[Closed] It's Elfin's Tuesday Architectural Appreciation thread! Parks and Gardens.

Park Guell, Gaudi's flight of fancy.

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Cormier's Blue Stick garden so you can think of what a garden really is

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And one of the best modern garden designers out there - Christopher Bradley Hole's reworking of Highbury

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Fletcher's Folly, Clifton Country Park. Nice technical DH 😉

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Heaton Park

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I will always have a place in my heart for this bit of Victoriana, as I grew up by the park it's in:

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[b]Burdett Coutts Fountain, Victoria Park, London E9[/b]

Baronness Angela Burdett Coutts (1814-1906) was an heiress of the Coutts banking family and a philanthropist. She donated this drinking fountain to provide fresh clean drinking water to help combat cholera and alcoholism caused by the polluted supplies generally available, particularly in the East End of London. The fountain was designed by Henry Darbishire (1825-1899).

Somebody is do nice thing for other people less fortunate than themselves. This is good.

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Wiliamson park lancaster

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Cragside house (Northumberland) has a 4 acre rockery!

I love this - Wythenshaw Pavillion

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Here's one of Architect LC Howitts original sketches

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Has to be one of the [url= http://pictures.traveladventures.org/images/es/casa-de-campo03 ]best[/url], so close to the city centre, huge, a great place for outdoor activities and if it's good enough to hold a world cup mtb race ([url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBNl7i_jbmc ]Vid 1[/url] and [url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xvt4rD6hMw ]Vid 2[/url] and [url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W3rkic3d28 ]vid 3[/url]) then it's good enough for me. 😆

Inspiration for Central Park NYC

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and a view from a quite famous garden

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And place of many happy childhood days, possibly the only building left in the whole of Warrington with even a shred of architectural merit. Walton Hall Gardens

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Obviously Warrington Borough Council being a bunch of ****ing philistines they are, they want to flog the place off to a Hotel Chain 🙄

Binners - that looks like a Portakabin on bricks.

*notices more posts have arrived*

That Wythenshawe Pavilion I mean.

possibly the only building left in the whole of Warrington with even a shred of architectural merit.

You mean Mr Smith's has gone 😯

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Tatton Park & Gardens, Cheshire.

More from That London's Famous London
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The marvellous Canadian memorial in Green Park
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Quite the view
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The Hermitage, near Dunkeld
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Glasgow Green
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Cairngorms National Park
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Balgay Park, Dundee - just because it's got a public observatory
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Hampden
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and a very special place for me (the nice one in tangerine, not the minky one in blue)
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Tamworth castle grounds. Big old castle, band stand and a river.

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All the follies of the barking mad Lord Leverhulme provide a lovely backdrop to some great riding

The castle

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The pigeon tower

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The Pike

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i LOVE this place 😀

My old homeland, forest/valleys/hills/river/architecture/culture you name it, beautiful truely stunning.. I give you Ironbridge (now a AONB, like a Park but bigger)
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No buildings, sorry... But.. but it's a fantastic little peice of Hampshire, unspoiled, ridable, forest lined river.

I loves it me.

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@neilsonwheels

Did you know there is a beer festival there in a couple of weeks?

@Binners, where is that long flight of stairs located (in Rivi)?

@neilsonwheels

Did you know there is a beer festival there in a couple of weeks?

[url= http://www.lstcamra.org.uk/beerfestival.htm ]Yes.[/url]

Not too bad from what my old man's friends have told me.

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Kinkakuji Temple, Kyoto, Japan

beautiful place..

Yes Binners......it would appear we can get rivi into each weeks architecture thread!

how about a vertical garden
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.it would appear we can get rivi into each weeks architecture thread

There are all manner of long staircases through the gardens. But remember kiddies, don't ride down them on Saturday afternoons or anything. Evenings only for that kind of carry on 😀

This is the Garden of Dreams in Kathmandu. The site I just got the pic from says you need to be in Kathmandu for at least 2 days before you're allowed to visit this, and they're dead right. G of D is quiet, clean, tranquil, pretty everything Kathmandu is not - going there felt like a huge relief!

Still loving your threads elfin 🙂

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you've quite suprised me this week folks. i was really expecting more of a bottom up view of the world around us on this one but it seems to have inspired, with a few notable exceptions, more homage to the great and the good than the usual tuesday afternoon offerings. if that's what floats everyone's boat then fair enough.

for me, a park's not a park without one of these:

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Love LondonLady's vertical garden.

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Forgot to mention that cemeteries are allowed too.

I know Kimbers off here is a fayn of this, Brompton Cemetery:

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Never even knew nuffunk about it until a few years ago; found it whilst on a pootle with Kevevs. Fantastic place, quite a surreal spot.

Some lovely places on here. Mine are slightly smaller scale, and local to me, but they are nice places to spend time:
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Westonbirt Arbouretum, Gloucestershire 
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John Coles Park, Chippenham 

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Parc de la Villette - it's madness, I tells yer.
Oh, a deconstructivist joke...

I don't get it, aP... 😥

Vigeland Park, Oslo:

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In the AA Folio called "La Casa Vide" by Bernard Tschumi, which is basically the competition drawings for Parc de la Villette, Bernie writes that the pavilions which are called "Folie" have several meanings - amongst which are folly and madness.

Oh.

Parc de Montjuic, Barçelona:

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