Archinect

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Image credit: Nick Swartzendruber for Sotheby’s International Realty Image credit: Nick Swartzendruber for Sotheby’s International Realty The home sits on the site of a 19th-century gold mine which features wagon roads, trails, and seasonal streams.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 24, 2024

The two mountains, apart from being artificial landscapes, were also hollowed out, housing a carpark within their cavernous interior and acting as a true project of terraforming. In fact, apart from its spatial benefits, landscape structures also offer thermal insulation and reduce the urban heat island effect.

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Deezen

JANUARY 30, 2025

Located in the city's Wenjiang district, the Lujiatan Wetland Park Commercial Service Center also features a double-helix observation tower that overlooks the surrounding natural landscape. Sinuous accessible roofs top the Lujiatan Wetland Park Commercial Service Center.

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Deezen

APRIL 12, 2025

Called Timber Nest, the home is located near the southern town of Rdberg, where it occupies a sloping, forested site overlooking the mountains of the Hardangervidda National Park. Quentin Desfarges added porthole-style windows to Timber Nest "Timber Nest does not merely occupy its site; it coexists with it," Desfarges told Dezeen.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This project is designed in one of the mountainous forested areas of Sareyn, with the primary goal of harmonizing architecture with the natural landscape without compromising the region's unique vistas. Access to the spaces is provided via an extensive staircase, which is considered an extension of the site itself.

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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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SW Oregon Architect

JANUARY 12, 2025

Fires have raced through the landscape, reducing homes, businesses, and irreplaceable landmarks to ashes. Culturally significant sites destroyed by the fires include the Bunny Museum in Altadena and the Reel Inn in Malibu, beloved by locals and visitors alike. The Palisades Fire is 11% contained, while the Eaton Fire is 15% contained.

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Archinect

MAY 28, 2024

million square feet of civic, office, and retail spaces above the existing train station, includes two pairs of towers connecting with a large landscaped central plaza area and a sculptural pavilion, each designed to resemble flower pedals and located at either end of the site. The project, which adds 3.2

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Deezen

APRIL 13, 2025

Studio Saransh has self-designed Oasis The studios created five blocks on the site, surrounding a central, sunken courtyard. Five blocks surround a central sunken courtyard The main studio has a double-height structure topped with a north light roof.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2025

The Bristol Temple Island masterplan will contain 520 homes Designed with landscape architecture studio LDA Design , Zaha Hadid Architects' proposal prioritises space for pedestrian and cycle paths, while minimising infrastructure for cars. Legal and General secured the site for the Bristol Temple Island project in 2021.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Mexican studio Elías Rizo Arquitectos has balanced a concrete house with a steep gabled roof on a hillside in Tapalpa, Mexico near Guadalajara. Known as El Mirador, the 2023 house measures 230 square metres (2475 square feet) and serves as an "ode" to the site's preexisting landscape. The back of the house is solid concrete.

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Deezen

JANUARY 6, 2025

Dig Studio carried out a careful evaluation and repositioning of landscape elements in the nine-acre plaza, which connects two blocks in the city's Old Town neighbourhood. Dig Studio wanted to preserve the existing trees and features to maintain shade for cooling on the site while taking into account water needs in the arid environment.

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Archinect

AUGUST 12, 2024

In Vijayawada, India , multidisciplinary design studio andblack design studio has delivered a unique preschool of organic forms and integrated landscaping that aims to reflect the school’s forward-thinking approach to education through its design. It follows the site’s topography, ascending towards the new extension.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Located in in Lanaudire, Qubec , La Cime is elevated on steel stilts and has a sloping roof, while its interior is dominated by white-pine walls and ceilings. Named Bunkie on the Hill, the 93-square-metre cedar cabin features an A-frame structure topped with a split gable roof lined with cedar slats on the inside.

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Deezen

APRIL 17, 2025

The site had some history of land-slips, so it made sense to design a lightweight, fine pavilion that ran along the edge of the site rather than doing any large cut or fill type earthworks," said director Dom Finlay-Jones. Landscaping interventions include the addition of native species.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Taisugar Circular Village (TCV) provides 351 rental homes surrounding an urban farm, eco-pond and waste management area, allowing all of its residents' basic needs to be provided on-site. This effect is further emphasised by sloped roofs and slight rotation of each building, which also contributes to more dynamic facade fronts," it added.

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Deezen

JANUARY 16, 2025

A miniature gabled roof shelters the hotel's entrance These references can be seen not just in the hotel's dedicated Noh stage a timber skeleton made of yellow cedar and Kyoto cypress but also in the architecture of the hotel itself and the interiors of its 52 guest rooms designed by the late designer Yukio Hashimoto. "And

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Archinect

MARCH 23, 2023

Renderings appear to show a stream-like curved sequence of four interconnected pavilion-like forms with interiors framed by a glass curtain wall and landscaping on a site that is well integrated into the undulating hillside. A single shingled roof of photovolt.

