Plant Wall Design created a custom, self-sustaining vertical green wall for the show.

A vintage stool, a design that once was a staple of Greek classrooms, is tucked under the office desk on a landing leading to a balcony. The visual theme of the vertical wooden slats repeats itself here, including on a closet door. “They have no handles,” Ritenour says of the closet doors. “The lines are the door handles; you have to know to grab them.”

The area includes a Wally planter from Woolly Pocket near the custom steel-and-glass doors.

A small country road borders the property to the west.

Inside, a large planting feature designed by Michael Hellgreen of Vertical Garden Design clads the kitchen block. "The idea behind the vertical garden was to bring a natural element to the space, since the overall look was very minimal," architect Duarte Caldas says.

B&B Italia Outdoor’s Canasta sofa, by Patricia Urquiola, shares a shady patch in the ground-floor Carnegie Hill garden with three ginkgo biloba trees, an existing fountain with an Italian marble spout designed by Thomas Woltz, and bluestone pavers. The terrace is filled with woodland greenery: Leucothoe, ostrich ferns, and lady ferns.

The perennial plants on the green wall were plotted out as a piece of verdant abstract art. Edibles, like strawberry, thyme, and rosemary, are planted within children’s reach.

A sofa from Sutherland’s Poolside collection is covered in fabric from Perennials; the illuminated side tables are by Porcuatro for Tango Lighting. The screens are constructed from FSC-certified teak.

With its vertical wood slats, the garden fence helps unify the main house and the smaller shed.

A variety of drought-tolerant plants cascade down a 10-foot-wide vertical garden wall near the entrance to the property.

@urbansoule: The living wall is growing!

Overall, the plant wall covers over 1,200 square feet of surface area.

The seventh-floor terrace, or “sky meadow,” is at the very top of the town house.

Vertical slabs under consideration for a project by Nakashima, among the horizontal wood-piles of the Pole Barn. Photo courtesy of Mira Nakashima, George Nakashima Woodworker, S.A. Read the interview.

Woltz describes the garden as a vertical progression up the six-story home: “You’re threading in and out of the building, so it’s a delightfully blurred experience, from garden to architecture and back.”

The home’s interior plan is organized around a water feature that's open to the sky and tiled with a bold blue-and-white chevron pattern.

Russell-Clarke tends a small garden.

Just off Pacific Avenue, architect Lorcan O’Herlihy designed this home for himself and his wife with a dark blue façade and dazzling display of colored window.

The pergola overlooks the pool with the Baltic Sea in the distance. The couple built the home so that there would be as much outdoor space as indoor space.

The courtyard offers a soothing space to take a break.

The new, protected deck frames the views, and also has a built-in bench and Electrolux grill, with a mosaic tile backsplash.

"Designing for density and nature," says Mun Summ Wong of WOHA, "we really felt strongly that New York and The Skyscraper Museum would be the perfect place to launch this exhibition. Our hope is that people gather a sense of our philosophy and approach, as well as the inherent beauty of structures and spaces that are integrated with nature." Seen here are the vertical gardens of the SkyVille @ Dawson, a 960 unit public housing complex in Singapore. The building is divided into 12 "Sky Villages" which each have their own naturally-ventilated communal green space. SkyVille is filled with shared amenities such as a 1,300 foot running track on the roof.

Sally challenges Gibson to a game of backgammon in their second-floor living area.

In one of several distinct outdoor spaces, a pink terrazzo tub creates an oasis under the palms.

Using lumber milled from dead and diseased wood gives a second life to blighted forests, and the worm infestations result in beautiful hole patterns in the timber.

Dean’s post-college time living in a Japanese monastery had some influence on the veranda here: “You’d move around the building via little wooden decks. I think it’s a nice transitional space between indoors and outdoors.”

Cox initially conceived the deck as a conventional surface for relaxing and entertaining. With the bench, however, he seized an opportunity to create something both functional and visually arresting. “You go down these paths and, as the design mutates, other ideas attach themselves and make it stronger and more interesting,” he says.

Angeliki’s toys share space in the living room with an ETR coffee table and Molded Plastic Rocker chair, both by Charles and Ray Eames and purchased from Vitra. Behind the couch, 300 vertical oak strips add a decorative element.

A project that aims to foster the spirit of community, the library is a place where neighbors can gather to catch up on the events of the day.

Friends who stay over at Gavankar's are treated to both the full pool house suite and an atmospheric patio.

Sedums seem to encroach on white Napa Cast Stone pavers. As one moves from the poolside courtyard to the secluded deck below, the landscape transitions to larger succulents and then to sculptural South African euphorbias and podia.

The shou-sugi ban louvers were designed and made by Schiller.

A garden of of small herbs and vines creates a fan of green as the plants creep up the outside walls. What at first seems to be a stark use of artificially dark wood reveals itself to be unironically natural: a soothing and woodsy backdrop for this home in the bustling city.