Walls and fences are typically used to keep people and areas separate, but at the Desert Botanical Garden an unusual series of structures actually brought people together. We combined wood, concrete, steel, stone and block to create a variety of richly textured and highly functional separators that both physically divided and visually connected ope...
Project name
Hazel Hare Center for Plant Science
Architecture firm
180 Degrees Design + Build & coLAB studio, LLC
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Photography
Bill Timmerman
Principal architect
Matthew Salenger coLAB studio, LLC
Design team
180 Degrees Design + Build & coLAB studio, llc
Collaborators
Garden Staff and Volunteers
Civil engineer
Dibble Engineering
Structural engineer
BDA Design
Environmental & MEP
Associated Mechanical Engineers, PLLC
Landscape
Trueform Landscape Architecture Studio
Lighting
Woodward Engineering
Supervision
180 Degrees Design + Build
Visualization
coLAB studio, llc
Tools used
Autodesk Revit, Rhinoceros 3D, Lumion
Construction
180 Degrees Design + Build
Material
Polycarbonate cladding, galvanized steel, and galvanized copper. Sustainability and repurposing materials are incorporated into most of our projects. On this project, we used recycled wood, repurposed concrete formwork for the site retaining walls in the decorative and security fencing and re-used acoustical ceiling panels that were recycled from the Phoenix Children’s Museum
Budget
$3.5M Phase 1 / $12M Phase 2
Client
Desert Botanical Garden
Status
Phase 1 complete / Phase 2 scheduled to break ground in 2023
Typology
Cultural › Greenhouse
Designed by Indian architecture and interior design firm Loop Design Studio Playground is a restaurant and lounge located in the main commercial hub of Chandigarh, India. It is an energetic injection of multiple textures, color and materiality that comes together on a beautiful canvas.
Project name
Playground Restaurant
Architecture firm
Loop Design Studio
Location
Chandigarh, India
Photography
Purnesh Dev Nikhanj
Principal architect
Suvrita Bhardwaj, Nikhil Pratap Singh
Interior design
Loop Design Studio
Material
Brick, mud plaster and hand-made tiles, concrete, wood, steel, glass
Typology
Restaurant, Lounge
With the weather warming up, it’s finally time to turn your attention to your garden. Gardening can be a great, therapeutic way to become one with nature, but it can be difficult to keep your garden looking its best. If you want to spruce up your vegetable or flower patch, but don’t know how, this list has got you covered.
Photography
Marzenna Gaines (cover image), Maria Orlova
A lush green lawn with colorful plants and flowers can be both a source of joy and a source of terror—the never-ending mowing. Finally, you are watering without attracting the wrath of your drought-aware neighbors. Yet, there are so many weeds.
Photography
Christian Lambert (Cover image), Brandon Hoogenboom
Do you ever browse gorgeous gardens and patios in magazines, dreaming that your outdoor space could one day look like that? Well, it can! With a little creativity, a bit of knowledge, and a lot of hard work, you can recreate some of the best garden designs.
Written by
Carol Trehearn
Photography
Daderot, Hiro2006 (cover image), 663highland, Markus Spiske, Martina Picciau, Matt Hoffman, Michael Lee
