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A notorious old landfill in Louisville, Kentucky is being transformed into the new Waterfront Botanical Gardens, a verdant 23.5-acre site designed by architecture firm Perkins + Will. At the heart of the newly opened gardens...

Heat-treated pine and steel were used to create this unique treehouse inside the Garvan Woodland Gardens in central Arkansas. The space, a 210-acre nature park with botanical gardens owned by the University of Arkansas, borders...

Dutch architecture practice UNStudio and Australian firm Cox Architecture have unveiled “Green Spine,” their proposal for the $2-billion Southbank Precinct overhaul in Melbourne, Australia...

No great city is complete without a botanical garden. Housed within gorgeous glass architecture, botanical gardens are rich in history and a great diversity of plants. Even better, these beautiful blooms can be enjoyed year-round...

Mosaiculture is a horticultural art form that involves creating and mounting living artworks made mostly from plants. The colorful foliage, usually annuals and sometimes perennials, are combined with two- or three-dimensional...

What was once an asphalt parking lot to support the Atlanta Botanical Gardens is now a lush garden filled with vegetables, herbs, fruit trees. Completely edible, the garden was built to showcase the food growing capabilities...

Read the rest of Denmark’s Natural History Museum in Copenhagen has a Walkable Green Roof Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "botanical garden", architecture competition, competition proposal,...

Read the rest of Madrid’s Palacio de Cristal is a Unique Art Venue in an Industrial Revolution-Era Botanical Garden Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "botanical garden", adaptive reuse, avant...

Read the rest of Madrid’s Atocha Station Doubles as an Indoor Botanical Garden and Turtle Sanctuary Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "botanical garden", Atocha Train Station, eco design, green...

Read the rest of CEBRA’s Green Ramps Spiral Through the Experimentarium Science Center in Copenhagen Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "botanical garden", "energy efficiency", CEBRA, copenhagen,...

Read the rest of Zaha Hadid and Paola Navone’s Secret Garden Transforms a Garden in Milan Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "botanical garden", Barovier & toso, Brera Accademia Art Museum,...

Singapore’s sprawling supertree-sprouting Gardens by the Bay are rapidly nearing completion – and two of the three indoor gardens, Bay East and Bay Central, have already opened to the public with rave reviews...

Artist Jose Agatep gathers glass containers of various shapes and transforms them into incredible terrariums filled with locally grown plants, wild mosses, small stones, soil, and wood chips collected from nearby forests...

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We’re crazy about this gorgeous botanical garden in Medellin, Colombia that was renovated in 2008 by Plan B Architects. The Orquideorama is an organically expanding wooden meshwork of modular “flower-tree”...