Vertical Garden

Hexagro has launched a new vertical garden designed to bring a splash of green to the home. Designed for folks with limited space, the Clovy is made using recycled or upcycled materials, and offers growers the choice of hydroponics or aeroponics.

Italian architect Stefano Boeri’s vertical forest buildings have now taken root in Milan, Switzerland, France and China. For his latest project, his firm is now returning to its homeland with plans to construct an "Urban Forest" consisting of riverside apartment blocks shrouded in plants and trees.

​Conceptual architecture can be a lot of things. It can be a realistic skyscraper, or it can be an extreme unreal imagining seemingly straight out of a science fiction movie. We’ve seen a lot of strange, and extreme, architecture concepts in 2017 and this gallery celebrates those exciting dreamers.

Few works of art are as beautiful as nature, so why not frame nature and hang it on your wall at home? That's the premise behind the Wall Garden, a new aeroponic planter that is designed to hang like a picture and grow herbs, flowers and vegetables.

Vietnam's Vo Trong Nghia Architects is on a mission to bring greenery to its country's inner city areas. The firm recently proposed a trio of condominiums for Ho Chi Minh City which are linked by a roof-based "sky park."

Vertical gardens may look great, but they typically require constant maintenance, automated or otherwise. Urban greening firm Treebox, however, has unveiled a new vertical garden than looks after itself. The Rain Garden uses no power and is sustained solely by rainwater.

Australian innovator Chris Wilkins has developed a new technology to make vertical green walls simple with his plug and play concept. Lightweight, modular and with a cleverly designed aeroponics system, business is booming.

A new living wall is being claimed as the largest in Europe. Measuring 1,027 sq m (11,055 sq ft), it comprises around 97,000 plants and is installed along the sides of a recently built multistory parking structure at the headquarters of the UK's National Grid on the outskirts of Warwick.

There are places on this Earth where you simply stand, slack-jawed, and pinch yourself to make sure you're not dreaming – and Singapore's Gardens by the Bay is as surreal a place as I've ever been. This billion-dollar techno-garden theme park is absolutely stunning right through.

Danish architectural firm 3XN has broken ground on an ambitious Mumbai-based project dubbed Grove Towers, that comprises two large sustainable mixed-use residential towers which are said to clean the local air.

A design firm has created what it says is the tallest indoor vertical garden in the world. Green Over Grey installed the living wall at the Desjardins building in Lévis, Quebec. Called "The Currents," the wall is inspired by views of the St. Lawrence River visible from Quebec City and Lévis.

The benefits to health and wellbeing of having plants and greenery around an office are well documented. A recent project by Ingameoffice is more than just a few pot plants, though. Its TYJ Office Building refurbishment uses a wall planting system in which plants can be moved around.