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Garden by the Water

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Atlas House

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Garden with a Path

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Garden on a Bunker

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Garden at the River

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Garden with a Table

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Zig Zag Garden

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Garden with a Skyline

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Garden in the Forest

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Got to see this gem by @coyotewillow @danpearsonst Got to see this gem by @coyotewillow @danpearsonstudio last summer. 

‘In the rugged borderland between England and Scotland, there is a renaissance happening. Outside the market town of Penrith, a wild, imaginative garden is rising up, set against the austere ruins of Lowther Castle. Cumbria, with its poetic links to the birthplace of the eighteenth-century Romantic era, could not be a more fitting place for this garden… The garden is far from finished – the best gardens never are – and there are plans to extend the planting further into the ruin and also to create a rose garden where military tanks once churned grass into mud. There is a constant struggle for money and visitor numbers and the harsh weather does not help, but as plants colonise the stone mullions and soaring towers of the crumbling building, Lowther is well on its way to become one of the most atmospheric and exciting gardens in the country.’

📝 Clare Foster @clarefostergardens for  @houseandgardenuk

@lowther_castle
Landscaping along the French highway near Crazanne Landscaping along the French highway near Crazannes by Bernard Lassus.

‘At the forefront of innovative French landscape design, Bernard Lassus has developed a uniquely modern ethos. Working in the context of a multicultural society, he sets out to create ‘rational approaches that anchor the lives of men and women in nature and history’. - Michel Conan

‘In short, there are at least two very different cultures fostered by the motorway. First, there is a culture of time efficiency, with the corollary danger of car accidents, shared by all motorway users. Second, there is a culture of place, of nostalgia for lost identities and of alienation from the world that the motorway symbolises. They merge to produce a sense of economic globalisation on the move with its corollaries of mutual ignorance between motorway users and motorway neighbours, and of growing opposition by rural landowners and political representatives to the construction of motorways. Thus motorways come to be seen as sources of growing conflicts and soaring construction costs that negatively affect the allocation of resources for the general welfare.’

‘Bernard Lassus, the landscape architect advising the motorway company, had already proposed a response to these problems. First, he wanted to create rest areas that would encourage drivers to stop and relax – that is, to forget about the Ideology of time efficiency fostered by the use of the motorway itself. In other words, he wanted to create rest areas that would ignore and spurn the motorway culture, and yet would appear attractive to people trapped within this cultural view of travel. Second, he wanted these rest areas to be a tribute to the local environment, a place of symbolic value for people having and working in the vicinity, and an intriguing invitation to motorway users to go and visit the rural world, and a place local people could acknowledge and be proud of.’
Last Summer we visited The Dunmore Pineapple (look Last Summer we visited The Dunmore Pineapple (look it up, it’s fun 🍍) and we hiked around for a bit.

Suddenly we stumbled upon an abanonded mansion, slowly taken over by trees, plants and graffiti. Like a wild @lowther_castle by @coyotewillow 

In the evening I wouldn’t go in since I’m a 🐔 and it used to function as a private school for girls (hello horror movie 👧🏼🔪🩸) but by daylight with two guard dogs by my side I dared to enter. Glad I did!
The neurotics’ monument—Oskar’s Puddle in Wa The neurotics’ monument—Oskar’s Puddle in Warsaw by artist Rafał Bujnowski @bujnowskirafal 

A trough carved in the granite paving stones. becoming visible when it rains. The puddle takes the shape of a per­fect circle.

Thanks for introducing me to this work @ttrzupek 

📸 rastergallery.com
Tanner Fountain by Peter Walker @pwpla Located at Tanner Fountain by Peter Walker @pwpla

Located at a pedestrian crossroads near Harvard Yard, this prize-winning fountain, consisting of 159 granite boulders sourced from regional farms, recalls the colonists’ arduous experience of clearing their agricultural fields. Set smooth side up, the boulders create a 60-foot-diameter circle overlapping the asphalt paving, th e existing grass, and two trees. Water emitted from 32 nozzles located in the center of the circle is captured and re-circulated through the fountain. For three seasons of the year the nozzles emit a dematerializing mist while in winter steam from the university heating plant creates a fog around the fountain. The fountain elegantly displays the snow that Cambridge unfailingly provides and invites human participation without suggesting any particular activity. As a result, the fountain is heavily used by people of various ages who sit, read, climb, jump, flirt, converse, and meditate.

📸 @pwpla 
📝 @pwpla
Last Tuesday I got to visit the French gardener, w Last Tuesday I got to visit the French gardener, writer, entomologist, teacher,  landschape architect and big time inspiration Gilles Clement. 

Together with @zasbrezar we talked about his youth, his concepts and the importance of wild, natural spaces. 

It was a great pleasure meeting him, such an inspirational, positive man to learn from. 

Thanks for the invite @zasbrezar @landezine_com!

Images are of the Jardins de l’Arche de la Défense, all pics by Gilles Clement.
These pics by @loesvanduijvendijk reminded me how These pics by @loesvanduijvendijk reminded me how enjoyable this project was to work on. Such a nice collaboration with 
📐@overtredersw
🌱@onkruidenier
🥬@joyce.oomen 
🪵@fictionfactory.amsterdam 
🎪@kossmanndejong 
🖌@paulfaassen
⚒️#paulcasteleijn

If there’s a Floriade again in ten years, can we do it again?
The strange thing with festival gardens is that mo The strange thing with festival gardens is that most visitors come by only one time, while one of the things I love most about gardens is how they change. 

These are three shots from more or less the same point of view. The first one taken just after completion in April, the second one in June and the last one in October. Showing how the balance between architecture and planting changes over time. 

@overtredersw 
@kossmanndejong 
@joyce.oomen 
@paulfaassen
@fictionfactory.amsterdam 

first two pics by @jornvaneck 
third pic by @loesvanduijvendijk
Ten days ago, on October 13th, I gave my inaugural Ten days ago, on October 13th, I gave my inaugural lecture as the new head of landscape architecture @academievanbouwkunst.

Thanks for all who showed up, in real life or online. Thanks to @hanneke.kijne for your kind words and the oak sapling. Thanks to @academievanbouwkunst for organising all of this and for selecting me in the first place. Thanks to @mainstudio for making such a wonderful booklet. Thanks to @iwansmit for your artwork. 

For those who wanna see the lecture, there’s a link in my bio to the recorded event.

I’m looking forward to the next four years!