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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Dwell

MAY 22, 2024

Nicola and Patrick had been dreaming of an extension for almost two decades—and 4 S Architecture managed to pack everything they wanted into a smaller footprint than they expected. We couldn’t get behind teak as a product, so we used FSC-certified European cherry that has less air miles than American cherry," explains architect Julia Hamson.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

HGA has created a pair of mass-timber buildings at Bowdoin College in Maine While different in size and colour, the buildings have asymmetrical pitched roofs that "play off each other from different vantage points". Both buildings also have mass timber frames, wooden interior finishes and brick facades. The photography is by Michael Moran.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 24, 2024

The top floor is a covered roof terrace where the children can play and enjoy the sheltered outdoor space, with panoramic views across Munich. I would also like to colonize the neighboring roofs, starting by connecting our building with the roof of the cafeteria and turning that into a giant meadow.” Source by Kéré Architecture.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Decorative elements draw on traditional Islamic architecture Finishing touches to the building include a rainwater collection tank located below the ground-level colonnade, along with photovoltaic (PV) panels on the roof and an on-site borehole. The photography is courtesy of John McAslan + Partners.

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Deezen

MARCH 19, 2024

CannonDesign has created a student centre for a Michigan university "The primary concept of the building was to celebrate place, with a focus on elements and symbols that are universal to all people – and especially important to the Western community," Brett Lawrence, Cannon Design project manager, told Dezeen.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

US studio CCY Architects has clad a mountainside house in patinated copper panels and tilted the roof to adhere with the topography of its site in Colorado. Known as DNA Alpine, the 4,000-square foot (372-square metre) home was completed in 2022 and designed to "disappear into or somehow become" the 75-acre site in San Miguel County.

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

British architecture practice Studio Bark has worked with students from the University of East London to devise a roof-supporting column with otherwise unusable timber at a site within ancient English woodland.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

It has a glued laminated (glulam) timber structure and was clad in black-stained spruce as a nod to the nearby timber buildings. Both spaces are illuminated by a prominent skylight and have exposed timber roofs. "In Project credits: Client: Albert de la Chapelle Foundation Contractor: K.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The roof design accommodates a future green roof. Read: Lakeside sauna by Partisans designed as a cavernous wooden grotto "The layout leverages wall space and strategic lighting to display the art collection," Johnson said, noting the stark white walls and integrated lighting along the edge of the spaces.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 20, 2022

“For the new main terminal of Zurich Airport, we have attempted to answer this complex challenge with the simplest possible response: A mass timber space frame that is structural design, spatial experience, architectural finish, and organizational principle in one. Bjarke Ingels, Founder & Creative Director, BIG.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Chinese studio FOG Architecture has turned a courtyard house in Beijing into a flagship store for fragrance brand ToSummer with exposed wooden roof trusses and columns. The studio exposed the wooden roof trusses and columns of the original building "We 'skimmed' the building to expose its 'skeleton'," said the studio.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2023

Czech studio Mjölk Architekti has created a mass-timber building with a gabled solar-panelled roof for the headquarters of timber and forest management company Kloboucká lesní in the Czech Republic. With its oversized timber gable, the four-storey structure in Brumov-Bylnice nods to traditional architectural forms.

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aasarchitecture

JANUARY 22, 2023

Car-free + urban This building makes an important contribution to the future of a living and ecological city and also to the future of retailing – this is an urban IKEA with excellent connections to the public transport system and an inviting roof terrace – a good neighbour. Source by querkraft.

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Deezen

MARCH 2, 2023

CLB Architects gave the home a long, low roof To design the project, the team drew upon the site's history as a working cattle ranch. The home's long, low roof is supported by a system made of cross-laminated timber. A slightly pitched roof tops the low-slung barn The barn follows a similar design vocabulary as the main house.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

MARCH 3, 2022

At Radio City Music Hall, nine stories above the eye-high-kicking Rockettes, a dingy brown half acre of roof lay empty, except for three pavilions housing pulleys and mechanisms to operate Radio City theater curtains, scrims, and other stage equipment.

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Deezen

MARCH 27, 2024

The restaurant was designed for subzero temperatures Also in Winnipeg, Canadian studio KPMB revealed a horticultural centre with a Fibonacci spiral roof. In 2015, the RAW:almond pop-up restaurant was constructed on the surface of a frozen river with an X-shaped plan lying over the connection between the Assiniboine and Red rivers.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Atop the roof, the team placed a pool, a cabana, an outdoor theatre and space for grilling and cooking. Neutral colours and earthy tones were used in the interior The basement encompasses guest quarters, a garage, and a range of spaces geared toward fitness, leisure and entertainment.

