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The online database DETAIL Inspiration supports you in your search for inspiration for sophisticated designs and building solutions. With more than 4,000 project documentations from more than 30 years of DETAIL, DETAIL Inspiration is the largest research and inspiration platform of its kind.

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The book documents the most exciting projects in Amsterdam‘s current architectural scene, including floating houses, hotels in former bridge keepers‘ cottages, and carefully renovated cultural monuments such as the Felix Meritis or a bicycle garage under a harbour basin. The built showcase projects provide an insight into Amsterdam‘s urban resilience and innovative approaches to housing. Supplementary essays and interviews with the protagonists of architecture take a look behind the scenes of their ideas workshop. The contributions complete the picture of a vibrant and forward-looking architectural culture.

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Issue 10/2025

Can architecture keep reinventing the roofscape? Since 2019 we know it can. That year, Bjarke Ingels turned the 400 m sloping roof of a waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen into a grassy ski slope. Since then, around 10 000 sports enthusiasts have made the annual climb up CopenHill, Denmark’s highest hill, to glide back down. The concept cannot be replicated everywhere, but it reveals the latent potential of roofs as adventurous urban terrains – spaces far too valuable to be left to languish under layers of bitumen in an age of climate change. Cooperative housing and cohousing projects have long embraced the communal roof terrace as a place for gardening, social gathering, and drying laundry together, while also helping to counter the urban heat-island effect and loss of biodiversity.

The movement is now spilling over from housing into office real estate, with global tech giants again leading the way. Ten years ago, Frank Gehry shaped the gently undulating flat roof of the Facebook campus in Menlo Park into a 3.5 hectare parkland above the lagoon. Google is now following suit in the heart of London. At King’s Cross, completion of the BIG and Heatherwick Studio building has been awaited year after year. In Berlin, things moved faster: on Darwin strasse, Grüntuch Ernst have realised a 2200 m² roof park above 1000 office workstations. Cascading across four storeys, it connects directly to the open-plan offices through sliding glass doors. The terrace is also open to the wider neighbourhood, enlivening the district. A vision of roofs not as residual surfaces, but as shared urban ground. Frank Kaltenbach

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