Urban Gardens

We love multi-functional objects that transform for different functions–perfect for small spaces and urban gardens.

This cool biodegradable flower vase becomes a planter when turned upside down. You might start indoors using the pod as a flower pot, then move … Read More...

Now you can print and plant a brick.

Planter Bricks are 3D printed concrete masonry units that double as vessels for growing plants and vegetation.

Created by Emerging Objects, a design and research subsidiary of Rael San Fratello Architects specializing … Read More...

While action toward building ‘greener’ more sustainable structures is gaining momentum in Europe and America, an office tower from down-under is putting Australia on the green buildings map.

A 30 story high-rise office tower in Sydney, Australia’s central business district, … Read More...

On Fairfield Road, London, for Dallas.

In the past week while the US Supreme Court debated the future of same-sex marriage, 2.7 million Facebook users exchanged their profile avatars for the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) pink-on-red equal sign. This morning … Read More...

Last fall I fell in love with a sleek red chair in the window of the Conran Shop in London.

To mark their 25th anniversary at the Michelin Building, Jasper Conran had commissioned more than 50 designers to create custom … Read More...

One of my favorite Brooklyn artisan-makers is the collaborative design studio, Autumn Workshop, whose Scrap Ecology lighting we featured a while back. The studio creates a variety of lighting that derives its inspiration from biophilia, the natural connection between … Read More...

While browsing the recent Architectural Digest Home Design for outdoor showers and appliances for outdoor kitchens, I came across some cool new outdoor furniture whose designs were inspired by skyscrapers and wearable architecture.

For his furniture pieces that live happily … Read More...

Complex and intricate living art arrangements composed of thousands of plants climb the interior walls of of Isetan Shinjuku, one of Japan’s oldest department stores.

For a recent unveiling of the store’s “Fashion Museum” botanical artist Makota Azuma’s The Art … Read More...

Part of the growing trend toward extending interior living spaces to the outside,  we are seeing more outdoor showers and baths even in urban settings. At yesterday’s Architectural Digest Home Show I spotted a few modern outdoor showers and enclosures … Read More...

Alex Tricoire’s Lustre Babylone.

We’ve found some planted light fixtures that not only demonstrate imagination and ingenuity, they save space functioning at once as lighting and planters while also filtering indoor air. The light these fixtures emit provides the needed … Read More...