Amazing rooftop garden by Pulltab design located in the East Village of Manhattan, this contemporary garden offers beautiful views of the surrounding buildings white maintaining a sense of prifacy for the owner. At the center of the design is a large rough sawn white oak block selected from a lumber mill in Pennsylvania. As part of a water feature the top surface has been hand carved to accept a custom made stainless steel basin with water spout. Designed to gracefully weather over the years the oak block acts as both a countain and a bench creating a focal point for the garden. The rooftop garden is a great place for relaxing while you live in urban areas, is a solution if you would like to have a garden but you live in small home or apartment.

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SWON is an art and design group that creates sculptural glass and lighting installations that blur the lines between art and design. The first and second picture is a cast glass wall is situated in a landscaped garden setting on the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto. It measure 7 feet high by 10 feet long. The cast glass wall is made up of 77 ladle poured glass blocks in varying tones of aqua blue/green with texture simulating flowing water. The cast glass wall incorporates a water feature that allows for a controlled spill over the glass. SWON designed, fabricated and installed the glass wall and water feature. Visit SWON website for more information about this product.

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Sky Planter, the new gardening solution for small space designed by Central Saint Martins graduate student Patrick Morris. His design provides a solution to fussy plant into small environment or a way to use plants as ‘eye catching’ design elements. The Sky Planter is a pot made of ceramics which especially designed to locks the plant and soil into place and hang from a ceiling or wall-mount, equipped with a reservoir hidden in the top waters plants gradually.

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Concrete cracks garden is a perfect garden design for small space, inspired by the tenacious plants of urban landscape. This garden concept recently received an an ASLA Honor Award in Residential Design for maintaining the site’s previous identity. It’s a small budget garden design and easy to apply in the backyard, it could be transformed through hostile takeover of an existing concrete slab by imposing a series of “cracks”. The rows of this garden contain a lushly planted mix of herbs, vegetables, flowers, and rogue weeds retained for their aesthetic value.

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I think that’s a new innovation of swimming pool design, the pool that can be float on the water such as lakes, dams, ponds, lagoons, marinas etc. Its a modern floating pools that easy to maintenance and you will be able to enjoy diving, swimming, relaxation, watergames, the dive within full safety in a clear and healthy water. This floating house is suitable to organizing the outdoor cocktails parties, fashion show, birthday party etc. Visit the Mobipool website for more information.

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