Santa Cruz Architect

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Zoning Living Spaces Based on Sunlight: To maximize daylight usage, divide spaces into daytime and nighttime zones. Floor-to-ceiling windows and sliding glass doors in main living areas maximize light and connect the interior with the outdoor environment. • Fixed vs.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The studio , which is led by Rhonda Drakeford, created a distinctive feeling for each of the headquarter's three zones – a main work area, a smaller cafe-style space for meals and relaxing, and a meeting space. Glass bricks create a light meeting room. Glass bricks create a light meeting room.

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Glass Zoning Materials Interior 145

Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Wall-to-wall glass and a material palette informed by local vernacular define Zen House, a 33-square-metre micro home on stilts in Austria, completed by Czech studio Jan Tyrpekl. The glass micro home sits on a wooden platform made from glued-laminated timber, which is also utilised for the roof structure.

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Deezen

MARCH 25, 2025

The Capiche pizzeria is characterised by a wave-like roof The interior's standout feature is its curved ceiling, which is entirely covered in brick to match the floors and walls. The floor plan is separated into zones with different seating arrangements catering to various dining experiences.

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Roofing Zoning Nature Interior 139

Deezen

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Its roof, sides and underside are wrapped in slats of dark brown weathered steel, which filter in sunlight and protect the cabin from heat in the summer. Here, a full-span "wall of glass" faces north with views through the gully.

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Deezen

APRIL 29, 2024

Manica Architecture designed the multi-purpose recreational campus – featuring a stadium enclosed with a translucent roof – to bring a variety of concerts, community celebrations, and sporting events to the Windy City's downtown, to replace the Bears' current home at Soldier Field. The renderings were provided by Manica Architecture.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2024

It rises to 788 feet (223 metres) and has a sleek, curved form clad mostly in glass. A "crack" in the facade features a textural plaster treatment meant to reference the materiality of a mountain canyon and demarcates the public zones of the building and a few private balconies.

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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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Roofing Home Windows Landscape 131

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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Roofing Architect Engineering Engineering 131

Deezen

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

E-Coating has been awarded this year's Sustainability prize E-Coating, an eco-friendly roof and wall coating that reduces the heat absorption of buildings, was awarded this year's Sustainability prize. The post Hands-free IV for disaster zones wins International James Dyson Award appeared first on Dezeen.

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Zoning Students Sustainability Glass 126

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

JANUARY 2, 2025

It comprises a group of sports facilities with green roofs , which appear to emerge from the ground like volcanoes. This centre will be distinguished by its undulating glass shell, which pays homage to the Brisbane River and celebrates its place in the indigenous land known as Meanjin, originally inhabited by the Turrbal people.

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Deezen

MARCH 23, 2024

An angular roof wrapped in translucent red-mesh panels crowns this Y-shaped pavilion in Sydney , designed by local studio Sam Crawford Architects. The building is raised on a low-lying concrete step The red-mesh roof pitches towards the building edges and is designed to provide solar protection to clerestory windows along the facade.

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Roofing Architect Safety Renovation 130

Deezen

AUGUST 26, 2022

There are practically no doors in this Hawaii retreat by Craig Steely Architecture that has a triangular inner courtyard , massive skylight and a cantilevered roof. Though the low-slung roof is quadrilateral, the living areas were placed in a rounded triangular floor plan. Musubi has a triangular layout. "The

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Roofing Housing Zoning Architecture 111

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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A wavy, tiled roof formed by intersecting catenary vaults shelters this lakeside restaurant , designed by Bangalore-based Play Architecture for the Deva Dhare Resort in Karnataka, India. The Deva Dhare Restaurant is topped with a vaulted tiled roof. Four glass-covered openings under the wavy roof offer views of the surroundings.

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Roofing Architecture Glass Zoning 111

Deezen

MARCH 16, 2025

Delve Architects has created a garden studio called Kim-oflage "Given the narrow, confined nature of the site at the end of the garden, with neighbours on both sides, we aimed to reduce the visual mass with a dual pitched roof and green tiled facade blending into the garden," designer Philip Russel told Dezeen.

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Architect Exterior Windows Zoning 113

Deezen

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Architect Odile Decq has completed a house in France with walls of translucent glass, to create the optimal lighting conditions for a client with vision impairment. The house has walls of translucent glass. The staircase is also made from glass. The angular form is designed to provide optimal lighting conditions inside.

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Client Clients Glass Building 105

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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Roofing Home Windows Landscape 105

Architizer

APRIL 10, 2025

The Planning Exhibition Center of Liangjiang Collaborative Innovation Zone By Tanghua Architects , Chongqing, China This exhibition center is inspired by the confluence of the Jailing and Yangtze Rivers. They designed a free-flowing, parametric roof that appears to hover above the ultra-clear glass faade.

