Urban Gardens

Designer Stefano Sciullo was certainly on a roll in his creation of the Log Bench. Kinda reminds me of Rogier Martens’s Wheelbarrow Bench…

Born from Sciullo’s desire to create easily transportable and sleek seating that would fit well in … Read More...

Guerrilla gardens, including mobile gardens, are really a kind of pop-up with a message. For the town of Bristol’s Big Green Week, local residents created a pop-up Mobile Forest consisting of a fleet of a few dozen … Read More...

For the Dutch label Weltevree, Rogier Martens designed the Wheelbench, a mobile bench made of sustainable preserved Accoya wood. With a built-in wheelbarrow wheel, the bench is effortlessly transported.

“Moving a bench with two people has always been a … Read More...

S.O.S. Mobile Garden is a discarded shopping cart, suitcase, baby carriage, even a commode, retrofitted into a mobile edible garden for the purpose of engaging the public in debates about important issues such as recycling, food justice, urban … Read More...

Nathan Danials designs modernist bird dwellings that humans will wish were large enough for them.

Available: Modernist Birdhouse with Pool
For “upper middle class modernist birds,” looking to enjoy their leisure time, this clear western red cedar and birch birdhouse … Read More...

GardenSpace NYC, a cool interactive field guide to Manhattan’s publically accessible parks and gardens, by Brooklyn-based Landscape Design Firm, Green Sky Designs, brings city dwellers closer to their urban ecosystem, bridging the gap between the plugged-in pace of the … Read More...

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Urban Gardens is honored to be a featured source today on Pulse, a news reading application for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. As featured in CNN, NYTimes & Fortune Magazine, Pulse … Read More...

In may part of the world, the ground is covered in snow, but I look forward to Spring when I can picnic in the park. To debut at the IMM Cologne design fair on January 18, Vial’s new Fido folding … Read More...

Welcome the itinerant gardener, not the one who travels from plot to plot, but the one whose community gardens travel from spot to spot. We’ve written about mobile gardens before, but these self-contained gardens go beyond being simply plant-growing mobile … Read More...

A group of Dutch artists have made Amsterdam a little greener with the launch in March of the Mobile Gardens, an initiative to promote vertical gardening with citizens of Amsterdam New West.

The mobile garden project, created by artists Jair … Read More...