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This Landscape Architect Disguised His Backyard Addition in Sydney With a Green Roof

Dwell

The house is for a landscape architect and his family, and the garden was a central focus from the beginning of the process. The roof to the living space is densely planted and its concrete structure provides enough depth for the plants to thrive. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Ten architecture and landscape projects by Academy of Art University

Deezen

Also included is a foldable and portable bed that combines a sleeping surface with storage for people who lack safe and stable housing and a house in Palo Alto that has a living green roof. Our programmes engage with current global issues, empowering students to be changemakers and leaders advocating for social equity.

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Klein Dytham Architecture wraps Karuizawa Commongrounds Bookstore with "flowing" steel roof

Deezen

Tokyo-based studio Klein Dytham Architecture has designed a bookstore wrapped with an undulating steel roof resembling "outstretched arms" in Nagano, Japan. Located at the foot of Mount Asama, the space was designed by Klein Dytham Architecture to be a community hub for the local residents. The photography is by Nacasa & Partners.

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Stingray-shaped roof crowns Maldives restaurant by Atelier Nomadic

Deezen

The Japanese restaurant is raised on an existing jetty that extends out from the shore and has a bamboo structure with tree-like columns to support its wavy roof. Together with the layered pattern, the roof will resemble the scales of a fish." Timber shingles age gracefully and gain a grey-silverish patina over time," said Bruin.

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Sustainable Practice: 7 Legendary Designs Using the Landscape as an Architectural Material

Architizer

Architects: Want to have your project featured? We’ve looked at a number of highly technical projects, nevertheless materials have usually been natural, or as natural as possible. We’ve looked at a number of highly technical projects, nevertheless materials have usually been natural, or as natural as possible.

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Gabion Walls Made of Volcanic Rock Flank a Flat-Roofed Farmhouse in Australia

Dwell

We asked ourselves how our clients could live on this land in a modern but thoughtful way, what a modern farm and farmhouse should and could look like, and how we could integrate the building into a site that has been cleared of its bushland. "We The clients erected and filled the gabion walls themselves. Have one to share?

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Timeless lines framing the landscape

Habitus Living

Simplicity – in the most complimentary sense – is the quality that carries all the way through from the clients’ brief to the finished object. The house is defined by its surrounding landscape, set as it is amidst four acres of land with a natural spring-fed dam acting as focal point.