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slow bridge
Posted in Places, Toby's posts, tagged bridge, grafton, slow landscape on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More by Fletcher Steele
Posted in Places, Toby's posts, tagged Fletcher Steele, Turner Garden on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Compression” isn’t a term often used to describe landscape spaces, but at the Turner Garden outside Rochester, New York, Fletcher Steele made an elliptical pool into an intensely compressed space. The small pool opens to a terrace at one end and a vista at the other (with a narrow rill — again! — leading towards [...]
Columnar
Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, Places, What we're thinking, tagged columns, landscape, landscape architecture, masonry, visual pun on October 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I noticed this visual pun only after I’d uploaded my Naumkeag photos back in the office.
Up and down at Naumkeag, Part 2
Posted in Deb's posts, Places, Steps on October 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Naumkeag was built on a steep hill, and so its landscape required quite a bit of manipulation to be usable. The Peony Terraces behind the house show how a big drop in elevation over a short distance can be turned into a showcase. In this instance, the terraces gave Mabel Choate a way to show [...]
Up and down at Naumkeag, Part 1
Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, Places, Steps, tagged Naumkeag, slopes, spatial design, Steps, The Trustees of Reservations on October 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
What do we see if we look at one place through a particular lens? Last week I was out at Naumkeag in Stockbridge, MA, and found myself appreciating the wide vocabulary of ways that Fletcher Steele used to get garden guests up and down the slopes. Here’s a partial list: Naumkeag, the Choate family estate [...]
Crowding the bed
Posted in Deb's posts, Places, Plant management, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged engage with landscape, fothergilla, landscape architecture, plant habits, planting closely, Plants, shrub planting on September 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Harvard University has recently been building on Memorial Drive, along the Charles River. The site that had held a garden center (most recently, Mahoney’s, and before that, the Grower’s Market, where I sold Christmas trees one year) is now becoming a park and a graduate student dormitory. The dorm is done; the park (originally slated [...]
archipelago
Posted in Places, Working Landscape, tagged John McManus, Marine Mammal Center, McManus Architects, New Balance Marine Mammal Center, New England Aquarium, Northern Fur Seals, Rockwork, Winston Churchill on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When Winston Churchill was advocating that Britain’s House of Commons, destroyed in the war, be rebuilt in its old configuration, he cited the way the building’s design had influenced the debates that went on there, famously saying “We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us.” The House of Commons fosters loud and lively debate. The [...]
Overlay
Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, Places on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Craig Verzone’s comment on the Tilted Planes post didn’t make sense to me until he sent me an email asking if I’d seen this project on Cornell’s Arts Quad. And then it did. Click on the project link above and take a look at a wonderful photo.
Parking among the locusts
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Materials, Places, What we're thinking, tagged courtyard, engage with landscape, landscape architecture, linkedin, tree planting, trees on August 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Tracery and Flying Buttresses
Posted in Places, Plants, tagged Boston, Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Gleditsia triacanthos, Honeylocusts, landscape architecture on August 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Honeylocusts fill in what the builders left out.
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