Tag: Design

Greenwich Park’s great herbaceous border is one of London’s most prominent planting schemes — admired, well cared for, and widely photographed. But could it also become a living demonstration of one of the most influential ideas in British garden design? I’ve written a short article suggesting how Gertrude Jekyll’s colour planning — inspired by JMW […]

Loudon biographical material from Gardenvisit.com John Claudius Loudon’s life, and that of his wife Jane Webb Loudon are covered in: An extensive set of Loudon biographical pages on the Gardenvisit.com website The Claudians, a historical fictionalised biography by Tom Turner Landscape Dreams, a short and highly illustrated biography in graphic novel format.  

A wonderful floral tribute to Queen Elizabeth II was made by host of British people and overseas visitors. The first bunches of flowers were laid outside the gates of Buckingham Palace almost as soon as her death was announced. London’s florists rose to the occasion and the carpets of flowers spread to the gates of […]

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Garden designers and landscape architects have had an uneasy relationship with “styles” for two centuries. In the nineteenth century it was a central issue, with much talk of: the superiority of the ‘English’ style to the ‘French’ style the ‘Gardenesque’ style the ‘Formal’ style and the ‘Informal’ style. In the twentieth century, led by Modernist […]

Jane Webb published The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century in 1827 and, through it, met her future husband, John Claudius Loudon. A pioneering sci-fi novel, it envisages London in 300 years time. In different ways, Jane and John had shared interests in gardens and futurology. This passage from  The Mummy envisages the Thames’ […]

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While admiring the 2019 Chelsea Flower Show, I thought of a name for an emerging style of garden design. The primary characteristic of  the Belief Style is a new view of Nature: as simultaneously endangered, life-enhancing and in need of conservation by and for humanity. Perhaps it will earn a place on the Gardenvisit chart […]

The Cultural Landscape Association (CLA) is a non-profit organization specialized in the area of Cultural Landscape and the only institution in Iran that focuses on cultural landscapes interdisciplinary. The Association’s mission is to strengthen the role of cultural landscape in sustainable development in Iran and the Middle East region, by building the capacity of all […]

Veitch’s Chelsea nursery ceased trading in 1914, rather appropriately for the greatest horticultural firm in British history. It was founded in the eighteenth century  and in the nineteenth century took advantage of peace, prosperity and sea power to engage in plant collecting on a world scale.  It brought 1281 new plants into cultivation and undertook […]

A weekend beach retreat is a fabulous thing no matter where you are in the world, but on some beaches in New Zealand it can also be a dangerous thing. On the Northern New Zealand coast, the tide is quickly stealing away the beach and making homes there dangerously untenable.Because of the coastal erosion The post Luxury Beach Getaway Can Slide Away From Eroding Coast first appeared on Dornob.

If you were making a checklist of all the things you’d have in your fantasy beach house, what would they be? A heated saltwater pool that could be used year-round? Check. Long stretches of sliding glass doors that erase the boundary between indoors and out? Check. How about a sunken conversation pit The post Tropical Perfection: Miami Beach House Has Its Own Swimmable Lagoon first appeared on Dornob.

This house is all about sequence - a faded brick shell gives way to spaces mixing old and new, which in turn lead into ultramodern interiors deep within this former fire station compound. The heart is a blend of black, white and glass - a private modern retreat tucked like a nesting doll in a rich historic The post Refab Fire House: Modern Home Retrofit in an Aged Station first appeared on Dornob.

Offering some green relief in a dense and brightly-neoned cityscape, these mini urban farming cubes add visual relief and interest but also provide a functional habitat supplying an adjacent restaurant.Simple iron frames enclose full glazing on all sides so passers by or diners can watch from any side. The post Tokyo Urban Farm: Eat While Watching Your Food Grow first appeared on Dornob.

There are small homes, then there are smaller homes ... then there are super-skinny, ultra-mini houses inside of homes. The strange starts on the outside but quickly works its way to the interior. For starters, the whole (larger) home is sandwiched between thick and solid concrete slabs that rise straight The post Skinny Little Mini-Home Has an Even-Smaller House Inside! first appeared on Dornob.

Anything but your conventional log cabin home, one might see this structure atop a mountain or on a lake and and think it a pile of rough-cut wood logs rather than a cleverly camouflaged modular living and work space.Designed by Hans Linberg, the 'logs' are merely a wood building facade covering a prefabricated The post Modern Mobile Log Cabin … or Portable Prefab Pile of Logs? first appeared on Dornob.

Whether you are looking to add an office, pool cover, spare garage or community space to your yard, this may be a perfect fit: an elegant, durable but ultimately also portable structure for expanding your enclosed space. It's a bit like a temporary modern addition or a pop-up porch, but it looks a lot The post Pop-Up Prefab Porch Shelter first appeared on Dornob.

Computer software enabled architects to design a highly unusual faceted concrete home for a difficult, hilly building site. The post Odd House Adapts to Irregular Site with Computer Mapping first appeared on Dornob.

Two years after it went up on Craigslist with the simple description "runs, drives, stops, registered," a 1948 Chevy bus became a bohemian hand-crafted home by the name of Ophelia. Freelance surf-craft builder Ryan Lovelace renovated the interior, which already featured a microbus extension on top, to The post Rolling Home: 1948 Bus Remodeled into Handcrafted Abode first appeared on Dornob.

When you hear the word "Treehotel," you might imagine a woodsy getaway that evokes the charms of childhood nostalgia — and while the Treehotel in Sweden does indeed incorporate lodgings into trees, it's immediately clear that these are far from ordinary treehouses. In reality, it's an assortment of The post Sweden’s Treehotel Offers Offbeat Lodgings in Cozy Forest first appeared on Dornob.