Here we go again then stop bloody clamouring Binners ffs…

Yeah, Parks and Gardens. This involves any area which is set aside for recreational and/or horticultural use, and any buildings you might find therein, and stuff like monuments, gates, follies, fountains, that sort of thing.

I’ll start of with one of me faves (guess which city…?).

Park Guell, Gaudi’s flight of fancy.

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

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

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

Heaton Park

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

Burdett Coutts Fountain, Victoria Park, London E9

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.

Wiliamson park lancaster

Cragside house (Northumberland) has a 4 acre rockery!

I love this – Wythenshaw Pavillion

Here’s one of Architect LC Howitts original sketches

Has to be one of the best, 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 (Vid 1 and Vid 2 and vid 3) then it’s good enough for me. 😆

Inspiration for Central Park NYC

and a view from a quite famous garden

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

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 😯

Tatton Park & Gardens, Cheshire.

More from That London’s Famous London

The marvellous Canadian memorial in Green Park

Quite the view

The Hermitage, near Dunkeld

Glasgow Green



Cairngorms National Park

Balgay Park, Dundee – just because it’s got a public observatory

Hampden

and a very special place for me (the nice one in tangerine, not the minky one in blue)

Tamworth castle grounds. Big old castle, band stand and a river.

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

The castle

The pigeon tower

The Pike

The Gardens

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)

No buildings, sorry… But.. but it’s a fantastic little peice of Hampshire, unspoiled, ridable, forest lined river.

I loves it me.

@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?

Yes.

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

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

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

joins in challenge

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 🙂

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:

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:

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:


Westonbirt Arbouretum, Gloucestershire 


John Coles Park, Chippenham 

Parc de la Villette – it’s madness, I tells yer.
Oh, a deconstructivist joke…

I don’t get it, aP… 😥

Vigeland Park, Oslo:

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: