Urban Garden
Integration of agricultural and botanical spaces within urban environments and architecture.
Studio KRAFT Stacks Timber Treehouses Along the Edges of a Crowded Budapest Schoolyard
In Budapest's Terézváros, a timber playgarden climbs the courtyard edges so 500 children keep their sports court and gain quiet places to retreat.
gaSSz arquitectos Builds a Demountable Circular-Economy Garden from Rubble and Tires in Madrid's Vicálvaro
In Vicálvaro, Madrid, a 2,400 m² garden of bolted yellow steel, rubble gabions and tire-rubber paving treats public space as a reversible material bank.
KEY OPERATION Threads Planted Clerestories Through an Eight-Storey Tower Facing Tokyo's Naka-Ikebukuro Park
On a tight corner in Toshima, Tokyo, planted transom bands tie shops and an owner's home to a civic plaza by day and filter light onto it at night.
JVST Wraps a Raised Public Garden in Brick and Green Block for 118 Social Homes in The Hague
In The Hague's post-war Zichten district, Steenzicht 1A trades open slab planning for a courtyard block lifted over parking and opened to the street.
Loizou Architects and Associates Replace the Facade with a Living Green Shell in Limassol
A 360-square-meter mixed-use building in a dense Cypriot neighborhood trades its outer wall for a vertical garden of climbing vines and local plants.
VTN Architects Wraps Their Own Ho Chi Minh City Studio in a Vertical Tropical Forest
A six-story office in Vietnam's Thu Duc district uses modular planters and passive cooling to achieve a 190 percent green ratio.
Atlantis 2023: Vertical Farm Towers That Turn a City's Waste Into Its Own Food Supply
Jakub Sokólski proposes a network of timber farming towers where organic waste, water and energy circulate in a closed loop inside the dense city.
Urban Oasis: Turning a Former Spandau Barracks into a Dense District That Grows Its Own Green
Varlygin and Soshnikova recast Berlin's garden culture as an urban typology, weaving greenhouses and shared plots into a densified former barracks site.
The Growing Citadelle: A City Fortified by Food, Built from Farming Towers and Modular Homes
Vertical farming towers and FoodB.O.X housing units combine into an urban framework that expands and contracts with a city's seasonal food demand.
Urban Agricultural Community: A Housing Thesis That Puts the Farm Inside the Neighbourhood
Aazil Abdul Jamal's B.Arch thesis threads vertical farms, community plots and production space through housing, making food security a design parameter.
Citizen Garden Park: A Transformative Urban Oasis by Práctica Arquitectura in Monterrey, Mexico
Citizen Garden Park in Monterrey transforms a former lot into a lush, flexible urban oasis, blending greenery, social spaces, and civic engagement.
Gardenful: A Semi-Indoor Urban Sanctuary Blending Geometry and Wild Nature
A serene semi-indoor urban garden blending geometric structures, wild vegetation, bamboo, stone, and light to reconnect modern living with authentic nature.