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
Zozaya Arquitectos: Ixtapa or Zihuatanejo are complementary parts of the route along the coasts of the southern state of Guerrero. These are twin towns, only 6.5 kilometers apart, although with very different personalities. Ixtapa was for many years a coconut plantation, now it’s home to high quality hotels, resorts, luxury restaurants and first-cl...
Architecture firm
Zozaya Arquitectos
Location
Ixtapa, Guerrero, Mexico
Photography
César Belio, Heiko Bothe
Principal architect
Enrique Zozaya & Daniel Zozaya
Design team
Jose Antonio Vazques, Ana Cadena, Jesus Lopez, Cesar Octavio, Esthela Valenzuela
Built area
Total area building 5 (5 south and 5 north together): 2459.28 m²
Site area
First phase land area: 1532.81 m²
Interior design
Sara Campos
Civil engineer
Omar Hernandez Cabañas
Structural engineer
Omar Hernandez Cabañas
Construction
Zozaya Arquitectos
Supervision
Maria Jose Contreras Zamora
Visualization
Jesus Lopez & Francisco Garcia
Tools used
AutoCAD, Autodesk 3ds Max, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom
Material
Masonry, Concrete, Bamboo, Palapa Roof, Stone Walls
Status
Under construction
Typology
Condominium Development
Victor B. Ortiz Architecture: The tree house was designed to cope with and adapt to the site’s various physical and climatic conditions, allowing the user to control the built environment according to the external variables, thus promoting a seamless and integrated experience between architecture and nature.
Project name
Unfolding Memories Tree House
Architecture firm
Victor B. Ortiz Architecture
Tools used
Autodesk Revit, Rhinoceros 3D, Lumion 10
Principal architect
Victor B. Ortiz
Collaborators
Giancarllo Bruno, Guilherme Pulvirenti, Renata Leinemann
Visualization
Victor B. Ortiz Architecture
Typology
Residential › House
Rafał Jakubowski: This "Underwater Bubbles" project presents a house with a glass sphere under water for enjoying the view of the underwater life. The whole project is created for fun and distraction from everyday work.
Project name
Underwater Bubble
Architecture firm
Rafał Jakubowski
Location
Koh Phangan, Thailand
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max , Corona Renderer, Adobe Photoshop, Itoo Forest Pack
Principal architect
Rafał Jakubowski
Visualization
Rafał Jakubowski
Typology
Residential › House
Designed by Iranian architecture practice OJAN Design Studio, Character Café & Gallery is located next to one of the main streets of Mehrshahr in Alborz province, with the area of 530 square meters. This old building was a two-storey construction with poor infrastructure, a complex plan and numerous arched openings.
Project name
Character Café & Gallery
Architecture firm
OJAN Design Studio
Location
Character, Masih Pakdel Blvd., Shahrdari Blvd., Mehrshahr, Alborz, Iran
Photography
M. H. Hamzehlouie
Principal architect
Ojan Salimi
Design team
Ali Merati, Saber Tajik
Interior design
Ojan Salimi
Collaborators
Eghbal Amin Khaki
Civil engineer
Alireza Safavieh
Structural engineer
Ali Merati
Environmental & MEP
Keivan Tavakoli
Construction
Majid Reza Salimi, Alireza Safavieh
Material
Concrete, Iron, Wood, Stone, Glass
Client
Eghbal Amin Khaki, Mohammad Shojaie Bakhsh, Hossein Shojaie Bakhsh
Typology
Restaurants › Cafe
The Leonardo Glass Cube in Bad Driburg was designed by the German design studio 3deluxe and celebrated its opening in March 2007. After numerous innovative temporary design projects and architectural concepts, the Glass Cube is the first permanent building 3deluxe was able to realize.
Project name
Leonardo Glass Cube
Architecture firm
3Deluxe
Location
Bad Driburg, Germany
Photography
Dynamic Forms / Martin Foddanu Photography
Lighting
Licht & Gestaltung Schiefer GmbH
Construction
Metallbau Renneke
Tools used
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom
Client
Glaskoch B. KOCH JR. GMBH & CO. KG
Typology
Exhibition Center
The original design is from Zaha Hadid Architects, Wais Arman remodel this building as a practice to explore the free form surfaces and form-finding methods. He choses this building because of its complex design and futuristic, wavy shape which reminds me to motion and water fluidity.
Project name
Jesolo Magica - Fluidity 2.0
Architecture firm
Zaha Hadid Architects
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Autodesk 3dsMax, Corona Renderer, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Patrik Schumacher, Gianluca Racana
Design team
Marco Amoroso, David Campos, Ayat Fadaifard, Massimiliano Piccinini, Ivan Valdez, Francesca Venturoni
Collaborators
Favero & Milan Ingegneria
Typology
Retail and business center
Designed by Iranian architect Madineh Mohammadi, this project is located in an area with hot and dry climate, the orientation of the building is on the site of the east-west axis, the project site is near the Karun River with an area of about fifteen thousand square meters, in this project of suitable vegetation to reduce heat Air is used, to reduc...
Project name
House on a Slope
Architecture firm
Madineh Mohammadi
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Madineh Mohammadi
Visualization
Madineh Mohammadi
Typology
Residential › House
FR-EE: Design for a class-A tower on the most important traffic artery in Mexico City, Paseo de la Reforma. A 1.5-acre site with plans for a 73-level, 145,000 m2 tower with an additional 10 levels below ground. A series of zones create interstitial spaces for perspectives and views to the outside throughout the entire building.
Project name
Torre Puerta Reforma (Saba)
Architecture firm
FR-EE / Fernando Romero Enterprise
Location
Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City, Mexico
Principal architect
Fernando Romero
Design team
Mauricio Ceballos, Salvador López Polo, Alan Parra, Zuzanna Walczak, Victor Hugo Mendoza, Argentina Sotelo, Samantha Salgado, Karla Jazmín Gutierrez, Erick López, Marina Edurne Morales, Octavio Moreno, Brenda Muñiz, Alma Delia Nazario, Sergio Rebelo, Unai Artetxe, Joao Urbano, Lucas Velle, Celia Julve, Nicolle Hazard, Xiang Ao, Pierre Tairouz, Hangning Zhou, Nicholas Dolan, Daniela Gallo, Moss Owen Palmer, Marta Rodrigues
Typology
Mixed-use building
Milad Eshtiyaghi: The design of this project was formed with Iranian architectural patterns to have the identity of Iranian architecture. The main material of the project is exposed concrete and for some parts of wooden louvers have been used to create a canopy.
Project name
Concrete House
Architecture firm
Milad Eshtiyaghi
Location
Lavasan, Tehran Province, Iran
Tools used
AutoCAD, Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Milad Eshtiyaghi
Visualization
Milad Eshtiyaghi
Typology
Residential › House
