BD+C

JUNE 5, 2023

How to properly assess structural wind damage 0 dbarista Mon, 06/05/2023 - 16:17 Engineers Properly assessing wind damage can identify vulnerabilities in a building's design or construction, which could lead to future damage or loss, writes Matt Wagner, SE, Principal and Managing Director with Walter P Moore.

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Architizer

AUGUST 9, 2023

While these patterns of circulation are usually reserved for inside a building or structure, they also extend to roofscapes. These “roof walks” are a response to unique environmental, social and urban conditions. Architecture and landscape come together three-dimensionally.

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Deezen

MAY 29, 2023

Chinese practice Wang Chong Studio used rustic stone walls and a sloping roof to help this art museum blend into its rocky site in China's Henan Province. Taihang Xinyu Art Museum was designed by Wang Chong Studio The architects also topped the museum with a sculptural tiled roof designed to appear to grow out of the landscape.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Chinese practice Arch Studio has renovated and extended a courtyard home called Mixed House on the outskirts of Beijing , China, by inserting a timber structure topped by a wavy roof. Arch Studio has renovated a courtyard home near Beijing. A timber-framed extension has been added. The interior blends old and new elements.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The project transformed 12 acres of concrete parking lot into a sustainable structure and resilient landscape with native plants. The design includes a sawtooth mass timber roof that references the adjacent ocean waves and terracotta-coloured flooring that nods to the former brick bathhouse. Structural engineer: Silman.

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Architizer

JANUARY 17, 2023

The relationship between built and organic landscapes can sometimes be a fraught one. These exceptional winning landscape projects from the 10 th Annual A+Awards achieve precisely that. Heritage roofs in the region utilize overlapping tiles and the same design is employed here across a number of striking water features.

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Deezen

JULY 31, 2022

US studio Desai Chia Architecture designed a highly sculptural, waterfront home wrapped in concrete and charred cypress that has vaulted roofs resembling wings. Roughly rectangular in plan, the dwelling has cutouts, cantilevers and multiple sloped roofs that combine in a sculptural way. Oak trees protect the home from glare and heat.

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Deezen

MAY 18, 2022

Search engine company Google has opened its BIG and Heatherwick Studio -designed Bay View campus in California's Silicon Valley , which features sweeping, scale-like panels across its roof. Its roof is covered in a solar skin. The structures are surrounded by 17.3 The roof will provide 40 per cent of the offices' energy.

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Hotel Designs

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Image credit: Woods Bagot The 16th-century monastery and accompanying existing structures are built from locally-sourced limestone in an example of the architecture of the Byzantine era. The mythology of the cross is resurrected in the cruciform planning of the double-height spa building, concealed under a planted wild grass roof.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Google has opened a building serving its North American operations in New York City that is housed in a 1930s rail terminal restored and adapted by architecture studios CookFox Architects and Gensler. The studio added nine floors on top of the restored original three floors. Seeing possibilities where others are not able." said Hochul.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Architecture studio NYAWA has restored and updated a traditional timber home in Toyama, Japan , to create a pared-back holiday home where visitors can "feel the passage of time". However], we thought that simply leaving the old things and cleaning them up would not complete what is comfortable for people today," he added.

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Deezen

MAY 1, 2024

American studio Walker Warner Architects has completed Hale Kiawe, a family retreat with simple, gabled forms are set within an undulating landscape dotted with chunky lava rocks. Simple lines and geometries create a striking contrast with the undulating landscape and stunning coastline in the distance," the team said.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

American studio SOM has created a "vertical campus" for the US Department of Transportation in Massachusetts that features aluminium fins on its sides and a landscape installation by designer Maya Lin. These included a photovoltaic roof and stormwater capture systems. These included a photovoltaic roof and stormwater capture systems.

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aasarchitecture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (NYS OPRHP) and The Olana Partnership (TOP) announce that construction has begun for the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape at Olana State Historic Site. The SLDP targeted three main areas for restoration: the House Environs, the Farm, and the Center.

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Deezen

MARCH 23, 2022

The structure is now certified under the Passivhaus EnerPHit category, particular to retrofitted buildings. In order to achieve the status, ERA updated the cladding of the structure to ensure thermal performance and airtightness. Structural: Entuitive Corporation. Landscape: ERA Architects. Photo by DoubleSpace.

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Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2024

Until recently, it has been common practice to hide away old structures during adaptive reuse projects. The bold new studio maintains every aspect of the heritage-listed structure within the internal living spaces, including the rotting timber, dead ivy and old birds' nests.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Its design is based on natural landscapes and prioritises helping visitors to connect to the outside, enticing them away from their screens. Beijing City Library also incorporates spaces for performances and book restoration. Meanwhile, the roof has integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) construction elements to generate renewable energy.

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Deezen

JANUARY 19, 2024

Global architecture studio SOM has designed a terminal for the Kempegowda International Airport in Bangalore, India , that draws on the city's heritage and landscape. Inside, the studio adorned the terminal's engineered bamboo structure with hanging plants and greenery, creating bright and airy interiors lit by roof openings.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A gabled extension adjoins to the former ruin The 171-square-metre house is formed of two gabled structures situated perpendicular to one another, connected by a glass corridor. Meanwhile, with in the second building is a separate living room, with large windows punctured into the volume framing views of the surrounding landscape.

