Urban Gardens
These gardens present designs suitable for small urban spaces, including front gardens, where designers are challenged to find clever solutions to the restrictions in space and the conflict of uses; or roof gardens, which should overcome likely obstructions such as chimneys and vents while providing an area for relaxation and entertaining.
These gardens incorporate new ideas, modern materials and planting for an urban environment with imaginative and innovative design.
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Ishihara Kazuyuki Design Laboratory
Midori No Tobira
Midori No Tobira means ‘The Green Door’ and the concept of the garden comes from the designer’s childhood, when he created secret bases on his rooftop garden, into which he could escape and enter a new and exciting world.
[ Midori No Tobira ]
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Barry Mayled Homes and Gardens
The Sky at Night
This rooftop garden is intended for an astronomer, as an ideal position to view the stars and the sky at night.
A sliding roof allows the space to be used during inclement weather and the subtle lighting makes it ideal for evening and night time use.
[ The Sky at Night ]
The Children’s Society
The Children’s Society Garden
The Children's Society garden addresses the challenges of a modern urban home where space is at a premium.
It is a garden where families can spend time together and learn about the environment and habitat in a secure space.
Inspired by Patrick Blanc, the garden incorporates green walls that can be reproduced by anybody.
The River and Rowing Museum
River and Rowing Museum: Ratty's Refuge
Designed by recent students from Capel Manor College, this garden is intended to highlight the plight of the water vole, which is the fastest declining species of mammal in the UK.
Ratty’s Refuge was inspired by Ratty the water vole from Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s book The Wind in The Willows, which celebrates 100 years of publication in 2008.
L K Bennett
The L K Bennett Garden
The design of The L K Bennett Garden embraces modern urban life and contemporary style, but acknowledges a yearning for the romantic planting of a traditional English country garden.
It is elegant, feminine and curvaceous.
New Ground Landscapes
A Welcome Sight
This garden demonstrates that a front garden need not be a dull space - it acts as a welcome for the owners and their guests. The design is intended to make the front garden as usable as the back.
Large cubed box hedges give structure, as do two raised steel water rills, which also give movement and sound to the garden.
[ A Welcome Sight ]
Outer Spaces
Green Living
Green Living is a modern garden designed for a young busy couple living in the heart of the city.
It is intended to disguise the grey, city backdrop and bring a touch of nature to the urban environment.
[ Green Living ]
The Pemberton Greenish Recess Garden
Recess
This garden was inspired by the grasses at Knoll Gardens, but also playfully references to some of the interior schemes of Frank Lloyd Wright.
[ Recess ]
Sekisui Exterior Company
Tokyo City Garden
The Tokyo City Garden is an environmentally-friendly approach to an urban front garden.
A parking space is incorporated into the garden, and is covered by a pergola, creating a green roof of climbing plants.
Thomas Hoblyn Garden Design
Foreign & Colonial’s Tempest in a Teapot
Through the commemoration of Rossini’s death in 1868, this garden celebrates the 140th anniversary of the Foreign and Colonial Investment Trust.
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Quilted Velvet
The Quilted Velvet Garden
Inspired in part by the designs of Escher, this garden is a space primarily for entertaining and relaxing, incorporating areas of shade and a place to view the city skyline.
Bamboo Garden Design
Urban Rain by Bamboo
This garden is designed to be a welcoming, yet sophisticated front garden, that balances style and function.