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2025

Architecture studio Loader Monteith has replaced a dilapidated farm building in Angus, Scotland , with a home finished with stone, black-painted pine and a red corrugated-metal roof. Situated on arable farmland acquired by the client in 2009, the home occupies the site of an old stone stable, or byre, lending it the name Cairnconon Byre.

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Deezen

MARCH 12, 2025

Located in the coastal village of Lumio, the 2,300-square-metre kindergarten , primary school and cultural centre steps down its sloping site with a series of rectilinear volumes, topped with playground terraces overlooking the sea. It's about creating space for learning and culture without altering the land's integrity."

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Deezen

MARCH 18, 2025

London studio Proctor & Shaw has used thin timber battens to clad this house extension in Peckham, which is crowned by planted roofs and a tiered allotment. Named Hope Villa, the project both updated and expanded a previous side extension to the home, which occupies a narrow site between terraces and infill housing.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2016 and features a copper-shingled roof with the home's shape designed to resemble a ship’s bow breaking the waves overlooking the point towards nearby Pebble Beach. Thomas Church was also responsible for the landscaping at the site in his pioneering California Style.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Architects and urban designers are increasingly challenged to address these risks, creating resilient structures and landscapes that not only withstand but thrive. From resilient structures to adaptive landscapes, these projects provide a blueprint for how the built environment can harmonize with water rather than succumb to it.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Klas Hylln Architecture has added a pool house to a 1980s home in Warwickshire The volumes have curved edges and buff-brick exteriors, chosen to respect the original home and the surrounding landscape, while their interiors are pared-back and "almost monastic".

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Deezen

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Chinese studio Atelier Xi has completed a visitor centre for Qiaochengbei Park in Shenzhen , using weathering steel and grass roofs to blend two pavilion-like structures into the landscape. The two structures were organised around the park's trees The two buildings sit at either end of the park.

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Dwell

JANUARY 9, 2025

The site orientation is such that the best views are towards the north facing the valley towards Ashridge Estate. The construction system uses a cross-laminated timber (CLT) off-site manufactured system. A ground and garage roof-mounted solar array provides approximately 85 to 100 percent of all energy needs.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Architecture studios Mailen Design and Peter Bradford Architects have completed Weald House, a barn-like home designed to be "deeply connected" to its rural site in Kent , UK. Its dark cladding is teamed with a black roof Weald House opens to a spacious entrance, off of which there is a bathroom and a storage space.

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Deezen

JANUARY 23, 2025

BarlisWedlick took on the challenge of updating the structure, preserving the materials for carbon sequestration, and reconnecting the spaces with the site. "We As the site had stringent zoning and environmental regulations, the team utilized some of the existing footprint to ensure the best connection and views of the water.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Ryan Leidner Architecture constructed a wood and stucco house in California Ryan Leidner Architecture designed the home on an undeveloped desert site. "[We The rectangular wood frame, which steps down to accommodate a rocky slope, was coated in a white plaster stucco exterior to withstand the extreme fluctuations of the site's weather.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Herzog & de Meuron have expanded Kinderspital in Zurich The wood-lined acute-care hospital and white cylindrical research facility are unified by a verdant landscape planted with over 250 trees, hoped to boost patient wellbeing. The patients' rooms on the roof are like individual cottages."

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Deezen

APRIL 17, 2025

The library building is partially buried and will eventually contain a branch of the Chicago Public Library and feature a walkable green roof. The remaining site will eventually include a sculpture by landscape architect Maya Lin , public plazas and a vegetable garden dedicated to Eleanor Roosevelt.

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Deezen

MARCH 23, 2025

The cabin was built atop existing pillars Prefab House Changeover's design was led by the decision to manufacture the cabin offsite, as well as the cabin's remote location and its surrounding landscape and views. The roof is metallic and finished with sprayed cork for extra insulation. The photography is by Gregori Civera.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 12, 2024

It contains 60 holiday homes Anchored by a central clubhouse, the hotel site in Northamptonshire overlooks a stretch of the track's most fast-paced corners against the backdrop of rolling countryside. On the top floor, the roof terrace has long-distance views across the entire Silverstone Estate. "We

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Architizer

JANUARY 13, 2025

Calling all architects, landscape architects and interior designers: Architizer's A+Awards allows firms of all sizes to showcase their practice and vie for the title of Worlds Best Architecture Firm. Natural light floods the interior through eight atria, creating open, collaborative spaces that flow into landscaped courtyards.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed designs for the Centre of Mediterranean Culture, which is currently under construction on its coastal site in Reggio Calabria, Italy. Renders of the centre's exterior reveal landscaped courtyards that wind around the building to provide shaded outdoor space for visitors.

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Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2025

Architecture office Studio Wok has transformed a disused technical building at QuadroDesign 's headquarters in northern Italy into an artist residency, with living and sleeping areas accommodated in its unusually shaped roof. A second set of stairs leads to a small seating area, housed in an existing concrete walkway near the top of the roof.

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