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Private Garden

Garden by the Water

Private Garden

Atlas House

Private Garden

Garden with a Path

Private Garden

Garden on a Bunker

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Garden at the River

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Garden with a Table

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Zig Zag Garden

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Garden with a Skyline

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Garden in the Forest

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Baakenpark Hamburg⁠ by Atelier Loidl / @atelier_ Baakenpark Hamburg⁠ by Atelier Loidl / @atelier_loidl 
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⁠"Since 2015 an artificial peninsula made of sand from the river Elbe has become the green centre of the eastern part of HafenCity. The spectacular topography together with the self-seeded tree population form a variety of different spaces. As a result, the park, covering only 1,6 ha, has a surprisingly spacious feel.⁠"⁠
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📝 atelier-loidl.de / @atelier_loidl⁠
📸 Leonard Grosch / leonardgrosch.de
‘Grey Wethers consists of a pair of prehistoric ‘Grey Wethers consists of a pair of prehistoric stone circles, situated on grassy plateau to the north of Postbridge, Dartmoor, in the United Kingdom.⁠’

⁠’As with many ancient Dartmoor landmarks, Grey Wethers is the subject of local folklore, explaining the origin of the name ('wether' is an Old English word meaning sheep).⁠’
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‘One story tells of a farmer who had recently moved to Dartmoor and was foolish enough to criticise the sheep on sale at Tavistock Market. He stopped for a drink at the Warren House Inn, and helped by several pints of cider, the locals persuaded him that there was an excellent flock of high quality sheep nearby which he would be welcome to buy. They walked off in search of them, and through the mist the farmer saw what he took to be a fine flock. He agreed to the sale, and returned to the site the following morning to find that what he had taken to be sheep were actually the stones of Grey Wethers.⁠’

⁠’The circles are each approximately 33 m (108 ft) in diameter, and less than five metres apart. Their centre points are aligned almost exactly north to south. The northern circle has 20 stones remaining, while the southern has 29 – all of a relatively consistent size, mostly between 1.2 and 1.4 m (3.9 and 4.6 ft) in height.⁠’

📝📸 http://www.stone-circles.org.uk/stone/greywethers.htm
Unbelievable this structure exists, outside a Star Unbelievable this structure exists, outside a Star Wars set.

“Star Axis is an architectonic earth/star sculpture constructed with the geometry of the stars. Created by artist Charles Ross, all of Star Axis’s shapes and angles are determined by earth-to-star alignments. They are built into the sculpture so that we can experience them in human scale. Star Axis offers an intimate experience of how the earth's environment extends into the space of the stars.⁠”
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“The approach to building Star Axis involves gathering a variety of star alignments occurring in different time scales and allowing them to form the architecture. The sculpture's name refers to its primary earth–to-star alignment: it is precisely aligned with Earth's axis, which now points toward our north star Polaris.⁠”

