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Atelier Apeiron tops arched cultural centre with terraced roof garden

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The 142,560-square-metre building in China's southern city of Zhuhai contains a library, theatre and museum , all topped with a terraced roof garden. The building is topped with a stepped-down terrace roof The stacked rooftop creates three platforms, offering stunning views to the surrounding nature, and green space for community activities.

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David Kohn Architects curves University of Oxford college building around three-sided quadrangles

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Both New Warham House and the Main Quad have decorative facades made from 70-millimetre-thick load-bearing stone walls, which were tied to a concrete structure. Stone gargoyles and grotesques feature on the buildings' rooflines The Main Quad has an undulating timber-frame roof topped with polygonal anodised-aluminium roof tiles.

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KPF completes twin skyscrapers for Ziraat Bank Headquarters in Istanbul

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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. According to the studio, timber was used to "create a sense of intimacy" in the auditorium, which has a series of waving roof panels designed to improve acoustics.

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Colectivo C733 installs museum inside 18th-century Mexican port building

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A corridor was used as an exhibition space and small workshops and remnants of the original structure constructed with handmade adobe bricks are scattered around the site. This reaches up to the roof of the historic building and allows visitors to pass through it on an elevated walkway.

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Klas Hyllén Architecture tops Malvern Pool House with skylight for stargazing

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Read: Osso Architecture models timber pool house in New Jersey on horse arena By casting Malvern Pool House's services directly into the structural walls themselves, the water can extend to the very edges of the interior, where a large panoramic window provides views over the landscape.

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They Built a Home Their Two Daughters Can One Day Split Down the Middle—Literally

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Externally it is expressed as a bright horizontal band of colored mosaic, becoming a continuous library inside; it is separated from the floor and the roof by two bands of special reflective glass blocks. The multi-faceted roof has a fully visible structure inside and expressed waterproofing seams outside.

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NEXT Architects creates bat-friendly watchtower overlooking Dutch forest

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The studio decided to incorporate habitats for tree-dwelling bats into the structure, which is located on a flight path for the winged mammals. Timber was used for the structure. Photo by Karl Banski The structure is made of laminated Douglas fir columns and clad in thermally modified pine that protects the lookout from the weather.

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