Deezen

MAY 9, 2024

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.

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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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designboom

OCTOBER 23, 2024

full-height glass panels and skylights integrate the interior with the surrounding landscape. The post undulating green roof conceals cocoon pre-primary school in india mimicking a hillside appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

MARCH 11, 2024

Tokyo-based studio Klein Dytham Architecture has designed a bookstore wrapped with an undulating steel roof resembling "outstretched arms" in Nagano, Japan. Concave wooden eaves designed to "evoke the highland terrain" extend beyond the glass facade to shelter an external terrace.

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Deezen

AUGUST 15, 2024

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. Many of the plantings were configured as "hanging gardens" with vines hanging over large expanses of glass to dampen the light.

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Deezen

JANUARY 12, 2024

Infrastructure consultants AECOM and Spanish architecture studio Luis Vidal + Architects have created a terminal for Boston 's Logan Airport capped by a long, bright-red roof. On the opposite side, where the gates are, the face of the structure is mostly glass. Its corners taper to sharp edges that "cut through the sky with precision".

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Deezen

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Architecture studio Ingenhoven Architects has created a series of buildings topped with large, overhanging thatched roofs for the Lanserhof Sylt health resort on the Germany island of Sylt. Its building is topped with a thatch roof that measures 7,100 square metres – making it the largest in Europe.

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Deezen

MARCH 8, 2024

Architecture studio SO-IL has unveiled designs for the Williams College Museum of Art in the Berkshires , which will be topped with a tent-like cross-laminated timber roof. The undulating cross-laminated timber roof will be laid atop these volumes, unifying them below. It is punctuated by glazed openings dispersed along its facade.

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Archinect

JANUARY 6, 2022

The shop’s industrial frame, wrapped in wood and glass, offers a clever reply to local pitched-roof mandates, while also providing a raw and tough space that is ready for anything. Outside, a landscape of drought-tolerant plantings resides in playful dialogue with the home.

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ArchDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

But what are we to make of this term, this period—some even call it a “movement”—so well-known globally it goes by initials?

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Deezen

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Architecture studio Mur Mur Lab has designed the Dongdan Grassland Sea Ruins Station in eastern China , creating two wave-topped glass pavilions that offer passers-by a "moment to connect with nature". Providing a stopping point directly alongside the adjacent road, Mur Mur Lab designed the rest stop to be a new "gateway "onto this landscape.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

An oversized stepped roof that doubles as an "amphitheatre for the city" tops BBT Hilltop, a burger restaurant in Kuwait City designed by architecture studio TAEP/AAP. Above, the overhanging roof provides additional seating as well as a flexible events space that TAEP/AAP designed to be used for outdoor cinemas, parties and concerts.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Portland-based studio Hacker Architects has replaced an outdated lodge with a blackened wood -and-glass structure featuring elements informed by the volcanic landscape of Sisters, Oregon. The form and pitch of the roof match the slope of nearby Black Butte, while clerestory windows bring light into the space from all directions.

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Deezen

JUNE 5, 2023

Mexican studio Colectivo C733 has created a brick music school in Nacajuca, Mexico that includes two structures and a lofty, cantilevered roof made of coconut wood. The west end is transparent with rectangular glass panels shielded from the street by a porous brick screen, while the east end holds a service core.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

American architecture studio SOM has completed the Schwarzman College of Computing, an eight-storey, glass-wrapped building designed to be a "collaborative nexus" on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge. The building is topped with a large green roof that helps with onsite stormwater management.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Architecture studio Edition Office has created a three-bedroom house with a cutout roof and fibre-cement cladding in Mossy Point, Australia. A solid balustrade lines the perimeter of the northern deck, establishing privacy for the interior, which features walls of floor-to-ceiling glass.

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Deezen

JULY 23, 2024

The five-bedroom family home is constructed from wood and defined by its origami-like, wood-clad roof, which pays homage to local buildings and agricultural structures in nearby villages. We want the building to feel agricultural, hence the gabled ends, but also nod to the variety of domestic roof pitches found in the local area."

