Steel factory windows and doors frame the views in some of our favorite gardens.
Photograph by Dustin Aksland.
Architect Elizabeth Roberts replaced the back wall of a townhouse in Fort Greene, Brooklyn with two floors of full-height windows. On the ground floor, the entire window wall swings open to the garden.
In Chile, Santiago-based Ricardo Torrejón Architects designed an outdoor room tucked between the kitchen and dining area, framed by steel windows and protected from the region’s fierce afternoon winds.
Photograph by Felipe Fontecilla courtesy of Ricardo Torrejón.
Photograph by Matthew Williams courtesy of XS Space.
In Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, Brooklyn-based architects Khanna-Schultz connected a ground floor kitchen to a back garden with accordion-style steel windows.
London architecture firm Gundry & Ducker chose double glazed steel windows for their 1930s look.
Photograph by Hufton & Crow courtesy of Gundry & Ducker.
Steel-framed glass windows open to a brick courtyard in a London townhouse.
Photograph by Chris Tubbs, courtesy of Charles Mellersh.
Designed by Remodelista Architect and Designer Directory member landscape architect Susan Wisniewski, a garden for a Manhattan townhouse has layers of texture–stone, wood, and greenery–to create an illusion of greater space.
Photograph by Sean Fennessy courtesy of Claire Larritt-Evans.
In Australia, a wall of steel windows and doors lures sunlight into a townhouse living room.
Photograph by Sean Fennessy courtesy of Claire Larritt-Evans.
Interior designer Claire Larritt-Evans created a vertical garden wall on a small balcony.
Factory-style French doors open onto an outdoor terrace at La Granja Ibiza hotel. For more window strategies, see:
Photograph courtesy of Design Hotels.