Architizer

JANUARY 8, 2025

The Clay Pot Bio-Acoustic Plant Wall emphasizes a blend of natural aesthetics and acoustic performance. The design seamlessly integrates natural visual elements with high-performance acoustic design, which absorbs and reflects sound. How does it balance visual appeal with technical innovation?

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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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Architizer

DECEMBER 24, 2024

It is most widely known as land-sculpting and is an increasingly alluring practice, since it creates environments that blend harmoniously with nature while maximizing space and avoiding urban sprawl. Part of the site was also converted into an agricultural landscape through the use of specific hydraulic systems and vegetation.

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Architect Restoration Landscape Inspiration 120

Deezen

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Delugan Meissl has transformed a disused steelworks in China Before it was remodelled into the Expo Park in 2010, the inner-city site was occupied by a coal-fired power plant and steelworks. As part of the overhaul, Delugan Meissl Associated Architects (DMAA) was required to retain an industrial factory on the site.

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Remodeling Industrial Roofing Site 128

Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Urko Snchez Architects has added a series of classrooms to a school in Nairobi "The main concept was to create a village for children hidden in the forest, fostering a strong connection with nature," the studio told Dezeen. Classrooms were dispersed in forest clearings to preserve native trees and avoid disruption."

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Located in the village of Gashora in Rwanda , the student housing forms part of an off-grid agricultural university , where there are various education spaces including a building with a zigzagging roof. Another building dedicated to the teaching of trees and vegetables is defined by a row of overlapping roof planes.

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Students Education Roofing Design 136

Deezen

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Find out more about Vocabolo Moscatelli Photo by Keishin Horikoshi/SS Tokyo Hotel Rakuragu, Japan, by Kooo Architects Squeezed between two buildings on a site of just 83.5 Designed by Amsterdam studio More Architecture , the rooms are arranged with varied orientations to provide guests with an "immersive relationship with nature".

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Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The 205-square-metre dwelling was designed for a client with a background in the steel industry and is located on a site surrounded by large mango trees in the coastal town of Tanur. The durable deck-sheet roof offers thermal insulation, completing the modern industrial aesthetic while ensuring energy efficiency."

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Deezen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Architecture studio Snøhetta has begun work on the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library , releasing the first construction images as well as renderings of the building's green roof that appears to merge with the landscape. Limited exhibitions will begin to take place late next year, with full completion slated for July 2026.

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Landscape Roofing Structure Sustainability 131

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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Housing Architecture Mining Residential 130

Deezen

MARCH 21, 2025

The underside of the doughnut-shaped roof is clad in wooden slats The hyperbolic shape of the roof accommodates the site's intense rain and sun, directing rainwater into natural streams down the side of the canopy. A small third wedge floats under the rise of the roof and holds a combined laboratory and library space.

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Housing Roofing Transportation Zoning 115

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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Roofing Site Housing Landscape 116

Deezen

DECEMBER 23, 2024

A tall plane tree forms a focal point for Tree Courtyard House, a home with a cross-laminated timber structure on a backland site in east London by local studio Ao-ft. The CLT structure is exposed inside This seamless look is achieved by the supporting glulam beam being cut diagonally, inverted and embedded into the roof construction.

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Housing Roofing Home Site 122

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

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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Deezen

MARCH 29, 2025

In response, the studio aimed to create a house that acknowledges the site's enduring natural qualities, resulting in an insular, stepped ring of understatedvolumes around a sloping courtyard. Another dog-friendly home is the Dog/Human House in Thailand by EKAR, which contains a mixture of human and dog-sized spaces.

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Deconstruction Home Roofing Housing 105

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". The roof is supported by reticular beams, which have a weblike composition. Concrete and black-painted steel were used for the structural system.

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Site Housing Roofing Exterior 144

Deezen

JANUARY 9, 2025

A corridor was used as an exhibition space and small workshops and remnants of the original structure constructed with handmade adobe bricks are scattered around the site. This reaches up to the roof of the historic building and allows visitors to pass through it on an elevated walkway. The photography is by Rafael Gamo.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

We have always believed that architecture can transform and repair environments, helping us to relate to our surroundings, nature and each other," said SANAA. Its shifting white volumes, which are wrapped in a layer of aluminium mesh, are designed to ensure each gallery receives natural daylight.

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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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Building Students Glass Roofing 137

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. Therefore, weathering steel, which ages gracefully over time, was selected as the primary material.

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Structure Finishes Design Landscape 131

Deezen

DECEMBER 23, 2024

5468796 Architecture has added residential buildings to the site The station closed in 1986 and was slated for demolition. 5468796 Architecture preserved the structure by converting it into an office and restaurant, while additional residential buildings were added to the site. The photography is by James Brittain.

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Consulting Civil Engineering Architecture Residential 119

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. A smaller first floor occupies the southern half of the home.

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Roofing Home Architecture Windows 144

Architizer

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The evolution of Caribbean modernism in the 21st century is marked by an intentional return to locally sourced materials, passive cooling techniques and designs that harmonize with the natural environment. Yet, this architectural movement isnt solely about functionality; its also about storytelling.

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Modern Design Inspiration Students 115

Deezen

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Located on a densely vegetated and sloped site, the tower-like structure comprises an art studio and bedroom, which connects to the main house via a polycarbonate corridor. The extension is intended to evoke a "childhood treehouse" "The biggest driver for our design solution was the site," studio founder Sam Brown told Dezeen.

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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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Dwell

JANUARY 9, 2025

Massing and orientation solutions ensure that the four-fold increased floor area would not have any additional negative effect upon the critical long views over the open sensitive greenbelt and Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) countryside location.

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Home Structural Engineering Site Manufacturing 114

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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Roofing Windows Inspiration Landscape 116

Deezen

APRIL 16, 2025

Running for approximately 100 metres and built into the steep contours of the sloped site, these arches serve as a bridge between the complex's different spaces. Both the villa and chapel, which float within the site, are wrapped in roof shingles to protect the livable spaces from the harsh conditions of the pristine forest."

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Deezen

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Located along the Haute Route des Pyrénées hiking trail that follows the French and Spanish border, Snøhetta designed Refuge de Barroude to blend into the surrounding mountainous landscape with a shape informed by the site's topography. The images are courtesy of Snøhetta.

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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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Roofing Modern Home Zoning 143

SW Oregon Architect

JANUARY 12, 2025

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. Zoning regulations should consider the natural landscape and the potential for wildfires. The wildfires also highlight the importance of urban planning in fire-prone areas.

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Insurance Architecture Zoning Structure 256

Deezen

APRIL 15, 2025

California studio Brooks + Scarpa has included roofs with exaggerated gables for the angular black -metal-clad Steeplechase house in the forests of North Carolina , USA, designed to merge modern and traditional elements. Steeplechase is characterised by two 31-foot (9.4-metre)

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Housing Zoning Structural Engineering Glass 102

Deezen

OCTOBER 15, 2024

MAD Architects wanted the reference to natural rock formations to appear to be imposing itself on an otherwise typical residential facade. We wanted to bring all that to the site" The rooftop has pine trees and a pool. There were a lot of small design moves like that that were made just to heighten that experiential factor." "The

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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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Architizer

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Flooding has been the most common and costly natural disaster in recent decades, impacting the livelihoods and safety of millions. As part of the Battery Conservancy’s Masterplan, the Playscape connects visitors with nature through accessible play spaces, natural landforms, and visible water management.

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