Category: Landscape

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Landscape

Outdoor Entertaining Done Right: A Backyard Built for Gatherings

Turning an outdoor space into a true extension of the home can completely change the way a family lives and entertains. For a young couple in Notting Hill with four small children, Germinate Garden Design were asked to rethink their backyard and transform it into something vibrant, fun, and functional.

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This outdoor living room turns a garden into a gathering space

Part of a larger renovation of a home in Cape Town, South Africa, this concrete garden pavilion was designed as a place for the homeowners to fully immerse themselves in their outdoor surroundings. Designed by Metropolis Design, the pavilion combines concrete, timber, and textured plaster to form a contemporary yet

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Terraces and Japanese Maples Shape This Zen Backyard

Behind a 1964 townhouse in Berkeley, California, a narrow, sloping backyard has been turned into a peaceful garden retreat. Designed by Mary Barensfeld Architecture, the space now draws on Japanese design principles to turn a tricky elevation into an experience of movement, texture, light, and reflection. At just 23 feet

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A Rooftop Garden That Turned a City View into a Private Oasis

High above Chicago’s Lincoln Park, a hidden oasis unfolds atop a residential building, a 3,400-square-foot rooftop retreat that feels more like a yard in the sky than a traditional terrace. Designed by dSPACE Studio, this elevated escape sits above a combined penthouse unit, offering sweeping views, rich plant life, and

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A Lush Rooftop Garden 30 Floors Above The City

Perched atop a high-rise in central Melbourne, Australia, Phoenix Rooftop is a private garden created for two professionals moving from the suburbs to the city. The project was designed by BENT Architecture to bring the familiar functions of a backyard, space to move, sit, and eat, into a highly exposed

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A Modern Landscape Was Designed For This Californian Backyard

July 25, 2023 SUBU Design Architecture has shared photos of a landscape design they completed for a home in California. The client asked the designers to create a kitchen garden and an outdoor gathering space for her large family to celebrate birthdays and holidays. One area of the yard was

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Stairs With Built-In Planters Lead To The Back Garden At This Home

Lior Brosh of Brosh Architects has shared photos of a recently completed renovation project in Greater London, England, that included new outdoor stairs with built-in planters. The client contacted the architects to renovate the lower ground floor of the house due to severe damp issues and recent flooding that poured

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This Park Design Was Inspired By A Volcano And Its Lava Flow

100 Architects has shared photos of one of their latest projects, a stimulating urban park in a newly built commercial and residential area in the port city of Ningbo, the second-most populous city in Zhejiang Province, China. The design of the park, named Magma Flow, was inspired by the flowing

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