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Langarita-Navarro design getaway home in Tarfia with sawtooth roof

Avontuura

The lead character in this project is an extraordinary coastal landscape; thick, rugged, and impregnable, resisting the assaults of the Atlantic winds. The post Langarita-Navarro design getaway home in Tarfia with sawtooth roof appeared first on Åvontuura.

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This double-curved roof house by Mecanoo is covered in slick multicolored tiles

Archinect

Mecanoo has designed a distinctive residence with a striking double-curved roof and ceramic tile-covered façade in Schoorl, a village in northern Holland. Called Villa BW, it spans three floors, with an additional level within the hood of the roof. Image: Ossip van Duivenbode, courtesy Mecanoo.

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Atelier Bow-Wow’s first U.S. home features a large ‘umbrella’ roof in the Sierra Nevadas

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The acclaimed Japanese firm Atelier Bow-Wow has completed its first and only home built in the United States. ” Image credit: Kat Alves for Sotheby's International Realty Image credit: Kat Alves for Sotheby's International Realty The entrance-facing facade is designed to be unassuming a.

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Proctor & Shaw tops London home extension with serrated zinc roof

Deezen

Architecture studio Proctor & Shaw has topped a home extension with a steeply-angled roof clad with red pigmented zinc in East Dulwich, London. Home to a family of seven, Proctor & Shaw designed the project as an extension to an existing Edwardian house, extending the ground-floor kitchen and dining room.

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This Landscape Architect Disguised His Backyard Addition in Sydney With a Green Roof

Dwell

The house is for a landscape architect and his family, and the garden was a central focus from the beginning of the process. The roof to the living space is densely planted and its concrete structure provides enough depth for the plants to thrive.

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This Arizona Home Uses the Desert Landscape as "Living Art"

Dwell

A patio complete with infinity pool, firepit, spectacular mountain views, and a seriously-cool outdoor heater makes this mountainside home a dream for year-round entertaining. Driving the design of the 6,000-square-foot home is an awe-inspiring cantilevered butterfly roof crafted from structural steel.

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Eight buildings with inverted-pitched roofs that resemble butterfly wings

Deezen

An angular English home extension and a timber-clad Guatemalan retreat feature in our roundup of buildings with butterfly roofs. Otherwise known as inverted-pitched roofs, the V-shaped structures take their name from the angled form of a butterfly's wings. Here are eight buildings with butterfly roofs from the Dezeen archive.

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