Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2024

Drawing from the local vernacular and its tropical climate setting, the design by Foster + Partners will consist of a new airport city and a terminal building with a grid-shell roof that was designed to resemble a tree canopy. The roof design will also use a filtering screen to capture natural light and illuminate the terminal interior.

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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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Architizer

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In other words, nature has excessively raised the bar when it comes to a landscape’s longevity, challenging architects to find ways of creating artificial mountains, wetlands, parks, forests etc., The aim of the project was to revive the Jiangnan polder, integrating both artificial and natural elements to blend production, life and ecology.

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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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Archinect

MAY 5, 2022

The solar-powered structure is split by an outside breezeway reminiscent of traditional Texas Dogtrot dwellings , with a living room and kitchen on one side and a bedroom and bathroom on the other. The Dogtrot form dates back to the era before air conditioning, designed to encourage natural ventilation and shading.

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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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Deezen

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Refuge de Barroude will have a swooping roof informed by the surrounding mountain range Set within a UNESCO World Heritage site, the building will provide a stop point along the hiking path with dormitories, replacing a former refuge on the site that was destroyed in a fire 10 years ago. The images are courtesy of Snøhetta.

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ArchDaily

MARCH 26, 2024

In prehistoric times, we sought refuge in caves, taking advantage of rock structures for protection against the natural elements and predators.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Non-profit Project Mingde has unveiled Duling Educational Centre, a staggered complex topped with roofs that help recycle rainfall into clean water for schoolchildren in rural southern China. The solution was three buildings of varying heights with roofs that channel rainfall into a lotus pond. The photography is by Jin Weiqi.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2024

Mexican studio COA Arquitectura has enclosed a winery outside of Guadalajara with a corrugated steel sawtooth roof and rammed earth walls. The main building is divided into two volumes A sawtooth steel roof covers the length of the facilities, lying exposed and uncovered by the stone walls on its far side.

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2024

The University of Chicago John W Boyer Center was designed by Studio Gang in accordance with the French sustainability law requiring new public buildings to be built from at least 50 per cent wood or other natural materials. The centre will have a mass timber structure. The images are by Splann courtesy of Studio Gang unless stated.

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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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Deezen

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Mexico City architecture studio HEMAA utilised a steel structure and green-coloured eaves for Pabellón de la Reserva, a meeting place sited on the marshy shores of a lake in the mountains of central Mexico. This design choice blurs the structure's boundaries, framing the natural landscape with subtlety," he continued.

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Archinect

MARCH 6, 2024

View this post on Instagram A post shared by One River North (@onerivernorth) The scheme’s defining exterior element is a sharp carved opening midway up the tower, cutting through the upper section of the tower towards the roof. A rooftop pool, spa, and garden areas complete the 216-foot-tall structure.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

series, we've collected 10 recently completed and upcoming buildings that show the potential of structural stone as a modern construction material. Among the experts to share insights on the material was Aurore Baulier, an ACAN Natural Materials Group co-ordinator, who called on architects to embrace stone's natural qualities.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Photographs have revealed the Casa de Vidrio greenhouse in Chile by architecture studio Max Nez Arquitectos , which hasvaulted roofs made of glass bricks. Though the frame of the structure appears slim, extra supports were placed throughout the vaults.

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Archinect

APRIL 16, 2024

Housed under an expressive timber canopy, the 237,000-square-foot building will serve as an experience center for the car brand Volvo, designed around “Scandinavian values of freedom of movement, access to nature, and openness and inclusion.” Anchoring the structure is a 485,000-square-foot exhibition space.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Defined by its triangular volume and hand-cut red natural stone-paneled facade, the 236,806-square-foot structure rises from a base plinth to a height of 36 stories, preferencing social connectivity throughout and via a 5th-floor outdoor roof garden that’s shared with residents of the firm’s smaller The Muse design from 2020.

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Archinect

APRIL 24, 2023

With water on three sides, the site is rich in natural beauty and ecological diversity. The design team aimed to draw the most possible natural scenery into the building, while at the same time grasping the delicate balance between landscape and architecture. The end result is an ecologically friendly and well-built wetland cabin.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Frame House transforms the existing barn house typology into a contemporary dwelling, redefined by strategic compositions of window frames on each new elevation and new structure extending from the existing gambrel roof construction.

