Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

Located in Washington’s Kitsap Peninsula, the rambler-style home utilized the trees for the roof and a coffee table, too. On a secluded wooded site, the new structure grounds itself to the earth with its approach to material and form. The roof is an additional level that provides more outdoor space, and has an elevated herb garden.

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2024

California studio TW Ryan Architecture has completed a wildfire-resistant house in the American West that features a Corten steel exterior and pyramidal roofs that allude to the mountainous terrain. Four Roof House features a Corten steel exterior Their chosen site was a bluff overlooking a lake near the town of Helmville. "The

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Deezen

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. The structural system is mostly wood with an occasional steel beam.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

These natural materials will age gracefully over time without loss of their inherent character and life, to safeguard the long-term visual quality of the building and the sense of place and community that it represents," he added.

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Deezen

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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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

"This arrangement offered a compelling visual balance between symmetry and asymmetry, depending on the inhabitant's point of reference in the home," the team said. Photo is by Alan Tansey To create visual continuity, the team aligned the roof ridges of all six volumes. Some of the outer walls were clad in a grey rainscreen.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Completed in 2022 in the municipality of David Canabarro, Casa Trapézios – or the Trapezium House – is formed by two juxtaposed trapezoidal sections arranged back-to-back in a "reinterpretation of the gabled roof archetype". To keep the continuous ceiling surface, inverted beams were used throughout the building."

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Dwell

AUGUST 3, 2022

PAD Studio replaced a rundown cottage with a new gable-roofed timber design that looks as if it’d been there all along. The L-shaped plan comprises two pitched-roof volumes clad in timber battens and white render in reference to neighboring A-frame chalets.

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Dwell

JANUARY 18, 2024

To that end, the structure gently rests near the base of a bluff, at the seam where rock and vegetation meet. This helps minimize the visual impact from afar while maintaining spectacular views on the interior.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Due to its location on the edge of the Česky Kras nature reserve southwest of Prague, the project was required to visually blend in with the local vernacular, with regulations specifying a simple gable-roof form with rounded eaves. Meanwhile, the roof is lined with traditional tiles called bobrovka.

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Dwell

JANUARY 4, 2024

It’s slotted in a row of brick residences but connects with the outdoors via the screens, glazing at the rear, and a skylight roof. The site now sits between two-story brick houses with pitched tile roofs built in the 2000s and already sub-divided into flats. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Habitus Living

MARCH 10, 2024

A staircase was erected to the roof cavity, that serves as a ‘relaxation zone’. The kitchen, living and dining are characterised by structural columns, joinery and a fireplace that serve as both a stylistic feature and function, to withstand the weight of the floor above. The joinery is a curation of avant-garde materials and colours.

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Dwell

MARCH 24, 2023

As a result of this configuration, in the center there is an outdoor patio protected from the wind, which has the distinction of being visually connected to the sea through the double-glazed common area. For the exterior cladding, a vertical grid of brushed pine was designed, which functions as a lattice in the roofed parking area."

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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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Dwell

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Ten years after creating Sussex Prairie Gardens, the owner’s turned to Sandy Rendel Architects to revitalize a historic agrarian structure. We converted what was a basic open-sided corrugated roofed structure into a home where they could work in the garden. Within a repaired steel structure a timber structure was built.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 20, 2022

Based on BIG’s concept of the ‘Raumfachwerk’ – a robust yet flexible structural framework – the design proposal celebrates the passenger experience and movement through the airport. A contemporary, pared-back material palette, the structure, floors, and ceilings of Dock A are envisioned with timber as the main material.As

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 12, 2023

the complex consists of two semi-cylindrical, prefabricated steel warehouse buildings, notable for their arching roof forms and con-nected via an enclosed walkway. While much of the existing structures will remain intact, Skylab has reworked the layout and is updating the buildings through a strategic set of insertions and modifica-tions.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The glazed front is characterized by a deep triangular covering with a thin structural shell, while "a continuous dark band of cementitious panels defines the silhouette of the east elevation," Parish added. The photography is by Ema Peter.

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Deezen

MARCH 19, 2024

"With exterior design elements that evoke the essence of the Michigan forests and interior elements that facilitate the interactions and atmosphere students requested, the new student centre provides a central heart that physically and visually connects the campus." The roof is designed to accommodate solar arrays in the future.

