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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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
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WHY wins Edinburgh's Ross Pavilion contest with design featuring undulating roof gardens
American studio wHY has won a competition to design a new events pavilion overlooked by Edinburgh Castle, with plans for a series of glazed pavilions topped by wave-shaped roof gardens. More
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Hong Kong's Skypark rooftop provides a playground for "balance-centric millennials"
Dezeen promotion: entrepreneur Adrian Cheng has worked alongside Dutch architecture studio Concrete to create a new social space in Hong Kong tower Skypark that meets the needs of its youthful residents. More
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Domed summer house by LASSA offers an elevated view over a Greek olive grove
Fingers of earth branch over this mound-shaped holiday home by architecture studio LASSA, allowing its owners to climb up onto the roof to admire Greece's Peloponnese peninsula. More
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Bergmeisterwolf reinterprets the traditional log cabin with Twisted House apartments
Architecture studio Bergmeisterwolf has applied vernacular log cladding to this group of holiday apartments, which extend around a courtyard in the Italian alps. More
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RDHA embeds stone and glass library into grassy Ontario hillside
This new public library by Canadian firm RDHA features a large slab that cantilevers over the landscape, a sloping green roof and an exterior stair that runs up the front of the building. More
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Dominique Coulon & Associés gives library undulating walls like an "unfurling ribbon"
French office Dominique Coulon & Associés has completed a media library in Thionville, France, featuring a wavy facade that lifts up to reveal ribbons of glazing facing into curving courtyards. More
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FAAB proposes "smog-eating" music school for Kraków
Polish studio FAAB has developed a concept for a music school in Kraków featuring angular volumes covered with a mossy roof designed to absorb large amounts of airborne pollutants. More
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Scenario Architecture covers London house extension in larch and sedum
Scenario Architecture has added a wooden extension with a jagged sedum-covered roof and a large window to the rear of an east London house. More
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London house extension by Bureau de Change Architects features dark blue kitchen and bright white lounge
Peaks and troughs accommodate planting on the roof of this concrete extension to a south London house by Bureau de Change Architects, which has a blue and white interior. More