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Archinect

MAY 16, 2022

A low-pitched slate clad roof, with deep overhangs, provides protection from the elements, while acting as a visual counterbalance to the mass of the structure below it. Along the north and west sides, the roof continues down to the ground, providing an enclosed area for the host entrance.

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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 structure is technically hybrid, with the wood affixed to a series of six-foot-deep (1.8 metres) – and 5,000 plants.

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Deezen

AUGUST 5, 2024

Planted landscapes are woven around a pair of timber-framed buildings in the Natural History Museum gardens in London, revamped by local studios Feilden Fowles and J&L Gibbons. Photo by Jim Stephenson Meanwhile, the Nature Discovery Garden at the west of the site is landscaped to illustrate various natural habitats in the UK.

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Archinect

APRIL 19, 2024

MBB designed the expansion of an existing building for Grace Church School in New York City, adding a new top floor structure for a double-height gymnasium and athletic center. The design solution creates a warm and inviting interior environment filled with natural light from an array of long skylights and large windows.

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Archinect

JANUARY 19, 2024

Great care was taken when siting the structure and parking lot within the environment, preserving 90% of the spectacular woodlands. Walls of windows in each corner and high clerestories along the length of the building extend the library’s connection to nature through airy design. A simple shed roof is supported by trusses.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In the environs of Valle de Bravo, Casa Rancho Avándaro is a weekend retreat designed primarily to make the most of its extensive natural surroundings. Each volume has a tiled, gable roof supported by timber beams of varying heights to meet a range of needs.

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Archinect

MAY 19, 2023

Under the zenithal light that enters through the roof of the 4.5 El Aguacate" seeks to be the interface between its inhabitants and the place in which it is deployed; a welcoming space for rest and coexistence whose composition made up of interconnected courtyards and volumes allows the free flow of wind, natural light and circulations.

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Archinect

APRIL 25, 2023

Ukrainian firm MAKHNO Studio has designed a contemporary hotel in the breathtaking natural setting of the Carpathian Mountains. With the KARPATY Hotel, the architects aimed to seamlessly integrate the approximately 43,056-square-foot structure into the environment, while also forming a striking spectacle.

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Deezen

AUGUST 31, 2024

Belgian studios NU Architectuuratelier and Archipelago have created a visitor centre for the Meise Botanic Garden near Brussels that is topped by a shingle-clad vaulted roof. Read: Henkai Architekti clads mountain visitor centre in wooden shingles Sheltering the remainder of Green Ark is a concrete roof that doubles as a terrace.

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Deezen

AUGUST 22, 2024

Located in Jakarta's leafy Kemang district, the building was designed for restaurant chain Aruma to create a variety of nature-filled spaces on a relatively small site through the creation of split levels and terraces. The post RAD+ar tops Indonesian restaurant with sweeping concrete roof terrace appeared first on Dezeen.

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Archinect

JANUARY 2, 2025

Photo credit: Jaime Navarro Photo credit: Rafael Gamo By prioritizing three design imperatives (functional simplicity, sustainable materials, and the primacy of sanctuary), the CCA says they were able to establish space that helps support its client's mission of fostering arts engagement with the community while simultaneously giving back to nature.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

An oversized thatched roof shelters the geometric concrete forms of this house in Vietnam, which has been completed by local architecture studio Kientruc O. It is topped with a large thatched roof Set at an angle, this courtyard separates the open living area to the south from the bedrooms and kitchen to the north.

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Deezen

AUGUST 29, 2024

Design platform Slancha has curated Under One Roof, a furniture and homeware exhibition in Glasgow that spotlights 14 up-and-coming Scottish designers. The chair features a durable structure and bold graphic silhouette, informed by the designer's background studying graphic design at the Glasgow School of Art before pivoting to furniture. "The

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Architizer

JULY 8, 2024

When architects talk about sustainability, the mind usually drifts to self-sustaining buildings, natural materials, green terraces and zero carbon emissions. Preserving the structure’s notable slim columns and beams, the project maintained the building’s elegant architectural characteristics and reused most of the existing materials.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The arrangement of the volumes on the site responds, on the one hand, to the site’s location within its context and its commercial needs, and on the other, to the structural conditions that are required in lacustrine soil. The facade of this volume consists of copper-colored aluminum panels; each panel wa.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The house is laid out on the slope of an old orchard in mountainous surroundings, with the intention of having minimal impact on the site and natural vegetation. The volume is perforated with courtyards that break up the program and bring natural light inside.

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