Dwell

APRIL 11, 2025

The exterior is Norway spruce, the windows are from Velfac, and the sliders are from Schuco. Photo by Nanne Springer "The nest," what architect Glm Km calls the homes glass-wrapped second level, sits directly above the living room. Reykjavc residents Hkon and Lilja built a cabin outside the city that provides them with a slower pace.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

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. Glass facades allow plentiful daylight into the interior space while limiting solar gain through vertical and horizontal exterior shading devices.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Balnea Spa's new concrete volume extends the sun terrace and creates a swimming pool on its roof As part of a significant expansion project initiated in spring 2023, MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects has added several facilities within a concrete volume that faces the spa's picturesque view of Lake Gale.

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ArchDaily

APRIL 2, 2025

Among the many elements that make up a building, openings play a crucial role in connecting the interior and exterior, balancing privacy with transparency, and allowing the entry of natural light and ventilation. Read more

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Deezen

MARCH 11, 2025

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. Within the dwelling, one finds a separation between public and private spaces.

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Deezen

JANUARY 6, 2025

Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its design for an arts centre in Shaoxing It will comprise a series of venues including a 1,400-seat grand theatre, a 7,500-square-metre heritage museum and a 10,000-square-metre art gallery, unified by sweeping interconnected roofs that Zaha Hadid Architects said will provide a "highly recognisable silhouette".

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Deezen

MARCH 12, 2025

Its rough granite walls, green roofs and stepped concrete paths all formed part of a strategy by Amelia Tavella Architectes to accommodate the large programme without disrupting the "integrity" of the landscape. These follow the contours of the land and extend through glass walls into the school's interior.

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Dwell

MARCH 3, 2025

The units cluster around dining and lounging areas wrapped by a floor-to-ceiling glass perimeter. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

APRIL 17, 2025

Read: MVRDV transforms world war two military base into housing "Imagine swimming the backstroke with a view of a church vault and stained-glass windows," Maas continued. "By A public swimming pool is ideally suited for this."

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Chinese studio People's Architecture Office has converted an old porcelain factory in Jingdezhen into workshops and a gallery using colourful steel and glass extensions. It is finished with clay tiles on the exterior and faceted, slatted wood ceilings above the internal spaces.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2024

"The design features clean lines, minimalist furnishings, and industrial elements like exposed steel beams and large glass windows, creating an aesthetic that is both striking and functional, seamlessly blending with the tropical surroundings while maximising space and maintaining openness." The photography is by Studio Iksha.

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Deezen

MARCH 3, 2025

The studio, which is led by Ruan Xing , who is also the dean of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University , renovated a trio of buildings that were arranged around an atrium with a glass canopy. A lecture theatre sits on the first floor The exterior of the building was clad in ceramic panels, transitioning from coarse to more refined as they rise.

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Deezen

JANUARY 2, 2025

Named Rusty House on the Rye after its reddish-brown exterior, the project added a side extension to the modest end-of-terrace house, creating a new landmark on the corner of Peckham's Bellenden Road. With no off-the-shelf shutters available, studio on the rye designed bespoke sliding MDF shutters that could be concealed in the walls.

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Architizer

JANUARY 13, 2025

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. Running on 100% renewable energy, the campus is also North Americas largest LEED Platinum-certified office.

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Deezen

MARCH 19, 2025

Announced last spring, the complex centres around an indoor 67,500-seat stadium with a sloped transparent roof hemmed in by several smaller volumes, all with angular, wing-shaped roofs. It features a massive sloped glass roof In the memo, HSG said that it and its partners were "prepared to invest more than $2 billion (1.5

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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. The studio's Vessel viewpoint in New York recently reopened with steel mesh wrapping its exterior to prevent people from jumping from its platforms.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Among the studio's key projects are the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, which is composed of a low-lying circular structure wrapped with glass, and the stepped Sydney Modern gallery in Australia. Alongside its central art galleries, it hosts public spaces including a library, lecture hall and children's workshop.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 13, 2022

x 34 ft.CL20 minimally connects to the existing house with a glass box connecting space. These 4 frames support the flat roof thus providing all the vertical and lateral support necessary for the entire structure. This allows floor plan flexibility and eliminates exterior shear walls.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 26, 2024

A concrete wall was cast between the house and the slope next to it The main and guest houses are muted black, gable-shaped structures with steep roofs and long overhangs, allowing the colours and textures of the site to serve as the foreground of the design. The waves of corrugation give subtle texture to the forms."

