Green Roof

Paraguayan architect – Bauen presents two wonderfully modern adjacent single-family homes and communal centerpiece. Locate on hillside in Luque, a town in south-western Paraguay, which sit opposite each other, divided by a triangular pool, mixing with their landscape. Ground floor spaces are exposed to sunlight through a double-height curtain wall…

Monaco House is located in the hidden laneway of Ridgway Place in Melbourne’s CBD. It was built for the Honorary Consul of Monaco and is the first to be granted naming rights outside of Monaco. Situated on a tiny site of just 101 square metres the building was designed by Melbourne architects McBride Charles Ryan…

World renowned practice Snohetta delivers the project for the Wolfe Center for the Collaborative Arts in Ohio by creating an inviting and engaging space for the students which will use the space. The center will house a number of classrooms, studios for music, drama and art departments as well as a 400 seat theater space. The design of the building is a response to the smooth planes of the northwest Ohio landscape, with its far horizons and big sky…

Sydney-based Chris Elliott Architects, Australian architectural firm has designed project building the Seacliff House located in in Sydney, Australia. Just like the name ‘Seacliff House’, this excellent design contemporary house sitting on the cliff of the sea, in a long and very narrow situation…

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum, located on 6-acres of the World Trade Center site, is a tribute of remembrance and honor to the 2,983 men, women and children killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993…

Spanish practice Roberto Ercilla arquitectura have recently completed ‘House in etura’, a single family home.located in Etura, Spain. Partially embedded in the landscape, the living spaces of this residence are located on the ground and cantilevered over the steep hill…

Design by Jessica Helgerson Interior Design and located on Sauvie Island near Portland, where Jessica and her family have been living for the last several years. It is a lesson in being green from the green roof, to its use of reclaimed materials…

Designed by Tokyo based architects Norihiko Dan and Associates, the visitor center on the shore of Sun Moon Lake houses the tourist board offices in addition to information center, and is covered with a green roof…

The Barcelona-based Roca, one of the world’s top producers of bath furnishings and tile, wanted to increase its visibility. So the company approached Carlos Ferrater’s Office of Architecture in Barcelona (OAB) in 2008 to transform a small 1960s office building…

The school is distinguished by its spatial organization and design of the facades of their surroundings. The free form differentiates the building from its environnement of rigid social housing characterizing the area ‘Province de France’ in Nanterre…