Greenway in Devon is a beautiful woodland garden set on the banks of the River Dart. It is most famous for being the summer home of Torquay born Mrs. Mallowan, better known as the author Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime. She certainly is one of the most popular novelists in history. The gardens are…
St Ives is one of Cornwall’s most famous tourist venues with its fishing port, beaches and a warm climate. It has a long association with well-known British artists from Turner through to Ben Nicholson, Patrick Heron and Terry Frost. It was in 1939 that Nicholson returned to St Ives with Barbara Hepworth and they established…
Landscape as an Extended Sculpture Ulrich Rückriem’s first opportunity to design a landscape for his sculptures arose when the outside areas at Sinsteden were being planned and realised from 1993 onwards. Prior to the construction of the exhibition halls, these outside areas had primarily been used for agricultural purposes. Various sections were created, which were…
The largest part of Gothenburg’s Botanical Garden constitutes a nature reserve including an arboretum. The garden comprises about 40 hectares and shows approximately 12,000 different species in various sections. The topography of the garden is very varied, much of it consisting of hilly terrain which lends itself naturally to boundaries drawn between different layouts with…
The Sculpture Park Waldfrieden is situated in the midst of an idyllic forested area in the hills above the Elberfeld and Barmen districts of Wuppertal. Mature deciduous trees line the serpentine road leading to the park, and several works by the British sculptor Tony Cragg can be spotted along the embankments of the entrance approach.…
The first view of the garden: mighty oaks surrounded by smaller shrubs and bushes at the end of a path covered in grass and mosses; a distant lake beyond, shimmering blue, grey or silver, depending on the angle of the light; to the fore, a ton-weight steel sculpture with a narrow passage cut diagonally into…
Two silk manufacturers from Krefeld – Dr. Josef Esters and Hermann Lange – com-missioned Ludwig Mies van der Rohe with the design of neighbouring houses and gardens at the end of the 1920s. The gardens were conceived in relation to their effect on the buildings but it is un-clear whether Mies van der Rohe personally…
Located to the south of the towns of Herten and Recklinghausen, Emscherbruch landscape park is a new 750-hectare area for leisure and recreation which has been developed on the Emscher river in a partially wooded landscape excessively shaped by industry and mining . The main component in the park is the Hoheward slag heap, which…