Garden & Landscapes

A hillside Virginia home located on a notch between two ridges is fun for the whole family.

Architect Burton Baldridge donated his services to Casis Elementary, his daughter’s large public school in Austin, Texas, to design and build an outdoor classroom that would...

With a wild approach, award-winning designer Margie Ruddick pushes the boundaries of landscaping.

This backyard is its own modern retreat in the Berkeley Hills.

Don’t have ten acres to stuff full of perennials? Fret not! Gardens can make a big impact even on a small scale.

Behind a house in crowded Bangalore, India, two architects carve out a midcity oasis.

Cedar, glass, and concrete combine in this minimalist pool house that draws inspiration from Mies van der Rohe’s 1929 Barcelona Pavilion.

Lawrence Halprin galvanized people into action with his grand cityscapes. The landscape architects of today are following his example—but at a different scale.

Architectural elements and applied foliage deliver a one-two punch in designing for privacy.

After years of neglect, Mellon Square in Pittsburgh reemerges as a 21st-century public space.

Andrea Cochran, a 2014 National Design Award winner, applies a site-specific approach to tease out the ephemeral and sensory.

A pair of innovative dorm buildings push boundaries without showing off or upstaging their setting.

With new natural features and recreation opportunities, rivers in city centers across America are getting a chance to shine again.

A verdant plaza below a cantilevered structure serves as a natural acoustic insulator.

Manhattan plant shop The Sill takes the guesswork out of indoor gardening.

New York firm WORKac taps into society’s increased focus on heathy eating with a school’s learning garden.

A Vancouver garden blossoms alongside fresh development.

Refresh your indoor garden with these sculptural planters, pots, and stands.

The Ribeirão Preto Residence sports a dramatic, cantilevered roof and a robust indoor/outdoor connection.

Trees and vines create greenhouse-like interiors for Stepping Park House in Ho Chi Minh City.

Originally built for historic figure Samuel Lazarus, a heritage home in North Fitzroy features extensions blending home and garden after the style of Italian villas.

With the lightness and imagination of origami and the mathematical exactitude of digital design, this open-air chapel invites all creatures into its folds.

Today’s planters are smarter than ever. They breathe, they drain, and some even light up. So whether your thumb is as green as the plants you’re pruning or as brown as the compost...

Faced with an inadequate ’80s addition on a grand Victorian home, Figureground Architecture intervenes with a striking treatment that weaves together house and garden.

On the shores of Canada’s Kalamalka Lake, a dated home gets a second chance with a redesign that embraces the outdoors and captures light.

Shielding against unwanted views, a sinuous perimeter wall in Atherton, California, focuses views on the sky and surrounding canopy.

Greenery abounds at this urban oasis in Hanoi.

Designed to feel like a never-ending vacation, Casa TM in Colima boasts a circular enclosure that gives one family a luxurious connection to the outdoors.

Designed for his son’s school in Tucson, Arizona, architect Gideon Danilowitz builds a low-cost chicken coop suitable for the desert climate.

A simple fence helped produce this secluded oasis.