Green Roofs
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Commissioned to design a new factory for luxury fashion house Fendi, Milan studio Piuarch has created a large building that's topped by an impressive green roof, helping it take its place well among the surrounding Italian countryside.
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Proponent of greenery covered architecture Stefano Boeri Architetti has revealed its design for a new soccer stadium in Milan, Italy. The ambitious project would include a park and museum, and would be filled with thousands of plants and trees.
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A new dining hall by Carlo Ratti Associati is designed to blend into the surrounding Italian landscape. Named Mutti Canteen, it will be sunk into the ground and topped by a green roof made with the soil that will be removed during the build process.
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Taking the form of artificial hillsides topped by rooftop gardens, the Museum of Ethnography serves as an extension to an adjacent park, and has a glazed facade shaded by an intricate screen that contain almost half a million laser-cut metal pieces.
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The Skamlingsbanken is an important hill in Danish culture. Therefore, when it was decided to build a visitor center there, Cebra proceeded very carefully and buried the building so well among the rolling landscape that it's barely noticeable.
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Mexican architectural firm HW Studio has created a stunning family home that disappears into the ground. The Hill in Front of the Glen reinvents the classic Hobbit home, boasting a design that seamlessly vanishes into the natural landscape.
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Rising out of the ground with a dramatic tilting overall form, the recently completed Turbosealtech New Incubator and Office building, by New Wave Architecture, serves as a light-filled office space and business incubator in Iran.
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Shenzhen has rapidly grown from a fishing village to a megacity home to around 17 million. To help add a little greenery to the concrete megalopolis, Crossboundaries has turned a metro station roof into a large elevated park measuring 1.2 km long.
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Snøhetta has unveiled its design for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota. Rising out of the landscape like a grassy hill, it will feature an expansive green roof on which visitors will be able to walk and gaze at the view.
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Ingenhoven Architects has turned an area of inner-city Düsseldorf from gray to green with its recently-completed Kö-Bogen II. The mixed-use project hosts an incredible 5 miles of hedges on its exterior, making it Europe's largest green facade.
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Work is nearing completion on a new art depot by MVRDV that offers insight into the world of art preservation and restoration. Named Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, the project features an eye-catching mirrored facade and is topped by a public garden.
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Studio Okami has recently completed a green roof home that, from a certain angle, vanishes into its natural landscape setting. Dubbed Sloped Villa, the three-bedroom family home is built into the sloping hillside of Mont-de-l'Enclus in Belgium.
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