“La Miniatura,” Frank Lloyd Wright’s Millard house (1923), Pasadena, California
posted on 13.02.27
No neighbors for miles but when he danced for the plants that morning he couldn’t shake the feeling that somewhere, someone was laughing.
(Photo by Arsi Ikäheimonen; Dwell)
posted on 13.02.26
Build a $300 underground greenhouse for year-round gardening (Video)
It’s like a giant underground cold frame.
posted on 13.02.26
Conceived as a precious crystal, semi-submerged in splendid isolation, reached by boat across the lake followed by a short walk from the shore, the greenhouse blends into the hillside. Visitors access the building through a prolonged cut, literally scooped up from the ground, emerging into a light-filled reception space. From here the visitor passes along a tessellated mesh of paths to three different climatic zones with corresponding plant environments.The greenhouse has a horseshoe plan, creating a loop that changes radically in section to accommodate a series of unique planting and spatial conditions. With the interior and exterior ground planes gradually shifting in relation to each other, the visitor experiences a sequence of visual enclosures alternating with long vistas out and across. The horseshoe shape also generates an interior open-air courtyard, making it the natural centre of the building and creating a three-dimensional web of interior and exterior circulation.
posted on 13.02.12
the grade-II listed dunboyne road estate, camden, by camden council architects department (neave brown). designed 1966, built 1971-77.
posted on 13.01.24
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