CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK, USA
New York's Central Park is one of the largest in the United States. It is located in Manhattan between 59th and 110th streets and covers an area of 3.41 m2. The project of a rectangular park was designed by architects Frederick Olmsted (Frederick Law Olmsted) and Calvert Vaux in 1857: Although it looks very natural, all lawns, ponds, and wilderness areas are artificially created here.
KINGSLAND WILDFLOWERS GARDEN, NEW YORK, USA
The Kingsland Wildflowers Garden is located on the roof of a warehouse building at 520 Kingsland Avenue in Brooklyn and has an area of 929 m2. The space opened in 2016 and has since become one of New York's most unusual and popular urban gardens. This garden is designer Damian Zunino's favorite walk from DB Studio. “This is a special place, completely different from other gardens,” he shares. - When it blooms, the sight is simply amazing, especially in contrast with the industrial architecture of the area. Every time I am struck by the combination of delicate wildflowers swaying in the wind, and the industrial buildings surrounding them. It's worth seeing it at least once in your life."
HASLEY COURT, OXFORDSHIRE, UK
One of the greatest tastemakers of the 20th century, Nancy Lancaster (1897-1994), who popularized the English country house style, left a legacy that still resonates in our hearts. Her reimagining of the gardens at Hasley Court in Oxfordshire reflects the combination of prim English gardens with the laid-back lightness of Southern style influenced by her native Virginia.
STOURHEAD, WILTSHIRE, UK
The gardens of Stourhead Manor in Wiltshire were designed from 1741-1780. in the classical style of the 18th century. They were located around a large artificial reservoir created by blocking a small stream. They were inspired by the paintings of Claude Lorrain, Poussin and Gaspard Duguet, who painted Italian landscapes in a utopian style. According to the then owner of the estate, Henry Hoare, “the greenery should be arranged in large “strokes”, as in the paintings: in order to contrast the dark masses with the light ones and dilute each dark mass with small patches of lighter greens in places.”
SISSINGHURST, KENT, UK
Author Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicholson's love of botany still lives on in the gardens they created at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent. A married couple bought the estate in the 30s of the last century and quickly turned it into a striking piece of landscape art. They called the gardens "rooms". Harold took care of the architectural side, planning the space based on his wife's poems.
HAUSER & WIRTH SOMERSET, BRUTON, UK
“I live in an oceanfront apartment in Hong Kong, but I have always been drawn to gardens,” says Chinese architect and designer André Fu , “Because I have been unable to travel for the past few years, I am now looking forward to visiting some of my favorite places. I love the Hauser & Wirth Somerset garden designed by Piet Oudolf . It represents a wild world with perennial meadows, but at the same time echoes the tradition of classical gardens with their combination of sculpted plants and herbs and rolling flowerbeds.”
KENSINGTON GARDENS, LONDON, UK
The Royal Gardens around Kensington Palace in London date back to the end of the 17th century. King William II bought part of the royal deer-hunting reserve (now Hyde Park) in order to equip a landscaped park in the Dutch style near Nottingham House. Subsequently, the territory was enlarged and the gardens were remade in the traditional English style, building a greenhouse there. Initially, the garden was closed to the public, it was first opened to the public in 1728 - and then only on Sundays. Today, Kensington Gardens is a real open-air museum. There are many statues and sculptures here, for example, there is a monument to Peter Pan.
GARDENS OF LES JARDINS D'ÉTRETAT, ETRETAT, FRANCE
The park in the French city of Etretat on the English Channel , created by our compatriot, landscape designer Alexander Grivko , opened in the spring of 2017. Since then, he has already managed to become not only the main attraction of these places, but also a world celebrity. In 2019, Étretat Gardens received the prestigious European Garden Award 2019 for Best Historic Garden Restoration. Hundreds of tourists come here every year to see the unique landscape solutions and, of course, take pictures against the backdrop of giant rubber heads dozing on green pillows.
LAS POZAS PARK, MEXICO
The surreal park Las Pozas is located in the Mexican jungle and resembles a lost paradise with dilapidated ruins and Escher-style labyrinths. It was built by the British sculptor Edward James, who moved to Mexico in the 1960s and there, at an altitude of more than 600 meters above sea level, realized his most daring and fantastic ideas.
PARK GUELL, BARCELONA, SPAIN
Park Güell is one of the most ambitious works of the architect Antonio Gaudí.(Antonio Gaudi), which would never have appeared if he had not met another enthusiast - the industrialist and philanthropist Eusebi Güell (Eusebi Güell i Bacigalupi). They met at the 1878 World Industrial Exhibition in Paris and became friends. In 1900 Guell purchased 15 hectares of empty land on a mountain near Barcelona to build a garden city there. The work lasted 14 years and resulted in an unprecedented architectural experiment, in which there were many revolutionary solutions.
SADE MAJORELLE, MARRAKESH, MOROCCO
Villa Majorelle is the main attraction of Marrakech, which invariably attracts here not only tourists and fans of architecture, but also lovers of garden art. Majorelle Gardens is the most famous and most visited project of landscape designer Madison Cox. Ponds and fountains interspersed with thickets of cacti and bamboo, evergreen arborvitae, weeping willows, water lilies and jasmine - it's all just breathtaking!
TOFUKU-JI TEMPLE, KYOTO, JAPAN
The Tofuku-ji Buddhist temple was built in 1236, it was built at the direction of Kujo Michie, a Japanese politician of the Kamakura era. Nevertheless, most of his famous gardens were created much later - from the 17th to the beginning of the 20th century. The most famous of these are the four Zen gardens of Hojo Temple (North, South, West and East). They look especially beautiful in autumn, when the leaves on the trees turn fiery red.
LUXEMBOURG GARDENS, PARIS, FRANCE
The Luxembourg Gardens in Paris are famous for their fountains, shady avenues and symmetrical flower beds, but perhaps most interesting is why it was created that way. The garden was laid out in 1611 or 1612 by order of Marie de Medici, the prototype was the Boboli Gardens at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence - the place where the queen grew up. From here, baroque Italian style and palm trees in tubs appeared in the French park.
GIARDINO DI NINFA, LAZIO, ITALY
The Garden of the Nymph (Giardino di Ninfa) is called one of the most romantic places in Central Italy. This is a huge natural park, covering 105 hectares, with picturesque ancient ruins with traces of frescoes, which are gradually overgrown with plants and herbs. Oaks, cypresses, wild roses, hydrangeas and plants from all over the world grow in the park. It got its poetic name in honor of the ancient Greek temple of the nymph Naiad, which once stood here and whose ruins can be found during a walk.