“Park vs. Park“ in the Times. Actually quite good. As for the forest, go there when it’s hot — the temperature is 15 degrees cooler. Your breathing will change. You’ll find yourself speaking in hushed tones. The sounds are all birdsong and water, and the air is thick with the scent of lindens. At 146 acres, [...]
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“here is a hint of unbridled wildness”
Posted in Landscape architecture, Places, Toby's posts, tagged landscape architecture on July 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
completed by people
Posted in Landscape architecture, Places, Toby's posts, tagged bad architecture, landscape architecture, promenade plantee, Rowan Moore, where to sit on June 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Rowan Moore, here: I’m told, by people who don’t suffer from the radical unmusicality which is my personal affliction, that in music pauses are as important as the notes. Something similar is true of architecture. The bits that are not there matter as much as those that are, as if buildings are only completed by [...]
Renaissance view
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Landscape architecture, Places, Plant management, tagged Crane Reservation, engage with landscape, landscape architecture, Plant management, spatial design, The Trustees of Reservations on June 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Don’t you love that new header? Toby took the photo at the Crane Reservation in Ipswich, a property of The Trustees of Reservations. He said that for him it has the quality of an oil painting; I agree completely. It has that same dark/light/dark sequence, that same frame/focal point/background flavor as a painting by an [...]
If a tree falls in a garden…
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Landscape architecture, Places, Plant management, Plants, tagged landscape, landscape architecture, spatial design, tree planting, waterfront on June 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Following up on the list post item from June 9, about what to use to replace a lost Norway maple: it will be a honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos inermis ‘Shademaster’), placed slightly upslope from the Norway stump. Last week I visited the North Shore seaside site (where last year we revamped the drive court planting [...]
Memorial
Posted in Deb's posts, Landscape architecture, Places, What we're thinking, tagged commemoration, engage with landscape, landscape architecture, memorial design, sensory experience of landscape on May 31, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Downtown Boston teemed with people this past holiday weekend. Stroller brigades patrolled the streets, the scent of sunscreen wafted through the breeze, and a general air of well-being rested like a pleasantly warm blanket over the city. Friday, I had walked through Boston Common and seen the simple and remarkable memorial to Massachusetts’ fallen military [...]
Then he took Berlin
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Miscellaneous, Places, Walls, What we're thinking, tagged Berlin Wall, Brian Rose on March 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Brian Rose’s website, the subject of yesterday’s post, also features his photos of the Berlin Wall and its environs before, during, and after its fall. He writes about the experience of place in Berlin, and for anyone whose knowledge of the Wall is limited (mine was derived mainly from watching Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire [...]
First he took Manhattan…
Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, Places, What we're thinking, tagged Brian Rose, New York landscape on March 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A friend recently sent me a link to the website of Brian Rose, a New York photographer. Mr. Rose’s work is worth a look (or two or three); his photo series called New York Primeval chronicles his exploration of ‘wild’ parts of NYC. Knowing that Manhattan, at least, has been invaded with all sorts of [...]
Small-space gardening
Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, Places, Plant management, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged engage with landscape, hedge alternatives, landscape, landscape architecture, Plant management, Plants, pruning practices, small-space gardening on November 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We’ve all seen photos of grand mixed and perennials borders on old country estates (Gertrude Jekyll, Vita Sackville-West, Beatrix Farrand), and of sweeps of perennials, grasses and shrubs by the contemporary designer Piet Oudolf and landscape architects Wolfgang Oehme and James van Sweden. They’re dramatic and luxurious-looking, and it’s easy to envision being right there, [...]
Older, and perhaps slower still
Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, Places, What we're thinking on November 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
If we’re talking about slow, how about Florence’s Ponte Vecchio? Or Pulteney Bridge in Bath, England? Although the more built up a bridge is the more limited the river views. Both these bridges house little shops along the roadway; slowness along them is likely to come from being distracted by stuff to buy.
another slow bridge
Posted in Places, Toby's posts, tagged bridge of flowers, high line, promenade plantee, shelburne falls, slow landscape on October 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Before Paris had the Promenade Plantée, before New York had the High Line, Shelburne Falls had the Bridge of Flowers.
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