Garden House is a new home, studio and gallery under a ‘hanging-basket’ roof for Whitaker Malem: the artist and costume-maker duo behind works by Allen Jones, fashion designers Hussein Chalayan and Alexander McQueen and numerous film costumes including Harry Potter, Batman and Wonderwoman. The previous single-storey live-work studio that Whitaker Malem had occupied since 1996 […]
Project: Zighizaghi Urban Garden Architects: OFL Architecture Team project: Francesco Lipari and Giuseppe Conti Construction: Falegnameria Leto srl, Lavorazioni metalliche Grano, Vivai Garlisi, GBR di Baldo srl Area: 320 sqm Location: Favara, Sicily, Italy Photographs: Giuseppe Guarneri and Riccio Blu Zighizaghi is a multi-sensorial urban garden created by OFL Architecture that stems from a collaboration
Winner of the 2015 ASLA-NCC Top Residential Design Award, the Hilgard Garden / Outdoor Living Space was designed by Mary Barensfeld Architecture in Berkeley, California. Description by Mary Barensfeld Architecture: A meandering ramp through aromatic groundcover and the limbs of three Japanese maples presents itself as a garden path in a Zen-like retreat. The garden, the back
Project: Terrace House in Paddington Architects: Aileen Sage Architects Project Team: Amelia Holliday, Isabelle Toland, Sean Bryen Landscape Architect: Sue Barnsley Design Builder: Lochbuild Location: Paddington, Australia Area: 200 sqm Photography: Tom Ferguson This house is a reinterpretation of a classic terrace house conceived by Aileen Sage Architects. A new house designed by architect Amelia
Project: Trevose House Architect: AD Lab Pte Ltd Location: Singapore Completed 2015 Trevose house is a home for a large family, designed by Singapore-based AD Lab Pte Ltd. Description by AD Lab Pte: Situated at a corner junction in a lushly planted residential neighbourhood in Singapore, the Trevose semi detached house, although featuring prominently on
This project transforms an unused 15’ x 50’ extension to a residential plot into a densely planted, private garden and reading pavilion. To provide privacy from the increasing noise of street traffic, the existing ground plane was excavated, creating a sunken path lined in black granite
Set on an irregular site with unique site constraints, this new residence is a relaxed and informal family home that embraces its lush garden surrounds. The house is composed of two intersecting volumes arranged to make best use of the sites orientation and outlook.
A contemporary or modern garden always represents an oasis of peace, of physical and mental revive, extremely beneficial when we have a hectic lifestyle, specific to the big cities.
Within a competition of parisian design “Jardin Jardin aux Tuileries “, the Barreau & Charbonnet studio came up with an appealing and interesting proposal, that is very useful and good to keep in mind if you live in an apartment deprived of a balcony and garden. The two French designers have realized Volet vegetable, an
The Californian company EPT Design has projected this beautiful Italian style garden starting from the owners’ desire to have a place where relaxation and joy prevail.
The adjacent images present a project made by designer Jamie Durie, founder of Durie Design that has won several awards in the art competitions
The term ‘bonsai’ is the joining of two words: ‘bon’ which means container or pot, and ‘sai’ which means plant or plants. The word bonsai is used in contemporary English to define all miniature trees that are grown in pots or containers by using special methods to control their growth.
