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 about Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners begins work on Louvre art store in northern France
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 about Hanoi cafe features indoor waterfalls, koi-carp ponds and an aquaponics vegetable patch
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 about NL Architects completes Belgian school featuring a colonnade and a pyramidal 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 about Villa SG21 is a monolithic blackened-wood house topped with a turfed roof
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 about Cantilevered concrete volume shelters entrance to Arabic studies building at Lebanese university
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 about WHY wins Edinburgh's Ross Pavilion contest with design featuring undulating roof gardens
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 about Hong Kong's Skypark rooftop provides a playground for "balance-centric millennials"
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 about Domed summer house by LASSA offers an elevated view over a Greek olive grove
Architecture studio Bergmeisterwolf has applied vernacular log cladding to this group of holiday apartments, which extend around a courtyard in the Italian alps. More about Bergmeisterwolf reinterprets the traditional log cabin with Twisted House apartments
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 about RDHA embeds stone and glass library into grassy Ontario hillside
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 about Dominique Coulon & Associés gives library undulating walls like an "unfurling ribbon"
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 about FAAB proposes "smog-eating" music school for Kraków
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 about Scenario Architecture covers London house extension in larch and sedum
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 about London house extension by Bureau de Change Architects features dark blue kitchen and bright white lounge
Danish architecture studio CEBRA has been appointed to create an underground visitor centre for a hill that has hosted some of the most important speeches in Denmark's history. More about CEBRA plans subterranean visitor centre for historic Skamlingsbanken hill
ArchiBlox has given this prefabricated beachfront house near Sydney a verdant plant-covered roof to help it blend into its clifftop setting. More about ArchiBlox creates garden roof for house overlooking a beach in Australia
Zaha Hadid Architects has begun work on a multipurpose complex in Guangzhou, which is modelled on the looping infinity symbol used in mathematics. More about Zaha Hadid Architects reveals plans for Infinitus Plaza in Guangzhou
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 about Alt Arkkitehdit clads woodland house in Finland with sheets of rusty Corten steel
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 about Kerstin Thompson adds intimate underground tasting room to Australian winery
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 about Santiago Calatrava plans Zurich office block with 1000 bicycle parking spaces