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Work will now commence on the installation of the 347,500-square-foot gallery’s interior walls, plus its exterior facade glazing, MEP systems, and roof-level horizontal decks. That's three football fields long with supporting cantilevers that hold people, glass, artwork — cantilevers that are 60 feet long.

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2023

Montreal architect Stephane Gaulin-Brown has placed a single-slope roof with a curved soffit on top of a ski chalet to open it up to the forests of Mont Tremblant, Quebec. The primary feature is a long shed roof with an ochre-coloured wooden soffit that curves from the exterior wall up to the edge of the cantilever.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Mexican studio Elías Rizo Arquitectos has balanced a concrete house with a steep gabled roof on a hillside in Tapalpa, Mexico near Guadalajara. Under the angle of the standing seam metal roof, which stretches outward along the ridgeline to form an oblong diamond in plan, the concrete transitions to black wood.

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Archinect

JANUARY 26, 2024

“The architects immersed the concrete and glass house in the landscape so that a series of green rooftop terraces gently step down from the street to the river below.” ” – Architectural Record The roof is the first thing you’ll see when arriving by the windy road from a cliff above.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2025

The theatre's design features a sawtooth roof The building's exterior is wrapped in handmade Venetian brick and tiles that were crafted from the same clay to create a unified facade. This solidity is counterbalanced by chamfers and corbelled brick details to add texture.

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Archinect

JANUARY 26, 2024

A floating pavilion roof hovers over the interior and exterior spaces while sliding glass panels and corrugated concrete walls define its courtyards. ” – Scott Specht, principal architect Water helps link the exterior and interior spaces. The Preston Hollow House blurs the lines between indoors and out.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2025

Local studio Gonzalo Bardach Arquitectura has created a concrete woodland house with a ramping green roof near the coast outside Buenos Aires , Argentina. Be The ground slopes up to form a green roof, which also bridges the pavilions over a large central space that holds the kitchen, dining, and living rooms.

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Deezen

APRIL 13, 2025

Wooden cabinetry and white surfaces allow this space to feel light and bright, aided by the large sliding glass door that leads out to the back yard. The firm previously designed offices for technology company Slack in Toronto , where a trail of rainbow-coloured cables match brightly hued walls and seating.

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

The renovation included removing interior walls and flattening a gable roof "As architects, we must rethink the impact of replacing a piece where it can be re-functionalized. 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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Deezen

JULY 22, 2024

US architect Philip Johnson's Glass House annexe, the Brick House, has been restored and reopened following a 15-year closure in Connecticut. The structure serves as a guest house opposite the Glass House "For such a seemingly simple structure, the work required to preserve, protect, and restore the Brick House was extensive," said Stoner.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

ESSCA School of Management Bordeaux By GUIRAUD-MANENC , Bordeaux, France Jury Winner, Architecture +Glass, 12th Annual A+Awards A 19th-century barracks is transformed into a teaching facility while preserving its historic perimeter walls. The new structure clearly contrasts with the original house.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

It has zigzagging walls While the former stable block was aligned to the cardinal directions, Kirkland Fraser Moor rotated the plan of Foxglove House by 45 degrees while keeping the square roof in its original position, creating overhangs at each corner.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2025

This arrangement along with open risers, slender guardrails and glass partitions allows light from above and the windows at either end of the building to permeate inward. The living areas are spread across the lower two levels, both of which can be accessed from the street.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 23, 2024

These elevated floors were framed with steel and glass and accessed via a series of walkways that traverse the floor of the building, where the equipment lies relatively untouched. Open-air egress transforms nondescript interior corridors into vibrant exterior passageways," said the studio.

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Deezen

APRIL 15, 2025

California studio Brooks + Scarpa has included roofs with exaggerated gables for the angular black -metal-clad Steeplechase house in the forests of North Carolina , USA, designed to merge modern and traditional elements. The southwestern gable ends are entirely clad in glass, broken only by black window framing.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Architecture studio Kohn Pedersen Fox has completed a terminal at Zayed International Airport in the UAE with an undulating roof informed by sand dunes and geometric patterns. The post KPF tops Abu Dhabi airport with undulating roof informed by sand dunes appeared first on Dezeen. The photography is by Victor Romero.

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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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Deezen

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The swooping staircase with floating marble treads is based on an Oscar Niemeyer design The huge double-height living area is surrounded by floor-to-ceiling glass, making the most of the skyline vista, while a high-gloss ceiling reflects the windows to allow the space to feel even taller.

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