The Chess Atrium Garden

 

A glass atrium forms the membrane around this oxygen pod, which is a futuristic, industrial-style reimagining of the chess-inspired garden I designed in 2011.

Two armies, represented in botanical form by almost-black or variegated varieties of air-purifying indoor plants, watch from the battlements of 3D-chessboard-inspired planters. The steampunk aesthetic of the rust-converted treadplate throne counterpoints the utopian minimalism of the mirror throne.