Archinect

MARCH 7, 2025

Images shared to the firm’s Instagram show the final structural elements of the scheme coming together. According to the firm, the final structural elements of the scheme’s sloping roof have been completed, which comprises a mass timber and steel hybrid system.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A series of viewpoints clad in charred-timber shingles have been perched throughout the largest nature park in Copenhagen by Danish studios LYTT Architecture and ADEPT. Located along a stretch of coastline east of the capital city, the 35-square-kilometre Amager Nature Park contains a mix of wetlands, marshes and areas of forest.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Niall McLaughlin Architects has submitted planning for a timber-framed Maggie's Centre in Cambridge Located in a wooded area slightly north of Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute , the permanent facility will have a two-storey timber structure designed to complement the natural setting.

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Santa Cruz Architect

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Natural light is an essential design element that profoundly impacts a home’s aesthetics, energy efficiency, and livability. The Importance of Natural Light in Residential Design Understanding the value of natural light in a home extends beyond simply creating bright spaces.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Named the “Treehouse” project, and designed in collaboration with Campana Herrmann Pisoni Architects, the winning design for the campus’ open spaces seeks to blend education, nature, and community engagement. The design process emphasized sustai.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Called Kivi Sauna, the structure was designed by Helsinki -based design and architecture studio Sotamaa. The structure’s exterior is clad in Leadax, a waterproof membrane derived from recycled car windows, which functions as a sustainable replacement for traditional lead roofing.

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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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SW Oregon Architect

JANUARY 12, 2025

Noteworthy structures under immediate threat include the Getty Center, the Hollywood Bowl, and the Eames House (among other important Case Study House Program examples). These structures were iconic examples of Los Angeles' cultural legacy, and their destruction is a significant blow.

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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. It will have exhibition areas as well as a large theatre.

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Archinect

MARCH 5, 2025

Called Aimasia Residence, the roughly 9,149-square-foot structure is located near one of the island’s most prominent beaches, Elia Beach. An approximately 203-foot-long wall made of local Mykonian granite stone serves as the spine of the project, framing the structure.

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Archinect

JANUARY 6, 2022

” Image by Yang Chaoying for Foster + Partners The scheme’s four interconnected roof pyramids increase in height and fan outwards towards the four corners of the surrounding plaza.

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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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Archinect

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Image credit: MAD Architects Natural light is brought into the departure hall through the feather-shaped roof to create a “bright and warm” interior space. The dominant lines of the roof’s ribbed structure are also expressed on the timber ceiling in an effort to naturally guide the flow of passengers toward.

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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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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. 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

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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Archinect

JULY 18, 2024

The tasting room is composed of a glulam structural frame and cross-laminated timber roof. The space is defined by its structural system, along with a fully glazed enclosure and exterior weathering-steel cladding. The inversely raised roof floods the space with natural light.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Four structural volumes disrupt the concentric windows and separate the floor plan into flexible rooms defined by the roof geometry. The roof wedge references local vernacular and the chosen construction materials directly respond to the rugged nature of the house’s remote mountain setting.

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Archinect

JANUARY 28, 2025

The house reflects the owner’s deep desire to live with nature and experience the life cycle of the plants and animals that are attracted to the varied habitat.

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Archinect

AUGUST 31, 2022

The local studio beat out international heavyweight such as Zaha Hadid to win the commission for the project, which the jury commended as being “distinguished by a dynamic yet simple design harmonized with the natural environment of the park while communicating with the urban texture of its surroundings.”

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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.

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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. MAD Architects created the structure for developer The Max Collaborative. It has completed dozens of high-profile projects including a bubble-like extension for a house in Japan.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2025

Apple Miami Worldcenter opens this Friday While the curved perimeter roof and plaster walls are a nod to art deco architecture, the structure was constructed from mass-timber a first for Apple. This includes biomass-based terrazzo flooring, a structural wood wall system, and a particular attention to comfort and acoustics."

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

German studio Ingenhoven Associates has redesigned Calwer Passage, a former shopping centre and office block in Stuttgart , adding a "natural curtain" of trailing plants to its facade. Photo by Kilian Bishop Over 40 trees were used for both the roof garden and along the street below. Trailing plants cloak the building's facade.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Architecture studio IARA has reinvigorated an abandoned aqueduct in Huangshan, China , by attaching a sheltered timber bridge on top of its stone structure. Affixed to this framework are two long benches that run along the aqueduct's entire length – one for sitting and one for leaning – and provide additional bracing for the structure.

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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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Deezen

JANUARY 27, 2025

These spaces are all framed by the oak structure, made in collaboration with joiner Tim Gaudin , which extends outwards to become a small pergola alongside the living space. Alongside the kitchen island, a spiral staircase leads down to a small naturally ventilated wine cellar.

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 30, 2024

While walls, floors, and structural supports may spring to mind, in today's world, even architecture is getting in on the action. Movable walls, sliding doors, and retractable roofs were the early ambassadors of kinetic design, allowing structures to become more flexible without losing strength. Read more »

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Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2024

An exposed grid of structural steel was used to bring a feeling of "industrial elegance" to House XO in Kerala , India, which has been designed by local architecture studio 3dor Concepts. The durable deck-sheet roof offers thermal insulation, completing the modern industrial aesthetic while ensuring energy efficiency."

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Deezen

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Belgian studio Van Laethem Architecten used natural materials including hempcrete and cedar shingles to create this small garden studio for its staff in Alken. Vegetation on either side of the studio helps provide a feeling of being amongst nature, while its position on the plot also helps to shelter the main home from the road.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Named Woven Gateway and Sky Ring, the two structures were commissioned as part of the enhancement of the Chuan Yan Nineteen Peaks Scenic Area. Line+ Studio designed the structures to be minimal but impactful, seeking to improve the visitor experience through simple gestures that would not detract from the natural setting.

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Deezen

MARCH 3, 2025

The studio removed the glass canopy, as well as the reinforced concrete beams and columns that supported it, and replaced it with a timber structure to form an internal hall. After removing the 'redundancies', what remained was a symmetrical and 'clean' structural frame that encloses the open glass atrium to create an internal hall."

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Dwell

MARCH 3, 2025

The structure retains the original steel frame of the barn painted in a deep red. This former barn, owned by a family with a lineage spanning over 400 years in the nearby mountain villages, has been thoughtfully transformed into a space for social events or individual withdrawal. Situated on the peak, the house provides a panoramic view.

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Archinect

JUNE 7, 2023

The design for À table (whose name in French means to call and invite those to sit together for conversation and a meal) is a lightweight, pleated canopy roof that references the structure of a palm leaf.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Find out more about Palazzo Talia Photo by Kris Provoost Floating Hotel, China, by More Architecture A large zigzagging roof crowns this hotel nestled within the bamboo forests and mountains of Dachangping. The 25-storey concrete structure features interiors by French designer Philippe Starck that exclusively use Brazilian-sourced materials.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Among the studio's key projects are the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, which is composed of a low-lying circular structure wrapped with glass, and the stepped Sydney Modern gallery in Australia. Alongside its central art galleries, it hosts public spaces including a library, lecture hall and children's workshop.

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