ArchiBlox creates garden roof for house overlooking a beach in Australia
ArchiBlox has given this prefabricated beachfront house near Sydney a verdant plant-covered roof to help it blend into its clifftop setting. More
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Zaha Hadid Architects reveals plans for Infinitus Plaza in Guangzhou
Zaha Hadid Architects has begun work on a multipurpose complex in Guangzhou, which is modelled on the looping infinity symbol used in mathematics. More
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Alt Arkkitehdit clads woodland house in Finland with sheets of rusty Corten steel
Finnish practice Alt Arkkitehdit has covered a family home in northern Finland in weathering steel panels and greying spruce planks that help it to blend into its woodland setting. More
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Kerstin Thompson adds intimate underground tasting room to Australian winery
A doorway discreetly set into a circular stone wall leads into this moody subterranean wine cellar that architect Kerstin Thompson has created at Australia's TarraWarra vineyard. More
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Santiago Calatrava plans Zurich office block with 1000 bicycle parking spaces
Architect Santiago Calatrava is set to create a grass-topped office block on the plaza in front of his Stadelhofen Station in Zurich with public parking for 1000 bicycles on the ground level. More
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Hayhurst and Co creates "hanging-basket roof" for designers' home and studio
Architecture studio Hayhurst and Co has built a home and studio for leading leather-design duo Whitaker Malem, featuring a steeply stepped roof covered in over 800 plants (+ slideshow). More
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Allee separates lakeside Connecticut house into two distinct volumes
Lush greenery tops one half of this three-bedroom residence on the shore of Connecticut's Lake Wononscopomuc, which local studio Allee Architecture and Design created as two separate parts (+ slideshow). More
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Stepped garden tops House in Nha Trang by Vo Trong Nghia and Masaaki Iwamoto
A large tiered garden forms the roof of this house in the coastal Vietnamese city Nha Trang, which architect Vo Trong Nghia designed in partnership with former colleague Masaaki Iwamoto (+ slideshow). More
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Blossom Pavilion in Shanghai features steel "rocks" and a rooftop flowerbed
Shanghai studio Atelier Deshaus has teamed up with artist Zhan Wang to create a flower-topped pavilion supported by irregularly shaped slabs of stainless steel (+ slideshow). More
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Dune-shaped car park by Royal HaskoningDHV doubles as a flood defence
Curving windows peep above the ground to bring light into this underground car park in South Holland, which is covered in grassy hillocks to replicate a dune landscape (+ slideshow). More
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Kengo Kuma reveals plans for Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has unveiled plans for a new Hans Christian Andersen Museum in the Danish city of Odense, which will revolve around the writer's popular fairy tales (+ slideshow). More
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Riverside house by Architecture Brio is partially embedded in a grassy hillock
This weekend residence by Architecture Brio is half-embedded in the bank of a river that winds its way through the foothills of the Western Ghats, a mountain range bordering India's western coast (+ slideshow). More
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Honeymoon retreat by Andrew Patterson nestles on shoreline of a New Zealand peninsula
This tiny stone cottage by Patterson Associates provides a remote honeymoon retreat on the rugged coast of a New Zealand peninsula (+ slideshow). More
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Architect Nicholas Hunt creates a tiny retreat in his Brooklyn garden
American architect Nicholas Hunt has built a micro studio in the backyard of his Brooklyn home, intended to provide "solitude within the immense landscape of New York City". More
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OYO's House Pibo features a sloping green roof and split-level interior
An angular entrance and roof intersect the plant-covered roof of this wedge-shaped house, completed by architects office OYO in the Belgian village of Maldegem (+ slideshow). More
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Enzo Eusebi builds sunken prosciutto factory in the Italian countryside
Haunches of ham are displayed in rows behind the glazed facade of this semi-underground prosciutto factory, which sits beneath a grassy roof in Italy's hilly Umbrian countryside (+ slideshow). More
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PLH Arkitekter reveals plans for shield-shaped visitor centre at Danish Viking site
Danish practice PLH Arkitekter has based its design for this visitor centre at a Viking landmark in Denmark on a circular shield (+ slideshow). More
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Heneghan Peng unveils winning design for canoe museum in Canada
Irish studio Heneghan Peng Architects has unveiled its competition-winning design for the Canadian Canoe Museum in Ontario – a wavy waterside structure with glass walls and a grass roof (+ slideshow). More
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Roz Barr's pool house in the Sierra Nevada is surrounded by stone walls and olive trees
This pool house nestled among trees on the estate of a farmhouse in Spain's Sierra Nevada region is flanked by dry stone walls and has a turf roof that helps it merge with the landscape (+ slideshow). More
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Passivhaus community centre by Guillaume Ramillien Architecture is clad in grass and timber
Grass blankets the roof of this low-energy community centre by Guillaume Ramillien Architecture, which is set in the centre of a new development to the south-east of Paris (+ slideshow). More
