Plants of Light
Schattengewächs begins like any other grow-it-yourself plant kit but the payoff isn’t a real plant, rather it’s a light – shaped like flowers, trees and…
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Providing of Garden Access
Who loves alterations? We love alterations. Especially when they turn a Victorian house in a conservative area with access to the backyard garden only through…
Composting in Muted Tones
It’s the funny situation we’re in as a society, one where we’ve got lovely green resources such as plant “waste” that ends up going to…
Spontaneous Mediterranean Pots
This project goes by the name “Atesta” and it’s going to make your plants look so amazing you aren’t going to know what to do…
The Ground Explosion
Behold! From the earth underfoot jumps forth a sculpture of epic preportions, with a light in it too! This is a single-house project. There’s only…
Jello Cup, For Real
On June 26th, the Gowanus Studio Space hosted the 2nd annual Jell-O Mold competition in Brooklyn, New York. The competition encouraged artists, designers, chefs, and…
Southern California Goes Solar Plant
Solar panels have been around for quite a few years now, but like any great technology, it takes hundreds of iterations before it catches on…
Glass Flower Pot
Botanists have secrets and we must learn them. Did you know some plants perform better when their roots are directly exposed to sunlight? A common…
Growing Pot
What a fool I was for not posting this yesterday! Now it’s 4/21 and I’m making a joke about marijuana. But in fact, it’s only…
Mario Bros. Garden
Had enough of planting fake crops in Farmville, but not quite ready to go totally Martha Stewart in your garden? Designer “Sexin” has created “THE…
Grow Ye a Sculpture
If there’s one thing I love, it’s sculptures that grow. Grow and grow and grow until they break out of whatever they were in and…
Do It for The Birdies
Park benches are a thing I’ve seen innovated upon not nearly enough. I must admit that when it comes down to it, a seat in…
Massive Agricultural Urbanism
One of the biggest challenges in architecture is to create homes that provide more than just shelter. We’re on a slow march of strip mining…
Ladder? No way! Ratchet!
I didn’t ratchet my way into writing this article, I just hammered it out. But that’s not what Itay Laniado is all about. Itay Laniado…
Solar Power Spikes for Plants
Literally listed as a “solar powered gardener wannabee helper.” It is a guide for any gardener on a sort of small garden (or potentially giant…
Enemies of Garden
Friends at last! For what greater enemy does a vase have than a baseball? Maybe a cat. But that’s not important right now, because this…