Brazilian architecture firm Studio Arthur Casas has used grass to top this holiday home in Brazil, comprising two interlocking volumes that face a golf course. More about Green roof blends Brazilian house by Studio Arthur Casas with nearby golf course
Dezeen promotion: research conducted by Europe's largest roofing and waterproofing company BMI Group reveals the opportunities presented by "active" blue and green roofs. More about BMI Group showcases blue and green roofs that double as water reservoirs and gardens
Architecture studio MAD has unveiled its design for the largely subterranean Shenzhen Bay Culture Park museum complex, which will be topped by two pavilions designed to look like groups of large stones. More about MAD tops Shenzhen cultural park with "monumental stones"
Grassy gardens top the Maggie's Centre for cancer patients built by Heatherwick Studio in the grounds of St James's University Hospital in Leeds. More about Heatherwick Studio designs plant-filled Maggie's Centre in Leeds
Czech architecture studio Formafatal has used blackened wood, perforated aluminium panels and a green roof to form this low-lying holiday home in Costa Rica. More about Green roof and charred wood blend Atelier Villa into Costa Rican jungle
A hill-like green roof with a skylight helps to blend this public library by Toronto architecture firm RDHA into its grassy surrounds. More about Grassy hill forms skylight over RDHA's Springdale Public Library near Toronto
Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet is a spiral-shaped building rising up out of the landscape of Vallée de Joux in Switzerland designed by BIG for the watchmaker to house its collection of timepieces. More about BIG creates spiral museum for Audemars Piguet in the Swiss mountains
The concrete rooms of Jipyungzip, a guesthouse by BCHO Architects in South Korea, are sunk into a grassy slope with flat roofs that form terraces overlooking the sea. More about BCHO Architects merges seaside guesthouse with the landscape
Sloping green roofs top the two distinct wings of Stonecrop, a British house designed by Featherstone Young to be adaptable and energy efficient. More about Featherstone Young divides rural Stonecrop house into two distinct wings
Architecture studio Jordi Hidalgo Tané has extended a small stone building in rural Navarra, Spain, with a subterranean concrete annex accessed via a glass corridor. More about Glass corridor connects underground concrete extension to house in Spain
Studio Okami Architecten has dug a brick and concrete home into a sloping hillside, looking out over the valley landscape of Mont-de-l'Enclus in Belgium. More about Studio Okami Architecten hides Sloped Villa in a Belgian hillside
Russian studio Niko Architect has sunk a Teletubby-style house underneath an artificial hill punctuated by conical skylights that pop out of its planted roof. More about House in Russia hidden beneath artificial green hill
Architecture studio TAA Design has made the green roof of this house in Quang Ngai, Vietnam, from stepped planters finished in red plaster and tiles. More about TAA Design tops red house in Vietnam with a stepped vegetable garden
An underground concrete house in Monsaraz, Portugal, by Aires Mateus is dug into a hillside and concealed by a green roof that cantilevers outwards. More about Cantilevering concrete roof emerges from Portuguese hillside house by Aires Mateus
K11 Musea is a shopping centre on the Tsim Sha Tsui harbour-front in Hong Kong, designed by an architecture team led by Kohn Pedersen Fox. More about Green wall cascades down K11 Musea shopping centre in Hong Kong
Mono Architekten has restored and extended a 1970s concrete school block in Germany with a cluster of curving larch-clad volumes topped with sloping green roofs. More about Curving larch wood buildings with green roofs form school extension in Germany
A green roof with meandering pathways disguises this weathering steel water treatment facility, which Henning Larsen has completed on the island of Zealand, Denmark. More about Henning Larsen tops Danish sewage works with park
A campus-like park of concrete offices topped with green roofs forms the new Vanke Design Community in Shenzhen, featuring two sunken plots completed by architecture practice FCHA. More about Vanke Design Community is cluster of workspaces topped by parks
Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects has obtained planning permission for a development of micro homes made from shipping containers with green roofs in Aylesbury, England. More about Shipping-container micro homes with green roofs planned for UK
Dublin practice Tierney Haines Architects has completed Library Lookout, a cedar-clad study space and library with a green roof, for two authors in Connemara, Ireland. More about Tierney Haines Architects adds lavender-topped writer's study to a house in Ireland