Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2024

An oversized, bamboo -clad roof connects the spaces at the Bamboo Gate community centre in the Mabi Reconstruction Disaster Prevention Park, Japan , designed by architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates. The post Kengo Kuma tops sculptural community centre with swooping bamboo roof appeared first on Dezeen.

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ArchDaily

JANUARY 16, 2024

Sawtooth roofs are an iconic architectural feature of industrial buildings A historic symbol of the industrial age, the sawtooth roof is a lasting legacy of architectural history. Although a functional invention born from necessity nearly 200 years ago, the iconic shape is enjoying a renaissance in many contemporary projects.

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Archinect

APRIL 16, 2024

Work on the building’s MEPs is now underway, and the concrete pour for the roof decks has been completed to the east side of the site. Formwork, rebar installation, and concrete pours for the roof decks are also advancing on the Spaulding Lot. LACMA has yet to release a public opening date. (A

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Deezen

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Local practice Studio Ellsinger has topped a small holiday cabin on Sweden 's west coast with a hat-shaped aluminium roof to "trigger curiosity" and offer protection from its wild surroundings. The clients had bought a very rural and wild plot on the west coast of Sweden, and they wanted a similar approach," he continued.

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Deezen

JANUARY 9, 2025

Mexican studio Colectivo C733 has helped preserve an 18th-century port customs building, constructing a cultural centre and museum around it using historical adobe and steel in Nayarit, Mxico. The first level old San Blas customs building is still standing.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Taylor, who’s been visiting this area since the ’70s, wanted the new building draw upon the rich local history of making rudimentary structures out of the materials that people had at hand. There is no glass involved in the house, only galvanized mesh sliding screens, separate sliding insect screens, and plastic curtains.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 22, 2024

The building is located in the northern Czech city of Ostrava and boasts six rotating concrete walls. The revamp of the 260-metre-high tower included an overhaul of the lobby and amenities,giving greater presence to the building's cross-braced concrete structure and improving visual connection with the streetscape.

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Architizer

MARCH 20, 2025

From timber grids to soaring steel trusses, the way a building holds itself up has long been hidden beneath layers of cladding and finishes. Without further ado, let’s see how architects are letting their buildings stand tall, bare-boned and proud. Architects: Want to have your project featured?

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Architizer's 13th A+Awards features a suite of sustainability-focused categories recognizing designers that are building a greener industry and a better future. Buildings dont always need a fresh start sometimes, the most compelling transformations happen by working with whats already there. These additions take many forms.

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Deezen

MARCH 4, 2025

American architecture studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro has unveiled designs for a building at Boston University that is set to be the tallest mass-timber structure in the Northeast United States. Openings of more translucent insulated glass will expose the timber structure underneath. metres (284 feet) tall.

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Deezen

JANUARY 2, 2025

The Schoenecker Center includes facilities like a double-height performance space with retractable seating The 130,000-square-foot (12,077-square-metre) building is split over five levels and houses classrooms, art and media studios, performance spaces, science labs, computer labs, engineering labs and more.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 29, 2024

"The parametric approach allows for fluid, non-linear spaces that foster creativity and play, while structural ingenuity – such as the undulating roof and seamless spatial integration – blurs the line between learning and play areas." "By Expansively glazed facades and skylights draw light into the spacious interior.

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designboom

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

marking the firm's first completed building in the city, the pavilion evokes the architecture of traditional chinese teahouses. The post BIG unveils jinji lake pavilion with pixelated glass roof on suzhou’s waterfront appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

JANUARY 14, 2025

Rising 40- and 46-storeys-high, the towers are made up of interconnected glass structures that widen at their tops and are joined by a podium at their base. Set off from this largely glass exterior, ornate screens typical of Islamic architecture surround the podium building.

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Deezen

JANUARY 9, 2025

The museum is located on an artificial lake in Hangzhou Named Yohoo Museum, the building has an undulating roof design that takes the form of two interlocking rings. The museum is entirely clad in a glass facade and roof that was informed by jade, a rare gem stone in China.

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Deezen

MARCH 17, 2025

A doughnut-shaped terrace and green roofs covered with sedum are among the standout features of a V-shaped research facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts , designed by local architecture studio Payette. It sits within the Kendall Square neighbourhood, which is home to several research buildings and tech companies.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 31, 2024

German studio GMP Architekten has refurbished and extended Alsterschwimmhalle, a swimming pool in Hamburg with a distinctive double-curved concrete roof. The maintenance costs for the building and its outdated technical installations had increased significantly in the years before," he continued.

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2025

Local architecture studio Swatt + Partners has used two vertical concrete slabs to support a "wood-framed glass box" that floats over the landscape and holds a home office. The team conceived a rectangular building that lies west of the main dwelling and is designed to minimise impact to the landscape.

