Podium Garden in Central Moscow

This small urban garden is located on top of an underground garage in central Moscow. The client´s brief was to convert the cluttered and uninviting terrace into a liveable and green family garden. Simple materials such as pine wood and Black Sea pea gravel were selected to cover up the original red granite cladding. As all planting beds are on a podium and the soils freezes in the winter resilient and robust plants of the Russian north and Far East and cold tolerant steppe plants were used.