The Municipal Arts Society (MAS) recently announced the winners of its annual MASterworks awards. Among the “best new buildings” was Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Hypar Pavilion, a freestanding structure that unites a new home for the Film Society of Lincoln Center and an 11,000 square foot destination restaurant all under an elevated public lawn.
The architects behind the High Line, the darling urban park that has turned an outdoor promenade into an act of finely tuned voyeurism, have once again integrated building and landscape to challenge traditional notions of public and private. The Hypar Pavilion’s twisting grass canopy is a bold form, a source of visual identity for the project that has no shortage of predecessors. Click through for a survey of other notable sloping green rooftops.













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