Archinect

JUNE 15, 2022

The Plymouth study was symptomatic of a larger curiosity within architecture on the impact of integrating nature and biophilia with the built environment. “Living walls are often considered an afterthought or a static accessory in architectural design,” Brenner told us.

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ArchDaily

JANUARY 4, 2024

© Andre J Fanthome Designing a home is always a significant challenge. In the abundance of personalities, preferences, and quirks, residential architecture needs to mediate intentions and embrace diversities. Stacked House / Studio Lotus. Read more »

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Warsaw-based Tremend Architecture Studio has completed a transport center in the Polish city of Lubin, described by the team as “one of the most environmentally friendly developments of its kind in Poland.” ” Image credit: Alek Malachowski Image credit: Rafal Chojnacki The sc.

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ArchDaily

DECEMBER 27, 2023

© José Tomás Franco By recognizing and analyzing the multiple architectural possibilities of bamboo—a construction material mostly native to warm and tropical areas—the following questions arise: How can we take advantage of its qualities and enhance its use in colder climates? Read more »

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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Image Cortesia de BDG Architects Zwolle Greenhouses are elegant and ingenious structures that incorporate simplicity in design while creating light-filled spaces that shape indoor climates. With walls and roofs composed mainly of transparent or translucent materials, these structures harness solar energy to create a controlled environment.

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Archinect

APRIL 26, 2024

Designed for a soon-to-be retiring couple, the home is sensitive to the clients wanting to age in place. After the modules were delivered and set into place, the on-site contractor secured it to the foundation and closed up the mate-line conditions - seaming together the roof, walls, and floors.

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Archinect

MARCH 26, 2024

The roof of the BIG and Heatherwick Studio -designed Bay View headquarters, which opened in 2022 , is a key component of the building’s circular design strategy and features 90,000 "dragonscale" solar panels. Related on Archinect: Google's BIG + Heatherwick-designed Bay View HQ campus opens.

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Archinect

MARCH 26, 2024

The local studio A+ Architecture is also contributing to the project. The design is for a mass timber structure topped with a rose-colored folded roof replete with photovoltaics and finished in the same tone by a low-carbon concrete floor.

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 30, 2024

While walls, floors, and structural supports may spring to mind, in today's world, even architecture is getting in on the action. Movable walls, sliding doors, and retractable roofs were the early ambassadors of kinetic design, allowing structures to become more flexible without losing strength.

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Archinect

JUNE 16, 2023

Zaha Hadid Architects has been revealed to lead the design of a new condominium project proposal at a site once occupied by the collapsed Champlain Towers South building in Surfside, Florida. While no work of architecture can ever remove the pain of the past, nor should it, a truly ambitious w. Image courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects.

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ArchDaily

JULY 5, 2023

Cliff House / Zozaya Arquitectos © Rafael Gamo There are many ways to define architecture, from the most technical to the most poetic. It uses many aspects within its context: space, program, tectonics, and gesture, which refers to the stroke, the drawing, and the design.

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 17, 2024

© Vize The consortium led by the French architecture firm Coldefy , in partnership with Albanian studio Atelier 4, Sempervirens, and Italian firm AEI Progetti, has just won the international competition to design Albania's new Public Administration Cluster in Tirana.

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SW Oregon Architect

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

The series is my meditation on the awesome reasons why I was and continue to be attracted to the art of architecture. Such architecture doesn’t merely withstand the elements—it weathers the shifts in society, technology, and human priorities, remaining both functional and meaningful. What makes a design timeless?

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

A curved roof and textured concrete walls characterise Northcote House in Melbourne , designed by local studio LLDS Architects for its founder partners. The key design goal is to create a house that supports compact, urban living while still addressing the laneway characteristic," they told Dezeen. "The

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

3XN has unveiled its design for a new destination at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, holding a mixture of retail, hospitality, and public amenities located in a “market hall environment.”

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Archinect

JANUARY 25, 2023

World-renowned Australian industrial designer Marc Newson has revealed his contribution to the Nippon Foundation’s ongoing The Tokyo Toilet public design project. Photo: Satoshi Nagare, courtesy of The Nippon Foundation The design for the public restroom was inspired by elements central to vernacular Japanese architecture.

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designboom

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

house of quad reimagines the vernacular kerala house with sloping roofs, central courtyards, and extensive use of timber for a modern touch. The post pitched roof volume cantilevers from thomas parambil’s house amid kerala paddy fields appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Non-profit Project Mingde has unveiled Duling Educational Centre, a staggered complex topped with roofs that help recycle rainfall into clean water for schoolchildren in rural southern China. The solution was three buildings of varying heights with roofs that channel rainfall into a lotus pond.

