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This double-curved roof house by Mecanoo is covered in slick multicolored tiles

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Mecanoo has designed a distinctive residence with a striking double-curved roof and ceramic tile-covered façade in Schoorl, a village in northern Holland. Called Villa BW, it spans three floors, with an additional level within the hood of the roof. Image: Ossip van Duivenbode, courtesy Mecanoo.

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2.5 million feet of timber used to construct roof on ZGF’s Portland airport expansion

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The defining feature of the main terminal project, set to be completed in 2025, is a new lattice roof formed by 2.5 ZGF’s answer was a singular terminal building housed under one undulating, mass timber roof, accompanied by an interior strategy which prioritized biophilic design, interior landscaping, daylighting, and natural materials.

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Escape to this West Frisian house nestled in the dune landscape

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House in the Dunes Architect: Unknown ArchitectsLocation: Terschelling, The NetherlandsType: HouseYear: 2022Photographs: MWA Hart Nibbrig Unknown Architects have created a cabin-style vacation home in the Netherlands with panoramic windows that overlook the surrounding dunes and hills.

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MVRDV completes stunning new green-roofed wholesale market in Taiwan

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The firm’s second foray into the country, open-air Tainan Market features a publicly-accessible green roof, punctuated at one end by an office structure, that can be further adapted for agricultural use while providing users a stepped vista onto the market floor and surrounding landscape beyond.

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Modular, Photovoltaic, Green or Blue Roofs: How to Choose the Best Waterproofing System?

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Living-Garden House In Katowice / KWK PROMES. Image © Jakub Certowicz Among the "Five Points of New Architecture" formulated by Le Corbusier , terrace gardens figure as a way to take advantage of a building's so-called fifth facade, either as leisure areas or landscaping spaces. Read more »

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SGH House / Ginga Architects

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This is a one-story house that blends into the landscape, incorporating the L-shaped roof open to the view and the Hinata-shaped built-up area into. Completed in 2023 in Sendai, Japan. Images by Katsuo Koseki.

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Atelier Bow-Wow’s first U.S. home features a large ‘umbrella’ roof in the Sierra Nevadas

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Located at the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas in California, the Mountain House sits as a “meticulously designed and thoughtfully crafted residential structure” in sixty acres of forest, according to the property’s realtors, Sotheby's.

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