Tate Harmer Architects will create a new hotel for the Eden Project in Cornwall. The eye-catching architecture has been carefully designed to maintain all existing mature landscape features on the site.
The seventh Floriade is being held under the motto “Growing Green Cities” with a clear focus on urban and regional development. The action will be taking place in the young municipality Almere in the province of Flevoland. The World Horticultural Fair takes place in the Netherlands every ten years.
Altifarm is an easy to assemble modular home-farm for indoors or outdoors. Growing fresh produce at home is a dream that most city dwellers find hard to realise due to space and time constraint.
Incorporating green areas into cities that are becoming more cramped and larger all the time is a current theme that preoccupies architects and city planners. The relationship between the building height and sustainable greenery is a particularly exciting aspect here Рa new high-rise building in Paris by the French architect Edouard Fran̤ois demonstrates this.
With the Chelsea Flower Show the world’s most famous gardening event will open its gates on Tuesday 23 May. Once again the show presenting highlights of English garden culture: this year, among other things, sensitive Feel Good Gardens, a „secret garden“ and an urban street art mural, incorporating plants and art.