Deezen

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Architecture studios Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Perkins&Will have completed a multi-functional art centre in Beijing , referencing the shape of a granary that once occupied the site. The roof design was informed by a granary that once stood on the site The centre is comprised of three buildings defined by their swooping roof structures.

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Deezen

JUNE 14, 2024

Global architecture studio MAD has unveiled ZGC International Innovation Center in Beijing , which features a curving green roof with rippled overhangs. Photo by CreatAR "The centre's biomorphic, clover-like form features a cantilevered roof characterised by soft, fluid shapes," said MAD. Lights on the roof form a rippling pattern.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Scottish architecture studio Loader Monteith has designed an office with a gabled roof , along with two private residences, for mountain bike tour operator H&I Adventures on a sloping brownfield site in Scotland. The first of two planned residences, it is distinguished by its lower height and butterfly roof.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Danish architecture studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen has completed a multi-functional art centre in Beijing , referencing the shape of a granary that once occupied the site. The roof design was informed by a granary that once stood on the site The centre is comprised of three buildings defined by their swooping roof structures.

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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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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

JUNE 15, 2023

A pair of stone towers and a thatched -roof palapa are among the features at a nature retreat in southern Mexico designed by architects Mauricio Rocha and Gabriela Carrillo. It sits at the edge of a nature preserve on Punta Cometa, or Comet Point, a peninsula that juts into the Pacific Ocean and was once the site of an Aztec fort.

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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 largest timber beams are 80 feet (24 metres) long, and the lattice is affixed to these larger mass-timber components.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The following rural retreats also seek to make the most of the country’s rich and surreal landscapes. Compact bedrooms for adults and kids are located at opposite ends of the house while a tarpaulin-like roof strings them together, providing luminous social spaces in between. Photos by Russell Kleyn Photographs. Castle Rock House.

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Deezen

JUNE 12, 2024

Barrel-vaulted concrete roofs are supported by thick laterite walls at The Stoic Wall Residence in Kerala, India , completed by local studio Lijo Reny Architects. It is organised into a series of distinct areas across a large site surrounded by trees, following the path of the sun and separated by small courtyards.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Architecture studio Proctor & Shaw has topped a home extension with a steeply-angled roof clad with red pigmented zinc in East Dulwich, London. Deep skylights punctured into the roof draw daylight into the space below, while sliding doors seamlessly connect the interior with an outdoor patio.

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Deezen

MARCH 13, 2024

Pyramidal Corten steel roofs define a distillery designed by ODOS Architects on the outskirts of Monasterevin in rural County Kildare, Ireland. The buildings of the old Ballykelly mill now contain exhibition halls and flexible office space for the Church of Oak, and are topped with a new roof terrace.

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Deezen

AUGUST 28, 2024

Located in Coimbatore, India , the home was designed to straddle the urban sites and farmland that sit on either side of it, in a bold geometric style intended to offer a modern twist on traditional farmhouse design. Underneath the home's pitched upper roof, an accent wall coated in brickwork adds an earthy feel to the facade.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A low-slung roof with deep eaves shelters Merricks Farmhouse, a concrete-block home in Australia designed by South African studio Michael Lumby Architecture with Brisbane practice Nielsen Jenkins. The home is formed of exposed concrete blockwork, chosen by the studios to help reduce cost and retain focus on the landscape.

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Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

Located in Washington’s Kitsap Peninsula, the rambler-style home utilized the trees for the roof and a coffee table, too. On a secluded wooded site, the new structure grounds itself to the earth with its approach to material and form. The roof is an additional level that provides more outdoor space, and has an elevated herb garden.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Architecture studio Edition Office has created a three-bedroom house with a cutout roof and fibre-cement cladding in Mossy Point, Australia. The cutout roof forms a striking outdoor dining area in the centre of the home Fulfilling its clients' request, Edition Office designed a cutout roof that resembles a bird's mouth.

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Deezen

APRIL 1, 2024

Located on the northern shore of Lake Constance in the Radolfzell district, the timber building contains sports courts and a stage for events, unified by a cantilevered roof overhead. With its tranquil appearance, timber construction blends in with the traditional settlement landscape around Lake Constance," she continued.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Architecture studio Ingenhoven Architects has created a series of buildings topped with large, overhanging thatched roofs for the Lanserhof Sylt health resort on the Germany island of Sylt. Its building is topped with a thatch roof that measures 7,100 square metres – making it the largest in Europe.

