Vertical Garden
Vertical gardens and living walls that integrate vegetation into architectural surfaces and facades.
REAL Architects and Challenge Design Plant a Timber Gridshell Seed at the Heart of Shanghai's West Bund
On Shanghai's Xuhui Waterfront, a 230 m² glazed timber lattice dome anchors a terraced garden and lets its structure do all the talking.
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.
Pequeño Atelier de Arquitectura Contemporánea Stacks Boxes over a Garden Setback in Zapopan
On the slopes of the Primavera Forest near Guadalajara, a 2008 house of stacked volumes turns a mandatory side setback into the garden every room faces.
Felipe Hess Arquitetos Pushes a São Paulo House to the Edge of Its Corner Lot to Free a 600 m² Garden
On a 1,000 m² corner lot in São Paulo, a brick, timber and concrete house claims only 40% of the ground and turns every room toward one continuous garden.
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.
TROP : terrains and open space Lace a Nine-Metre Shanghai Sunken Garden with White Mesh Stairs
At Yanlord Arcadia in Shanghai, a 590 m² sunken courtyard becomes a three-level social stair wrapped in white metal mesh that lets light and rain in.
Atelier Diving Bell Stitches a Hangzhou Food Court Together with a Louvered Steel Canopy
In Hangzhou's Liangzhu Culture Village, a 1,400 m² food court renewal uses canopies, tree benches and props to turn a passage into a place.
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.
Natura Futura Turns a Vacant Babahoyo Lot into a Family Restaurant Built Around a Double-Height Vertical Garden
In Babahoyo, Ecuador, a 160 m² family restaurant of local wood, brick and river stone reactivates a vacant plot around a double-height planted courtyard.
taller paralelo and HRBT Raise a Glulam Greenhouse Roof over a Mexico City Community Orchard
A 36-metre timber and steel-cable canopy in Mexico City shelters fruit trees, exhibitions and a library under a translucent saw-tooth roof.
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.
