All Blog Posts Tagged 'Garden' (5)

Architect Jose Maria Chofre just installed a vertical garden on the exterior of a new children's library in San Vicente de Raspeig, Spain.



The garden is six stories tall and uses cubic containers filled with substrate felt confined between two metal grids, one outdoor and one indoor. Containers are accessible from several corridors located in the rear, where… Continue

Now that you've got your very own $630,000 Porsche 918 Spyder Hybrid, where on Earth are you going to safely store it? The last place you'd probably think is your garden...



Cardok is an underground parking system that provides greater security than a standard garage while retaining the decorative appeal of your front garden. The platform is lowered and…

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Today I checked out e-architect and saw this elegant street development by London's Studio Seilern Architects on an extremely challenging site base (424 sq m). They are given a space where it is wrapped around with 3 buildings from the 60's, forming a hole that creates the issue of not receiving natural lights at the bottom. Studio… Continue

If you're like me, you don't get out as much as you'd like. So, if you can't experience nature outside, why not bring it inside?



Designed by home furniture company Ayodhyatra, the Secret Garden Table is a mosaic of various greens and textures. Each table in the collection is comprised of various kinds of moss placed beneath a transparent glass tabletop.…

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Reducing water pollution through bio-filtration, this whale-shaped floating garden is designed to drift through the rivers of the world while purifying water. Designed by Vincent Callebaut, Physalia is a self-sufficient ecosystem that generates all the power it needs from the sun. The roof of the Physalia is covered in solar cells, while hydro turbines under the…

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