Archinect

JULY 18, 2024

The tasting room is composed of a glulam structural frame and cross-laminated timber roof. The space is defined by its structural system, along with a fully glazed enclosure and exterior weathering-steel cladding. The inversely raised roof floods the space with natural light.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Pei -designed Rock & Roll Hall of Fame museum in Cleveland ahead of next month’s anticipated groundbreaking. Rendering courtesy of Practice for Architect.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Social media is buzzing about the unreal damage to the O2 Arena's PTFE-coated glass fiber roof, which tore off during a live performance in the early morning hours Friday. The scene is reminiscent of the collapse that happened to Montreal's Olympic Stadium the same winter that the O2 (then called the "Millennium Dome") opened.

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Archinect

APRIL 24, 2024

The initial phase of the four-year project that will be completed in 2025 involved expanding its capacity by 60%, creating a new pedestrian linkage to the Seine and Square Jean Perrin, restoring the balconies of the structure’s nave, and removing ad hoc additions that had slowly accrued since its opening 124 years ago.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A beloved monument returned to the Brooklyn skyline without pomp or circumstance last night when the Domino Sugar sign was quietly relit atop the Thomas Havemeyer building’s new barrel vaulted glass roof, illuminating the Williamsburg waterfront for the first time in eight years.

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Deezen

MAY 22, 2024

Indian studio Kiron Cheerla Architecture has completed Pott House, a home in Hyderabad topped by a lantern-like roof that draws light and natural ventilation into its interiors. At night, lights inside glow outwards through the roof to create a lantern-like effect.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Mexico City architecture studio HEMAA utilised a steel structure and green-coloured eaves for Pabellón de la Reserva, a meeting place sited on the marshy shores of a lake in the mountains of central Mexico. This design choice blurs the structure's boundaries, framing the natural landscape with subtlety," he continued.

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Deezen

APRIL 6, 2024

Built as a prototype for the studio's Sprout concept, the Netherlands home was designed to feature as many bio-based materials as possible, including a wooden frame structure and hemp insulation. For this prototype, which is located in Olst, Woonpioniers created a small house comprising a two-storey volume topped with a mono-pitched roof.

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Deezen

JUNE 27, 2024

London studio SPPARC has overhauled a Grade II-listed Georgian townhouse in Fitzrovia to create a homely four-story office featuring a honeycomb-shaped roof. It is illuminated by an array of skylights set in a hexagonal roof structure resembling honeycomb. On one side, it forms a lightwell for the basement.

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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

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. Architect Mark Stoner has led the restoration of Philip Johnson's Brick House It follows the building's closure in 2008 after the structure suffered ongoing "water intrusion" due to its sloping site.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Winter, with its snow, ice and frozen landscapes, temporarily alters not only the physical appearance of structures but also how we experience them. Snow transforms the appearance of architectural structures, softening edges, blurring lines and muting colors. Interior spaces also benefit from these seasonal lighting effects.

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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.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 13, 2022

x 34 ft.CL20 minimally connects to the existing house with a glass box connecting space. It deploys “off the shelf” structural steel moment frames that bolt to a standard concrete slab on grade. These 4 frames support the flat roof thus providing all the vertical and lateral support necessary for the entire structure.

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Chinese studio Offhand Practice has completed the Mei Yuan Cafe, a glass-walled pavilion in Shanghai that allows visitors to "immerse themselves" in the surrounding park. Frames for the expansive glazing are concealed within the roof and brick paving Shanghai-based Offhand Practice was founded by Yuan Yuan and Nie Xuan in 2018.

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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. The structure is technically hybrid, with the wood affixed to a series of six-foot-deep (1.8

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Archinect

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Another milestone has been reached in the ongoing Automated People Mover (APM) project at Los Angeles International Airport after the last structural steel elements near the historic Theme Building have been installed.

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Archinect

JUNE 7, 2022

The first-of-its-kind structure for Australia will be covered by 1,182 solar panels with the equivalent thickness of a conventional glass façade. The addition of extra roof panels will cut almost all ongoing power costs, and after a few years, the site is expected to be carbon-neutral.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Technologies of wood structure, prefabricated construction and lightweight frame are applied to achieve sustainability, easy-built process, and to minimized environmental impact. Glulam post-beam system combines with the Nail Laminated Timber (NLT) roof as the support structure.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Local practice Studio Ellsinger has topped a small holiday cabin on Sweden 's west coast with a hat-shaped aluminium roof to "trigger curiosity" and offer protection from its wild surroundings. The clients had bought a very rural and wild plot on the west coast of Sweden, and they wanted a similar approach," he continued.

