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American studio wHY Architecture 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. wHY partnered with Edinburgh office GRAS on its design for the £25 million Ross Pavilion, which was selected ahead of proposals by six other teams, including BIG, Adjaye Associates and Sou

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Hong Kong’s Skypark rooftop provides a playground for “balance-centric millennials”

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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. Located in central Kowloon, Skypark features a clubhouse and lawned garden on its roof, with exterior steps that double as amphitheatre-style outdoor seating. New World Development built the

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Domed summer house by LASSA offers an elevated view over a Greek olive grove

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 an olive grove on Greece’s Peloponnese peninsula. The 150-square-metre Villa Ypsilon was designed by London- and Brussels-based firm LASSA, which is headed up by architects Theo Sarantoglou Lalis and Dora Sweijd. The domed form of

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Bergmeisterwolf reinterprets the traditional log cabin with Twisted House apartments

Architecture studio Bergmeisterwolf has applied vernacular log cladding to this group of holiday apartments, which extend around a courtyard in the Italian alps. Contained within angular volumes, the Twisted House apartments were designed for a hillside site in South Tyrol, close to Bergmeisterwolf’s studio in the town of Brixen. Five accommodation units are contained within a

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RDHA embeds stone and glass library into grassy Ontario hillside

by Jenna McKnight

This new public library by Canadian firm RDHA features a large slab that cantilevers over the landscape, and a sloping green roof and exterior stair that runs up the front of the building. The Waterdown Library and Civic Centre is located in the city of Hamilton, about an hour’s drive from downtown Toronto. Encompassing 23,500 square feet (2,183

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Dominique Coulon & Associés gives library undulating walls like an “unfurling ribbon”

by Eleanor Gibson

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. The Media-Third-Place Library provides the Thionville commune in north-eastern France with a media library, as well as music studios, a broadcasting media room, an auditorium and a cafe. The building is

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FAAB proposes “smog-eating” music school for Kraków

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. The designs developed as part of a competition entry by Warsaw architects FAAB depict the Kraków Music Academy as a group of three faceted structures occupying the site

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Scenario Architecture covers London house extension in larch and heather

by Eleanor Gibson

Scenario Architecture has added a wooden extension with a jagged heather-covered roof and a large window to the rear of an east London house. The two-storey Evering Road apartment occupies the ground and basement floor of a Victorian house in a Hackney conservation area. London-based Scenario Architecture was asked by the owners, a couple who had lived

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London house extension by Bureau de Change Architects features dark blue kitchen and bright white lounge

by Eleanor Gibson

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. Bureau de Change Architects, which was co-founded by Katerina Dionysopoulou and Billy Mavropoulos, extended house in Clapham to create a lounge and kitchen with sliding glass doors that open to the garden.

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CEBRA plans subterranean visitor centre for historic Skamlingsbanken hill

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. CEBRA will work with a team that includes landscape firm Opland Landskabsarkitekter and engineering office DRIAS to create the new visitor centre at Skamlingsbanken, the highest point

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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. Avalon House is situated on one of the sandstone cliffs that overlook Avalon Beach, around 35 kilometres north of central Sydney. The property was designed by ArchiBlox, a Melbourne architecture studio specialising in modular buildings and

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Zaha Hadid Architects reveals plans for Infinitus Plaza in Guangzhou

by Alice Morby

Zaha Hadid Architects has begun work on a multipurpose complex in Guangzhou, which is modelled on the looping infinity symbol used in mathematics. The Infinitus Plaza is located in the business district of Baiyun New Town, and will serve as a headquarters for the Infinitus – a health products brand owned by the LKK Health Products Group (LKKHPG). It

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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. The studio created the 165-square-metre Residence in Muhos for a site outside a town of the same name, in the Finnish province Oulu. By covering the walls of the house

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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 (+ slideshow). The Cellar Door is located on the Tarrawarra Estate – a vineyard covering 400 acres of farmland in the Yarra Valley, around an hour east of Melbourne. Melbourne More

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Santiago Calatrava plans Zurich office block with 1000 bicycle parking spaces

by Anna Winston

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. Calatrava unveiled designs for a “21st century office building” on the site 26 years after completing the railway station – now one of More

