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pulltabOutdoor shower.
Stucco walls.
Ipe decking.
Industrial plumbing fittings.
Photo: Bilyana Dimitrova
Matthew Cunningham Landscape Design LLCA lush rooftop garden overlooking Boston’s historic Back Bay offers stunning views of the Prudential and John Hancock Tower. The character of the site is amplified by the dramatic contrast between architecture and sky. Mature magnolias underplanted with hostas form a threshold into the historic brownstone. Weathered-wood planting beds spill with new hardy shrubs, perennials, grasses, and herbs; a paper birch and a wind-sculpted spruce lend dramatic texture, structure, and scale to the space. Rugosa rose, juniper, lilac, peony, iris, perovskia, artemisia, nepeta, heuchera, sedum, and ornamental grasses survive year round and paint a brilliant summer-long display. A collection of new and antique containers dot the rooftop, and a terrific orchid collection rests beneath the birch tree during summer months.
Bell Landscape Architecture Inc.Rooftop garden featuring an outdoor kitchen by Bell + Aqui Landscape Architecture and Jennifer Post Design.
Chicago Green Design Inc.Chicago Rooftop decks are challenging. This small but well thought out deck space is just the right size to enjoy some free time.
Feldman Architecture, Inc.Photos by Joe Fletcher
General Contractor: JP Builders, Inc.
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JuliaБольшой балкон с деревянным навесом, защищающим от солнца и атмосферных осадков. Для ночного освещения используется настенный светильник в форме фонаря. Ротанговая плетеная мебель в светлом оттенке дополнена мягкими подушками. Низкий столик со стеклянной столешницей. В целях озеленения пространства оформлена клумба с каменной отделкой.
Prentiss Balance Wickline ArchitectsPhotographer: Jay Goodrich
This 2800 sf single-family home was completed in 2009. The clients desired an intimate, yet dynamic family residence that reflected the beauty of the site and the lifestyle of the San Juan Islands. The house was built to be both a place to gather for large dinners with friends and family as well as a cozy home for the couple when they are there alone.
The project is located on a stunning, but cripplingly-restricted site overlooking Griffin Bay on San Juan Island. The most practical area to build was exactly where three beautiful old growth trees had already chosen to live. A prior architect, in a prior design, had proposed chopping them down and building right in the middle of the site. From our perspective, the trees were an important essence of the site and respectfully had to be preserved. As a result we squeezed the programmatic requirements, kept the clients on a square foot restriction and pressed tight against property setbacks.
The delineate concept is a stone wall that sweeps from the parking to the entry, through the house and out the other side, terminating in a hook that nestles the master shower. This is the symbolic and functional shield between the public road and the private living spaces of the home owners. All the primary living spaces and the master suite are on the water side, the remaining rooms are tucked into the hill on the road side of the wall.
Off-setting the solid massing of the stone walls is a pavilion which grabs the views and the light to the south, east and west. Built in a position to be hammered by the winter storms the pavilion, while light and airy in appearance and feeling, is constructed of glass, steel, stout wood timbers and doors with a stone roof and a slate floor. The glass pavilion is anchored by two concrete panel chimneys; the windows are steel framed and the exterior skin is of powder coated steel sheathing.
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