#roof

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Project • By dina destreeza • Offices

21 Century classrooms

Roofing installed the high-performance roofing system for Texas A&M University’s Innovative Learning Classroom Building, a 117,000-square-foot project that pushes the limits of modern educational design. The building’s roof ties directly into its energy-efficient façade, helping deliver a 31% improvement over regional benchmarks. When installation demands increased, we called our Bryan roofing contractors to support the fast-moving schedule and maintain precision across every phase of the build. Caption In this wide shot, the roof blends seamlessly with surrounding buildings, reinforcing Texas A&M’s push toward sustainable, LEED-aligned construction. More

Project • By FACE | Büro Florian Schätz • Pavilions

A Garden Pavilion

Can concrete appear as thin as paper and defy gravity?A cantilevered, ultra-thin concrete roof challenges gravity—not as an artificially generated image that ignores physical laws, but as a real built structure in an ordinary garden. With this 53-square-meter garden pavilion, FACE and DUCON bring ultra-high-performance concrete from the lab into practice, allowing it to float delicately. An 11 by 5 meter, just 90 millimeter thick roof slab hovers over a long table with an integrated fire pit. Along the line of maximum bending moment, a circular oculus frames the sky—and on clear nights, outlines Orion's Belt. The span is vast, the gesture minimal, the message clear: Concrete can be lightweight. White steel cantilevers lift the s... More

Project • By inpractice • Offices

Few walls and a Roof

The image of a modern office is thinly partitioned open workstations with limited or no privacy, designed with a one-size-fits-all layout. Even with overlapping DNA, no two individuals are truly alike in a family, similarly, individuals in a work family function in their own separate ways. Nonetheless, in both cases, a designer caters to the sum and the parts, as we did for the sales office of an upcoming residential infrastructure project in Ahmedabad - Few Walls and a Roof.  Vivek Eadara Vivek Eadara Each space, a bit disjoined from the other, is designed to be adaptable and to suit an individual’s requirements. The scattered cubes in the layout give individuals those intimate spaces and the meandering pathways and t... More

Project • By TALES Creative • Bars

Tengda Center Roof Garden

Design Concept The city of Taizhou is situated in an impressive landscape within Zhejiang province in China, and embodies the local motto “Seven mountains, one river, and two fields”. Caption It is home to Tengda Center, a landmark high-rise building, whose architectural language was inspired by the structure of the osmanthus flower. Studio SZ Tengda Center is the first project to combine art and social spaces in Taizhou, embodying the concept of "an exquisite, aesthetically refined urban living room", bringing a new way to experience art, life, and leisure in the city.  Studio SZ Lingli, Head Designer of TALES Creative, has incorporated the painterly concept of Cubism to inform the composition of colors... More

Product • By Zoontjens International BV • Dreen®

Dreen®

Dreen® is the ultimate rooftop paving system, for any flat roof. The clean-lined concrete slab and support system guarantees a stable and durable rooftop terrace. As the use of rooftop outdoor space becomes increasingly popular, higher demands are being placed on rooftop paving, in particular to withstand intensive use and heavy loads.  Rooftop terraces, rooftop pathways, rooftop gardens, rooftop courtyards, rooftop pitches and rooftop parks. Dreen® is our complete rooftop paving system solution for all flat roofs. From large to small and from light to heavy use, the Dreen®Nxt system offers a stable, high-quality, safe walking surface where it is a pleasure to relax, shop, dine, stroll or enjoy more active sporting adventu... More