Brazilian architecture firm Studio MK27 designed the Planar House, a contemporary solar-powered holiday retreat outside São Paulo, Brazil for a family of five.

Czech architecture studio Formafatal has used blackened wood, perforated aluminium panels and a green roof to form this low-lying holiday home in Costa Rica. Atelier Villa is part of the Art ...

A green roof runs between $30 and $35 per square foot, compared with between $4.35 and $11 per square foot for a traditional roof, according to the home maintenance site Angi. Advertisement ...

The study found that having a vegetative layer on your terrace, otherwise called a "green roof", can bring down temperatures by an average of 0.4 deg C from maximum temperatures and 0.2 deg C from ...

Green roofs are proven to boost biodiversity, energy efficiency and people's wellbeing. But, unlike other countries, Australia's big cities have just a few dozen.