Deezen

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Canadian architecture studio Lemay has designed a chalet prototype with a sloped roof and extensive glazing using mass timber in Potton, Quebec. On the other side of the expansive glazing lies a double-height family room with a sloping roof set between the large V-shaped columns.

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Deezen

MARCH 8, 2024

Architecture studio SO-IL has unveiled designs for the Williams College Museum of Art in the Berkshires , which will be topped with a tent-like cross-laminated timber roof. The undulating cross-laminated timber roof will be laid atop these volumes, unifying them below. It is punctuated by glazed openings dispersed along its facade.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Local studio Hopson Rodstrom Design placed a sawtooth roof on top of this black-clad apartment building with an interior courtyard in southern California. Located in West Los Angeles on a busy thoroughfare, the project is called The Jagger – named after the massive sawtooth roof that tops it.

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Dwell

MAY 12, 2023

The building is organized around a repeating grid of slender quadripartite columns that frame views and support a lightweight trussed roof structure. This large overhanging roof canopy unites the four volumes and forms a perimeter verandah. The metal frame is painted in a rich golden and the roof is lined with copper.

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Dwell

AUGUST 5, 2024

Upcycled materials from a dilapidated structure found on site create a sustainable home made up of round volumes connected by a floating roof. The freely flowing curved volumes are connected by a floating roof that rests on a layer of clerestory windows. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

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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Deezen

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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Deezen

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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Dwell

JULY 20, 2022

A thin steel shed roof pitches up to open the interior to the south sun and frame views to the ski runs on the mountain. Double-thick eight-inch concrete walls fitted with foam insulation extend up to the roof on the low side. Clerestory windows enclose the triangular space between the roof and concrete walls.

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Dwell

MARCH 4, 2025

The choreography of inhabitation is characterized by guests who eddy inside and out, into and out of the ground and bodies of water, collecting themselves in and around the sunken living room or one of several pool rooms: some for wading, some for diving, some for lounging in the shade provided by the extended beams of the roof.

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Dwell

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The roof was also renovated, with the roof edge raised slightly so that the newly installed solar panels appeared to be sunken into the roof. Smart storage solutions such as built-in closets and roof beam spaces add to the comfortable feel of the house. Post it here.

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Deezen

MAY 28, 2024

L-shaped in plan, the house consists of rectilinear volumes with flat roofs to prevent dangerous snow slides. Alta House is in Wyoming Portland-based Lever Architecture sought to create a durable home that could withstand the region's harsh winter weather while capitalising on the picturesque setting. The photography is by Lara Swimmer.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Walls were clad in stone and hemlock wood, and the house was topped with a metal gabled roof. There also is a large, angled roof cutout that demarcates a front courtyard. There also is a roof deck. In plan, the home is a long bar with a sawtooth formation along one side. Communal areas convene in the central portion of the plan.

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Dwell

AUGUST 15, 2024

Set on an undulating dune, the dwelling is comprised of three semi-buried pavilions connected by a lush green roof. The program is distributed on a ground floor, organized by three semi-buried pavilions whose roofs are tied to the ground, and form a topography absorbed by the forest. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

APRIL 26, 2024

It is designed around a courtyard The exterior of Harriet Hardy House is enlivened with areas of textured brickwork at the ground and roof levels, while the balconies are topped by arched concrete lintels. "[The All of the flats have been designed as "care ready" and can be fitted with telecare and assistive technology if required.

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Deezen

APRIL 17, 2023

The studio gutted and expanded the 4,650-square-foot (430-square metre) rectangular home into an L-shaped plan with overlapping roofs. The home was informed by vernacular agricultural buildings Clad in a dark metal roof and custom dark green stained cypress in a varied batten pattern, the main house references and updates agrarian vernacular.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2023

The home is topped with a green roof. The home is topped by a green roof planted with local grasses that camouflages the home in its context. Civil engineer: McNeil Engineering. Structural engineer: Structural Design Studio. The photography is by Matt Winquist unless otherwise stated. .

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AUGUST 25, 2022

To commemorate the 60th anniversary of its founding and contribute to the community, Japanese civil engineering firm Qilu Construction recently invested around 250 million yen (approximately HK $ 14.5 The roof will be a covered observation space, where people can eat and drink outdoors while enjoying the view of the dunes.

