The green roof of Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand is designed to protect from flooding, cool temperatures and grow crops (Credit: Landprocess) Parks, roofs and riverbanks mimicking the ...

the Honghe Hani Rice terraces cascade down the towering slopes of the Ailao mountains. Carved out of dense forest over the past 1,300 years by Hani people who migrated here from further to the ...

Terraced rice paddies, masterpieces of ancient engineering ... build the retaining walls and the excavated earth to level the terraces. Well, looks can be deceiving.

Covering 1,670 hectares of agricultural land, the terraces employ an ingenious — and indigenous — irrigation technique in which water is channeled into the uppermost rice paddies first. From there, it ...

(Mainichi/Kenji Noro) TOKYO -- "Tanada" rice terraces in Japan are regarded as nostalgic landscapes due to their age-old beauty. Throughout the months of April and May, the paddy fields are filled ...

The Ifugao Rice Terraces, which follow the natural contours of the mountains, only enhance the region’s rugged natural beauty. They also epitomize a harmonic, sustainable relationship between ...

The best time to see the rice terraces is from April to July when the fields are covered with green rice crops. Marky Ramone Go/Rappler The picturesque paddy fields stretch out beneath a brilliant ...

According to the Terraced Field Network, it is not exactly clear when rice paddy terraces were built in Japan, but they are believed to have existed before mid-6th century. "Hamanoura no Tanada," ...

Entitled teamLab: Hidden Traces of Rice Terraces, the immersive exhibition will take place in the unique landscape, transforming the rice terraces tucked away deep in the forest into a beguiling ...

Rice terraces are layer upon layer of paddy fields usually created by smallholder farmers along the sides of hills and mountains to maximise the use of land. They can be found in many Asian ...

The terrace builders lay down marking stone, so called because they will mark the boundary between the new terrace and the existing one. These stones, sometimes split from boulders manually and ...