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Allee separates lakeside Connecticut house into two distinct volumes

by James Brillon

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). The stone and wood Wononscopomuc Residence in Lakeville is made up of a pair of principal volumes: a public “pavilion” for entertaining guests and a private “sleeping 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). Vietnam-based Nghia and Tokyo architect Iwamoto worked in partnership on the design of House in Nha Trang, aiming to offer residents as much outdoor space as possible. The lack 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). A team of architects and engineers from Dutch firm Royal HaskoningDHV designed Underground Parking Garage for Katwijk, a coastal town in South Holland. They integrated the building into the existing 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). Kuma’s design for the museum features a series of cylindrical volumes with glass and latticed timber facades, and scooped green roofs. The volumes will also provide a 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). Sitting just below the top of a hill, the 330-square-metre residence has a vegetated roof that disguises the bulk of the 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). Seascape Retreat is one of four luxury villas located on a working farm on the Banks Peninsula, an outcrop south of Christchurch formed from the eroded remnants of two large volcanoes. Auckland-based architect Andrew Patterson tucked the cottage under More

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Architect Nicholas Hunt creates a tiny retreat in his Brooklyn garden

by Jenna McKnight

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”. Called the Brooklyn Garden Studio, the outbuilding encompasses 55 square feet (five square metres). It sits in the slender yard behind the architect’s ground-level apartment in a townhouse 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). Ghent-based OYO – whose previous projects include a monolithic concrete house extension – was given an open brief for this new property, so decided to focus on creating an 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). Italian architect Enzo Eusebi wanted the Opificio Salpi prosciutto production facility to fit “intelligently in the panorama” so he partially submerged the bulk of the 7,000-square-metre building in the terrain. The green roof 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). The Copenhagen practice won the competition to design the visitor centre at the site of a Viking ring-fortress with its proposal called The Lost Shield. The historic site in Slagelse, south-west of Copenhagen, is More

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Heneghan Peng unveils winning design for $30 million 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). The Dublin firm worked with Toronto-based Kearns Mancini Architects on the design of the serpentine structure, which will wind along the bank of the Trent-Severn canal. The €30 million 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). The Modern Pool House is positioned on a terraced site below a driveway leading to the main house, 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). The Centre Socio Culturel Christian Marin serves a community of 700 houses currently under construction around a park in the Limeil-Brévannes suburb. The Parisian architecture practice chose to More

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Chipperfield unveils design for partially buried concert hall in Germany

David Chipperfield Architects has released images of its design for a half-submerged concert hall bracketed by textured concrete walls in southern Germany (+ slideshow). Chipperfield’s Berlin office won a competition to design the Carmen Würth Forum in 2006 for the cultural foundation supported by Adolf Würth, a German screw and tool manufacturer. The forum’s chamber music hall More

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Rural Icelandic cottages by PK Arkitektar have turf roofs and burnt timber cladding

Batons of charred timber and layers of turf help this pair of holiday cottages by PK Arkitektar settle into the rugged landscape of south-west Iceland (+ slideshow). Reykjavík-based PK Arkitektar won a competition in 2012 to design the 20 rental cottages for the Association of Academics (BHM) – an umbrella organisation of trade unions. These two cabins form the pilot for the scheme, More

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Studio Marco Vermeulen adds grass blanket over rooftop pyramids of Dutch island museum

The hexagonal pyramids on the roof of this museum are now covered in a layer of grass, helping the building settle into its marshland environment in the Netherlands (+ slideshow). Rotterdam firm Studio Marco Vermeulen carried out the renovation of the Biesbosch Museum – a building with multiple pitched roofs – and added a new wing for contemporary art. The local […]

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French villa designed by Julien De Smedt to look like a bump in the landscape

Grass ramps over the curving form of this house in the French countryside, which was designed by architect Julien De Smedt as a contemporary alternative to the region’s “pastiche chalets” (+ slideshow). De Smedt’s firm JDS Architects created Casa Jura as a retreat for a Parisian family in Bois D’amont, a village in France’s Jura region. Named after the region’s rolling […]

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Penda highlights global water crisis with meadow pathway installation

Architecture studio Penda has designed a meadow containing sunken pathways and concealed meeting places, which opens next month as part of China’s International Garden Expo 2015. The temporary installation, named Where the River Runs, will invite visitors to follow the path of an imaginary river as it winds its way through the landscape. The aim is to […]

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Faceted cedar cabin completed by Paul Bernier beside a lake in the Montreal woodland

The glazed living space of this cedar-clad cabin near Montreal projects over a woodland slope to optimise views of a nearby lake (+ slideshow). Local architect Paul Bernier based the building’s crooked form and situation on the site’s topography, placing it lengthwise between a slope and a stream on the wooded plot, which sits on the shoreline of Grenier Lake. The primary […]

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Vector Architects disguises mountainside community centre beneath sprawling grass roof