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Deezen

JULY 8, 2024

The Steinwachs Family Plant Research Center (Research Center) and the Jean Goldstein Welcome Center (Welcome Center) sit across from LEAF, connected by a curved pavilion roof that covers the ticket counter. The ticketing counter is covered by a curved roof. Its rooftop solar array will serve as the campus's main energy source.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The columns flatten at their peaks to evoke a tree canopy One of the library's most notable details is its tall, slender columns that "mushroom into flat panels" at their peak to support the roof. Meanwhile, the roof has integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) construction elements to generate renewable energy. The photography is by Yumeng Zhu.

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Deezen

JANUARY 30, 2024

The roof of the shell slopes down gently towards a central point, from which water is funneled by gutters into an adjacent rain garden, to capitalise on the heavy precipitation in Pompano Beach, a municipality north of Fort Lauderdale. The rain cascades from the roof into a rain garden where the water is infiltrated back into the aquifer."

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Dwell

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Project Details: Location: Melbourne, Australia Architect: LLDS / @ llds_architecture Footprint: 880 square feet Structural Engineer: Bollinger+Grohmann Civil Engineer: R. Sited on a narrow plot, the main design move was to elevate the ground to form a roof garden to address the lack of garden spaces. Have one to share?

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Deezen

APRIL 21, 2023

Chicago-based Studio Gang has completed the overall of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock, Arkansas , with the addition of a sculptural folded concrete roof. Both of the entrances are covered by the roof as it cantilevers above the glass entryways.

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Deezen

AUGUST 23, 2022

Atop the front portion of the house, a thin, shed roof is lifted up, making way for clerestories. Other projects by the studio include a house that offers views of the Pacific Crest mountains in every room, and a holiday home in wine country that features an asymmetrical roof and facades wrapped in salvaged wood and weathering steel.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Snøhetta also designed landscaped plazas and roof terraces for Airside, which sits above the Kai Tak MTR station in the district that formerly held Kai Tak, Hong Kong's international airport from 1925 to 1998. The photography is by Kevin Mak.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The stone-clad Connecticut retreat is surprisingly advanced with a steel frame, glass sliders, geothermal heating and cooling, and a motorized roof hatch to the deck. To the left, a staircase ascends through a motorized roof hatch, accessing the panoramic roof deck. Have one to share? Post it here.

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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 building itself is a very simple rectangular form but set within a curved courtyard landscape to provide, together with the arched roof, an organic natural flowing form," explained Kirkland. Electrical engineer: Aura.

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Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2024

It topped the buildings with photovoltaic panels and green roofs to produce energy while also aiming to increase biodiversity. For the small amount of energy that will be consumed, the project plans to compensate for it by producing green energy via bio-solar roofs." The photography is by Julien Hourcade.

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Deezen

JANUARY 8, 2022

Its tower leads up to the roof, where two multifunctional rooms sit on a planted terrace with views across the river towards the Oxford Botanic Garden, which informed the tower's leaf-like metal filigree. "The Structural and civil engineer: SOLID Structures & Infrastructure. The tower is topped by a decorative metal crown.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The guest house – a nearly symmetrical 550-square foot (51 square metre) pavilion – works in dialogue with the existing home, weighing the main home's rough masonry with the guest house's steel-framed roof and three-sided glazing.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This resulted in an estimated 60 per cent reduction in carbon emissions for the team's first full-scale demo project, built inside Cambridge University 's Civil Engineering Department. Since concrete is the world's most widely consumed material after water [.] This creates panels that are lighter and use 70 per cent less material.

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Deezen

JULY 29, 2022

Placed parallel to this space, another tunnel-like form contains the guesthouse's kitchen and toilets, with the roofed area between acting as a seating area. A roof covers an area between the tunnel-like forms. The main archive space was placed in a 40-metre-long tunnel that has glass windows at each end.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2022

A jagged roof tops the project. The building is topped with a sawtooth roof , which takes cues from the gabled roofs and porches historically found in the area, before the construction of a freeway in the 1960s decimated the neighbourhood. Structural engineer: KPFF Consulting Engineers. Developer: project^.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The cabins were prefabricated and assembled on-site The steep black metal roofs give way to warm vertical cedar boards. The panelized structure of the 475-square foot (44-square metre) cabins was prefabricated by Plant Prefab in Los Angeles and then assembled on-site.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson used engineered timber and a cantilevered roof for Caymus-Suisun Winery to create a contemporary winery with a "new architectural language for the region". The space is shaded by a large cantilevered roof that is designed to "hover weightlessly overhead while focusing views to nearby mountain ranges".

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Deezen

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. Known as DNA Alpine, the 4,000-square foot (372-square metre) home was completed in 2022 and designed to "disappear into or somehow become" the 75-acre site in San Miguel County.

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Deezen

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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