Rooftops and terraces offer their owners real benefits for their quality of life. What better way to unwind after a day of work than to relax on a rooftop terrace, surrounded by greenery and amenities of your choice? A rooftop garden can range from simple to luxurious, allowing you to incorporate features such as a pergola, fountains, outdoor kitchens, sculpture, or even a television.
Look aloft, to the top of the buildings… a roof garden design is outward looking, a designed sanctuary high up on top of a building, sometimes with an endless panorama, a bright, beautiful, and open sky above it. Most appropriately, it fits today’s city dweller with their overscheduled, time challenged lives.
For many, traveling to a city park takes a 1/2 hour or longer to embrace nature; walking up a flight of stairs or out their side door to a shared...
The urban roof garden in Manhattan and other cities may have a significant precedent in ancient Pompeii!
The landscape design of the Villa of the Mysteries preserved from Pompeii, AD 79 shows an entranceway which led to the peristyle, followed by the atrium and an extensive terraced gardens surrounded the villa on three non-entrance sides.
The desire to create an aerial oasis recreationally at the Villa of the Mysteries could possibly be the same as at a firehouse 2,000 years later. In an article from the year 1912...
A few of our favorite film scenes shot in the garden from major motion pictures. Garden design ideas abound in these scenes. Please suggest a few of your favorite movie scenes in the garden after you enjoy watching...
