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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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Farm buildings inform Sonoma ADU by Schwartz and Architecture

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The ADU is part of a family estate During the design process, they looked to farm structures that dot Sonoma Valley, many of which are dilapidated and have "their own strange elegance", the team said. A portion of the roof is sliced away to form a linear skylight that stretches from the public space to the bedroom.

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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. Other projects recently completed in downtown Seattle include a metal-wrapped university building by Miller Hull and a pediatric clinic by NBBJ.

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SO-IL designs Massachusetts museum with undulating CLT roof

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Architecture studio SO-IL has unveiled designs for the Williams College Museum of Art in the Berkshires , which will be topped with a tent-like cross-laminated timber roof. The undulating cross-laminated timber roof will be laid atop these volumes, unifying them below. Its undulating shape was informed by the surrounding hilly terrain.

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Atkins reveals design for Nairobi Central Station informed by defensive enclosures

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International studio Atkins is set to renovate the central station in Nairobi , Kenya, adding canopies that were informed by central African Boma enclosures. Built alongside the station, which was one of the first stone structures in the city, the main canopy will open onto a redeveloped square. Project credits: Architect: Atkins.

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Niall McLaughlin Architects creates glasshouse-informed steel pavilion on the Isle of Wight

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Stirling Prize-winning studio Niall McLaughlin Architects has completed a prefabricated steel-framed home with a pyramidal copper roof overlooking a tidal saltmarsh on the Isle of Wight. The home is characterised by four pyramidal ridges of deep brown patinated copper which form its roof.

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Japanese architecture informs design of Minnesota house by Salmela Architect

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The project, called Fifty-Acre Wood, is located in Stillwater – a historic town located along the St Croix River, just beyond Minneapolis. The design draws upon two references: a cluster of shed-roof agricultural buildings and a Japanese courtyard house with sheltered, exterior walkways. Project credits: Architect: Salmela Architect.