Argentinian studio Adamo-Faiden has built a greenhouse-like structure over the top of a Buenos Aires residence, in its continuing bid to make better use of the city's vacant rooftops. More about Adamo-Faiden's rooftop extension proposes a "new idea of luxury" for Buenos Aires housing
Shanghai office Four O Nine has converted a glass building in Beijing into a cafe, adding walls of plants to purify polluted air. More about Four O Nine transforms greenhouse into plant-lined coffee shop
Half greenhouse, half rust-coloured barn, this spa and events space by Tailor Made Arkitekter stands on the edge of Lake Vättern in southern Sweden (+ slideshow). More about Tailor Made Arkitekter merges an archetypal barn with a glasshouse for lakeside spa in Sweden
Architecture studio Adamo-Faiden has transformed the vacant roof of a 15-storey block in Buenos Aires into a home for a young couple, by installing a glazed pavilion-like structure surrounded by plants (+ slideshow). More about Foliage-clad pavilion by Adamo-Faiden creates a home on a disused roof
Divooe Zein Architects has installed an arced structure covered in nets to shelter a woodland glade near the Taiwanese capital, Taipei (+ slideshow). More about Woodland greenhouse by Divooe Zein Architects provides shelter for flora and fauna
News: work has begun on architect Moshe Safdie's Jewel Changi Airport, which aims to "reinvent what airports are all about" by creating a shared public space under a glass dome with a massive waterfall and garden at its centre. More about Moshe Safdie's huge greenhouse for Singapore's Changi airport gets underway
These new images by photographers Hufton + Crow reveal the curving details of the two glasshouses at Thomas Heatherwick's visitor facility for British gin brand Bombay Sapphire (+ slideshow). More about Thomas Heatherwick's Bombay Sapphire distillery photographed by Hufton + Crow
News: British designer Thomas Heatherwick has completed work on a new complex for gin company Bombay Sapphire in Hampshire, England, including two sculptural glasshouses that are heated using warm air created during the distilling process (+ slideshow). More about Thomas Heatherwick's gin distillery for Bombay Sapphire opens
The frame of this narrow building slotted into the space between a pair of high-rise blocks was adapted by South Korean architect Moon Hoon to function as an urban greenhouse that will eventually be filled with plants. More about Moon Hoon creates an urban greenhouse on a narrow Seoul plot
A facade of translucent plastic pillows can be pumped up to alter lighting and temperature inside this domed tropical greenhouse in Aarhus by Danish firm CF Møller (+ slideshow). More about Quilted greenhouse by CF Møller inflates to change light and temperature conditions
News: Amazon has gained planning permission for a new Seattle headquarters that will feature a trio of glass orbs containing a jungle of mature trees and tropical plants (+ slideshow). More about Amazon wins approval for Seattle headquarters inside giant orb-shaped greenhouses
Architecture firm Grimshaw has completed an ecological park in South Korea where tropical plants, waterfalls and penguins are housed within huge glass and steel biomes (+ slideshow). More about National Ecology Center botanic greenhouses by Grimshaw and Samoo
World Architecture Festival 2012: in our final movie from the World Architecture Festival we take another look at the World Building of the Year, Gardens by the Bay, as Wilkinson Eyre Architects' Paul Baker explains how the design team used vertical planting to create "some real drama in a very flat landscape." More about "We wanted real drama in a flat landscape" - Paul Baker on Gardens by the Bay
World Architecture Festival 2012: "No one's ever seen anything like it before," director of Wilkinson Eyre Architects Chris Wilkinson tells Dezeen in this movie we filmed overlooking the Gardens by the Bay tropical garden in Singapore, which was named World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival earlier this month. More about Movie: Chris Wilkinson on Gardens by the Bay
World Architecture Festival 2012: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Wilkinson Eyre Architects' Paul Baker in this interview filmed just moments after the firm's Gardens by the Bay project in Singapore was named World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival today. More about Movie: Wilkinson Eyre Architects on winning World Building of the Year
Steel trees with sprawling branches support the glass roof of this greenhouse in Switzerland by Buehrer Wuest Architekten (+ slideshow). More about Greenhouse at Grüningen Botanical Garden by Buehrer Wuest Architekten
Dezeen Wire: Thomas Heatherwick has designed a distillery and visitor centre for gin brand Bombay Sapphire at an abandoned mill in Hampshire, England. More about Laverstoke Mill by Thomas Heatherwick for Bombay Sapphire
British architects Wilkinson Eyre and landscape architects Grant Associates have completed an enormous tropical garden in Singapore filled with tree-like towers, shell-shaped greenhouses and a 30-metre-high man-made waterfall (+ slideshow). More about Gardens by the Bay by Grant Associates and Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Milan 2012: designer Werner Aisslinger of Berlin and Singapore will present a chair growing inside a greenhouse at Ventura Lambrate in Milan this week. More about Chair Farm by Werner Aisslinger at Ventura Lambrate
Architects MVRDV have unveiled proposals for a giant greenhouse on the outskirts of Amsterdam with a flower-covered hotel inside. More about Flowerbed Hotel by MVRDV