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  • Fanned and sawtooth roofs top Sanand Factory in India by Studio Saar

    Kite-like canopies and geometric roofs shelter the spaces of this factory by Studio Saar, which sits atop a seasonal lake in Sanand, India. More

    Jon Astbury | 22 March 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Lever Architecture uses mass timber in Portland's Meyer Memorial Trust building

    Structural plywood was used to help reduce the carbon footprint of an Oregon office building designed by Lever Architecture for a charitable foundation. More

    Jenna McKnight | 15 March 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Kompas completes tile-clad house and gallery for art collector in Japan

    Architecture studio Kompas has completed a house and art gallery in Chiba, Japan, featuring a sawtooth roof and a facade clad in black tiles that are angled to create louvred openings. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 22 February 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Herzog & de Meuron unveils plectrum-shaped AstraZeneca research centre

    Swiss studio Herzog & de Meuron has completed The Discovery Centre, a glass-clad facility for research and development designed for pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca in Cambridge. More

    Cajsa Carlson | 10 December 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Ridged roofline at Maggie's Cardiff recalls outline of Welsh mountains

    London studio Dow Jones Architects has completed a temporary Maggie's Centre for cancer care in Cardiff with a series of angular roofs clad entirely in weathering steel. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 12 May 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Steyn Studio's concrete and travertine Sierra House has a mountain-shaped roof

    London-based Steyn Studio built Sierra House in Madrid from concrete and travertine with a striking sawtooth roof that looks like a mountain ridge. More

    Jon Astbury | 18 March 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Stego extension by Archmongers features a sawtooth roof made from corrugated aluminium

    Archmongers has turned a section of walled garden in a 1980s house in south London into a living space with sawtooth roof, earning it the dinosaur-inspired name Stego. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 13 March 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Zigzag metal roof covers new and old saunas in Estonia

    Peeter Pere and Eva Kedelauk have covered a new sauna and an existing traditional wooden smoke sauna, in Varbola, Estonia, with a zigzagging aluminium roof. More

    Jon Astbury | 29 January 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Factory with pitched roofs designed to complement terraced housing

    Local architecture studio TRANS has rebuilt a factory in a residential neighbourhood of Ghent, with pitched roofs referencing nearby housing. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 25 March 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Swiss housing complex by Stocker Lee takes cues from mountainous landscape with zigzag roof

    Swiss practice Stocker Lee Architetti designed this family house and group of adjoining rental apartments in the canton of Ticino with an unevenly pitched roof that references the jagged outline of a nearby mountain range. More

    Natasha Levy | 14 March 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Sawtooth roof tops lakefront home in Canada by Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster

    The zigzag profile of this Canadian lake house allows natural light to enter deep into living spaces from skylights, while helping orient solar panels to maximise their efficiency. More

    James Brillon | 10 February 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Preston Scott Cohen creates jagged-roofed building for Michigan architecture school

    Ironspot brick and a sawtooth roof define the exterior of this new wing for the University of Michigan's architecture and planning college, designed by US studio Preston Scott Cohen. More

    Jenna McKnight | 23 January 2018 | 1 comment
  • Works Progress Architecture tops Portland apartment building with zigzagging roof

    US firm Works Progress Architecture has created a residential building in Portland with gabled roofs, which help it stand out from the conventional boxy structures that are emerging in the Oregon city. More

    Jenna McKnight | 1 August 2017 | 1 comment
  • Primus Arkitekter transforms Fritz Hansen factory into a library and cultural centre

    A sawtooth roof with integrated skylights and solar panels gives this library and cultural centre in Denmark an industrial aesthetic that references its location at an old furniture factory (+ slideshow). More

    Alyn Griffiths | 1 August 2015 | Leave a comment
  • Office with a sawtooth roof
 pays homage to a Dutch mill by Gerrit Rietveld

    The jagged roof of this warehouse and office space in the Netherlands is designed to reference a 1950s weaving mill by Dutch architect and designer Gerrit Rietveld (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 28 March 2015 | Leave a comment
  • Netzwerkarchitekten completes community centre with a zigzagging golden roof

    The consecutive pitched roofs of this church community centre in Germany were designed by Netzwerkarchitekten to make the building resemble a row of terraced houses. More

    Jessica Mairs | 22 November 2014 | 1 comment

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Aerial view of Glasshouse by Heatherwick Studio

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