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Garden Off Sunroom A beautiful landscape can enhance any architectural project. A talented landscape architect, landscape designer, or homeowner with a green thumb, makes any project we design more beautiful. That partnership works even better when it begins early in the design process. Architects spend a lot of time on the placement of a new home or addition in the landscape. Views, sun angle and orientation, prevailing winds, relationships to the approach and internal flow are all part [...]

By James Crisp|2023-02-11T18:59:11-05:00May 18th, 2018|Categories: Miscellaneous|Tags: garden, garden folly, garden home, garden structures|5 Comments

Berkshire Botanical Garden-Garden Folly

This winter, when it was hard to imagine spring flowers, we received a call from the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Crisp Architects had been selected along with three other architects to design a folly titled ‘Gimme Shelter: Architects Design for Shade’. Proceeds of the exhibition and sale of the follies will benefit the garden and their many programs. We had a lot of fun with a variety of ideas then settled on a classic garden folly [...]

By James Crisp|2012-05-23T17:13:03-04:00April 18th, 2012|Categories: Accessory Buildings, Garages|Tags: Berkshire Botanical Garden, garden, garden folly, garden structures|2 Comments

Nothing reminds us that spring is coming more than digging out the potting soil, the rusted tools, and clay pots. For me it involves cleaning the refuse out of my vegetable garden from the previous year, opening up the deer fencing, and bringing on the roto-tiller. Like many things in life, the process is often more important than the final product. In the end, after planting watering and tending, dozens of vegetable plants and seeds over the course of the [...]

By James Crisp|2010-06-03T13:57:07-04:00March 7th, 2009|Categories: Accessory Buildings, Gardens|Tags: garden folly, garden structures, Gardens, potting sheds|0 Comments

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