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...Adam Khan’s design for Somers Town, a dense, deprived neighbourhood of council housing squeezed between Euston, King’s Cross and St Pancras railway stations, creates a vivid focus with a distinctive roofline...
...site (assisted by architectural practice Donald Insall Associates) and filling in the gaps with guesswork, the architects recreated the profiles of a long-gone section of city, from shopfronts to complex rooflines...
...The corporate name on the building has changed to the atomically resonant “Fat Boy” and now the sky above the roofline is an irradiated, apocalyptic orange....
...Known as The Wing, because of its swooping roofline and the brand’s ties to the world of aviation, it is thought to have cost in excess of £20mn....
...up front and two rear-hinged doors at the back, it’s big enough to transport four adults in comfort, although taller passengers in the rear might struggle with the reduced headroom from the coupé-like roofline...
...Trees grow inside up above the roofline and plants tumble down the raw concrete arcades....
...Still present are design cues such as the falling roofline, clamshell bonnet and floating roof, which stem from the original design, while the tapered “boat tail” rear is a marked departure from the previous...
...The new property could be bigger than the existing structure, but must look like a barn conversion, with a much lower roofline than initially proposed....
...The wind tossed the boughs, mostly swept clean except for a few clinging yellowed leaves, as the sun faded, barely clearing the low-slung roofline of the apartments across the street....
...The old roofline was retained and revealed in its darker brick, looking like a shadow of itself, while the new extension combines steel and glass in an almost temporary, lightweight aesthetic — as if this...
...One option would have been to change the building’s roofline. Happily, Wong had another solution....
...“It had to sit very high in relation to the ground to cope with flooding, but we wanted to be subtle, so we developed a sail-like roofline that breaks up the impression of height and lends the building a...
...secretary, said the government was backing planning changes to make it easier for people to build up to two storeys on houses, flats, offices and shops — as long as the extension is in keeping with the current roofline...
...The sloping rooflines and chunky wooden beams echo traditional chalets, but here glass walls make the most of the views — some even have fireplaces set into them....
...The sloping roofline was similar to the craggy landscapes of traditional Chinese ink paintings....
...Then the boy registers “smoke, pitch-black and thick, rising behind the roofline” and wishes he were hallucinating but knows he isn’t....
...The rooflines are exuberant, the brickwork as good as any magnate’s Arts and Crafts indulgence. And the bandstand is there because Plumbe said the tenants needed entertainment as well as shelter....
...“Toronto’s been super hot this week,” and “Geneva’s been best enjoyed in the lake,” was what stood out as I watched the clouds pass just above the roofline and rain pelted the window....
...Built in 1825 as a seaside home for the local Tory MP, George Bankes, and his 14 children, it is a gothic fantasy, with almost as many chimneys as rooms, gargoyles and mullioned windows, and a mad roofline...
...The building is in effect a portrait of the artist, its sharply undulating roofline suggesting Miró’s own trademark birds....
...At the end of the halls and cells is the jagged roofline of a natural cave which shelters a cluster of 14 circular stupas, containing the ashes of the monastery’s saints and abbots, ranging from the 3rd...
...Tour London and you’ll see a plague of new, bland blocks that have taken the place of once diverse streets dotted with a variety of façades and a mix of rooflines....
...Coca-Cola is fifth in the latest Millward Brown brands ranking, yet you could walk past its Atlanta HQ without giving it a second glance – remove the logos from the roofline and it could be a bank back office...
...Tarmac turns to cobbles, the roofline is broken by towers and spires, cafés spill out into the street, and people are wandering around, open-mouthed at the array of immaculate Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque...
...Instead, the anthemia (Grecian honeysuckle-palms along the roofline) are parodied into a fat egg and fantail – jokey in a postmodern way....
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