green rooftop terraces gently step down from the street to the river below.” ” – Architectural Record The roof is the first thing you’ll see when arriving by the windy road from a cliff above.

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Deezen

MARCH 23, 2024

An angular roof wrapped in translucent red-mesh panels crowns this Y-shaped pavilion in Sydney , designed by local studio Sam Crawford Architects. The building is raised on a low-lying concrete step The red-mesh roof pitches towards the building edges and is designed to provide solar protection to clerestory windows along the facade.

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Deezen

JANUARY 24, 2022

Salt Lake City architecture studio Imbue Design has built a house outside Zion National Park in Utah with sweeping views of one of the USA's most renowned landscapes. The cabin sits against the Utah landscape. Interior spaces offer views of the landscape. The photography is by Miranda Kimberlin. Geotech: AGEC.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

An oversized stepped roof that doubles as an "amphitheatre for the city" tops BBT Hilltop, a burger restaurant in Kuwait City designed by architecture studio TAEP/AAP. Above, the overhanging roof provides additional seating as well as a flexible events space that TAEP/AAP designed to be used for outdoor cinemas, parties and concerts.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Anji Culture and Art Center will be defined by a series of curving canopy roofs that were designed to look like scattered bamboo leaves. Its roofs were designed to look like scattered leaves The interior will be arranged beneath the overlapping metal roofs and organised around a central corridor that divides the main event spaces.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2023

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. The photography is by Dror Baldinger.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

After Junya Ishigami unveiled a kilometre-long art museum that emerges from an artificial lake , Dezeen rounds up 10 recent Chinese architecture projects that play with arresting landscapes. The crossing connects two areas of wetland and features a planted central area as well as seating, play spaces and a sculptural pavilion.

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Deezen

AUGUST 15, 2023

Landscape studio James Corner Field Operations has created a roof garden with 23,000 plants and 55 trees on top of a Foster + Partners -designed residential building alongside Battersea Power Station in London. At night, residents can continue to enjoy the roof garden thanks to subtle lighting within the landscaping.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The tower's rational form contains office, auditorium, and tenant amenity space, including the Doosan History Museum and a café that opens up to the landscaped roof terrace. Glass facades allow plentiful daylight into the interior space while limiting solar gain through vertical and horizontal exterior shading devices.

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Deezen

JANUARY 12, 2024

Infrastructure consultants AECOM and Spanish architecture studio Luis Vidal + Architects have created a terminal for Boston 's Logan Airport capped by a long, bright-red roof. The project adds 390,000 square feet (36,232 square metres) of space to Logan International Airport. The photography is by Ema Peter.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Image credit: Atchain, courtesy of KPF Externally, the 635-foot-tall tapered tower is defined by a glass facade containing terraces on all office floors. Image credit: Atchain, courtesy of KPF At the base of the tower, a podium holds retail spaces, bicycle, and car parking, and a landscaped roof accessed by a restaurant.

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Architizer

AUGUST 9, 2023

Architecture shapes how we move through space. These “roof walks” are a response to unique environmental, social and urban conditions. Understood as a series of moments, they are found the world-over, dynamic spaces discovered in sequence. The design includes a 5.4-acre

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Hebra Arquitectos elevates a remote retreat on columns to minimize its impact on the surrounding landscape. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. This space’s sensation of openness was achieved by carrying out three design operations.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Roofs are one of the most defining elements of architecture. Providing shelter, controlling light and balancing temperature, they shape our perception of space and what we experience. As the most iconic roof form, the gable is the result of intersecting roof pitches. Not all glass gables are meant to be enclosed.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 21, 2022

London studio Hayhurst & Co has completed the Edith Neville Primary School near King's Cross, with pockets of landscape and external play spaces wrapped by a filigree screen of white aluminium mesh. This was slightly lowered to create space for rooms above. It was designed as a school in a park.

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Habitus Living

AUGUST 13, 2023

Their brief was simple: to provide a contemporary and timeless four-bedroom home which champions the landscape, one that is as equally well suited to entertaining as their day-to-day rituals,” says Ed Davis, principal at Davis Architects. The space acts as a generously extended threshold to become something of a pavilion in its own right.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. All rooms overlook the open landscape to the west and have access to the large covered terrace. The wooden structure of the roof forms a greenhouse on the first floor.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Local studio Geddes Ulinskas Architects has completed an expansive home in Cow Hollow, San Francisco with indoor-outdoor spaces, a cast glass staircase and stone detailing. The Cow Hollow home is defined by indoor-outdoor spaces. "We Geddes Ulinskas Architects added wood-wrapped roof eaves to the structure.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Think Zaha Hadid Architect ’s expressive Al Janoub Stadium in Qatar or Paris’s Tennis De La Cavalerie, with its magnificent timber diagrid roof. Yet sports spaces are far more than just centers of spectacle or physical activity. A lightweight suspen-dome roof rests on the building’s inner bowl.

