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Beyond the Ficus
Q: I enjoy plants' form, color, and positive impact, but what frustrates me is the lack of interesting houseplants available today. Are houseplants old-fashioned and out of place in the modern home...
01.01.09 -
Not Just Another Plant in the Wall
“Technically it’s a cinch,” Patrick Blanc says, and with a wave of the hand ticks off the ingredients needed to build a plant wall: ten-millimeter-thick waterproof PVC slabs...
written by: Michelle Hoffman01.01.09 -
Salvage Love
The first year out of college is a wildcard for most people. Whether spent bumming around Europe with a backpack or slogging through a suffocating desk job, it’s often a year with little...
written by: Sarah Richphotos by: Misty Keasler01.14.09 -
Suburban Flight
It’s become an all-too-familiar scenario all across America: A city’s downtown, once a thriving place to live and work, has slowly withered and become decrepit.
written by: Amara Holsteinphotos by: Juliana Sohn01.16.09 -
Desert Utopia
With this elegant steel prototype, Marmol Radziner and Associates launch a new prefab venture with the goal of bringing their modern design sensibilities to a broader market.
written by: Frances Andertonphotos by: Daniel Hennessy01.17.09 -
It Takes a Villa
Enric Ruiz-Geli’s firm Cloud9 designed the suburban house of the future—it also happens to be sustainable.
written by: Karim Massoteauphotos by: Gunnar Knechtel01.19.09 -
Terra Ephemera
Whether spanning acres or encased in amorphous glass ecospheres, Paula Hayes's singular landscapes blur the boundary between art and nature—and redefine the relationship between art and...
written by: Amber Bravophotos by: Raimund Koch01.23.09 -
Indoor Garden Kits
Dear Dwell, I'd like to grow edible herbs and plants, but since I live in a tiny apartment with no outdoor space, I'm looking for a garden I can grow on my kitchen counter. Can you help?
written by: Amara Holsteinphotos by: Peter Belanger01.26.09 -
Barely There
If not for the dawn appearance of the bear, which came loping toward Maem Slater-Enns and her then six-month-old daughter as they sat contemplating the water, the Enns family might still be...
written by: Deborah Bishopphotos by: Thomas Fricke02.01.09 -
Garden Apartment
Botanist Patrick Blanc has been bringing the wilds of the rainforests to Parisian walls for over 30 years, most recently at the Jean Nouvel–designed Quai Branly museum. One lucky family,...
written by: Michelle Hoffmanphotos by: Jessica Antola02.05.09 -
Stoked to Soak
Compelling custom solutions to off-the-shelf problems are often hard to come by. But landscape architects James A. Lord and Roderick Wyllie relished the challenge of making a standard hot tub the...
written by: Deborah Bishopphotos by: Jeremy Harris02.05.09 -
Fawning Over Flora
Flora Grubb Gardens, the hippest plant merchant in the Bay Area, takes up residence in a new building as green as it is frondescent.
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Todd Hido02.05.09 -
Echo Logical
Los Angeles is not all mini-malls and highways. As Eric Garcetti, president of the City Council, shows, it is eminently possible to live green in the City of Angels. By putting solar power and...
written by: Frances Andertonphotos by: Misha Gravenor02.26.09 -
The Lawn Goodbye
We sunbathe, picnic, and play sports on them. Our bare feet seem inexorably drawn to them. And for many of us, they’re the first thing we see when we step out the front door: lawns. It&rsquo...
written by: Arnie Cooperphotos by: Fritz Haeg02.26.09 -
The Ungreening of America
We asked Charles Birnbaum to point us to five unique landscapes that we can still take a peek at. He explains: “I’ve chosen places that are either at risk or lesser known. They don’t resemble...
written by: Deborah Bishop02.27.09 -
Beyond Terradome
Influenced by city dwellers whose windows open to concrete vistas or brick walls, San Francisco native Ric López decided to shift the view inward and back to nature.
written by: Chelsea Holden Bakerphotos by: Peter Belanger02.27.09 -
Sign of the Times
Looking for directions on the road to sustainability? At Leger Wanaselja Architecture's multifamily development in Berkeley, California, all signs point to green.
written by: Sam Grawephotos by: Randi Berez04.21.09 -
Apples from Asphalt
Mobile City Farmstead is bringing a little bit of the heartland into the big city, one vacant lot at a time.
05.04.09 -
Diana Balmori on the Future of Landscape Architecutre
Planting a vegetable garden, however, shouldn’t be the end of our transformation of the domestic landscape, as Diana Balmori explains.
05.26.09 -
Judy Kameon on the Future of Landscape Design
There’s a common misconception that the scale of domestic projects places them in the realm of “garden designers” rather than landscape architects, but size is not always the...
05.26.09 -
Well Pruned
There is such a variety of well-executed residential landscape designs, it is difficult (and arbitrary) to cite one as being superlative. However, each of the following projects deals well with a...
written by: Amber Bravo05.26.09 -
Missing the Mark
Landscape design is a matter of personal taste, but there are some approaches that almost any designer would recommend against.
written by: Amber Bravo05.26.09 -
Bungee Bird Feeder
Summer is a great time for bungee jumping. But for the non-thrill-seeking type, it might be safer to just get a bungee-jumping bird feeder and sit back sipping lemonade while the seeds take all the...
written by: Sarah Rich05.28.09 -
Basic Living
Live/work is a centuries-old practice turned overused architectural trend. By melding history and innovation, Turin’s Basic Village offers up a compelling reinvention of the concept.
written by: Allison Arieffphotos by: Jacob Langvad06.03.09 -
Exhibition Snapshot: Dwell Outdoor
From modern prefab sheds to luxury tent lodges, organic planters to living walls, Dwell Outdoor is one of the most anticipated exhibitions at this year's Dwell on Design.
written by: Tiffany Chu06.27.09
