Historic Parks and Gardens in Westminster SPG
... features of many of these early squares. Soho Square had railings enclosing a garden, which was divided formally into squares of grass with a central fountain, and small clipped trees. St. James's Square was similar except for a basin in the centre, and Golden Square had an octagonal lawn enclosed ...
... features of many of these early squares. Soho Square had railings enclosing a garden, which was divided formally into squares of grass with a central fountain, and small clipped trees. St. James's Square was similar except for a basin in the centre, and Golden Square had an octagonal lawn enclosed ...
From Vernacular Gardens to a Social
... on some special plots, the leywota, as well as the extra care and neatness lavished upon the laying of the boundary poles, the tula, and he goes on to show how aesthetic pleasure and economic activities are entwined: “There is no doubt that the tula add to the elegance of a garden plot. At first sig ...
... on some special plots, the leywota, as well as the extra care and neatness lavished upon the laying of the boundary poles, the tula, and he goes on to show how aesthetic pleasure and economic activities are entwined: “There is no doubt that the tula add to the elegance of a garden plot. At first sig ...
Winter gardens - Almont System
... In the roof systems which we will use, it is possible to obtain a variety of forms and shapes: from simple single sloping to a complicated multi-sloping roof with a multi-angled base. The structure must guarantee good thermal isolation in the winter. The material used in the construction, both glass ...
... In the roof systems which we will use, it is possible to obtain a variety of forms and shapes: from simple single sloping to a complicated multi-sloping roof with a multi-angled base. The structure must guarantee good thermal isolation in the winter. The material used in the construction, both glass ...
Turn End - Chearsley
... been celebrated as a rare British representative amongst the best of European housing. The three houses were awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects Award for Architecture in 1970. Now listed at grade 2*, only 12 post war houses are so designated. ...
... been celebrated as a rare British representative amongst the best of European housing. The three houses were awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects Award for Architecture in 1970. Now listed at grade 2*, only 12 post war houses are so designated. ...
Community gardening in the United States
Community gardening in the United States encompasses a wide variety of approaches. Some influential community gardens, such as the Clinton Community Garden in the middle of Manhattan in New York City, and the Peralta garden in Berkeley, California, inspired by architect and community garden visionary Karl Linn, are gathering places for neighbors and showcases for art and ecological awareness, with food production cherished but seen as one part of a much larger vision. Other gardens resemble European ""allotment"" gardens, with plots where individuals and families can grow vegetables and flowers, including a number (for instance, in Minneapolis and Ann Arbor, Michigan) which began as ""victory gardens"" during World War II. Even such ""food"" gardens can be very different — for instance, plot sizes range widely from as small as 1.5 m × 1.5 m (4.9 ft × 4.9 ft) in some inner city gardens and art gardens, such as the Dovetail Garden in Charlotte, North Carolina, to relatively large plots of 15 m × 15 m (49 ft × 49 ft) such as those at Hilton Head, South Carolina.Some community gardens, in contrast, are devoted entirely to creating ecological green space or habitat, still others to growing flowers, and others to education or providing access to gardening to those who otherwise could not have a garden, such as the elderly, recent immigrants or the homeless — for example, the Community Garden for the Homeless, in Charlotte, is not far away from the very different Dovetail Garden. Some gardens are worked as community farms with no individual plots at all, shading into becoming urban farms.The largest community garden in the nation is reported to be Shiloh Field Community Garden in Denton, TX, measuring at 14.5 acres of land.