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APRIL 14, 2023

The windows and volume up top make the space bright and airy, balancing out the walls of wood built-ins. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The ADU has a simple gable roof to mimic the existing main house at the front of the property.

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MARCH 24, 2023

The timber-and-steel addition’s landscaped roof hides it from sight while tying it into the sloping backyard of the primary residence. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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JUNE 6, 2022

Francois Verhoeven Architects has completed a house in a Dutch village featuring a roof with three sloping sections that incorporate skylights , sedum and concealed solar panels. The villa is designed to accommodate a family of five and includes a large open-plan living space lined with a glazed south-facing opening.

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OCTOBER 21, 2022

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 project transformed 12 acres of concrete parking lot into a sustainable structure and resilient landscape with native plants. It features space for exhibitions.

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JUNE 15, 2022

However, contrary to the exterior, the interior of the house is far from being conventional and has been developed as a one large shared space, with the hope that it would maximize the family time for the client’s family of three. Thus a varied dynamic of scale was achieved in the house.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Local architecture firm In Situ Studio wrapped an art museum visitor centre in Raleigh, North Carolina with darkened steel and cantilevered a roof with an aperture over its patio. The roof features a rounded triangle roof opening made of aluminium. Cabinetry: Xylem, Inc.

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APRIL 4, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Project Details: Location: Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia Architect: MRTN Architects / @ mrtn_architects Landscape Design: SBLA Studio Builder: J & S Contracting Structural Engineer: W.J.

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MARCH 21, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The roof extension is built in a timber frame structure with exposed beams. Have one to share? Post it here. In this project we focused on densification, the circular economy, and cohousing.

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MAY 12, 2023

On the exterior, the individual forms are wrapped in dark charred cypress and a patinated, standing-seam zinc roof that reflects the browns, greens and greys of the forest and lake and are intended to weather over time. The photography is by Paul Warchol.

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MARCH 24, 2022

Studio MK27 designed Vista House with a smaller envelope nested under a long gabled roof. The home is made up of a low-slung, gabled roof that is roughly 15 metres wide, 3.5 The outside of the structure is wrapped in eucalyptus staves, while the roof is sheathed in hand-carved wooden shingles.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

Japanese studio Apollo Architects & Associates has completed Esprit House, a home in Tokyo with a blocky concrete form elevated on piloti above a garage space. On the roof, a large terrace with an additional table, seating area and outdoor kitchen is surrounded by trees and sheltered beneath a metal pergola.

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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. Desai Chia created "winged" roofs for the house.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

A private roof terrace enclosed by greenery features in Hidden Garden House, a Sydney home reconfigured by Australian studio Sam Crawford Architects. Above, this curved ceiling forms a sloped roof terrace filled with plants, which is situated off the main bedroom on the upper floor. The photography is by Tom Ferguson.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Local studio Oliver Leech Architects has extended a Victorian terrace house in south London, introducing a four-metre-wide skylight at its centre that offers views of a wildflower meadow roof. We saw this central skylight as the central anchor to the new house, surrounded by all the key spaces," he added.

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APRIL 17, 2024

Photo © Rasmus Hjortshõj Spanning 22,000 m², the main timber structure, made of glulam and cross-laminated timber, forms three striking tree-trunk-like columns, fanning out to carry the entire load of the roof – enveloping visitors in a welcoming forest-like canopy. Source by Henning Larsen.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

A sawtooth roof, blue ceramic tiles and corrugated steel panels define this home in Madrid , Spain , designed by Ignacio G Galán and OF Architects. A roof terrace provides additional gardening and outdoor space for the couple. Two additional en-suite bedrooms are provided on the upper floor, along with a shared kitchen unit.

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APRIL 9, 2024

Located in Washington’s Kitsap Peninsula, the rambler-style home utilized the trees for the roof and a coffee table, too. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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APRIL 20, 2023

ROAR Architects turned a confined site into a light-filled social space with a vaulted ceiling inspired by ship-building techniques. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

Cattle guards protect the entrance, and the walls rise slightly: one wall becoming a backrest for benches while the other lower wall frames the space. A small wood-burning fireplace extends down on one side and a few potted plants decorate the space, which is otherwise left open to the surrounding views of the sunrise and sunset.

