Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed designs for the Centre of Mediterranean Culture, which is currently under construction on its coastal site in Reggio Calabria, Italy. Renders of the centre's exterior reveal landscaped courtyards that wind around the building to provide shaded outdoor space for visitors.

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Deezen

APRIL 12, 2025

Called Timber Nest, the home is located near the southern town of Rdberg, where it occupies a sloping, forested site overlooking the mountains of the Hardangervidda National Park. Quentin Desfarges added porthole-style windows to Timber Nest "Timber Nest does not merely occupy its site; it coexists with it," Desfarges told Dezeen.

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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. Known as El Mirador, the 2023 house measures 230 square metres (2475 square feet) and serves as an "ode" to the site's preexisting landscape. The back of the house is solid concrete.

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Deezen

MARCH 20, 2025

metre-tall tower on the corner of the Gradel Quadrangles site named New Warham House, which contains offices. 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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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. Because of all the additions to the site, it had become a bit of a fortress."

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Deezen

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". Exterior walls consist of cypress wood screens and large stretches of glass. The roof is supported by reticular beams, which have a weblike composition.

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Deezen

MARCH 12, 2025

Located in the coastal village of Lumio, the 2,300-square-metre kindergarten , primary school and cultural centre steps down its sloping site with a series of rectilinear volumes, topped with playground terraces overlooking the sea. It's about creating space for learning and culture without altering the land's integrity."

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Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The 205-square-metre dwelling was designed for a client with a background in the steel industry and is located on a site surrounded by large mango trees in the coastal town of Tanur. The durable deck-sheet roof offers thermal insulation, completing the modern industrial aesthetic while ensuring energy efficiency."

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Deezen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A dark grey roof shaped like an armadillo's shell peeks out behind a row of terraced houses on Station Lodge, a home in southwest London designed by local architectural studio Lacey & Salkytov. These were clad with dark exterior walls to conceal the dust from passing trains and reduce maintenance. The photography is by Will Pryce.

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Deezen

MARCH 25, 2025

Rather than the conventional way of placing solar panels on top of a roof as a retrospective add-on, the detailing the building's exterior cladding, its 'solar skin', is a key driver of the design," it added. These ends were clad in pale timber planks that contrast the black cladding and solar panels of the home's exterior.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Known as the Dogtrot House, the 3200-square foot (300-square metre) residence sits on a 10-acre site in Hillsborough, outside of Raleigh-Durham, that is densely wooded with oak, sweet gum, maple and persimmon trees and overlooks a pond.

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Deezen

JANUARY 12, 2025

Originally forming part of a dairy farm, the group of existing buildings dates back to the 15th and 16th centuries and comprises timber-framed structures of different sizes topped with pitched roofs. To match the red-brick exterior walls, each home is topped with a red metal roof and features red timber detailing.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Beijing-based People's Architecture Office 's (PAO) design opens up the previously private site to expand the area's offering for both locals and tourists. The studio connected the old structures with modern elements At the centre of the site next to a large brick chimney, PAO has encased the factory's tallest structure in a glazed shell.

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Deezen

MARCH 23, 2025

It was built in a workshop in Barcelona city in eight balloon-framed modules, a construction method where vertical wooden posts are continuous from the foundation to the roof, creating a single, long wall structure. The roof is metallic and finished with sprayed cork for extra insulation. The photography is by Gregori Civera.

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Archinect

MARCH 28, 2022

Two new images, updated from 2015 , show the concept design for the interior and exterior of the station. According to HS2, elements of the roof can be prefabricated off-site and installed using modular construction techniques. The station, itself, will span three levels, with ten 450-meter-long subsurface platforms.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 23, 2024

5468796 Architecture has added residential buildings to the site The station closed in 1986 and was slated for demolition. 5468796 Architecture preserved the structure by converting it into an office and restaurant, while additional residential buildings were added to the site. The photography is by James Brittain.

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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. Palo Quemado House overlooks a lake in southern Chile Located in Chile 's Los Ros region, the house rests on a sloped site and looks toward Lake Ranco.

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Architizer

MARCH 4, 2025

Finally, by doubling functions throughout the space i.e., designing a roof that also acts as a deck maximizes the spaces efficiency, where every element serves multiple purposes in a compact living environment. The cabin serves as an outpost, realised prior to any other (larger) building, allowing the client to occupy the site much sooner.

