This French landscape designer creates amazing optical illusions
François Abélanet is a landscape designer who uses geometry and perception to trick your mind and create these amazing optical illusions.
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Garden of the week – Pipe Dream
“Pipe Dream” was designed for the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show as an antidote to hectic & noisy city life.
Garden of the week – Edgware Road Tube Station
This 200 square metre green wall was commissioned by Transport for London in an ambitious effort to combat air pollution in one of the capital’s busiest areas.
Garden of the week – Gasholder No 8, London
A grade-II listed gasholder in King’s Cross has been lovingly restored and converted into a unique urban park.
Garden of the week – Living Staircase, London
Lucky office workers in the Ampersand Building in Soho can use this green staircase to meet, relax, network and socialize. The building was designed by Paul Cocksedge Studio.
The man who built a nuclear bunker in his back garden
What would you do if you were told the world was going to end in 34 days? That question was put to British Youtuber Colin Furze. His answer was to build the ultimate apocalyptic bunker/man-cave right under his back garden.
Garden of the week – Verdenskortet, Denmark
On the edge of Lake Klejtrup in Denmark, you can walk around a giant map of the world made entirely out of stones and grass.
Garden of the week – Where the River Runs by Penda
Created by architecture firm Penda for China’s International Garden Expo 2015, Where the River Runs has been designed to highlight the global water crisis.
Garden of the week – Timber Megaphones
Students from the Estonian Academy of Arts have created these giant timber megaphones, designed to amplify the natural sounds of the forest.
Garden of the week – “Farming Kindergarten”
Our favourite piece of garden inspiration this week comes from Vietnam, where Vo Trong Nghia Architects have created a school that doubles as an eco-friendly garden.