What are some examples of great rooftop architecture/spaces that you'd like to share?
I'm compiling precedents of ways rooftops have been designed for private or public use. For example, a rooftop bar/lounge area, with landscaping or this theater in Austin...
Precedent examples of great rooftop spaces
What are some examples of great rooftop architecture/spaces that you'd like to share?
I'm compiling precedents of ways rooftops have been designed for private or public use. For example, a rooftop bar/lounge area, with landscaping or this theater in Austin...
In London:
There's the Skyroom, on top of an office building
There's Frank's Café on top of a parking lot
There's the Room for London on top of the National Theatre (by the same Architect as the Skyroom)
Then there's lots of crappy bars on hotel roofs shielded from the roof-top plant by bamboo and gas heaters.
corbu's bestigui penthouse.
good examples, anyone else?
i've always liked this one. townhouse wimbergergasse by delugan meissl
from bjarke's better half:
beautiful
any more?
Snohetta's Opera House in Oslo
BIG's Denmark Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo
Oh, and a horrendous building aesthetically, but possibly the most fantastic rooftop pool ever. Moshe Safdie's Marina Bay Sands in Singapore
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2012/05/new_york_city_rooftops_alex_maclean_photos_.html
The 230 fifth rooftop in NYC:
Also when it gets cold you can get one of these red robes which you won't mind wearing after 5 beers:
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