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aasarchitecture

MARCH 13, 2024

Further project partners are LAVA for the architecture, and insglück for the exhibition, supported by Schlaich bergermann partner for the structural engineering, and the Japanese architect of record Tokuoka Sekkei, and the Japanese construction company Mugishima Construction.

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2024

Toronto studio Workshop Architecture Inc has created a prefabricated home in Ontario with an exposed structure and blue-painted element on the interior. The douglas fir plywood and pine wood framing is left exposed on the interior for visual interest and for small storage shelves, inspired by William Turnbull Jr's Hine House at Sea Ranch."

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Dwell

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The house façades and cascading courtyards were reclad in irregular western red cedar planks to create a unique visual look. Redwood surfaces and structural elements complete the warm interior landscape, from the sloping roof beams to partition walls and built-in shelves." "The

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The four-bedroom home is arranged around a number of garden courtyards that extend through the roof, letting trees grow up and out through round apertures. A chimney of structural concrete rises with the change in the elevation of the roof. The Tengoku Residence has two different roof heights. Structural engineer: KLA.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This structure serves as a base and provides total freedom for the rest of the enclosure elements. Taking advantage of the original height of the old corner kiosk, the house is mounted on it, thus achieving an uninhibited view toward Villa Ortuzar without compromising the privacy of the user or interrupting the neighborhood’s visual identity.

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aasarchitecture

AUGUST 17, 2023

Photo ©︎ Kawasumi-Kobayashi Kenji The “roof” which is composed of stepped greenery and bleachers, resonates with the green slanted wall of the adjacent library, collectively creating a green valley. The space flows ambiguously without clear spatial divisions, stimulating the senses of the users both visually and physically.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

US architecture studio GBBN preserved and expanded a 19th-century home in Erie, Pennsylvania into an educational facility with a glass bridge connection and metal-clad, barn-like structure. The barn form was modernized with the use of a standing seam infinity roof. Dark grey zinc panels reference the colour of the original roof.

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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 site is extremely visually sensitive and open countryside views are highly protected within the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty," he told Dezeen. Structural engineer: Structure Workshop.

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The shape of the building is stepped with sweeping curves, which structure the volume visually. The rear-ventilated wood construction made of rhombus strips in glazed ash structures the façade vertically. Horizontally, the façade is divided by white, weather-resistant coated metal strips.

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Deezen

MARCH 23, 2023

It is split into two elements – a black two-storey community building with a gabled roof and a giant perforated-steel canopy that defines and shelters the perimeter of the black granite plaza below. The photography is by Trevor Mein.

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Deezen

JULY 10, 2022

The core premise of the design approach was to retain and reuse as much as possible of the existing greenhouse and resurface the structure's functional qualities," Neubau explained. Neubau added an internal timber frame to form the main structure, with insulation and acoustic panels incorporated between the pillars and beams.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Planters installed on one side of the facade create the possibility for a green wall, which was included to visually connect the structure with La Carolina Park and the mountains beyond. The result is QORNER's unique design, which combines a fractalized structure, hanging gardens, and generous indoor/outdoor living.".

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Each of these blocks is topped by a steel butterfly roof, raised above the walls to provide natural ventilation and airflow through grille-like spaces and to facilitate the collection of rainwater into nearby tanks. A water tower provides a visual marker for the site. Structural engineer: AECOM.

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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.

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Deezen

AUGUST 7, 2022

The structure nestles amongst large plane trees. The pavilion has a triangular form, which comprises three volumes connected by an oversailing roof terrace that functions as a viewing platform. Two sets of stairs ascend to The Tree House's roof terrace, which encircles the tree and provides views across the park.

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Dwell

MAY 12, 2023

The main objectives of the project were to connect the house with the garden and to visually ‘expand’ the interior space of the house without necessarily adding more area. Clay pavers on the ground and a deep red railing reinforce the physical and visual continuity between upper terrace, garden and lower patio. Post it here.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The structure comprises a maze of cavernous spaces separated by arched openings and stalagmite-like columns, all crafted from concrete that is covered in mud. However, after seeing the earth on the structure, he decided to leave it as a surface covering. Structural engineer: Jun Sato. Mud covers the walls of the building.

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Render by Brick Visual Situated on the southern tip of Hainan Island, China’s most southerly province with its tropical forests, mountain parks and white sand beaches welcoming over 80 million tourists each year, Sanya has grown to a city of over a million residents.

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