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Avontuura

APRIL 5, 2023

Making reference to rural architecture of the region, the design includes solitary and grouped buildings with traditional pitched roofs. The post Escape to this five-star golf and spa resort in Germany inspired by the region’s traditional architecture appeared first on Åvontuura.

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ArchDaily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

By assembling architectural components such as walls, roofs, windows and doors, the building is enclosed to provide protection and insulation, playing a determining role in the energy efficiency, comfort, structure, and durability of the project. Read more »

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Deezen

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Architecture studio Snøhetta has revealed its design for Refuge de Barroude, a hiker stop with a curving form that will be nestled in the Pyrenees National Park in France. A bar and restaurant will open onto an outdoor terrace overlooking Lake Barroude, which Snøhetta designed to be protected from harsh winds by the sloping roofline.

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Archinect

APRIL 24, 2024

Kéré Architecture has broken ground on a new all-wood childcare facility at the Technical University Munich (TUM). The design of the Ingeborg Pohl Kinderoase an der TUM is 700 square meters (7,500 square feet) in total and will hold space for 60 children in service to faculty members and their families.

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designboom

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The post HAS design & research encloses hefei’s minimalist ‘simple art museum’ with undulating roof appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. the curved walls and wave-like ceiling of hefei's 'simple art museum' mimic the natural rhythms of a river.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Chinese practice LIN architecture has completed a pumping house in the Yunnan Province village of Botou. Named the 'Concrete Pavilion,' the structure seeks to both meet the needs of locals’ water and electricity needs and give an architectural “breath of new life” to the rural landscape.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

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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designboom

OCTOBER 26, 2024

ota archistudio realizes a 3D roof by adjusting the angles of the wooden beams, a technique expertly executed by local craftsmen. The post curved roof follows ridgeline of japanese mountains in weekend home by ota archistudio appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Archinect

JANUARY 11, 2024

The Cantabrian Maritime Museum restaurant has been constructed inside an architectural complex that also includes an Oceanographic Center designed by Vicente Roig Forner and Ángel Hernández Morales, built between 1975 and 1978.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 12, 2024

Luum Temple / CO-LAB Design Office. Image © César Béjar Vernacular architecture has been gaining more and more space in theory and design practice , with its characteristics being studied and revised. However, while vernacular technique focuses on specific actions or skills, its meaning differs from vernacular technologies.

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SW Oregon Architect

MARCH 17, 2024

Romania Building, Franklin Boulevard side (my photo) This is the next in my Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet series of blog posts, the focus of each being a landmark building here in Eugene. My selection criteria for each will be threefold: The building must be of architectural interest, local importance, or historically significant.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Parametric forms topped with greenery define this preschool in Andhra Pradesh, India , which has been completed by architecture firm Andblack Design Studio. Aiming to challenge what schools traditionally look like, Andblack Design Studio designed the structure with a playful, curving form to avoid "conventional, box-like classrooms".

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ArchDaily

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

© Arnau Rovira In 2021, the Government of Catalonia recognized Casa Gomis, designed by the architect Antoni Bonet Castellana for the Gomis-Bertrand family between 1949 and 1956, as a Cultural Heritage of National Interest in the category of Historical Monument. Read more »

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Archinect

APRIL 13, 2023

Pinghe Bibliotheater is the core of the School as Village/Shanghai Qingpu Pinghe International School designed by OPEN. The slanted roof with spiky skylights, ship portholes like round windows, and eye-catching blue color leave a strong impression for passersby.

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designboom

AUGUST 20, 2024

its form mirrors local residential elements, harmonizing with traditional chinese architecture through tiles, masonry walls, and wood-like structures. The post cascading folding roof of GLA design’s community center in china echoes mountain contours appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Avontuura

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The adopted building configuration with its open angles and two intersecting saddle roofs reflects the distinctive character of the site. The post Delugan Meissl designs elegant house in Slovenia with wooden lamella facade appeared first on Åvontuura.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

An oversized thatched roof shelters the geometric concrete forms of this house in Vietnam, which has been completed by local architecture studio Kientruc O. Named Thu House, the 877-square-metre dwelling in Ho Chi Minh City is designed for a client who wanted a home that would evoke their childhood in the countryside.

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designboom

OCTOBER 20, 2024

inspired by its park setting, the stadium’s roof is supported by irregularly scattered columns mimicking tree trunks. The post curved roof expands upwards inviting sunlight within warsaw SKRA park stadium appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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designboom

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The post wing-like roof covers open gathering area by SHISUO in shanghai’s memorial park appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. the project transforms a previously fenced-off, underutilized woodland into an accessible urban space.

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