Nizio Design International reveals Museum of the Great Famine designs
The underground Museum of the Great Famine by Nizio Design International in Kiev, Ukraine, will be topped by two misaligned green roofs. More
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![The Museum of the Great Famine by Nizio Design International and Project Systems LTD in Kiev, Ukraine]()
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![Kampung Admiralty in Singapore by WOHA, winner of WAF 2018]()
WOHA creates green community for senior citizens with Kampung Admiralty in Singapore
Housing, health facilities and social spaces are all contained within this plant-covered Singapore building by WOHA, which was named World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival. More
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![Peconic House by Mapos Studio]()
Hamptons retreat features grassy roof that blends with slope overlooking Peconic Bay
New York City firm Mapos has nestled a grass-topped holiday home into a lush hill overlooking a Long Island bay, covering it in untreated wood, steel and concrete to match the surroundings. More
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![Sant Julià de Ramis fortress by Fuses Viader Arquitectes]()
Fuses Viader Arquitectes converts abandoned hilltop fortress into museum and hotel
Fuses Viader Arquitectes has transformed a 19th-century fortress near the Spanish city of Girona into a museum and hotel complex featuring concrete, glass and weathered-steel. More
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![Planar House by Studio MK27]()
Monumental grass roof covers Planar House in Brazil by Studio MK27
This minimalist residence outside São Paulo by Studio MK27 offers residents a variety of enclosed and open spaces underneath an imposing concrete roof covered in grass. More
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![Macallan Distillery by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners]()
Rolling wildflower roof covers Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners-designed Scottish distillery
Undulations in the green roof of the Macallan Distillery by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners hint at the bulbous whisky stills situated below. More
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![Mill Valley Cabins by Feldman Architecture]()
Feldman Architecture places art and yoga studios on lush California hillside
American studio Feldman Architecture has created a pair of wooden structures that are perched on a steep, forested site in the San Francisco Bay Area. More
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![Landscape Pavilion by Anne Carrier architecture]()
Welcome centre for Quebec heritage site rises from the landscape
A stone-filled gabion wall runs along one side of this green-roofed visitors pavilion by architect Anne Carrier, which emerges from a slope at a heritage site in Canada. More
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![Taoyuan Museum of Art in Taiwan, designed by Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop and Joe Shih Architects]()
Winning design for Taiwan art museum features sloped green roofs
Joe Shih Architects and Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop have won the international competition to design an art museum in Taoyuan, Taiwan. More
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![PTX1 Cabana by Wernerfield]()
Native plants blanket rooftop of Texas cabana by Wernerfield
Architecture office Wernerfield has created a rectangular pool house with glazed walls and a green roof for a hilly estate in northern Texas. More
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![Self-sufficient Yin & Yang house incorporates gardens on its interlocking dual-aspect roof]()
Self-sufficient Yin & Yang house incorporates gardens on its interlocking roof
Architecture studio Penda has released visualisations of a house designed for a tiny plot near the German city of Kassel that show how its owners will be able to grow food on both sides of its terraced roof. More
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![Centre Culturel Dédié Au 7è Art by UNStudio]()
UNStudio plans new cultural centre with rooftop cinemas for Paris
UNStudio has won a competition to design a new cinema and cultural centre with weathering steel walls and green roofs as part of BIG's EuropaCity masterplan on the outskirts of Paris. More
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![Viewpoint Granasjøen by Bergersen Arkitekter]()
Bergersen Arkitekter's Viewpoint Granasjøen is an angular lakeside cabin with a turfed roof
This compact timber-and-concrete cabin in the Norwegian village of Nerskogen incorporates large windows that angle upwards to make the most of views towards the nearby lake and mountain range. More
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![Barrington Residence by Eric Rosen Architects]()
Grassy landscape cascades over angular Los Angeles house by Eric Rosen
California studio Eric Rosen Architects has carved away parts of a sloped site to make way for a multi-level home topped with a grass-covered roof. More
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![Sunnyvale Campus by BIG and Google]()
BIG and Google team up for terraced offices in Sunnyvale
Architecture firm BIG is working on yet another project for Google, this time a pair of offices blocks with ramping roofs in Sunnyvale, California. More
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Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners begins work on Louvre art store in northern France
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has started building a new concrete-framed art storage facility in Lievin, France, for the Louvre museum, which will be covered by a large green roof. More
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Hanoi cafe features indoor waterfalls, koi-carp ponds and an aquaponics vegetable patch
Behind the scalloped facade of the Koi Cafe in Hanoi, Farming Architects has created a fish pond, an indoor waterfall and a rooftop vegetable patch that exists in a self sustaining eco-system. More
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![NL Architects completes Belgian school featuring low-lying rooms surrounded by a colonnade.]()
NL Architects completes Belgian school featuring a colonnade and a pyramidal roof
A pyramidal turfed roof tops one of several teaching and administrative spaces clustered around a multipurpose hall at this school in the Belgian city of Knokke-Heist by Amsterdam studio NL Architects. More
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![Dutch studio FillieVerhoeven Architects has completed a house near Rotterdam featuring an asymmetric gabled form clad entirely in blackened timber.]()
Villa SG21 is a monolithic blackened-wood house topped with a turfed roof
Dutch studio FillieVerhoeven Architects has completed a house near Rotterdam featuring an asymmetric gabled form clad entirely in blackened timber and incorporating large glazed openings on all sides. More
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![The Sheikh Nahyan Centre for Arabic Studies & Intercultural Dialogue (CASID), designed by local firm Fouad Samara Architects]()
Cantilevered concrete volume shelters entrance to Arabic studies building at Lebanese university
Chunky concrete pillars support the upper storey of this university building in Lebanon, which rises above its sloping site to offer views of a nearby walnut grove and the Mediterranean Sea. More
