Urban Gardens

This puts the culture in horticulture: After a three month shutdown, Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house reopened with an audience of 2,292 plants.

During the theater’s Concierto Para el Bioceno (Concert for the Biocene), those planted in their … Read More...

The novel Cornavirus has inspired some novel ideas. From personal glass greenhouses at an Amsterdam restaurant, stuffed pandas occupying chairs in a Bangkok eatery, to pool noodle hats at a cafe in Germany, people are exercising their collective creativity to … Read More...

Photo, copyright 2020 by Lori Shaull, Flickr, under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 license.

I write about design, living and places for everyone from all walks of life. Right now people all over the world are mourning. They’re angry. They … Read More...

As the world braces itself for the reopening’s new normal and wonders what that will look like, a waterside Amsterdam restaurant will be serving guests candlelit plant-based meals in the safety of individual glass greenhouses.

To maintain minimal physical contact … Read More...

I stood shoulder to shoulder six weeks ago (feels like six months ago) with some of the 1.4 million visitors that had descended upon New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Little did any of us know then that the Coronavirus was … Read More...