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APRIL 2, 2024

The roof to the living space is densely planted and its concrete structure provides enough depth for the plants to thrive. The garden between the studio and house is also planted out and the focus on landscape benefits not only the client but also the neighbors immensely." Post it here.

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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. Project credits: Client: North Carolina Museum of Art Contractor: Frank L.

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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. The photography is by Matthew Winquist.

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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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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The idea was to take the existing house and give it new life—one that met the needs and aesthetics of our designer clients. The original house was clad entirely with cedar shingles both inside and out: the walls, roof, and ceilings. The client described it as living inside a tree.

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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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DECEMBER 12, 2024

The clubhouse has a bar overlooking the track The clubhouse, which has amenities including a swimming pool, driver-focused gym, treatment rooms, track-briefing area, concierge, restaurant, bar and a roof terrace sits at the end of the front row, next to the Becketts Grandstand and directly overlooking the circuit.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A sloping fibreglass roof and a glass facade characterise New York studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro 's first completed single-family residential project, which has been photographed officially for the first time by Iwan Baan. It is really surreal and magical in the whole; the whole roof just feels like it's floating."

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Scottish architecture studio Loader Monteith has designed an office with a gabled roof , along with two private residences, for mountain bike tour operator H&I Adventures on a sloping brownfield site in Scotland. The first of two planned residences, it is distinguished by its lower height and butterfly roof.

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DECEMBER 29, 2021

We designed a strategy of aggregation by creating a network of triangular pergolas that can grow or contract, depending on the necessity of the client throughout the project," the firm said. The pavilions are raised above the ground and are covered with hipped roofs. Client: The Stroh Family. Electromechanical engineer: CIEM.

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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.

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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. The extension features a window seat overlooking the rear courtyard Oliver Leech Architects was founded in 2016. The photography is by Jim Stephenson.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A 30-metre-long bridge connects the two wings of the complex A 300-square-metre pool located on the roof of The H Residence mimics the deep curve of the first-floor bridge and enjoys a view of Dubai's city skyline.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

The clients had few requests for their new home, specifically that it be environmentally progressive and offer a high level of flexibility while embracing the desert landscape," the studio noted. The shed roof – capped in standing seam metal – creates a series of narrow, slanted interior spaces. Contractor: Forest City Made.

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AUGUST 28, 2022

All homes have their own private balcony overlooking the street, plus there are shared resources that include a 55-space cycle parking area, a communal roof terrace and a shared laundry. The studio sourced funding by reaching out to ethical investors and past clients, and asking them to take a risk. Services engineer: BCA Engineers.

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MARCH 18, 2024

Drawing on the local farmhouse typology, the home by Richard Parr Associates features a sloped-roof brick structure clad with charred timber and topped with corrugated metal roofing. UK architecture studio Richard Parr Associates has completed a single-storey family residence on a wild countryside site in Oxfordshire.

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DECEMBER 17, 2024

The roof mirrors the angles of the surrounding mountain range Adjacent to existing professional and practice soccer fields used by a local league, Aidia Studio constructed a 6,973-square metre (75,056-square foot) building with a heavy, pigmented concrete base and a lightweight metal shade structure.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

Many of its in-progress projects include formal references to natural phenomena, such as the wave-like roof for the proposed Nanhai Art Center in Guangdong. It has completed dozens of high-profile projects including a bubble-like extension for a house in Japan. The photography is by Iwan Baan unless otherwise stated.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

On the roof is the Sky Chapel, which offers 360-degree views of the surrounding landscape to create a "complete sense of awe". Project credits: Architect: Lee Eunseok and Atelier Koma Project team: Atelier Koma Stained Glass Artist: Chung Kyungmi Orgelbau Meister: Hong Seonghun Structural engineer: Edun Struc.

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JUNE 10, 2024

On one of the building's roofs, a cylindrical metal drum has been adapted into a small gravel patio space, with a steel stair leading up to an additional roof terrace. Project credits: Architect: Divooe Zein Architects Client: Mineless Execution: C.C.H

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JANUARY 29, 2024

The new rooms were raised up from the ground The house reminded the client of a trio of modernist villas in Sardinia, which he had admired since childhood stays at his family's vacation home on the Mediterranean island. We had to resort to sleeping on the roof for relief."

