21st Century Architecture: Alfresco Living

21st Century Architecture: Alfresco Living features courtyard gardens and terraces designed to become part of the interior spaces of the homes they adjoin.

Providing an attractive solution for time-poor owners, these low-maintenance gardens function as outdoor extensions of everyday living spaces.Many of the courtyards featured are architect designed,while others are the work of landscape designers.

Though each designer's approach to the outdoors is unique, all demonstrate a mindfulness of bringing the outdoors inside,and extending the sense of space on both sides of the floor-to-ceiling glass walls and doors.