This pavilion featuring green walls and a colonnade was designed by Berlin studio Raumlabor to surround a small fountain in the centre of Montreal (+ slideshow). More about Raumlabor builds a grass-covered enclosure around a Montreal fountain
French architect Jean Nouvel teamed up with botanist Patrick Blanc to create this pair of plant-covered Sydney towers that reflect light into their lower levels with a huge cantilevered panel of mirrors. More about Jean Nouvel's Sydney towers boast vertical gardens and a huge sunlight reflector
Football players disappear beneath a grassy knoll to access hidden changing facilities at a sports ground in northern France by MU Architecture (+ slideshow). More about MU Architecture hides locker rooms under plant-covered mound
Dutch studio SeARCH has created a dome-shaped pavilion covered in grass and filled with plants, as part of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam that opened to the public today. More about SeARCH creates grassy dome pavilion for Rotterdam Architecture Biennale
News: a pair of skyscrapers by Milan office Boeri Studio are nearing completion in the Italian city, featuring as many trees as could be planted in a hectare of forest. More about Stefano Boeri's "vertical forest" nears completion in Milan
This multi-storey car park for Copenhagen by local firm JAJA Architects will feature a plant-covered facade to hide the cars inside and grand external staircases leading to a landscaped park on the roof (+ slideshow). More about Pompidou-inspired car park by JAJA Architects to feature planted facade and rooftop park
Flowering vines will sprawl across the facades of these four tower blocks underway in Casablanca by French studio Maison Edouard François, creating a series of brightly coloured vertical gardens. More about Walls of foliage will surround towers at Gardens of Anfa by Maison Edouard François
A square wall covered in plants announces the presence of this concrete housing block in São Paulo by Brazilian architecture studio TACOA (photos by Leonardo Finotti + slideshow). More about Wall of bushy plants fronts São Paulo housing block by TACOA
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in this exclusive interview with vertical gardens pioneer Patrick Blanc, the French botanist discusses his hanging gardens for Herzog & de Meuron's new Pérez Art Museum in Miami and reflects on why vertical gardens have become so popular. More about Green wall pioneer Patrick Blanc: "Now everybody is doing vertical gardens"
A layer of grasses, herbs and flowers blankets the roof of this hump-shaped house near Reims, France, by architect Patrick Nadeau (+ slideshow). More about Hump-shaped house covered in plants by Patrick Nadeau
News: Jean Nouvel's One Central Park residential tower in Sydney will feature the world's tallest vertical garden by botanist Patrick Blanc. More about Patrick Blanc creates world's tallest vertical garden for Jean Nouvel's Sydney tower
Patrick Blanc, the inventor of living walls, has completed his latest vertical garden, covering the side of a five-storey Parisian block with waves of 7600 plants (+ slideshow). More about The Oasis of Aboukir green wall by Patrick Blanc
News: a 21 metre high living wall containing 10,000 plants and 16 tons of soil will help reduce flooding in London, according to its designer. More about London's largest living wall will "combat flooding"
This family house in Mexico City by local architect Paul Cremoux conceals a three-storey wall of plants behind its slate-clad facade. More about Casa CorMAnca by Paul Cremoux Studio
This glazed garden hideaway by Italian studio Act_Romegialli is disguised inside a dense thicket of bushy plants and blossoming wildflowers. More about Green Box by Act_Romegialli
This leisure centre in Amsterdam by Dutch architects VenhoevenCS was designed as a fortress covered in plants (+ slideshow). More about SportPlaza Mercator by VenhoevenCS
News: Scientists at a Spanish university are developing a new type of concrete that captures rainwater to create living walls of moss and fungi. More about Researchers develop "biological concrete" for moss-covered walls
This narrow townhouse in Lisbon has bushy plants all over its body and a swimming pool on its roof. More about House in Lisbon by Luís and Tiago Rebelo de Andrade and Manuel Cachão Tojal
The deep-framed windows of this office building by French studio Chartier-Corbasson Architectes burst through mossy walls and piles of stone beside a 100-year old mansion in Amiens. More about Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry by Chartier-Corbasson Architectes
Plants sprout through the patchwork aluminium facade of this pharmacy and clinic in Japan by architects Kengo Kuma and Associates (+ slideshow). More about Green Cast by Kengo Kuma and Associates