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Mamout and Stéphanie Willocx restore 1960s home in Belgium

Deezen

It comprises a brick and glass pavilion and a concrete blockwork garage, which step down its gently sloping site. The house was originally a cabin fully glazed and nested in nature," Mamout founder Sébastien Dachy told Dezeen. "The These open onto a terrace extending onto the roof of the former garage below.

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nARCHITECTS tops New York nature centre with a mass-timber roof

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Brooklyn-based nARCHITECTS has designed a nature centre and exhibition space that produces as much energy as it consumes on the New York coastline. The cedar -clad Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center overlooks the Atlantic Ocean. It is topped by a sawtooth mass-timber roof. A cedar trellis wraps around the exterior.

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Sculptural roof helps Taihang Xinyu Art Museum blend into mountainside

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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. Named Taihang Xinyu Art Museum, the museum is built around an old warehouse on the site, which backs onto Taihang Mountain and sits alongside the Cangxi River.

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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". The green roof was designed to blend into the landscape. The architecture thus establishes an open dialogue with its natural surroundings," he told Dezeen.

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AWARDS FOCUS: NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF UTAH

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Natural History Museum of Utah: A Museum Without Walls. The Natural History Museum rests at the threshold of urban and natural lands. The museum’s environmental features include a campus with one of Utah’s largest solar panel installations, a green roof, and two 10,000-gallon cisterns for irrigation. Design Workshop.

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Museum Paleis Het Loo by KAAN Architecten

Archinect

Paleis Het Loo, a baroque hunting palace on the outskirts of Apeldoorn, has undergone an ambitious transformation involving the addition of over 5000 square metres of new facilities and spaces, a careful restoration of the palace, and a meticulous asbestos removal process.

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Arch Studio extends courtyard home in China beneath wave-like roof

Deezen

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. Topped with a wave-like roof and filled with new living areas, this wooden volume also splits the existing courtyard into a series of smaller external spaces.

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