• What is the style of contemporary garden design and landscape architecture?

    Updated: 2012-05-30 17:56:02
    The M&G Garden, designed by Andy Sturgeon, would have received the Gardenvisit Award for ‘Best in Show‘, but for the designer’s crackpot explanation. Here is the Telegraph’s account of what he said: ‘The M&G Garden’ 2012, a ‘New English’ garden harking back to the Arts and Crafts movement, but with a modern-day twist. Featuring monolithic [...]

  • Garden of Disorientation: design for the 2012 Chelsea Fringe Festival

    Updated: 2012-05-29 07:26:51
    ‘Smithfield is renowned for the ghostly late-night movement of animal carcasses and more recently for the early-morning traffic of displaced revelers. Adding to the mix is this new internal garden space, the Garden of Disorientation’. I went to visit the garden on a really hot day in the course of a long cycle ride to [...]

  • Kedvale Renovation

    Updated: 2012-05-25 16:37:00
    : KUJAWA ARCHITECTURE LLC Telephone 773 292 1358 Fax 773 292 1206 Email info crkarch.com 1757 N Kimball Chicago IL 60647 PROJECTS STUDIO BLOG Friday , May 25, 2012 Kedvale Renovation Peppered in between the larger jobs in the office have been a few really fun renovations , all around the Chicago area . Among these is Kedvale , a single-family renovation under construction . Here's a sneek peek of the framing and what is to come . Recent Posts Hirbour Tower Under Construction Clay 28 Multi-Family Under Development LoHi Flats Sold Out Gonzo Balcony on AN Fabrikator Blog HAPPY NEW YEAR Drag City Records HQ Gonzo Balcony Object Society One Night Only Dock6 Art Design Show Hirbour Tower

  • London Gardens Walk eBook: a free gift for Gardenvisit.com readers & the Chelsea Fringe Festival

    Updated: 2012-05-16 06:37:26
    To celebrate the start of the first Chelsea Fringe Garden Festival, Gardenvisit.com is giving away free copies of the London Gardens Walk eBook during the weekend of  19th to 20th May.  It is in Kindle format and can be downloaded from any Amazon website. If you don’t have an eReader you can download an app [...]

  • The Buddhist cave at Phuktal Gompa (Phugtal Monastery)

    Updated: 2012-05-11 18:58:42
    The great cave of Phuktal Gompa in Ladakh has a sacred spring within. The monastery is said to have been built here because there was a forest on the slopes above, from which a lone tree survives. The cave is supposed to house the spirit of the first guru, Rimpoche. Caves have a special place [...]

  • Is the western aesthetics reliable to judge Chinese landscape design?

    Updated: 2012-05-06 22:56:23
    The lady in this photo is Lv Yan, who is the most renowned Chinese model in the world so far. She was firstly got her reputation in the west, but her beauty is still not popular in China. The thought of the western aesthetics related to landscape design judgment is also from a conversation with [...]

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