July 17, 2015
Budapest-based designer Judit Zita Boros designed Plantus Planters, a system of modular indoor vertical gardens, with indoor urban gardeners in mind.
Planted Walls and Living Curtains
These modular indoor vertical gardens are double-duty systems which not only offers the … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Finding, Green & Sustainable, Herb Gardens, Indoor Gardening, Vertical Gardens
Tags: Green Walls, planted dividers, planted privacy screens
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July 14, 2015
You might say that French sculptor Francis Benincà was ahead of the curve. As a teenager Benincà worked alongside his father building sculptural “bubble houses” which strongly influenced the designs of the environmental sculptures Benincà creates today.
His father, Antonio … Read More...
Category: Creating
Tags: BlogTour, BlogTour Milan, land art, Modenus, public spaces
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July 10, 2015
Pulltab Design. Photography by Bilyana Dimitrova
Summer is here and that means plenty of barbecuing and cocktail sipping out in the back yard! Or, if you’re very lucky, you have a rooftop garden to lounge on. We’ve rounded up some … Read More...
Category: Experiencing
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New York City is famous for its skyline, not so much for its treeline. The city has some great parks, but for 8.4 million people, it could still use more. One solution: go underground. That’s where you’ll find the Lowline, … Read More...
Category: Community Gardens, Green & Sustainable, Greening, Solar Energy
Tags: Lowline, New York City Underground Park, NYC urban parks, underground park, underground urban park, urban parks
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June 30, 2015
Tapping into nostalgic childhood memories of treehouses and summer days exploring, climbing, and trespassing, 2015 Royal College of Art graduates Thor ter Kulve and Rob McIntyre conceived of CanopyStair, a staircase which wraps around a tree trunk to offer an … Read More...
Category: Experiencing
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June 29, 2015
Milan design studio Lab Fabrici describes their work as a synergistic mix of science, nature, and design. With their Aeris + Altrove planter and air purification duo, they got that right.
Aeris
Aeris boosts the air purifying properties of the … Read More...
Category: Finding
Tags: Aeris + Altrove, air purification with plants, hi tech indoor gardens, Lab Fabrici, natural air purification, smart planters
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June 28, 2015
Remember those Isosceles and Scalene triangles you learned about in school? Brooklyn designer Farrah Sit would make Euclid proud. She creates objects, like her Tetra, Graphite, and Ballast planters using these geometric shapes.
Ballast collection of matte stoneware planters.
Sit … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Finding, Indoor Gardening, Sky Planters
Tags: Brooklyn artisans, Brooklyn designers, farrah sit, hanging planters
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June 26, 2015
Rising 41 feet up and four floors high, designer Paul Cocksedge’s Living Staircase floats within the space like a soaring indoor garden.
The steel and American white oak spiral staircase forms the internal nucleus of London’s Ampersand building in the … Read More...
Category: Experiencing, Garden Design, Green & Sustainable, Herb Gardens, Indoor Gardening
Tags: architecture, green desing, indoor gardens, planted staircase, sustainable
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