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designboom

OCTOBER 25, 2022

the relationship of the spaces to the surrounding landscape is indirect and is mediated by a double facade of glass and perforated metal panels, The post inclined roof dotted with abstract shapes tops office KGDVS’ crematorium in belgium appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2023

Studio Symbiosis has completed a villa in Delhi, India , that rises up from its landscaped grounds, forming a terraced roof that is covered with plants to maximise the site's green area. The brief called for the creation of a generous garden and the preservation of three large trees, which contributes to the overall green space.

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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.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Chinese studio MUDA Architects has designed a lakeside bookshop in Chengdu featuring a roof that resembles an upturned book and windows that extend below the water level. The building has a curved roof. The primary entrance at one end of the building opens into a reception area and gallery space that connects with the central hall.

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Deezen

MAY 7, 2024

Chinese studio More Architecture used a large zigzagging roof to shelter Floating Hotel, which is dramatically positioned among the bamboo forests and mountains of Dachangping, China. Floating Hotel is perched on a grid of steel columns, raised above an open ground floor containing a swimming pool and administrative spaces.

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Deezen

JUNE 30, 2022

Named JINS Park, the shop in Gunma Prefecture was designed to act as a space for the community to gather whether they are shopping in the store or not. Yuko Nagayama & Associates has created a glasses shop in Maebashi. "We Timber units were used to display glasses. The trapezoidal building is topped with a roof terrace.

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Deezen

JUNE 6, 2022

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. But looking at the wider area where this house is built the strictly controlled landscaping and city planning worked out very well.". "But

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2023

Architecture practice Studio Zhu-Pei drew on traditional Chinese architecture to create the sweeping concrete roofs and stone walls of the Zibo OCT Art Centre in the eastern province of Shandong. In between these blocks, a number of alleyway-like spaces between the high masonry walls are sheltered by the oversized eaves of the concrete roofs.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

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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Dwell

MAY 12, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The building is organized around a repeating grid of slender quadripartite columns that frame views and support a lightweight trussed roof structure. "The Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A wavy, tiled roof formed by intersecting catenary vaults shelters this lakeside restaurant , designed by Bangalore-based Play Architecture for the Deva Dhare Resort in Karnataka, India. The Deva Dhare Restaurant is topped with a vaulted tiled roof. Four glass-covered openings under the wavy roof offer views of the surroundings.

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Deezen

JULY 19, 2023

British studio Hopkins Architects has added an indoor tennis centre with an undulating timber-coated roof to the All England Lawn Tennis Club at Wimbledon , UK. It has an undulating timber-coated roof The building contains six indoor courts within a partially timber-clad structure punctuated by white, Y-shaped columns.

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Deezen

AUGUST 26, 2022

There are practically no doors in this Hawaii retreat by Craig Steely Architecture that has a triangular inner courtyard , massive skylight and a cantilevered roof. Though the low-slung roof is quadrilateral, the living areas were placed in a rounded triangular floor plan. Musubi has a triangular layout. "The

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Architizer

MAY 22, 2024

But what about when the setting, the landscape onto and into which we build, is utilized as an integral part of the structure? They are a continuation of landscapes reimagined as materials. We’ve looked at a number of highly technical projects, nevertheless materials have usually been natural, or as natural as possible.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Jenny Peysin Architecture has completed a house in the Hamptons with a poured-in-place concrete envelope and a glazed living space. Completed in 2019 on the eastern end of Long Island , New York, the 8,300-square foot (770-square metre) home has a board-formed mass with punched windows, natural materials and light-filled spaces.

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The Spaces

JANUARY 24, 2022

The cabin is a modern prefab that looks directly onto the frozen landscape – featuring an aqua-blue lake and snowcapped mountains in the distance – through its floor-to-ceiling glass walls. The post This Icelandic cabin is a sleek space to watch the Northern Lights appeared first on The Spaces. Photography: Airbnb.

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The Spaces

AUGUST 4, 2022

Not a Hotel Ishigaki blurs the boundaries between indoors and outdoors with its circular design and meadow-covered roof, appearing from above like a divet in the grass. It is situated to make the most of the nearby ocean views, with the shorefront side of the hotel wrapped in a wall of glass that opens up to the outside.

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