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The roof is undulating, and the facades are clad in burnt wood. The writer's studio rises two stories while the guest house is rectilinear in form The ground floor includes public spaces, the primary bedroom suite, a garage and a gym, along with "an expansive mudroom for the client's Irish wolfhounds".

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MAY 10, 2024

Chilean studio Hebra Arquitectos has completed an elevated home with steel pilotis and a V-shaped roof, aiming to create a building that "floats in the middle of the forest". It was commissioned during the pandemic as a second home for the client The design team had multiple goals for the project.

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AUGUST 23, 2022

Engineered wood and steel were used for the structural frame. The house was inspired by the lifestyle of the client, who cross-country skis from their backyard up the mountain and skis down,". Engineered wood and steel were used for the structural frame. Structural engineer: CFBR Structural Group.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Structural Engineer: Martin Wünsche Fire Safety Engineering: Pavla Tvrdá EPC: Tomáš Brückner Footprint: 1,560 square feet From the Architects: " The clients specified that the building program should include a home for a family of four and a separate unit for their grandparents.

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APRIL 7, 2022

Local firm In Situ Studio was charged with designing a contemporary residence for a couple – the husband is an electrical engineer, and the wife is a German and history teacher. The site formerly held a run-down, 1940s dwelling that was owned by the clients. The upper level contains the main suite, an office and a roof terrace.

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JUNE 17, 2024

Located in the hills just north of Santa Rosa in Sonoma County , the house was designed for clients who had lost their prior home in the 2017 Tubbs Fire, which burned over 36,000 acres (14,569 hectares) and devastated the wine-making region. The house was designed for clients who had lost their prior home in the 2017 Tubbs Fire The new, 9.73-acre

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

Architecture studio Snøhetta and engineer Tor Helge Dokka have created House Dokka, a mass-timber home that perches on a hillside in Kongsberg, Norway. According to Snøhetta and Dokka, who was also the client for the project, it is intended to resemble a "floating treehouse". The photography is by Robin Hayes.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Project Details: Location: Whakamaru, New Zealand Architect: DCA Architects of Transformation / @ dca_architects Footprint: 3,218 square feet Builder: HRC Construction Structural Engineer: No.8 The clients had camped on the bare land for 14 years prior. The woolshed vernacular drove the exterior form.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Surman Weston has self-built a "characterful family home" in London The nature of the self-build project meant the duo was not guided by a client brief and instead largely free of parameters, requiring them to set their own. There is a greenhouse on the roof It was also critical that Peckham House felt "rooted in its context", Surman said.

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JULY 9, 2024

Each of these separate "houses" was topped by a gable roof to give the centre a zigzagging profile, with their gable ends containing intakes for fresh air. Communal space is provided on the ground floor AOR Architects organised the centre as six interconnected log houses, which are linked by a series of internal streets and bridges.

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AUGUST 22, 2024

British engineer Tom Greenhill has proposed a low-cost, low-energy solution for keeping UK homes cool in a heatwave: painting the outside of windows with yoghurt. Greenhill got the idea for the yoghurt coating from an anecdote he'd heard early in his career when he was working at the engineering firm Max Fordham LLP.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Daniel Canda has renovated a 1980s residence in Argentina Faced between updating an existing structure or building anew for a client, Canda & Associados (C&A) ultimately chose to renovate. "If The team kept much of the bottom half of the house intact, removing interior walls and flattening its original gabled roof.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The interior features a C-shaped plan An exterior staircase – shaded by a black partition lattice made of local purple rosewood – leads up to a roof terrace with 360-degree views. The client named the house Casa que Da (House that Gives) to reference the act of "giving" in a culinary context.

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MARCH 21, 2023

The clients hired Texas-based Specht Architects to build a 2,000-square-foot (186-square metre) minimalist house with floor-to-ceiling glass walls that afforded views of the surrounding meadow and large old-growth trees. The axial approach includes replanted natural grasses The roof extends to create a 15-foot (4.5-metre)

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MARCH 2, 2023

US studio CLB Architects has designed a cedar-clad home and barn in Wyoming for clients who love horses and wanted to return their property to its historic roots as a working ranch. CLB Architects gave the home a long, low roof To design the project, the team drew upon the site's history as a working cattle ranch.

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MARCH 19, 2024

An acronym of the clients’ names, and a reference to their native bee hive, House for BEES is a moniker that encapsulates the client focused, collaborative design process and outcome for a family of four to their Federation home and garden in Mosman. Post it here.

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