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Zooco creates ‘Brutalism over the sea’ with Spanish restaurant inside renovated 1970s concrete structure

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Madrid-based studio Zooco has completed an extensive renovation and extension of a 1970s concrete structure in Santander, Spain. Image credit: David Zarzoso Image credit: David Zarzoso The original concrete structure sees two square forms connected by a canopy.

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

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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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4 Solutions for Roofs without Eaves (and their Construction Details)

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Image © Sergio Camplone In his Robie House , Frank Lloyd Wright created an ingenious arrangement of public and private spaces that slowly moving away from the street through a series of horizontal planes. But for some time now, we have seen plenty of projects with sloping roofs without eaves, forming pure and unornamented volumes.

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The DHaus Company revamps London house with butterfly-roof extension

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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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360 House by Studio MBM / Maurizio Bianchi Mattioli

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360 house is located atop a hill in the secluded back woods of Park City, Utah. Four structural volumes disrupt the concentric windows and separate the floor plan into flexible rooms defined by the roof geometry. 2800 SF round footprint is enveloped by a glazed skin to maximize the impressive mountain views.

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Eight buildings with inverted-pitched roofs that resemble butterfly wings

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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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Timber structure defines compact bio-based home in the Netherlands

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Amsterdam studio Woonpioniers has used natural materials and prefabricated elements throughout the Sprout Ruben & Marjolein house , which includes an open, greenhouse-like volume. For this prototype, which is located in Olst, Woonpioniers created a small house comprising a two-storey volume topped with a mono-pitched roof.

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