Landscape & garden

Ground, planting and the space between buildings.

9 entries

AI-generated interpretation, not a photograph of the building: View from an earthen doorway onto a timber-framed veranda, tiled roofs, and stone-paved courtyard.

Stories of Place

Fujian Tulou: Reading the Shared Interior

Fujian tulou are communal earthen dwellings arranged around shared courts. This guide examines the relationship between domestic rooms, circulation and landscape through documented features and clearly identified editorial interpretation.

3 Nov 2026

AI-generated interpretation: a deep timber doorway framing a shaded courtyard garden in blue evening light, evoking Sri Lankan tropical modernism. Not a photograph of Number 11.

Global Icons

Geoffrey Bawa: The Threshold Architecture of Tropical Modernism

Geoffrey Bawa's own two places — a Colombo house assembled from four row houses and a garden made from a former plantation — show how he composed thresholds, shade and openness in Sri Lanka.

29 Oct 2026

A view from inside the Thermal Baths Vals looking across a pool toward dark quartzite walls and narrow light gaps.

Architect Minds

Bathing Architecture: Three Journeys in Stone and Water

Discover how Peter Zumthor, Álvaro Siza, and Lucien Pollet shaped the architecture of water through stone, concrete, and Art Deco flair.

1 Oct 2026

Traditional Japanese timber buildings with tile roofs and shoji screens overlooking a calm pond from a wooden veranda.

Architecture Travel

Katsura Imperial Villa: Soundscapes of Ordered Discovery

Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto demonstrates how architectural design can orchestrate a journey through sound and space. Its 17th-century layout paces discovery.

20 Sept 2026

Modern apartment interior with concrete floors and walls opening to a balcony with glass and translucent panel walls.

Field Notes

Lacaton & Vassal: Expanding the Interior, Not the Footprint

Lacaton & Vassal champion a sensitive approach to existing buildings, exemplified by their Grand Parc Bordeaux project where added winter gardens reconfigured living spaces with light and air.

19 Sept 2026

Villa Savoye, a white concrete and glass building, stands beside a reflective pool with columns and trees in the background.

Material Notes

Villa Savoye: Landscape as Adaptive Context

Villa Savoye, a paradigm of modernist design, is re-examined through its integration with the surrounding landscape, focusing on its essential ground-level interventions and water features.

16 Sept 2026

White plastered walls and stone paving enclose a patio with a vivid blue window and potted tropical plants.

Architect Minds

Sítio Roberto Burle Marx: A Landscape Architect's Botanical Provenance

Sítio Roberto Burle Marx in Rio de Janeiro is a testament to landscape architecture as a synthesis of art, botany, and regional identity. This article examines the estate's design principles and the significance of its plant collection.

12 Sept 2026

Concrete stairs with timber treads ascend towards a city skyline and green plantings, viewed from below a black steel bridge.

Places to Visit

The High Line: A Raised Walkway for Urban Reimagination

The High Line in New York City exemplifies adaptive reuse, converting a disused elevated railway into a celebrated linear park. This urban intervention redefines public space and landscape design.

9 Sept 2026

A concrete and metal building with geometric windows overlooks a fjord and mountains from a high vantage.

Landmark Stories

The Lysefjord Folly: Art Deco Ironwork in a Norwegian Garden

Situated overlooking Lysefjord, the Lysefjord Folly is an Art Deco garden structure notable for its hand-forged ironwork and thoughtful seasonal adaptations.

9 Jul 2026

Nearby topics

Adaptive reuse Sustainability Circular economy Biophilic design Neuro-architecture Vernacular Tectonics Colour & atmosphere