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Mamout and Stéphanie Willocx restore 1960s home in Belgium

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It comprises a brick and glass pavilion and a concrete blockwork garage, which step down its gently sloping site. By removing extensions to the home, the original frontage was restored with full-height, sliding glass doors. These open onto a terrace extending onto the roof of the former garage below.

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Jonathan Tuckey Design restores and extends traditional stone farmstead in Italy

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Jonathan Tuckey Design has renovated a former farmstead in northern Italy , restoring and extending a cluster of 19th-century stone buildings to create Cascina, a new home and studio. Upstairs, the restoration of the barn roof was prioritised so one could immediately feel and connect to the building's heritage," she added.

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Colleen Healey adorns restored Maryland carriage house with colourful facades

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Colleen Healey Architecture has restored and expanded an early 20th-century carriage house on an unusual lot in Maryland by placing black stucco and colourful panels on the facade. Colleen Healey has restored and expanded a carriage house in Maryland. The home belongs to an entrepreneurial couple who have two children and three dogs.

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Architecture Research Office reveals plans for Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape in Upstate New York

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Architecture Research Office (ARO) , in partnership with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (NYS OPRHP) and The Olana Partnership (TOP), has today revealed a new plan for the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape at the Olana State Historic Site in Upstate New York.

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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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Architectural Drawings: 6 Architectural Roof Walks Reaching New Heights

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These “roof walks” are a response to unique environmental, social and urban conditions. Drawn from a diverse range of scales and programs, the following roof walks reimagine the roof plane in projects both large and small. Above the double height multi-media room, the roof structure touches down on the sunken garden.

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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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