Raise the Roof: 8 Projects Taking Architecture’s Most Underrated Surface Seriously
Contrary to popular belief, a rooftop’s best feature isn’t always the scenery around it.
Articles by
Kalina Prelikj
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Decentered by Design: 7 Projects With Dispersed Floor Plans
A wise architect once said that a good floor plan starts by pulling the building apart. Or something like that.
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Public Architecture in the Baltics: Small Nations, Strategic Civic Design
Municipal halls, plazas and concert venues reveal a precise architectural language emerging across E stonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
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When Architecture Draws the Line: 8 Projects Where Material Contrast Is the Concept
The most interesting architectural conversations happen at the seams.
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Orange You Glad When Architects Bypass Standard Neutral Palettes?
While orange may not be the new black, it still knows how to steal the spotlight.
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Not Another Arc(h)ticle! 9 Projects That Put the Arch Back in Contemporary Architecture
If arches keep appearing in our collections, it’s because they keep evolving in architectural practi ce.
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Permeability in Practice: 7 Perforated Façades With Thermal Intelligence
From climate control to atmosphere, perforated façades prove that small openings can have an outsize d impact.
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On the Up and Up: 6 Projects Where Architecture Is Experienced in Motion
From sculpted ramps to expressive staircases, these projects place movement at the center of archite ctural experience.
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Peak Parametric? What the A+Awards Looked Like in 2016
These works reveal a discipline caught between parametric proclivities and rising restraint, when fo rmal expression still reigned king.
