St. Paul's Church, Cambridge, MA
It’s not just Gothic architecture that makes a good foil for honey locusts. I’ve always been fond of the Romanesque St. Paul’s parking court designed by Burck Ryan Associates. When it empties of cars, it’s a pleasantly proportioned and detailed plaza space punctuated with honey locust trunks; when the cars arrive, it becomes a shady parking lot.
If only those traffic cones were set square and plumb, and made of granite…Regardless, the place operates pretty much the way it was intended to, and in the most Cambridge-compact way possible.
Deborah Howe
Toby Wolf
Paley Parking, as it were.
Exactly. Without the water sheet.
Honey locusts are so elegant and subtle; I miss seeing them the way they grow in the East. We do have them here in Southern California, but they never look happy to me and they never seem to attain the same forms.