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Deezen

JUNE 12, 2024

Barrel-vaulted concrete roofs are supported by thick laterite walls at The Stoic Wall Residence in Kerala, India , completed by local studio Lijo Reny Architects. It is organised into a series of distinct areas across a large site surrounded by trees, following the path of the sun and separated by small courtyards.

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Deezen

APRIL 17, 2025

Photos of construction at the Obama Presidential Center Museum Building in Chicago have shown an exterior wrapped in granite panels, as well as the interior of the partially completed uppermost floors. The library building is partially buried and will eventually contain a branch of the Chicago Public Library and feature a walkable green roof.

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Deezen

AUGUST 28, 2024

From a home formed of two overlapping volumes in Alabama to a structure on a narrow site in San Francisco , we've rounded up 11 houses in the United States with striking black facades. The material covers both the exterior walls and roof, with warm-toned Brazilian Cumaru wood interwoven in select areas, such as entryways.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Klas Hylln Architecture has added a pool house to a 1980s home in Warwickshire The volumes have curved edges and buff-brick exteriors, chosen to respect the original home and the surrounding landscape, while their interiors are pared-back and "almost monastic". They are connected to each other and to the existing 1980s home by glazed links.

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Deezen

MAY 15, 2024

A 36-metre-tall concrete silo has been converted into a dramatic hotel lobby at Bacalan Block – the transformation of a former factory site in Bordeaux into a mixed-use development by Colboc Sachet Architects. Atop its roof, a row of gabled metal forms contain a restaurant and spa wrapped by a panoramic terrace overlooking the city.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Chinese studio Atelier Xi has completed a visitor centre for Qiaochengbei Park in Shenzhen , using weathering steel and grass roofs to blend two pavilion-like structures into the landscape. The two structures were organised around the park's trees The two buildings sit at either end of the park.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This steps up to a standalone garden studio at the end of the site. "We Due to the site's position in a conservation area, the exterior of the extension was required to be in keeping with neighbouring buildings. DHaus opted for pale brickwork that is laid vertically in a stack bond to subtly set the new addition apart.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2025

Japanese studio IGArchitects has completed the Pyramid Hut, an angular, concrete home nestled into a sloping site in Okinawa. Influenced by the home's site, which backs onto a cemetery, IGArchitects designed the pyramidal home as a "closed structure" to distance the residence from its surroundings. The photography is by Ooki Jingu.

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Deezen

APRIL 8, 2025

OMA plans to wrap its exterior with an open-top bowl and increase its capacity from 9,500 to 15,000. A triangular plaza will mark the entrance to the Selman Strmasi Stadium Renders of OMA's design show footpaths, planting and photovoltaic panels on the stadium's roof. The images are courtesy of OMA.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Located in the village of Wigginton, the four-bedroom family home replaces a former stable block on the site, which is in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Alongside the house, a small garage includes a solar array on its roof, which fulfils almost all of the home's energy needs in tandem with a ground-mounted array.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Breeze-block walls and a roof cutout for a palm tree are among the special features at an Arizona house designed by The Ranch Mine , which took cues from a mid-century modern dwelling across the street. Vacant for decades, the historic house has a simple, boxy shape and white exterior screens with elliptical openings.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Photo by Dean Kaufman New Museum of Contemporary Art, US, 2007 Composed of a set of stacked blocks, the eight-storey New Museum of Contemporary Art was completed in 2007 by SANAA alongside Gensler on a compact site in downtown Manhattan. Terraces run around the building's east and south facades.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The house seeks a deliberate connection between all its spaces, with respect to the functional relationship of interior and exterior areas and experiences.

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Deezen

JANUARY 6, 2025

On the exterior, Herzog & de Meuron's design left the building looking like a power station, with only a two-storey glazed extension added to the roof of the brick building. If the exterior was radical in its subtlety, so too was the building's gallery space. It is, I'd argue, the finest new public space in the city.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2025

Metal roofing intended to complement the home's natural aesthetic is used to top both of the structures. The main proposals are kept to the rear of the site resulting in the principal elevation being unaffected." Here, a series of wooden steps designed in response to the site's sloping topography leads down to the outdoor space.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2025

Architecture firm Sp(r)int Studio has restored , extended and added polycarbonate roof panels to a 1950s timber structure protecting a Viking-era archaeological site in Iceland. Sp(r)int Studio has renovated a 1950s structure sheltering Viking ruins The Stng archaeological site contains ruins of a Viking longhouse and farm settlement.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The home is split across five volumes resembling fishing huts At the centre of the site is Casa Donavan's "day volume", which combines the living, dining and kitchen spaces beneath a sloping roof with a triangular skylight.

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