Vector Architects designed a huge grassy roof canopy and plant-covered walls for this community centre in southwest China, helping it to blend in with its mountain landscape (+ slideshow). The Beijing studio designed Chongqing Taoyuanju Community Center for a sprawling plot among the mountains of the Taoyuan Park in China’s Chongqing municipality. Comprising three separate volumes that each house a different function, the […]

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Verdant “cloud forests” and waterfalls proposed for new Singapore high-rise

Landscape firm Gustafson Porter has unveiled plans to create tiered gardens and waterfalls with a towering development proposed for Singapore’s Marina Bay. Conceived by German studio Ingenhoven Architects and Singapore firm A61 as a plant-covered “mountain”, Marina One will be made up of four high-rise blocks unified by louvres and an undulating garden atrium. This atrium, known as the Green Heart, was designed by London-based Gustafson Porter. […]

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Observation House by I/O Architects features gabion walls and a grassy viewing deck

An “elevated meadow” surrounds the glazed living space of this house in a Bulgarian village, which is raised above the fields on stone-filled cages to give it the appearance of an observation tower (+ slideshow). Architects Viara Jeliazkova, Georgi Katov, Stefan Apostolov from Sofia-based firm I/O Architects designed Observation House to take advantage of a hilltop plot in north-east Bulgaria. […]

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MVRDV completes flower-inspired office block near Shanghai Hongqiao Airport

Designed to looked like a four-petalled flower, this office block is the first of 10 buildings that Dutch firm MVRDV is constructing beside Shanghai’s Hongqiao Airport (+ slideshow). Rotterdam-based MVRDV won a competition in 2013 to design a series of buildings for the 45,000 square-metre site. The first of these, known as the Flower Building, […]

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Henning Larsen’s grass-roofed Moesgaard Museum photographed by Hufton + Crow

These new shots by photography duo Hufton + Crow show visitors climbing the grass-covered sloping roof of the Moesgaard Museum near Aarhus, designed by Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects (+ slideshow). Completed in 2014, the wedge-shaped museum contains a collection dedicated to prehistory and ethnography, while its hill-like roof is used as a picnic site […]

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Apple’s latest Silicon Valley campus could be “futuristic tech office” by HOK

Apple is rumoured to be planning another new campus in California’s Silicon Valley – a clover leaf-shaped complex by architectural firm HOK featuring a two-acre roof garden and a sunken amphitheatre (+ slideshow). Apple has sealed a deal with Francisco developer Landbank for the lease of an 18-acre (seven hectare) site in Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, according to Silicon Valley […]

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BIG designs stepped 79 & Park residential development for Stockholm

by Emma Tucker

Bjarke Ingels Group has unveiled plans for a foliage-covered terraced block of apartments, which are under construction in Stockholm’s Gärdet district (+ slideshow). The stepped glass and cedar wood building is adjacent to the Royal National City Park, and echoes its greenery with rooftops covered in plants – similar to recent proposals for buildings by Thomas […]

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Vo Trong Nghia plans trio of towers covered in bamboo plants and linked by bridges

Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects has unveiled plans for a trio of housing towers in Ho Chi Minh City linked by aerial bridges and shielded from the harsh tropical sunlight by swathes of bamboo (+ slideshow). The three 22-storey-tall blocks will be linked by a planted roof garden and bridges, and a series of small pavilions that overlook […]

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Seung H-Sang clads South Korean mountain house in pre-rusted steel

Orange-hued panels of weathering steel encase the upper storey of this house in South Korea, which is elevated above the treetops of its mountain forest setting (+ slideshow). Korean architect Seung H-Sang, director of Seoul-based studio Iroje Architects & Planners, designed the secluded house for a plot among a fir forest and botanical gardens in Gunwi, a […]

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Cantilevered timber house by Alventosa Morell Arquitectes overlooks Barcelona mountains

A long strip of glazing runs along the front of this cantilevered Spanish house by Alventosa Morell Arquitectes, giving the two siblings who inhabit it views of a mountain range near Barcelona (+ slideshow). The two sisters commissioned Barcelona studio Alventosa Morell Arquitectes to design the timber house named Casa LLP, which looks out over the Collserola mountains […]

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Green canopy by Garis Architects spans the grounds of community centre in Malaysia

Trailing plants cascade over the edge of this elevated walkway, which was designed by Garis Architects to shelter a community events space in western Malaysia (+ slideshow). Named The Arc after its bridge-like form, the project was designed by local studio Garis Architects in a park in Selangor, a state on Malaysia’s western coast. A covered corridor beneath the canopy links a […]

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OSM submerges concrete home in a hill above Italy’s San Giuliano lake