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Deezen

MAY 10, 2022

Exterior walls consist of white and beige stone cladding, along with large stretches of laminated glass that provide views of the terrain. "In A wavy roof tops the dwelling. Over time, however, the hacienda morphed into boxy structures made of concrete and stucco, with asphalt for roofing. Photo is by JAG Studio.

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Roofing Home Structure Glass 98

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 2, 2023

CLB Architects gave the home a long, low roof To design the project, the team drew upon the site's history as a working cattle ranch. To one side of the home's atrium is the communal zone For the main home, the team conceived a two-storey, L-shaped building that gradually rises from the site. A garage is on the far end of the plan.

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Visualization Architect Zoning Roofing 145

Deezen

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A large wooden roof with a decorative structure depicting the emblem of the city Toyota tops this museum in Japan , completed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. Its structure is built largely from local cedar , including its distinctive 90-metre-long roof that is perched on tall tapered columns.

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Cities Zoning Roofing Art 128

Dwell

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The traditional dogtrot house is single story and features two enclosed living areas, often with distinct private and common functions, with a covered breezeway between, unifying indoor and outdoor living areas under one roof. This format reflects a connection with the outdoors that is synonymous with life in the region.

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Dwell

APRIL 18, 2025

Each design decision, from the thickness of walls to the pitch of a roof, was all part of a struggle for survival. While encouraging al fresco dining, socializing, and contemplation, this division into discrete zones also separates public spaces, workspaces, and sleeping quarters. Their materialsbe they wood or stonecame from nearby.

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Housing Landscape Zoning Site 84

Deezen

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Hideaway Home design with friends zone by Sophia Xue "Friendship is very important to Xue. When she designed a hideaway house project, she insisted to keep it with a friends zone. She used large glass wall system supported by the wooden truss system to provide the natural lighting for the enjoyment of both cats and humans.

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Dwell

APRIL 10, 2025

It doesnt even have any windows aside from a low strip of glass on one side and a large plane of frosted glass on the other. Its also guaranteed: Should the synthetic slate roof leak, the companys 24-hour hotline is always ready to provide service with a smile. And, of course, theres not a curve in sight.

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The Spaces

MARCH 4, 2025

It was designed as Mellor’s creative studio and home by the innovative team of Michael and Patty Hopkins with high-tech lead, granite, glass and recessed lighting, and enhanced by Mellor’s handmade decor. Architects from Squire added a glazed conservatory to the roof, and the light it brings in warms the entire structure.

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Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2022

Norwegian architecture studio Snøhetta has unveiled designs for a 16-metre-tall glass-enclosed library in Beijing formed from pillars that create a forest-like canopy. The library will take shape as a glass-enclosed structure characterised by a collection of tree-like columns that support the library's roof above.

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Glass Roofing Design Zoning 131

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. Situated within a conservation zone, the home has been updated by Sam Crawford Architects to brighten its dark interior and transform it into an urban "sanctuary".

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Renovation Home Architect Roofing 140

Deezen

JULY 25, 2024

Long Nguyen Design has completed the Nhà Tú Garden Restaurant in Vietnam "The project is strategically positioned between the industrial park and the residential area, serving as both a transition zone and a green focal point for the surroundings," the studio told Dezeen.

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Zoning Finishes Design Residential 124

Deezen

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Located on an artificial lake at the entrance of a new development zone in Rizhao in China's Shandong Province, the 20,000-square-metre linear museum extends from one side of the lake to the other, almost covering the entire diameter of the lake. A new exterior is born, in the structure's interior."

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Roofing Environment Design Engineering 145

Deezen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

International studio Snøhetta has completed Beijing City Library in China , a glass-lined building filled with towering tree-like columns and rooms disguised as hills. Outside, real ginkgo trees have been planted at the entry points, framed by the glass walls that aim to "further enhance the connection with nature".

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Dwell

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Located just outside of London, a 700-square-foot room is elegantly designed to fit a sunken bath, oversized chimney, and separate bedroom zone. Within this space, we added a sunken bathtub and a concrete shower beneath a cut-out section in the roof, illuminated by a skylight. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Materials Zoning Structural Engineering Engineering 111

Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The buildings feature gabled roofs "Phoenix has been infamous for urban sprawl, where low-density development is being built with the mindset of a car-dependent environment," said Kwok, who started his studio in 2015. The buildings have M-shaped roofs – a reference to the gabled roofs found in the district.

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