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Looklen Architects sinks glass cafe into stepped circular landscape

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Set in a lychee garden overlooking the Mekong River, the north-facing cafe is contained within a rectangular glazed volume framed by the stepped circular landscape. It has a rectangular form surrounded by concrete steps "We introduced a rectangular interior glass space that is embraced by a circular concrete amphitheatre," said the studio.

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Aleš Fiala blends Czech winery into landscape beneath curved green roof

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A sweeping, grass-topped concrete roof creates an artificial hill to conceal the Gurdau Winery in the Czech Republic , which has been designed by local practice Aleš Fiala Studio. Where the sloping roof meets the ground, it blends with a series of winding concrete walls supporting planters around a paved patio.

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undulating green roof conceals cocoon pre-primary school in india mimicking a hillside

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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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SOM covers computing college at MIT in large glass shingles

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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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Mur Mur Lab creates glazed pavilions overlooking "mysterious" landscape in China

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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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Piuarch tops Fendi factory with green roof to blend into Tuscan landscape

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Italian architecture studio Piuarch has completed a production factory for fashion brand Fendi in Florence , which features a green roof to "look like a raised garden". Located in the municipality of Bagno a Ripoli, Piuarch collaborated with landscape architect Antonio Perazzi to design a factory that would resemble its surroundings.

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Who Needs Glass? Not This Board-Formed Concrete Retreat in Greece

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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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