Sunken below the crest of a hill in southern Italy, this concrete home and its outdoor pool were designed by Rome studio OSA to be almost imperceivable from the road above (+ slideshow). OSA partially embedded the concrete property in a hill overlooking San Giuliano, a lake located in the arch of Italy’s southern coast. A sequence of single-storey […]

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OSA submerges concrete home in a hill above Italy’s San Giuliano lake

Sunken below the crest of a hill in southern Italy, this concrete home and its outdoor pool were designed by Rome studio OSA to be almost imperceivable from the road above (+ slideshow). OSA Architettura e Paesaggio partially embedded the concrete property in a hill overlooking San Giuliano, a lake located in the arch of Italy’s southern coast. A […]

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Vo Trong Nghia unveils tree-covered university campus for Ho Chi Minh City

Vietnamese firm Vo Trong Nghia Architects has unveiled designs for a verdant university campus in Ho Chi Minh City, featuring tree-covered rooftops, balconies and a plant-filled courtyard (+ slideshow). The FPT University campus will occupy a 22,500-square-metre site among the skyscrapers of the southern Vietnamese city. It is Vo Trong Nghia Architects’ second project for the technology college, following another campus underway near […]

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Vietnam spa by MIA Design Studio features latticed walls, hanging gardens and pools of water

White latticed screens and trailing planting shade the glazed facade of this Vietnam day spa, by MIA Design Studio, from the midday sun (+ slideshow). The Ho Chi Minh City studio added banks of planting to the facade and inner courtyard of the five-star Naman Spa report in Danang, northern Vietnam, to create an “oasis of tranquility” for […]

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Susan Fitzgerald’s live-work space in Halifax features a rooftop vegetable garden

Flower beds and vegetable gardens cover the rooftops of this mixed-use property in Halifax, Canada, designed by architect Susan Fitzgerald as a space for her to live and work in (+ slideshow). The King Street Live/Work/Grow project is located in a northern district of the city and provides Fitzgerald and her family with three separate […]

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Foliage-clad pavilion by Adam-Faiden creates a home on a disused roof

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). The upper level of Piñeiro House, a block in the city’s Recoleta neighbourhood, was one of the thousands of underused flat rooftops on residential buildings in the […]

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Mecanoo scales back additions to Mies van der Rohe’s Washington DC library

by Alan G Brake

Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo has revised its competition-winning design for the renovation of Mies van der Rohe’s Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library in Washington DC. Working with local firm Martinez and Johnson, Mecanoo originally proposed a three-level addition to the library by the Modernist German-American architect. The DC Public Library (DCPL) board rejected that design […]

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Rogers Stirk Harbour to design conservation facility for Musée du Louvre

A team headed up by British firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has been selected to design a new conservation and storage centre for the Musée du Louvre, housing 250,000 works of art. Located 200 kilometres north of Paris in Liévin, the 20,000-square-metre facility will be located a short distance away from the French art museum’s recently […]

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Fraher Architects includes textured brick cladding on north London house extension

Slate-grey bricks applied in zigzagging rows give the walls of this London house extension a faceted texture that contrasts the smooth, pale yellow brickwork of the original property (+ slideshow). London-based studio Fraher Architects was asked to carry out renovation works, including the addition of a rear extension, to a basement flat in a north-west London conservation area. The architects selected […]

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BIG follows up sunken sports hall with an art school beneath a football field

BIG has completed its second addition to a school in Denmark – an art school beneath a football field that joins the underground gymnasium with a humped courtyard on its roof (+ slideshow). The firm led by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels was asked by Gammel Hellerup High School to add a series of new facilities to its campus in Hellerup, north of Copenhagen. First up was […]

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Open Architecture completes a “free-form” Beijing school surrounded by gardens

Gardens are slotted into gaps between the wings of this Beijing school by Open Architecture, and extend over mounds containing a subterranean swimming pool and an auditorium (+ slideshow). The Garden School – one of the nominees for this year’s Designs of the Year awards – is located in the Changyang area of the Chinese capital’s Fangshan […]

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Jovan Mitrović wraps a glass-walled sports hall in protective timber battens

This underground sports hall for a school in the Serbian town of Obrenovac is topped with a glass box covered in vertical wooden laths to protect it from stray balls (+ slideshow). Architect Jovan Mitrović designed the facility for an elementary school in Obrenovac, which is situated close to the country’s capital, Belgrade. Local planners had designated […]

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Lakeside boathouse by Guinée*Potin Architectes features a green roof and wooden walls