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Deezen

MARCH 5, 2024

Breach House will be powered by photovoltaic (PV) panels and micro-hydro energy The 430-metre-square proposal will comprise the new home, along with the restoration of an existing agricultural barn and extensive landscaping.

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Deezen

APRIL 3, 2024

Read: Eight brutalist homes in Latin America "There are a handful of Welsh modernist structures that have been listed and recognised for what they are, but so many have been dismissed, neglected, forgotten and even demolished," he continued. The structure employs 13,850 feet of galvanised locked coil three inch wire rope.

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Architonic

APRIL 17, 2022

Taking its cues from the landscape around it, Villa Apollon by Block722 sits on the southern edge of the Greek island of Lefkada. Planted roof and subterranean building techniques were used to restore the landscape to its original form, with the minimum possible intervention, re-creating vegetated areas with local herbs and plants.

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Architizer

MAY 23, 2022

Following centuries of unrest, the Basque region is known today for its fierté that lies in its distinct customs, culture, language, cuisine and breathtaking landscapes. The traditional baserri Basque-style home coats the landscape. Characteristics of this dwelling are sloping roofs, a three-storied layout and internal wooden walls.

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Architizer

MARCH 7, 2024

Roof Gardens These principles continue to influence urban planners and architects to this day. Reuse, Adapt, Renovate and Restore Buildings Prioritize reusing, adapting, renovating, and restoring existing buildings instead of constructing new ones, thereby reducing embodied carbon and preserving valuable resources.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Looking to celebrate the "rawness and elegance" of the early 20th-century building, Studioninedots restored its neglected brick and steel structure but left its original fittings and materials exposed. The space stimulates the senses yet invites your own interpretation of its use."

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Deezen

MAY 3, 2024

This week on Dezeen , American studio Manica Architecture revealed its design for a stadium for the Chicago Bears football team featuring a translucent roof and a glass-curtain wall at its entrance. A factory by architect CFA Voysey was restored by UK studio dMFK Architects Renovation projects also proved popular this week.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Chicago architecture firm Studio Gang has expanded a California college through the addition of mass-timber structures that were informed by how fungi grow in the wild. Four buildings were designed to complement the existing structures – California modern-style buildings with stucco walls and splashes of colour – and the woodland environment.

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Deezen

MARCH 29, 2023

A mid-century house originally designed by British architect Trevor Dannatt has undergone a sensitive restoration by architecture studio Coppin Dockray in north London. However, over the years it had been poorly extended and developed significant structural issues, with its original elements obscured by a wild and unruly garden.

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Deezen

JUNE 2, 2023

Vastushilpa Consultants placed the Smritivan Earthquake Memorial Museum on a hill below a fort, which was restored as part of the project, on the outskirts of the city of Bhuj, near the epicentre of the earthquake. The museum follows the contours of the hillside. Local stone lines the walls of the museum.

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Deezen

MARCH 14, 2022

The community was established in the early 1960s by architect and developer Al Boeke, who enlisted fellow architects to create modern-style structures that worked in harmony with the natural landscape. In 2018, it was purchased by new owners who wanted to restore the building in a way that honoured the original design.

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Deezen

APRIL 23, 2024

Five thousand reclaimed trees are being used to update the tunnels' internal roofs Occupying a row of fifteen previously abandoned warehouse tunnels behind Milan Central Station, the 10,000-square-metre space hosted a series of exhibitions and installations ranging from design and manufacturing to architecture.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Nestled in a lush Pacific Northwest wooded landscape this 1954 home renovation included maintaining the primary structure of the house with a full re-envisioning of the spaces of daily life. The exposed timber structure pitched roof and exterior siding were restored and augmented to preserve and reveal the original wood finishes.

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Deezen

MAY 3, 2022

American studio Schaum/Shieh Architects has restored the John Chamberlain building, an art gallery in a former warehouse in Marfa , using local, traditional building techniques. Donald Judd turned the 1940s structures into an art gallery. The wooden support beams were restored from the originals structure.

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2024

London studio Mikhail Riches has shared visuals for Phase 5 in the regeneration of Park Hill estate in Sheffield , which will "tie together all the buildings and landscapes". It is best known for its "streets in the sky" typology and for being Europe's largest listed structure. This process has been divided into five phases.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The stone walls of a 16th-century clergy house have been restored and contrasted with new, white concrete elements to create El Priorato, a holiday home in Burgos, Spain , designed by local practice Atienza Maure Arquitectos. The building was restored to make the existing structure a focal point.

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The Spaces

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Brooklyn architects Civilian reimagined the interiors for Gensler ‘s building restoration, using Knoll furnishings and massive planters for greenery. Subdividing the concrete structure into guest rooms and a restaurant, he retrofitted bespoke wood berths for beds and baths and fitted new shutters around existing windows.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The Hasselt-based practice designed House Be to provide a distinctive but harmonious counterpoint to its extensively landscaped surroundings, with internal courtyards and a covered kitchen terrace that allow the garden to "extend into the building.". Read: NWLND Rogiers Vandeputte contrasts red concrete pool house with green landscape.

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