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Archinect

APRIL 19, 2024

MBB designed the expansion of an existing building for Grace Church School in New York City, adding a new top floor structure for a double-height gymnasium and athletic center. The new arched-roof steel roof encloses multipurpose, open areas to accommodate courts for team sports as well as all-school gatherings and events.

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Deezen

MAY 31, 2024

A team led by SOM has designed a satellite terminal for Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) Led by SOM , the design team chose a structure based on trees – a subtle nod to the orchard that once occupied the spot in what is now the northwestern suburbs of the city. The renderings are courtesy of SOM and Norviska.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The arrangement of the volumes on the site responds, on the one hand, to the site’s location within its context and its commercial needs, and on the other, to the structural conditions that are required in lacustrine soil. The facade of this volume consists of copper-colored aluminum panels; each panel wa.

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Deezen

JULY 10, 2024

Modu has created a residential extension for a Brooklyn apartment building Mini Tower One adds 30 per cent area to the existing family house, which has three pre-existing storeys, as well as a roof-top. Solar panels added to the roof will also provide 30 per cent energy gain.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

An oversized thatched roof shelters the geometric concrete forms of this house in Vietnam, which has been completed by local architecture studio Kientruc O. It is topped with a large thatched roof Set at an angle, this courtyard separates the open living area to the south from the bedrooms and kitchen to the north.

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Deezen

APRIL 22, 2024

The structure will serve as an educational building for the University of Kansas ( KU ) School of Architecture & Design in Lawrence, Kansas. It will have an all wood structure It will have chamfered edges on all of the corners, creating entrance canopies on the ground floor and terraces up top. The imagery is courtesy of BIG.

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Archinect

JANUARY 6, 2022

The home’s open and connected spaces ultimately flow to the client’s workshop, a new separate structure dedicated to unbounded exploration. 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.

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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

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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Deezen

AUGUST 31, 2024

Belgian studios NU Architectuuratelier and Archipelago have created a visitor centre for the Meise Botanic Garden near Brussels that is topped by a shingle-clad vaulted roof. Read: Henkai Architekti clads mountain visitor centre in wooden shingles Sheltering the remainder of Green Ark is a concrete roof that doubles as a terrace.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

A gridded facade made up of rectangular windows and glass fibre-reinforced concrete (GFRC) bars wraps the building and its rounded corners. Its facade was made by Rieder "The materiality and calming appearance of the glass fibre-reinforced concrete elements allow for a harmonious integration into the surrounding neighbourhood," said Rieder.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Aiming to challenge what schools traditionally look like, Andblack Design Studio designed the structure with a playful, curving form to avoid "conventional, box-like classrooms". Full-height glass panels and open spaces dissolve visual barriers, while the landscape acts as an extension of the school." "The

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Deezen

DECEMBER 31, 2024

German studio GMP Architekten has refurbished and extended Alsterschwimmhalle, a swimming pool in Hamburg with a distinctive double-curved concrete roof. Structural damage and the outdated technical systems necessitated a major overhaul." "In Three supports hold the roof up, two of which are linked via a tie beam beneath the main pool.

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Architizer

JULY 8, 2024

Preserving the structure’s notable slim columns and beams, the project maintained the building’s elegant architectural characteristics and reused most of the existing materials. The post Beyond Green Roofs: 7 Bold Projects Reveal How Sustainable Design is Remaking Modern Architecture appeared first on Journal.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Image courtesy BIG | Bjarke Ingels Group The project converts a former supermarket building by extending its footprint to almost 25,000 square feet and adding a roof canopy resembling a single sheet of folded paper that sweeps down to cover glass-enclosed public areas lining the perimeter.

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designboom

AUGUST 4, 2024

glass roofing tiles illuminate the timber structure with natural light. The post tsutsumi and associates reveals 1979 irimoya-style house’s timber framework appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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