vietnamese inspiration

Vo Trong Nghia Saigon 'Stacking Green' house
Vietnamese / Japanese architect collaboration Vo Trong Nghia are the masterminds behind the Saigon house ‘Stacking Green’. The front and back facades are made up of layers of concrete planters cantilevered from two side walls. The effect is a stunning green wall of beautiful, tropical plants. Each of the planters has been designed with the [...]
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eat your greens

haiko cornelissen architecten
I stumbled across this little piece of creative thinking recently and I have to say, I think it’s genius. Bringing the outdoors in has never been quite so literal! Based around the idea of making the rural picnic accessible to city dwellers this great structure, called the picNYC table was launched by the Dutch firm [...]
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Dutch South African meets Coogee

Coogee Beach House MPRDG
With the long awaited summer finally arriving in the last week or so in Sydney, the beach house vibe is a calling!! I love to trawl the Internet searching for refreshing and beachy houses that have cropped up on our coast lines since the last bout of summer weather. This fantastic house standing tall at [...]
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just the colour green can make a difference…

vallo sadovsky architects ba-lik
A few weeks back I received this little tidbit in my inbox from archdaily.com. The Civic Association in Bratislava, Slovakia together with Vallo Sadovsky Architects have been working together to bring some green life back into the urban environment. They have created several green projects, one of which has been dubbed “Urban Intervention” – a [...]
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’tis the season

Flora Grubb - Succulent decorations
It seems to have come around fast but it is most definitely the Christmas season, and here at Eco we do love something a little different. So when we saw these gems over at Flora Grubb we couldn’t resist posting about them here. They last for weeks, and you can just plant them up in [...]
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guest blogger peter fudge – things that inspire me

Peter Fudge
About a year ago we packed up the family and moved into a new place. We said goodbye to our small but perfectly formed garden and said hello instead to a larger project altogether. I’d like to use the term makeover to describe the project but I’m not sure it’s strong enough! We inherited a [...]
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open gardens for stephanie alexander foundation

Paul Bangay Stonefields
Our good friend Paul Bangay is opening his Stonefields country property on from November 19-20 to support the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation. Paul has created a magical seven acre garden in Denver, Victoria. It is home to beautiful perennial gardens, walled gardens, woodland gardens, rose gardens, veggie gardens and so much more. Spring is [...]
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eco outdoor showcasing qut graduates’ design

Eco Outdoor Brisbane
Eco Outdoor Brisbane were honoured last Friday evening to showcase QUT’s (Queensland University of Technology) landscape architecture graduates’ work. We had a great turn out of over 250 people to view the final works of the fourth year students and congratulations to all those students who received awards. We wish all of you the very [...]
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eco outdoor at alowyn gardens

Eco Outdoor at Alowyn Gardens
Last weekend the Melbourne team was lucky enough to get a guided tour of the spectacular Alowyn Gardens, created by John Vandelinde of Jay Vee Landscaping. John, who created the gardens with his wife Prue, walked us through each section of the garden and gave us an insight into the motivation behind and beauty of [...]
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looking for free landscape or pool design advice?

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free landscape design advice in-store at nunawading on sat 26th nov As spring morphs into summer we start to use our outdoor spaces more and more. Now’s the time to get cracking and make the most out of our courtyards or backyards or whatever space you have to enjoy outside. On Saturday the 26th November [...]
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