Giles Fraser visits the rooftop Islamic Gardens at the Aga Khan Centre in Kings Cross, London. Show more In her poem 'God's Garden', Dorothy Frances Gurney writes: 'One is nearer God’s heart in ...

Kamemoto describes the Aga Khan Centre as ‘mille-feuille’ the delicately layered vanilla French pastry. ‘It’s layered vertically with different tones,’ he says of the architecture, through which the ...

The Aga Khan Centre is the new UK home for several educational and development institutions founded by Aga Khan. ... A series of roof gardens, terraces and courtyards – the Islamic Gardens at King’s ...

The limestone-clad building – which is topped by Islamic roof gardens – provides academic, archive and office spaces arranged around a central atrium The Aga Khan Centre in London, which opens in the ...

To see these gardens, you’ll need to book a free tour through the Aga Khan website. Outside the Aga Kahn centre is Jellicoe gardens, inspired by the Persian Bagh-e Fin garden in Iran, which is ...

The University of Alberta Botanic Garden opens its new $25 million Aga Khan Islamic garden on Friday. It's a gift of grace and grandeur.

The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, gifted the $25-million garden to the University of Alberta and it opened four years ago in the U of A Botanic Garden southwest of Edmonton.

An unusual exhibition opens this month at London’s Aga Khan Centre in which nineteen international artists explore the concept of Al-Jannah, the Garden of Eden or Paradise in Islam.

Here are roof gardens that are open for all to enjoy the plants — and the views. High above our heads are some of the most spectacular, unusual green spaces in the capital.

The Aga Khan himself took an interest in every detail, he says, right down to the size of the pebbles in the gravel. The result is a modern take on a traditional chahar bagh , or four-part garden.

It is not uncommon to catch a glimpse of greenery poking out from the roof of a London building, but the chances of getting up to visit it are fairly slim — the majority of rooftop gardens in London ...