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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

MARCH 20, 2024

Chinese architecture studio MAD has unveiled its design for the Lishui Airport in China , which will feature a swooping white roof informed by soaring birds. It will be the first airport in Lishui Located in China's southwest Zhejiang Province, MAD also drew on the surrounding mountain landscape for the design.

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Deezen

AUGUST 15, 2023

Landscape studio James Corner Field Operations has created a roof garden with 23,000 plants and 55 trees on top of a Foster + Partners -designed residential building alongside Battersea Power Station in London. At night, residents can continue to enjoy the roof garden thanks to subtle lighting within the landscaping.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A bed of shrubs and ruddy cladding blend the multipurpose ADU with the Pacific Northwest landscaping. No one was excited about looking at a new building/roof where they were used to seeing a green yard. The idea evolved to create a weathering steel ‘planter’ with a green roof as the building. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Snøhetta also designed landscaped plazas and roof terraces for Airside, which sits above the Kai Tak MTR station in the district that formerly held Kai Tak, Hong Kong's international airport from 1925 to 1998.

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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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Deezen

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Indian studio 3dor Concepts has completed The Slab, a family home in Kerala that is protected from the elements by a facade of wooden louvres and a large concrete roof. Its previous residential projects include a house in Kerela sheltered by a large roof clad in locally-sourced tiles and House of Ayoob that is animated by curves.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

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. The building is free to be approached from all directions while taking advantage of the surrounding landscape," it added. The photography is by Rungkit Charoenwat.

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designboom

OCTOBER 19, 2022

sixty dwellings step up from the sea, transforming the site into a grassy topography with folding green roofs. The post WORKac transforms disused coast in lebanon with residential landscape ‘marea’ appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Architizer

AUGUST 9, 2023

These “roof walks” are a response to unique environmental, social and urban conditions. Drawn from a diverse range of scales and programs, the following roof walks reimagine the roof plane in projects both large and small. Architecture and landscape come together three-dimensionally.

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Deezen

JUNE 21, 2023

Local architecture firm In Situ Studio wrapped an art museum visitor centre in Raleigh, North Carolina with darkened steel and cantilevered a roof with an aperture over its patio. The roof features a rounded triangle roof opening made of aluminium.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Breeze-block walls and a roof cutout for a palm tree are among the special features at an Arizona house designed by The Ranch Mine , which took cues from a mid-century modern dwelling across the street. The landscape features flagstone walkways and desert plants. The photography is by Dan Ryan Studio.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Anji Culture and Art Center will be defined by a series of curving canopy roofs that were designed to look like scattered bamboo leaves. Its roofs were designed to look like scattered leaves The interior will be arranged beneath the overlapping metal roofs and organised around a central corridor that divides the main event spaces.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Lama is formed of a vertical staircase tower, offering views out over the Andes Mountains, while Rosa is a glass room set into a hillside beneath a horizontal concrete roof slab. Instead, the concrete roof slab is supported by four columns positioned in the middle of each wall. There is no structure in any of the building's corners.

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Deezen

MAY 29, 2023

Chinese practice Wang Chong Studio used rustic stone walls and a sloping roof to help this art museum blend into its rocky site in China's Henan Province. Named Taihang Xinyu Art Museum, the museum is built around an old warehouse on the site, which backs onto Taihang Mountain and sits alongside the Cangxi River.

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Deezen

APRIL 16, 2023

Challenging site constraints informed the angular shape of this concrete house named Villa MKZ, designed by Japanese studio Takeshi Hirobe Architects. The footprint of this vacation home dances around the complex conditions of the site," studio founder Takeshi Hirobe told Dezeen. metres in the centre," said Hirobe. "By

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Dwell

APRIL 21, 2023

The homeowners created the structures using stones collected on-site to connect their rural residence to the land. The conditions on site swing dramatically from gale-force winds to clear blue sky within minutes, so the building needed to act as a refuge from the storm whilst capturing the drama of the landscape." Post it here.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Snøhetta also designed landscaped plazas and roof terraces for Airside, which sits above the Kai Tak MTR station in the district that formerly held Kai Tak, Hong Kong's international airport from 1925 to 1998.

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Deezen

JUNE 4, 2023

An undulating green roof and timber cladding help this Suffolk house by MAP Architecture and Jon Broome Architects, which was designed to Passivhaus standards, blend into the surrounding wetland. The internal ceiling battens are made using an Ash facing piece with a softwood core to allow the battens to follow the roof curve," said Mawson.

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