“Charles Ross’s artwork is about light, time, and planetary motion. Star Axis is his largest project. It was conceived in 1971, and after a four-year search throughout the southwest, Ross broke ground in 1976. Star Axis is presently being constructed on a mesa in New Mexico. Built with granite and sandstone,⁠ at its outside dimensions, Star Axis will be 11 stories high and 1/10th of a mile across.⁠”
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“Star Axis has five main elements. The Star Tunnel is precisely aligned with Earth's axis. Here the viewer can walk through layers of celestial time, making directly visible the 26,000-year cycle of precession, Earth's shifting alignment with the stars. The Solar Pyramid marks the daily and seasonal movements of the sun across the Shadow Field. From inside the Hour Chamber you can view one hour of Earth's rotation, and from inside the Equatorial Chamber you can observe the stars that travel directly above the equator.⁠”
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📝📸 staraxis.org
Brooklyn Botanic Garden⁠ by MVVA. So strong how Brooklyn Botanic Garden⁠ by MVVA. So strong how these new, constructed landscapes evoke a sense of the wild. ⁠
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"Since 2010, MVVA has worked with the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on a range of projects with aesthetic, functional, and environmental objectives. The new designs sought to reduce the garden’s use of fresh water and reestablish its southern entrance to accommodate an increasing number of visitors. The projects include the Early Spring Garden at Flatbush Avenue, which opened alongside a dramatically redesigned Children’s Discovery Garden; the unique Woodland Garden; and the implementation of an ambitious and innovative Water Conservation Project that greatly reduces stormwater runoff and has made the Brooklyn Botanic Garden a model for sustainability in a highly urban context.⁠"⁠
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📝📸 mvvainc.com
Blurring the lines between inside and outside, ano Blurring the lines between inside and outside, another great garden by @hoftuinarchitecten⁠
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📸 hoftuinarchitecten.be / @hoftuinarchitecten
Thanks to @ttrzupek found out about the wonderful, Thanks to @ttrzupek found out about the wonderful, relaxed work of @landscapepractice 
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This is their garden for a private house, built in 2018 in Filtry, Warszawa, Poland.⁠
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📝📸 http://landscapepractice.com
'Shift is a large outdoor sculpture by American ar 'Shift is a large outdoor sculpture by American artist Richard Serra, located in King City, Ontario, Canada about 30 kilometers north of Toronto. The work was commissioned in 1970 by art collector Roger Davidson and installed on his family property. Shift consists of six large concrete forms, each 20 centimetres thick and 1.5 metres high, zigzagging over the northwest portion of the 4.03 hectares (40,300 m2) property's rolling countryside.'⁠
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First amazing pic by Gianfranco Gorgoni / @gianfrancogorgoni 

The other pics I found on Spaziopress. So nice to see the 2016 state of the sculpture. ⁠
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📸 http://spaziopress.blogspot.com / @spazioprojects
Today Willem-Alexander, King of The Netherlands op Today Willem-Alexander, King of The Netherlands opened the Floriade 2022. The King also visited ‘The voice of urban nature’, the pavilion we made with a multidisciplinary team for @gemeente.almere and @gemeenteamsterdam. It’s been really nice designing together with:
@overtredersw 
@onkruidenier⁠
@kossmandejong⁠
@paulfaassen⁠
@fictionfactory.amsterdam ⁠
@joyce.oomen⁠
#paulcasteleijn⁠

The Floriade will be open till the 9th of October. More pics later this year, to show the progress of the garden and the development of the plants.

Thanks to @gemeenteamsterdam and @gemeente.almere for creating this opportunity.

📸 @gertkwekkeboom & @stefano.marinaz
Instead of greenwashing buildings with a tree on t Instead of greenwashing buildings with a tree on the roof and some small containers with plants along the facade, can we go more radical like James Wines / @sitejameswines did at his Forest Building⁠?
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'James Wines, American artist and architect associated with environmental design, is founder and president⁠ of SITE, an architecture and environmental arts organization chartered in 1970. In 1972 SITE was commissioned by BEST Products Company to design a series of nine ‘big box’ shopping centers. Since these retail structures are ubiquitous in the public domain, people’s reflex acceptance of their archetypal imagery has been used in each case to invert and change the meaning. Instead of approaching the BEST buildings as conventionally ‘designed’ architecture, they are treated as a ‘subject matter for art’ and a source of visual commentary on the American commercial strip.‘
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'In the stores Wines designs for BEST, the “building has only undergone a very slight physical change, but a very powerful psychological one”. This willful ambiguity evokes the theories of Charles Jencks, or those of Robert Venturi and his concept of the decorated shed, for example, in which the façade is separated from the house, as is the case with the BEST stores. Wines also introduces the concepts of dissociation and fragmentation in his architecture. Influenced by Carl Jung’s texts on the logic of the dream, Wines calls upon the irrational and equivocal. He turns architecture into a “means for architectural criticism” drawing on imagery from advertising, sitcoms, rock music, junk culture, reflecting the heterogeneous nature of the context itself. “The context is the content” Wines writes.'⁠
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📝📸 artchist.blogspot.com