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MARCH 28, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. It is built with conventional stud walls, sits on the same slab-on-ground, and is topped with the same trussed roof. Have one to share? Post it here.

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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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FEBRUARY 27, 2022

"Our goal was to focus less on the architecture, and allow the beauty of the site dictate the organisation of space, both horizontal and vertical," said the team. This space was demolished and rebuilt completely, receiving a new pitched roof that directs the gaze upwards and towards the mountain behind the home.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Its design was informed by local vernacular architecture The building is divided into several gabled -roof volumes, with a glazed connector at the centre. It is clad in cedar shingles and salvaged wood Along the street elevation, the team added a flat-roofed volume crowned with an aluminium trellis.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

Kaan Architecten has created a visitor centre at the Netherlands American Cemetery In 2017, Kaan Architecten was commissioned by the American Battle Monuments Commission to add a visitor centre to the landscaped site, providing a small display space and an auditorium. The photography is by Simon Menges.

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APRIL 2, 2024

Extension of the National Swedish Museum of Technology, housing a visualization dome, a spherical space where visualization technology achieves an immersive audiovisual experience, along with a café and an exhibition hall. The roof mediates between the tall dome and the low facades of the one-story building, spanning 26x48m across the dome.

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APRIL 22, 2024

Around the staircase, at three points along its ascent, will be double-height spaces. According to the studio, the core size was minimised by using a self-supporting, fire-resistant egress to expand the floor plates – the diagonal mass timber columns that make up the diagrid structure will aid in the load-bearing. "A

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

California studio Field Architecture designed this Sonoma Valley house out of a trio of fanning copper-clad pavilions with butterfly roofs. The roofs – composed of two triangular planes each that slope toward the centre – collect rainwater and redirect it to river-rock basins.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

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. It was also designed to appear demure yet dynamic upon approach One volume is square-shaped and holds an open-plan communal space.

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JULY 14, 2023

Its swooping design directs airflow up and over an outdoor living space while echoing the shape of surrounding dunes. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Secondly, the entire structure was raised off the terrain on timber posts.

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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. We aimed to defer to the site’s surroundings, offering ample indoor-outdoor spaces for gathering and reflection." meters) above ground level.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

It is an addition to a Long Island home The team conceived a two-storey addition that contains a painting studio on the upper level and an exhibition space down below that doubles as a garage. Rectangular in plan, the building has a gabled roof and walls clad in pine boards that were stained black to match the main house.

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APRIL 23, 2024

"Drawing inspiration from the monocoque design of the world war two de Havilland Mosquito fighter planes, which stand out as prime examples of monocoque construction, the Monocoque Cabin seeks to bring this level of ingenuity and efficiency to architecture and domestic spaces." metres-wide, 3.5-metres-tall

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has unveiled the Tainan Xinhua Fruit and Vegetable Market in Taiwan with an undulating green roof that is accessed by a series of planted terraces. The eastern corner of the structure has terraces filled with colourful planting that descend to the ground to provide stepped access to the roof.

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APRIL 24, 2023

Bedrooms and en-suite bathrooms are located in the two concrete structures, which are separated by a covered outdoor space leading to a decked patio overlooking the lake. The home's laminated wood structure was left exposed and interior spaces were finished with wood cladding. The photography is by Cristóbal Palma.

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OCTOBER 23, 2022

Architecture studio New Practice has transformed an unused site in the town centre of Craigmillar, Edinburgh , into a multi-purpose public space for the local community. A tall timber structure marks the entrance. Walk-Up Avenue includes a stage and events space for locals to use. Structural engineer: Will Rudd.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

The double-height space is made of cinder blocks, steel, and timber, and has exposed HVAC and electrical conduits. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Its design reinterprets local building styles, including thatched-roofed rural longhouses, 1960s flat-roofed stone dwellings and compact summer cabins, while framing views of the nearby lake. The lower storey is informed by local 1960s flat-roofed architecture and clad in stone that is mined locally in Tihany.

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