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Deezen

MARCH 13, 2024

Pyramidal Corten steel roofs define a distillery designed by ODOS Architects on the outskirts of Monasterevin in rural County Kildare, Ireland. The buildings of the old Ballykelly mill now contain exhibition halls and flexible office space for the Church of Oak, and are topped with a new roof terrace.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

After Junya Ishigami unveiled a kilometre-long art museum that emerges from an artificial lake , Dezeen rounds up 10 recent Chinese architecture projects that play with arresting landscapes. Japanese architect Ishigami said he wanted his project to address a tendency for buildings in China to be "closed off" from their environment.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Indian studio 3dor Concepts has completed The Slab, a family home in Kerala that is protected from the elements by a facade of wooden louvres and a large concrete roof. Its previous residential projects include a house in Kerela sheltered by a large roof clad in locally-sourced tiles and House of Ayoob that is animated by curves.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Lama is formed of a vertical staircase tower, offering views out over the Andes Mountains, while Rosa is a glass room set into a hillside beneath a horizontal concrete roof slab. Instead, the concrete roof slab is supported by four columns positioned in the middle of each wall.

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Deezen

AUGUST 7, 2024

The Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art by Danish studio BIG , engineering firm Arts Group and architecture studio Front has topped out in China , with curved metal roofs designed as a "fifth facade". The stainless roof tiles form a true fifth facade." The photography is by Justin Szeremeta unless stated.

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Archinect

JULY 15, 2024

Water, a natural element significant to all cultures, is re-introduced throughout the site, unifying building and landscape. Additional sustainable elements inc.

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Archinect

MARCH 7, 2024

The centerpiece of the project is the prayer hall, whose crystalline glass roof creates ever-changing interior lighting conditions. During the day, as sunlight is filtered and diffused through the translucent glass, the serene prayer hall inspires users to physically and spiritually connect with both the sky above and the ground below.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2024

"The parametric approach allows for fluid, non-linear spaces that foster creativity and play, while structural ingenuity – such as the undulating roof and seamless spatial integration – blurs the line between learning and play areas." "By Expansively glazed facades and skylights draw light into the spacious interior.

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Architizer

JUNE 20, 2024

Last month, I had the opportunity to visit Italy, the quintessential summer dream destination renowned for its rich history, stunning landscapes, and world-class wine. As you drive to the winery, you’ll catch your first glimpse of its unique integration with the landscape.

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Architizer

MAY 20, 2024

Utah is a land of striking contrasts and otherworldly landscapes, and its architectural identity is deeply rooted in the state’s history and culture. The 120-foot (35-meter) cantilevered roof to the west creates a covered exterior social space, shielding the west-facing glass façade from direct solar gain and glare.

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Deezen

AUGUST 28, 2024

To create a combination of internal and external living spaces, Studio MOB created the home from a number of blocky concrete forms, which intersect beneath expansive concrete roofs with large eaves that provide shelter. Underneath the home's pitched upper roof, an accent wall coated in brickwork adds an earthy feel to the facade.

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Architizer

JULY 8, 2024

Assembly and disassembly components, kit of parts, smart materials, façade appropriations and landscape integrations uncover contemporary architects’ intent to — somewhat ironically — “design less” and “research more.” Subscribe to our Awards Newsletter to receive future program updates.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Inspiration was taken from architects such as Glenn Murcutt, who pioneered a type of climate-responsive design that is heavily influenced by the landscape that surrounds it. There is no glass involved in the house, only galvanized mesh sliding screens, separate sliding insect screens, and plastic curtains.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 15, 2024

MAD Architects has unveiled the One River North apartment block in Denver Located next to a major interstate and light rail line, the 15-storey block's western facade has a curved facade clad in a glass curtain wall with a massive cut "cracking" the building open. The landscape, the different smells, the different sounds, the water.

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Architizer

MAY 22, 2024

But what about when the setting, the landscape onto and into which we build, is utilized as an integral part of the structure? They are a continuation of landscapes reimagined as materials. The post Sustainable Practice: 7 Legendary Designs Using the Landscape as an Architectural Material appeared first on Journal.

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Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2024

A private roof terrace enclosed by greenery features in Hidden Garden House, a Sydney home reconfigured by Australian studio Sam Crawford Architects. metre-high glass openings that lead out to a landscaped patio. Down from the entry hall is a spacious ground-floor kitchen and dining area, which is illuminated by 4.5-metre-high

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Deezen

JULY 11, 2024

The yard was re-landscaped as part of the renovation The yard was re-landscaped as part of the project, which has come to be called Loyal Captain. Large expanses of glass showcase the landscape from the interior and allow the new building to glow at night," the team added. The photography is by Kevin Scott.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

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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Deezen

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Aimasia Residence was built around an existing stone wall Nestled on a hill overlooking the Aegean Sea, the surrounding rocky landscape informed the teams' design for Aimasia Residence. A31 Architecture has inserted the villa into the landscape, and the spine of the building is the dry stone wall, which is actually supporting the building."

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