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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. The photography is by Jin Weiqi.
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Courtesy of [applied] Foreign Affairs, Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna Public Markets are complex cases that beautifully combine an engineering exploration with the instigation of a beneficial public function. All one needs is a lot and a sheltering roof.
UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects and local studio Bureau Cube Partners are set to transform a paper mill in Belgrade , Serbia, into a museum with an elliptical roof informed by the scientific work of Nikola Tesla. The museum will be located in a former paper mill. The images are by Norviska unless otherwise stated.
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The home needed to be solar-powered, feature an accessible roof, and ensure high air quality for her asthmatic son. We collaborated with the engineering team to implement an air quality management system, delivering fresh air to all rooms year-round, and coordinated structural upgrades to support the solar canopy.
Using a "low-maintenance material palette" Lake Flato created a stage and circular events pavilion on opposing ends of the park, giving both undulating metal roofs supported by thin columns. According to the team, the undulating roofs of the two performance structures reference the fluid movement of dance.
Mexican studio COA Arquitectura has enclosed a winery outside of Guadalajara with a corrugated steel sawtooth roof and rammed earth walls. The main building is divided into two volumes A sawtooth steel roof covers the length of the facilities, lying exposed and uncovered by the stone walls on its far side.
US studio Robert A M Stern Architects has completed a learning facility at the University of St Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota , intended to foster collaboration between arts and engineering students. The centre brings together various departments within the university's School of Engineering and the College of Arts & Sciences.
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Santiago Calatrava, born on July 28, 1951, in Benimmet, Valencia, Spain, is one of the most celebrated architects and engineers of our time. Known for his innovative approach that seamlessly combines structural engineering with artistic expression, Calatravas works have left an indelible mark on the global architectural landscape.
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German studio GMP Architekten has refurbished and extended Alsterschwimmhalle, a swimming pool in Hamburg with a distinctive double-curved concrete roof. The glass facade has been restored Alsterschwimmhalle's roof structure is just eight centimetres thick and reaches 24 metres at its peak.
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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American studio ZGF Architects has completed an expansion to the main terminal at Portland International Airport, installing a massive mass-timber roof that was prefabricated to keep the airport operational. The largest timber beams are 80 feet (24 metres) long, and the lattice is affixed to these larger mass-timber components.
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The studio also worked closely with the structural engineer AS Construction & Structural Engineering to create a very shallow floor plate, allowing for generous ceiling heights of up to 2.8 At the top of the house is a third-floor main bedroom with a walk-in wardrobe, ensuite bathroom and access to a secluded roof terrace.
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Offices were suspended inside the pumphouse Office space and a restaurant fill the steel-and-glass structures, which have polished concrete flooring and open up directly to the original industrial roof and its new skylights, providing the structure with plentiful natural light. The photography is by James Brittain.
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This reaches up to the roof of the historic building and allows visitors to pass through it on an elevated walkway. A solid brick wall cuts the workshop building off from the rest of the courtyard, but the bridge brings it back into communication with the other structures by allowing visitors to access the roof.
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On the first floor, the original load-bearing walls and space-frame roof structure were retained, as they suited the scale and space requirements of a lecture theatre. The photography is by Su Shengliang.
Chilean studio Hebra Arquitectos has completed a house in southern Chile with native oak cladding and faceted roofs laid out along a V-shaped plan to provide the best views of a lake. The house rises two levels and is topped with faceted metal roofs. The photography is by Marcos Zegers.
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The Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art, featuring curved roofs, has topped out in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. The new museum, designed by BIG, engineering firm ARTS Group, and architecture studio Font, spans Üâ,âââ square meters and off.
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The transitional space between the main house and the guest wing leads to a shaded garden Other wood-clad residences nearby include a house with a series of pyramidal-roofed forms by Oza Sabbeth Architects and a minimalist design wrapped in blackened wood by Starling Architecture and Emily Lindberg Design. The photography is by Adrian Jones.
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Top: photo by Arne Müseler Kirklees Stadium, West Yorkshire, by Populous Global architecture studio Populous's Kirklees Stadium, now known as the John Smith's Stadium, features banana-shaped trusses that support the roof load, eliminating the need for columns underneath and opening up spectator views.
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