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Source: Vincent Monthiers archdaily.com

Nova Green, Bordeaux, France, 2012 designed by Agence Bernard Bühler

This building is marked by the game between the screens glazed colorated in green and the boxes in white aluminium which animate the façade on street. -- ArchDaily

Source: Niels Donkers archdaily.com

Cellebroedersstraat, Hasselt, Belgium, 2012 designed by a2o architecten

The wooden cladding extends to the top of the building and works with the window openings to create a new composition. Occasionally, the window frames break through the wooden cladding, interrupting the rhythm of the wooden facade. -- ArchDaily

Source: Ben Hosking archdaily.com

Blairgowrie House, Blairgowrie, Australia, 2012 designed by Wolveridge Architects

The block type form established from bringing the front of the dwelling forward and its western orientation influenced a design decision to create a complex series of openings in the façade,allowing forplenty of natural light to the children’s bedrooms within. The composition of openings is designed to restrict the inflow of undesirable west sun and provides a suitable level of visual engagement with the street. -- ArchDaily

Source: Michel Denancé archdaily.com

Boucicaut, 81 Rue des Cévennes, Paris, France, 2013 designed by MG-AU

.... in order to satisfy the architect/urban planner’s desire to differentiate the facades according to the direction they face, the surface of the walls is smoother, darker and glossy on walls facing north-east and north-west, and rough, light and matt on walls facing south-east and south-west, which are turned towards the sun. The position of the window in its thick frame, together with the presence and position of the sun-shading shutters also make it possible to differentiate thefacades. -- ArchDaily

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Source: Amit Geron archdaily.com

B.S.R 3, Kinneret Street 5, Bnei Brak, Israel, 2013 designed by Yashar Architects

An array of Terra cotta red “boxes” penetrate the tower’s skin at strategic points thus more unique office spaces are created. the boxes characterizes the building externally and frame important urban views internally. The result is a bold and well defined vertical building, a monolithic overall look with almost all of the floors unidentical in plan. -- ArchDaily

Source: Federico Cairoli archdaily.com

Quintana 4598, Quintana 4598, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2013 designed by intile&rogers arquitectura

The projecting boxes, built in polycarbonate, extend the area of the units and compared with a balcony, allow their use independently of any weather restrictions. -- ArchDaily

Source: Cécile Septet archdaily.com

Canopia Park Housing, Mail Haroun Tazieff, 44300 Nantes, France, 2014 designed by BABIN+RENAUD

Shutters, balustrade and floors are as meticulously designed as the buildings’ architecture. Sparkling white, the innumerable vertical picture-windows, framed in shiny metal, jut out from the buildings’ minimalist surfaces. Opalescent glass, stainless-steel façades and sand-blasted concrete round out the project’s visual and tactile pallet, the distinctiveness of which is as restrained as it is refined. -- ArchDaily

Zig Zag 6

Source: Miguel de Guzmán archdaily.com

C.E.I.P Multiuse Room, Madrid, Spain, 2007 designed by Raúl del Valle

The light introduced into the multi-purpose spaces, is an even light that provides an homogeneous clarity. Light comes in through 6 sawtooth skylights, south oriented so to create direct effects of light. In order to have a balanced light, a hole of square proportions is added, which provides a visual connection with the outside. -- ArchDaily

Source: Bilyana Dimitrova archdaily.com

Sagaponac House, Cold Spring, New York, USA, 2007 designed by Stan Allen Architect

The active roofline and wood cladding recall vernacular traditions, while the open floor plan and interlocking of solid and void acknowledge contemporary, informal lifestyles. -- ArchDaily

Source: Roland Halbe archdaily.com

Auditorium And Congress Center Expo 2008, Zaragoza, Spain designed by Nieto Sobejando Arquitectos

The linear skylight, the true protagonist of the project, starts out as a plane folded in parallel bands, open alternatively toward the north and the south, repeated with variants whose dimension and height change depending on the spatial needs of the interior. -- ArchDaily

Source: Peter Bennetts archdaily.com

Florida Beach House, Florida Beach, Australia, 2011 designed by Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects

the roof overhang is carefully sized to exclude summer sun and admit low-level winter sun. The stretched western overhang excludes the low level sun allowing the occupants to engage in comfort with the setting sun. -- ArchDaily

Source: Fernando Alda archdaily.com

Professional Cooking School in Ancient Slaughterhouse, Medina-Sidonia, Cádiz, Spain, 2011 designed by Sol89

The Professional Cooking School uses this idea of the molded ceramic plane to draw its geometry. This roof lends unity to the built complex and interprets the traditional construction of the place, ceramic roofs and whitewashed walls. -- ArchDaily

Source: Sergio Pirrone archdaily.com

E+ Green Home, Kyeong Gi, South Korea designed by Unsangdong Architects

This green home includes diverse factors such as structural system, materials, spatial composition, landscape-enrichment and facilitated human life. E+ Green Home is defined as a new energy plus sustainable house by synthesizing all the optimized green technology and a string of intelligent energy saving system. The building has acquired Passive House Certificate from Passivhaus Institut in Germany.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Sergio Grazia archdaily.com

The Paper Nursery, 46 Rue Piat, 75020 Paris, France, 2014 designed by Wild Rabbits Architects