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Architizer

MAY 11, 2022

The distinctly modern forms contrast with the organic surrounds they occupy but the materiality and scale of the structures make them ‘of the landscape’… like they fit right in. Architizer chatted with Anjali Iyer, project manager and senior associate at Feldman Architecture to learn more about this project.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Pyramidal roofs top the modules. metres) across and is topped with a pyramidal roof. Structural engineering: David Grapsas. Electrical engineering: Affiliated Engineers. Project management: ASU Facilities Development Management/Capital Programs Management Group.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Composed of three distinct buildings – a main house, guesthouse and writer's studio – the project was designed for a California-based couple who manage an independent record label. The roof is undulating, and the facades are clad in burnt wood.

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aasarchitecture

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Beyond 1,000 square feet of gallery space, an occupiable green roof, a small dining area and café, gift shop, visitor restrooms, and offices for botanic gardens administrative staff. Source by EskewDumezRipple. Image © EskewDumezRipple. Image © EskewDumezRipple.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 19, 2023

From this floor, an access to the roof of the ground floor allows to enjoy the landscape as a belvedere. Photo © Fernando Guerra Structurally, it functions as a bridge between the garage, which “approaches” the plot boundary, and the communication core, creating a shaded portico inviting entry.

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Deezen

JANUARY 3, 2023

Located in Encinar de los Reyes, on the northern outskirts of the Spanish capital, Reggio School is a six-storey building featuring cork walls, concrete arches, porthole windows and zigzagging roofs. Reggio School features cork walls, concrete arches and zigzagging roofs. Structural engineering: Qube Ingeniería de Estructuras.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

With a grass-topped, arched roof it was designed to be both contemporary and integrated into the landscape. The building itself is a very simple rectangular form but set within a curved courtyard landscape to provide, together with the arched roof, an organic natural flowing form," explained Kirkland. Contractor: Husker.

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Deezen

AUGUST 3, 2023

Local studio Caples Jefferson Architects has created an extension for the Louis Armstrong House Museum complete with a curved facade and a green roof in Corona, Queens. Here to Stay explores Armstrong's lengthy career The upper floor is laid out in a square and is stepped back from the street ot make room for the terrace.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Two green roofs top the building, characterised by their asymmetrical pyramid shapes topped with rooflights. The bricks were stacked vertically at the base of the home and horizontally near the roof to create variation in the facade. The photography is by Richard Chivers.

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aasarchitecture

MARCH 13, 2024

Al-Watyan clarified that the working teams, starting from the executive team, the technical team, the content creation team, the media campaign team, and the coordination and follow-up team, are working with the Expo management and in cooperation with the main partner NUSSLI to prepare, equip and implement this major event.

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Render by Negativ The centre’s layered roofs feather outwards and cascade from their highest points along this axis, framing the entrance lobbies of the performing arts theatre and the conference centre. A smart building management system will automatically adjust shading, lighting and ventilation for optimum comfort and efficiencies.

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aasarchitecture

MARCH 15, 2024

Outside, the tiled roofs have been restored to preserve the traditional charm of the original buildings. In continuity with the internal ceilings, pergolas with wooden slats and a metal structure extend on both main sides of the volume, creating shaded and sheltered spaces, which create a gentle gradation between inside and outside.

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aasarchitecture

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The design combines harmoniously the relationship between architecture and landscape architecture (Land Process) to engage the community with functionality and leisure space by designing a green vegetation roof covering the whole building. Sanitary Engineer: TPM Consultants Co., Contractor: Pre-Built Public Co.,

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Deezen

AUGUST 7, 2022

Named The Tree House, it is the centrepiece of a two-acre green space within the Elephant Park development – a regeneration scheme in south London managed by developer Lendlease. The pavilion has a triangular form, which comprises three volumes connected by an oversailing roof terrace that functions as a viewing platform.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 24, 2024

The entire roof structure is exposed, and the steel tubes are rolled at one radius and then tilted in place to create the curved roof geometry. SHA used 3D modelling to develop and coordinate the construction documents with the team, allowing contractors to build the complex geometry efficiently and precisely.

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2024

The underside of the roof deck, wood framing, exterior framing and white sheathing were also left exposed. The house runs on a heat pump, LED lights, and an energy recovery ventilator for moisture management and "very little electricity", with no gas connection.

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aasarchitecture

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Nice, a global leader in Home & Building Management and Security, inaugurated its new Brazilian headquarters. The design of the roof is inspired by the shape of a tropical leaf resting gently on slender columns, protecting the existing vegetation, and offering shade to all the functions underneath it.

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Deezen

MAY 24, 2023

Permaculture – a portmanteau of permanent agriculture and permanent culture – is an approach to design and land management that takes cues from natural ecosystems. Roofs are covered with vegetation. In the main residence, slender steel columns support deep roof overhangs. The bathhouse is a round building.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Mork-Ulnes Architects designed the home with a gabled roof "We knew from the outset that this project would be an interesting collaboration, balancing our reductive tendencies with the more exuberant and maximalist impulses of our client/friends, whose style we had always admired and wanted to celebrate," said Casper Mork-Ulnes.

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