This water sports centre with a green roof was designed by Guinée*Potin Architectes and is set into a grassy bank by a lake in western France (+ slideshow). The concrete and timber boathouse by Nantes-based Guinée*Potin Architectes is partially concealed by the sloping shoreline of Lake Vioreau in the French region of Joué-sur-Erdre. The leisure facility provides a […]

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Claridge Architects inserts timber-clad house behind north London mansion block

Diagonal strips of timber clad this single-storey addition to a Hampstead apartment block, which also features a rooftop garden that can be used by neighbouring residents (+ slideshow). London studio Claridge Architects designed the wooden house, named Oak Hill, for the grounds of a Victorian mansion block in north London. The residence takes the place of a grassy mound […]

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Arnau Vergés builds concrete outbuilding for 17th-century Spanish farmhouse

A grassy lawn grows on top of this board-marked concrete farm building by Spanish architect Arnau Vergés, which is set into a slope beside an old stone house in rural Catalonia (+ slideshow). Arnau Vergés was asked to create a multi-purpose outbuilding next to a 17th-century farmhouse in La Vall d’en Bas, a municipality in eastern Spain, as part of a renovation […]

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Proposal unveiled for tornado-shaped skyscraper with a revolving rooftop restaurant

Oklahoma firm Kinslow, Keith & Todd has presented its vision to build a skyscraper shaped like a tornado on top of a Tulsa parking garage. The towering structure, proposed within the region known as Tornado Alley, is designed to include a museum dedicated to weather, a storm research centre, a revolving rooftop bar and restaurant, and a grassy roof. Related […]

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Greenery and observation decks top hillside villa by António Costa Lima

A concrete walkway projects from the street onto the roof of this concrete home in Caxias, Portugal, which is designed to go unnoticed from a hilltop road (+ slideshow). Designed by Portuguese studio António Costa Lima Arquitectos, the wedge-shaped House in Caxias tapers in height towards the top of its sloping plot. Residents can walk from the street onto its […]
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BIG reveals sunken recycling centre below terrain for joggers and snowboarders

News: Bjarke Ingel’s firm has unveiled plans for a recycling facility in Copenhagen, encased within a manmade hill that could double as a running track, picnic area or even a snowboarding slope (+ slideshow). BIG was commissioned by waste management company Amagerforbrænding to create the 1,200-square-metre recycling centre at Sydhavns, the city’s southern port. Related story: […]
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Ateliers O-S adds golden metal walls to cultural centre beside a French cemetery

Strips of golden aluminium cover this performing arts school and library designed by Ateliers O-S Architectes to stretch across a hillside in a Parisian suburb (+ slideshow). Ateliers O-S Architectes was commissioned to design the Cultural Center, Media Library and Music and Dance School for a narrow, graduated plot in Saint Germain lès Arpajon, a suburb just south of […]
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Wooden louvres and grassy rooftops added to Marly-le-Roi market hall

Wooden louvres and green rooftops make up the exterior of this market hall outside Paris by Ameller, Dubois & Associés, while inside is a dramatic ceiling that combines angles and curves (+ slideshow). Located in Marly-le-Roi, a community in the western suburbs of Paris, the project involved renovating the existing covered market – adapting the layout and bringing […]
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Cerise walls frame rooftop garden of housing block by Pietri Architectes

Pietri Architects has driven a deep pink ravine through the heart of this apartment complex in southern France, creating a protected rooftop garden for residents (+ slideshow). Named after the vivid pink-red paintwork that brackets its central garden, the Redline apartment block was designed by Parisian studio Pietri Architectes to create 59 flats of varying sizes, split across two towers. Related story: ECDM Architectes extends […]
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Mont-de-Marsan education centre comprises wooden boxes hovering over a forest floor

This row of timber-clad boxes projecting from an artificial grassy slope in France contains the teaching facilities of an apprentice training centre by architects Marjan Hessamfar and Joe Vérons (+ slideshow). Located in a forest in the Aquitaine region, the Mont-de-Marsan education centre was designed by Marjan Hessamfar and Joe Vérons to accommodate 600 students training in disciplines including catering, beauty and floristry. Related story: […]
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Vo Trong Nghia’s Farming Kindergarten has a vegetable garden on its looping roof

This Vietnam kindergarten by Vo Trong Nghia Architects features a knot-shaped roof with a vegetable garden on top and three protected courtyard playgrounds (+ slideshow). Named Farming Kindergarten, the preschool is located in Dong Nai, just outside Ho Chi Min City. With facilities for up to 500 pupils, it was designed by Vo Trong Nghia […]

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Visitors to Henning Larsen’s Moesgaard Museum can walk over its grassy sloping roof