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Architizer

JANUARY 13, 2025

Big tech doesnt just dream big it builds big too. Whether its Apples glass-ringed sanctuary by Foster + Partners or TikToks sky-high NYC playground designed by Gensler, each workspace tells a story about the companys unique culture, vision and commitment to excellence. Start an A+Firm Award Application today.

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Architizer

APRIL 16, 2025

Aflalo/Gasperini modernizes Niemeyer’s characteristic sculpted concrete aesthetic by incorporating glass and metal. While Niemeyer primarily focused on sculptural concrete forms, he embraced the creation of murals, balancing abstract patterns and figurative storytelling to add narrative, texture, and cultural depth to his buildings.

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Architizer

APRIL 14, 2025

Explore eight sustainable residential buildings, each designed to reduce ecological impact while also promoting a healthier, more modern and connected way of living. What sets this selection apart is the use of orthographic projection to present each building. Their simple form adapts to home office needs and family life.

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Deezen

MARCH 3, 2025

Architecture practice Studio Ruan Xing has created an arched , central hall as part of the renovation of a building on the Shanghai Jiao Tong University's School of Design campus in Shanghai. Studio Ruan Xing added skylights to let in natural light and create dynamic shadow plays as the light travels through the arches.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

On top of the centre's heritage-protected, glass-vaulted shopping arcade, Ingenhoven Associates has added six floors of offices and apartments, incorporating a tree-planted roof terrace and balconies of trailing plants. Trailing plants cloak the building's facade.

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Deezen

JANUARY 30, 2025

Sinuous accessible roofs top the Lujiatan Wetland Park Commercial Service Center. Photo by Dong Image Muda Architects ' took cues from the meandering shapes of the nearby Jinma and Minjiang Rivers when designing the building's sinuous white-steel roof, on which visitors can walk.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The new 3-story building uses materials common to the neighborhood; brick and glass block, applying them in innovative ways to create an aesthetic familiar with the surroundings and at the same time new and inviting.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Aiming to attract more public activity to the site, Heatherwick Studio and SPPARC are renovating the Victorian exhibition halls and building outdoor space with bars and restaurants on its roofs. SPPARC founder Trevor Morriss hopes its completion will build upon the legacy of the original Victorian building.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Since its establishment in 1995, Tokyo-based studio SANAA has become well-known for its cultural buildings around the world, often completed with white and transparent surfaces. Terraces run around the building's east and south facades. We were determined to make a building that felt like that."

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Ramps wind around the structure to provide circulation, with openings that invite visitors into the building at each level and a public park on the building's rooftop. In an interview with Dezeen , Perrault said the goal for the masterplan was to "build a district" for Paris that could be used well beyond the games.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Image credit: Lara Swimmer Image credit: Lara Swimmer Visitors to the center are greeted by a new two-story lobby enclosed by a wood and glass curtain wall, responding to the site’s woodland context. “We took advantage of the scale and tectonic identity of the original structure.

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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. The project is being commissioned by DAMAC International, which purchased the lot for $120 million in July of last year.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

"A31 Architecture has inserted the villa into the landscape, and the spine of the building is the dry stone wall, which is actually supporting the building." All the buildings in the area are trying to copy something from the past," said A31 founder Praxitelis Kondylis. "We We didn't want to be mimical," he continued.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Comprising two towers connected by a 100-meter tall skybridge, the headquarters building forms a new landmark near the main tollgate to and from Seoul. The tower's rational form contains office, auditorium, and tenant amenity space, including the Doosan History Museum and a café that opens up to the landscaped roof terrace.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2024

Mexican studio COA Arquitectura has enclosed a winery outside of Guadalajara with a corrugated steel sawtooth roof and rammed earth walls. Informed by the agricultural buildings of the area, each building is enclosed in rammed earth walls that are freestanding, square or C-shaped and in-filled with metal and wood.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Image credit: Atchain, courtesy of KPF Externally, the 635-foot-tall tapered tower is defined by a glass facade containing terraces on all office floors. The terraces have been “arranged in a configuration that conveys a sense of movement across the building” and detailed with light bronze soffit accents.

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Deezen

JANUARY 6, 2025

Named Zheijang Shaoxing Shangyu District Cao'e River Culture and Art Centre, the building will be set on the banks of the Cao'e River and host local and international productions of opera, theatre, dance and drama. The centre will be topped by sweeping roofs. They extend furthest and lowest on the centre's southern elevations.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2025

O'Donnell + Tuomey has completed Sadler's Wells East in Stratford, London O'Donnell + Tuomey designed the building, which is Sadler's Wells ' fourth venue, to celebrate dance as an art form, while paying homage to Stratford's industrial past. This solidity is counterbalanced by chamfers and corbelled brick details to add texture.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Austrian studio Delugan Meissl Associated Architects has completed the Expo Cultural Park Greenhouse in China , engulfing a disused steelworks with a mass of curved glass pavilions. The Expo Cultural Park Greenhouse is composed of an entrance building and three distinct pavilions themed around different climates.

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