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Outbuilding of the Week: A Chic Chicken Coop in France
From corrugated coop to rustic luxe cabin, on a former pheasant farm. Must be France: Photography via Isabel López-Quesada. Above: In Biarritz on the Basque coast of southwestern France, interior...
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Trending on Remodelista: Modern Summerhouse
Julie and the Remodelista team spent the week "paying homage to the midcentury modern summerhouse, classic accoutrements included." Above: Julie and Margot have identical taste: they both collect the...
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Best Hardscape: Elliott + Elliott Architecture
The winner of this year's Gardenista Considered Design Awards Best Hardscape Project is Elliott + Elliott Architecture of Blue Hill, Maine. The firm's project was chosen as a finalist by guest judge...
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Current Obsessions: Down Under
Read on to see what we loved this week: Above: A contemporary garden room with blackened siding is added to an Edwardian house in Melbourne. Photograph by Ben Hosking. A primer on aquaponics, a...
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Best Outdoor Living Space: Earth Inc.
The winner of this year's Gardenista Considered Design Awards Best Outdoor Living Space is Earth Inc. of Toronto, Ontario. The firm's project was chosen as a finalist by guest judge David Stark, who...
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Best Professionally Designed Landscape: Outer Space Landscape Architecture
The winner of this year's Gardenista Considered Design Awards Best Professionally Designed Landscape is Outer Space Landscape Architecture of San Francisco. The firm's project was chosen as a finalist...
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Table of Contents: Heat Waves
What's the happiest way to confront the heat of August? Join us for a week of beach umbrellas, coastal cottage living, swimming pools, and secrets from gardeners in Greece. Above: Visit this idyllic...
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California Coast: Gym and Swimming Pool as Modern Masterpiece
A few months ago, I rented a house with a group of friends in The Sea Ranch, the Northern California coastline community that pioneered a distinctly rugged version of modernism in the 1960s. (For a...
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DIY: Cobalt Blue Planters (Houseboat Optional)
When I moved four years ago from New York City to a houseboat in Sausalito, CA, I felt totally qualified to have my own floating edible garden. On the East Coast, I had installed rooftop container...
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Greece
What Greek gardeners know: a Mediterranean climate requires you to embrace extremes. Dry summers. Wet winters. Hot sun. Oh, and little surprises from the sea (here's some salt spray and wind for you)....
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10 Easy Pieces: Shade Umbrellas
Don't let the date on the calendar fool you, there's still plenty of time for lounging on the beach. Extend your time on the sand with one of these classic shade umbrellas. Above: A Frankford Wood Pole...
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Steal This Look: Beach Cottage on the Dutch Coast
Located 34 miles southwest of Amsterdam is Katwijk aan Zee, a beach town on the North Sea where Dutch firm Kust Architects has placed 10 stylishly simple beach cabanas on the white sand. The cabanas...
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Landscape Architect Visit: Thomas Doxiadis on Antiparos
We all have an idea about Greece and there is bound to be something ancient in it. Yet visiting can be so different from imagining. In landscape architect Thomas Doxiadis' version of Greece, new angles...
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DIY: Instant Summer Hammock
Nap season is upon us. Prepare yourself by making this easy DIY hammock. Then climb in. Whether you're looking for a quick fix or inspired to whip out the sewing machine and install metal grommets into...
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A Texas Garden Where the Rare and the Endangered Flourish
An hour's drive north of Houston is Peckerwood Garden, with seven acres of rare and vanishing plants—many of them desert specimens that architecture professor John G. Fairey brought home from the high...
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Steal This Look: An Airy Outdoor Shower
When you build a backyard shower next door to a 25-story apartment building in downtown Toronto, questions are going to arise. Like, how can it possibly feel private? Cue the huge maple trees. They...
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Longest Bench Along the Beach
Boardwalk? Sculpture? Climbing frame? Garden feature? It’s Super Bench—purportedly the longest bench in the UK, perhaps in the world. Sometimes it takes another scale to shake up our preconceptions....
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Architect Visit: A Nordic Lido in Copenhagen
Designed by architect Fredrik Pettersson, the Kastrup Sea Bath is a sculpture for bathing that juts into the Øresund, a busy waterway connecting the Baltic Sea with the Atlantic Ocean. "My idea was to...
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Outbuilding of the Week: Portugal's Casas Na Areia
Are you the kind of person who defines summer by the feel of sand between your toes? In Portugal, an hour south of Lisbon on the Sado River estuary, there's an unusual inn where you can put your feet...
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10 Favorites: Stylish Summer Lawn Games, High to Low
Let's be real: What do you really need for outdoor summer fun? Not much—a lawn and some sun, and you're nearly there. But in case you're in the mood to class it up, here are ten good-looking summertime...
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