Anyone looking for design ideas for patios, terraces, and other compact outdoor spaces will find this inspirational sourcebook invaluable, whether starting afresh or fine-tuning an existing design. This is the ultimate resource for innovative terrace, roof garden, patio, and balcony design ideas for outdoor spaces of all shapes and sizes. Featured inside this lavishly illustrated sourcebook are 600 full-color photographs and diagrams of uniquely beautiful projects from around the world, by well-known and up-and-coming garden and landscape designers. They reveal how to create exterior spaces in a variety of styles, from a classic urban roof garden with romantic garden plantings to clean, modern, and innovative spaces. Traditional as well as cutting-edge materials that are practical, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly are featured throughout. Most importantly, the design ideas featured can easily be tailored to the unique tastes and individual needs of a particular site or project.Truly an inspirational sourcebook for anyone aspiring to create or update an outdoor room, the book includes designs from all parts of the world — the United States, Canada, England, Japan, and France, among other countries — by some of the very best contemporary garden designers and landscape architects at work today. This book is destined to become a perennial resource.

150 Best Sustainable House Ideas features the latest innovations in environmentally friendly home design. From heating and cooling solutions to wind energy systems, solar paneling, thermal glazing, and even Trombe walls, the ideas featured inside are complemented by photographs and architectural plans of gorgeous, sustainable houses around the world.

New ideas on how to design, build, and decorate a home are always of essential value to architects, designers, and homeowners alike. This book offers an extensive collection of apartments from all over the world, devised by distinguished international architects and designers who have worked to achieve practical, innovative, and stunning solutions adapted to the specific needs and particular tastes of their clients. This compilation expresses the diversity of current trends in apartment design and provides an inspirational source of ideas for those active in the field of design or interested in catching up on the latest in contemporary residential architecture.