Rooftop Gardens

Rooftop Gardens
Author: Denise LeFrak Calicchio
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2011
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 0847836061

Showcases some of the best outdoor spaces of New York City through breathtaking full-color photographs--from the lush produce garden of Eli's Vinegar factory to a beautiful flower garden enclosed in a glass conservatory atop Park Avenue.

Terraces, Balconies, Roof Gardens & Patios

Terraces, Balconies, Roof Gardens & Patios
Author: Loft Publications
Publisher: Skyhorse
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2016-05-03
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 9781510704527

See the beauty of outdoor spaces that can be created in your own home. In Terraces, Balconies, Roof Gardens & Patios, unique and interesting concepts on arranging and styling individual outdoor areas are introduced. By combining architecture, plants, or lively water elements, such as fountains, pools, and ponds, terraces, gardens, and balconies become beautiful and relaxing resting places that also serve as additional living spaces. This book shows more than one hundred amazing ways to style and design your outdoor areas, giving you inspiration for when you finally take the plunge into redecorating. You can also just enjoy the beautiful photographs that showcase exceptional outdoor design ideas you may never have the chance to experience firsthand. Terraces, Balconies, Roof Gardens & Patios is a book that will give you styling tips to captivate your guests; many of the outdoor spaces showcased are simply one of a kind.

150 Best Terrace and Balcony Ideas

150 Best Terrace and Balcony Ideas
Author: Irene Alegre
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 1122
Release: 2013-04-30
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0062283375

150 Best Terrace and Balcony Ideas is the ultimate resource for innovative terrace, roof garden, patio, and balcony design ideas for outdoor spaces of all shapes and sizes. Featured inside this lavish guidebook are 150 never-before-shared tips and techniques provided by internationally renowned architects and designers, along with full-color photographs and diagrams of sixty-five uniquely beautiful projects from around the world. The design ideas reveal how to create exterior spaces that are clean, modern, and comfortable, as well as how to use cutting-edge materials that are practical, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly. Best of all, the design ideas featured inside are easy to follow and can be tailored to the unique tastes and needs of individual homeowners.

Small-Space Container Gardens

Small-Space Container Gardens
Author: Fern Richardson
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2012-03-06
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1604692413

Small? Yes. A concrete slab populated with plastic chairs and an abandoned grill? Not anymore. Small-Space Container Gardens layers practical gardening fundamentals with creative solutions, encouraging us to think “outside the pot.” You'll learn how to tackle unique challenges, like windy conditions several stories above street level, and how to care for plants and troubleshoot problems like garden pests and diseases. From design basics to essential plant picks, Small-Space Container Gardens proves you don't need a yard to have a happy, healthy garden. For anyone who wants more green in their life, it's time to start gardening creatively in small spaces.

Roof Terrace Gardening

Roof Terrace Gardening
Author: Michele Osborne
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9781908991089

Roof terraces and balconies are oases in an urban landscape. As a viewing platform, a theatrical setting or a place of retreat, the roof garden fulfils many needs in the city. This book celebrates the elevated garden, showing there is little to beat the rooftop for experiencing an exhilarating sense of space and light, and enjoying the view.

Rooftop Garden Design

Rooftop Garden Design
Author: David Fletcher
Publisher: Images Shenyang
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Ecological landscape design
ISBN: 9781864706468

This richly illustrated book provides a comprehensive guide to contemporary trends in rooftop garden design, and provides definitive theory and design industry knowledge. Green roofs - the ultimate in sustainable building practices - continue to generate enormous interest and enthusiasm among architects, landscape designers, and urban planners. This richly illustrated book provides a comprehensive guide to contemporary trends in rooftop garden design, and provides definitive theory and design industry knowledge. The designers of the project case studies are leaders in their fields, and are drawn from across Australia, Chile, China, Europe, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, Scandinavia, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, and Vietnam. The designers provide details on the benefits of their rooftop gardens, offering readers profound inspiration and informative reviews of the work, design considerations, operation and maintenance. This book is essential for anyone working or studying in the rooftop construction, environmental landscape and design fields. AUTHOR: David Fletcher is an urban designer and landscape architect and the founding principal of Fletcher Studio, an innovative and award-winning collaborative practice based in San Francisco. Fletcher holds a Master of Landscape Architecture, with distinction, from the Harvard Design School. He also holds a Bachelor of Art in Studio Art and a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from the University of California at Davis, both with honours. He has taught urban design and landscape architecture at Harvard Design School, the Southern California Institute of Architecture, the Centre d'Etude et diUrbanisme in France, Woodbury University, UCLA, Otis College, USC School of Architecture. He is presently an associate professor at the California College of the Arts in the Department of Architecture. He was also the assistant curator and exhibition designer of Inhabiting Infrastructure at the Harvard Design School. SELLING POINTS: - Outlines key trends and advanced design theory - Accompanied by numerous full-colour architectural illustrations and spectacular detailed photography - Will appeal to architects, urban planners (particularly those focusing on rooftop gardens in urban construction projects) and design students, and educators in the design fields 400 col. 50 b/w

RHS Big Ideas, Small Spaces

RHS Big Ideas, Small Spaces
Author: Kay Maguire
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2017-03-09
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 178472338X

Bestselling author Kay Maguire and RHS Young Designer of the Year Tony Woods provide stylish design ideas, growing tips and advice to help readers turn even the tiniest outdoor space into a beautiful and life-affirming oasis. With 30 step-by-step projects, RHS Big Ideas, Small Spaces shows the urban gardener how to transform balconies, walls, windowsills, rooftops and the smallest of yards. Discover the best planting plans for your garden, with ideas for hanging planted screens, mobile gardens, balcony rail planters and potted shelves. Learn the things you need to know to get your garden started, and how to overcome common problems, and ensure your garden, however small, is beautiful all year round.

The Housing Design Handbook

The Housing Design Handbook
Author: David Levitt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1135871833

How well have architects succeeded in building housing and what lessons can be learned from their triumphs and failures? The Housing Design Handbook will give you a complete understanding of what makes successful housing design. Through the analysis of work by Levitt Bernstein and a wide range of other UK practices, it illustrates good design principles and accumulates a wealth of knowledge in a readily accessible format for the first time. Written by a recognised authority in the field, the book provides: a range of cases to illustrate the way that different issues in the design of housing have been approached and with what degree of success a review of the place of housing as the most significant built form in the urban landscape an understanding of the importance of achieving a sense of place as the bedrock of social continuity a discussion of how flexibility might be achieved in order to accommodate future changes in housing need, if wholesale demolition and replacement is to be avoided more recent examples which explore why certain social groupings are more resistant to design innovation than others and why there has been such an architectural breakthrough in market led, higher density urban living. David Levitt examines the ideas behind the schemes and assesses how successful and sustainable those ideas have proved, making this an essential reference for professionals and students practicing and studying the design and commissioning of housing.