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KPMB tops horticultural centre with roof informed by Fibonacci spirals

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A spiralling cable-net roof modelled in the image of a Fibonacci sequence tops a new public greenhouse designed by Canadian studio KPMB Architects in Winnipeg. The centre's roof significantly impacted the design and takes the form of a Fibonacci spiral The building's unique roof was a crucial part of the design.

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Hopkins Architects tops Wimbledon tennis courts with sweeping racket-informed roof

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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. "The

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Piuarch tops Fendi factory with green roof to blend into Tuscan landscape

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Italian architecture studio Piuarch has completed a production factory for fashion brand Fendi in Florence , which features a green roof to "look like a raised garden". Located in the municipality of Bagno a Ripoli, Piuarch collaborated with landscape architect Antonio Perazzi to design a factory that would resemble its surroundings.

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COA Arquitectura tops Mexico winery with sawtooth roof

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Mexican studio COA Arquitectura has enclosed a winery outside of Guadalajara with a corrugated steel sawtooth roof and rammed earth walls. Informed by the agricultural buildings of the area, each building is enclosed in rammed earth walls that are freestanding, square or C-shaped and in-filled with metal and wood.

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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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Farm buildings inform Sonoma ADU by Schwartz and Architecture

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Their original, steeply sloped roofs are now drooping into low-slung structures, peeling apart, allowing in unexpected puddles of natural light, and revealing fragments of their interior framing to the outside elements," the team said. From the road, the home appears relatively conventional," the team said.

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Hewitt creates residential tower in Seattle informed by stack of magazines

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Local architecture studio Hewitt has unveiled the 33-storey-high Skyglass residential block in downtown Seattle , which was informed by an offset stack of magazines. The apartment shave full-height glazing Its form also creates views of the surrounding natural landscape of Seattle, which she describes as an important influence.