Urban Gardens

Photo: Robin Plaskoff Horton

This is the fourth in a series of five home and garden tours in the Silverlake and Echo Park neighborhoods that I visited as part of Dwell on Design’s self-guided tour of East Side Los Angeles … Read More...

Timeshare Backyard mockup complete with white picket fence. Photo: The Participation Agency.

If this summer’s heat is making any New York City residents feel like suburbanite wannabes, their dreams of lawns with picket fences can come true as of August … Read More...

Got Light? Brooklyn designer, Alexander Reh, creates this outdoor chandelier which he calls Milky Way, from 14 recycled plastic milk gallon containers attached to a hula hoop and wired with 5-watt holiday lights.

As the designers says, the outdoor … Read More...

Nathan Danials designs modernist bird dwellings that humans will wish were large enough for them.

Available: Modernist Birdhouse with Pool
For “upper middle class modernist birds,” looking to enjoy their leisure time, this clear western red cedar and birch birdhouse … Read More...

It may look like a pizza box, but inside is not a pie but rather all one needs to grow what could become the pizza’s veggie toppings, and more. ALLOTINABOX™ is a super cool GYO kit complete with information to … Read More...

Bangkok is sinking. According to the head of Thailand’s National Disaster Warning Center, Meteorologist Smith Dharmasaroja, by 2030 much of Bangkok will lie under 1.5 meters (5 feet) of seawater.

Architects Songsuda Adhibai, Ponlawat Buasri, and Taylor Lowe of Bangkok-based … Read More...

Another newcomer to the world of dual purpose indoor/outdoor furniture: Crafted from GFRC (glass fiber reinforced concrete), reclaimed Douglas Fir, and steel, indoor/outdoor planter and bench “14 Carats” is a concept at the intersection of “high craft and geometry” to … Read More...

Paris Lowitz, a recent graduate from the Carnegie Mellon University School of Design, designed this elegant styrene plastic plant vessel for the Burro’s Tail plant. Her vessel is suspended from a thin wire “to accommodate the Burro’s Tail natural … Read More...

Technology meets rustic nature with this handcrafted iPod and iPhone dock made from a naturally fallen log. It’s both a charge/sync dock and an amplified speaker system. Each of the three logs is a functional part of the system, with … Read More...

Linger bench by Alvin Tjitrowirjo.

I love the Linger rattan bench by Indonesian designer Alvin Tjitrowirjo, however it’s crafted of rattan which really does not fare well if continuously exposed to the elements. But you can use natural … Read More...