Ten lush rooftop gardens that serve as tranquil oases above the city
In the third of a trio of spring lookbooks this Easter weekend, we ve rounded up ten verdant rooftop gardens including a penthouse garden in Australia and a stepped vegetable garden in Vietnam.
The luxurious garden of this penthouse in Darlinghurst, Sydney, is made up of raised beds filled with indigenous plant, tree and shrub species.
Designed by landscape architect Matt Dillion, the plants were carefully selected to suit harsh rooftop conditions. The garden surrounds a pavilion-inspired penthouse with large windows.
This Mexico City rooftop garden was created as a getaway within a crowded neighbourhood in the bustling city.
One year ago today, the World Health Organisation officially declared coronavirus a global pandemic. Twenty one of the world s leading designers, including Thomas Heatherwick, Kelly Hoppen and Sevil Peach, gave us their views on how it has changed the world.
The pandemic has been the most dramatic disruption to human activity in a generation. For many designers, it has been a time to refocus and rethink how we design products, buildings and cities. It has challenged us to reassess the old normals that we had based and organised our lives around, explained interior designer Peach. Coronavirus has sounded an alarm
Words by Francesca Perry
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, it can be a somewhat stressful experience spending time outside in cities, as pavements and parks become crowded with people and social distancing becomes a challenge. For those mostly confined to home, getting out and about should be a source of wellbeing, but it can prove the exact opposite.
With this in mind, Zeller & Moye – an architecture practice based in Mexico City and Berlin – designed a single-person outdoor structure for urban public spaces that is intended as a kind of sanctuary: open to the sky and the ground, but protected from the busy hustle and bustle of the city. Triangular in form and covered in semi-transparent mirror film, the structure – called Halo – functions also as an eye-catching, mysterious urban intervention, akin to a public artwork.