....the green rooftop is more iconic and it comunicates about a couple of issues unknown by many people like the stormwater, the biodiversity, the inertia or the sprinkling. Furthermore, it is a good way to remind this strong and ancient link between nature and architecture, wich at time creates nice things. -- ArchDaily

Source: Peter Bennetts archdaily.com

The New Kununurra Courthouse, Coolibah Drive, Kununurra WA 6743, Australia, 2014 designed by TAG Architects + iredale pedersen hook architects

The roof form of the building creates an immediate dialogue while creating a variety of volumes that respond to the program requirements for the interior spaces. The height of the roof is also carefully controlled to relate to the immediate adjacent buildings. -- ArchDaily

Source: Jomar Bragança archdaily.com

Serra Dourada Club - Alphaville, Brasil, 2015 designed by Gustavo Penna

It seeks to insert the new buildings, minimizing interventions in topography and preserving as much existing vegetation. Metal structure was the choice for the club pavilion, because it can cover large spans with structural parts of small dimensions, allowing, without further interference, the use of glass walls. The roof is made of thermo-acoustic metal tiles, clad in wooden slats on the bottom and wooden rulers at the top. -- ArchDaily

Raised Corners

Source: Arash Nasiri archdaily.com

Noor-e-Mobin Sports Hall, Bastam, Semnan, Iran, 2010 designed by FEA Studio

....this sports hall is a “panoramic view” itself, that the entire natural scenes can be observed from its inside. In this regard, double-glazed safe glasses with the thickness of 18 mm are used around the saloon. -- ArchDaily

Source: Code Architectural Design archdaily.com

GR230, Hokkaido, Japan, 2010 designed by Code Architectural Design

....a beautiful piece of architecture that commands a dignified presence during the foliage-rich summer months, and a quieter one that seemingly dissolves into the surrounding landscape during the long, reclusive winters. -- ArchDaily

Source: Luis Ontiveros archdaily.com

De Candido Express Supermarket, Maracaibo, Venezuela designed by NMD l NOMADAS

....we turned to origami, for its simplicity, firm softness, continuity in the enclosures, and versatile replicability in changing contexts. In origami, continuity of matter is required. In this case we used a sandwich sheet of pre-painted white galvanized steel. This allowed us to obtain, from a square-based rectangular initial base, the manufacturing of simple models to highly complex folds. -- ArchDaily

Source: Archi5 associated with Tecnova architecture archdaily.com

Antony-Multisports Complex, Rue de l’Annapurna, Antony, France, 2011 designed by Archi5 + Tecnova architecture

A mysterious big black box planted in an urban landscape. Curiosity is satisfied once the way to go in is found, on a raised corner where the entrance is located. -- ArchDaily

Source: Jens Kirchner archdaily.com

Hörsaalgebäude Osnabrück, Barbarastraße, Osnabrück, Germany, 2014 designed by Benthem Crouwel Architects

Because of this location and the position of the university building as “link”, the building is shaped like a volume of three floors with a cutaway at the bottom. The incision ensures a strong relationship with the outside area and gives the university building a clear, recognizable entrance: a striking building is created. -- ArchDaily

Source: Young-chae Park archdaily.com

Extrude, Hanam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea designed by studio GAON

Then we took the edge off the sharp triangle which the cars would conceptually run into. And we opened the west edge like a fish opening its mouth. -- ArchDaily

Floating Roof 12

Source: Rafael Vargas archdaily.com

Mercat Encants, Gran Via-Pl de les Glòries, Barcelona, Spain, 2013 designed by b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos

The great casing suspended as a canopy almost 25 metre high is a prominent landmark and protects shopkeepers and users from the sunlight. The casing is arranged by variable-width bands. Its underside presents different inclinations and becomes a mechanism of reflection of the city into the market. -- ArchDaily

Source: Michael Haug archdaily.com

Bahnhofplatz Winterthur, Bahnhofplatz, Winterthur, Switzerland, 2013 designed by Stutz Bolt Partner

The new project is unifying the square and we worked hard to keep the pedestrian level as open as possible, for a better orientation and to generate generosity. For this reason we created a big roof construction without visible columns. Also all the overhead lines are fixed directly on the roof and create a floating grid. The minimal and precise roof body brings a clear new organization of the urban space and stands as a welcoming sign for arriving visitors of Winterthur. -- ArchDaily

Source: Peppe Maisto archdaily.com

Piazza Garibaldi, Piazza Garibaldi, 80142 Naples, Italy, 2013 designed by Dominique Perrault Architecture

This infrastructure project, which includes a metro station, offers the opportunity to upgrade this lively urban space bustling with activity. Two stations share the piazza: open space, composed of urban parks, luxuriant gardens, large ponds, a protected area, a hypogeum covered with a large pergola and an open promenade with boutiques lining both sides. Though structurally and materially different, the new roof fits right into the alignment and the extension of the central station’s roof. -- ArchDaily

Source: David Armentor archdaily.com

Tulane Students Upcycle Traffic Signs into Shade Canopy , City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2013 designed by Tulane City Center

Tulane City Center and a team of Tulane architecture students worked together with the Lousiana Outdoor Outreach Program to design a shade structure made from traffic yield signs for a challenge course in City Park. Drawing inspiration from the surrounding tree canopy and the structure of the ropes course, the design team crafted a faceted, curving aluminum canopy suspended by steel cables with an earthen berm for seating below. -- ArchDaily