Landscape
From “garden cities”, to large urban green areas that become the back-bone of cities, Taller de Arquitectura has created more than 100 designs for parks from Puerto Rico to Beijing. Many landscape projects designed by the Taller involve the presence of the river: the Turia gardens built on Valencia’s riverbed, the landscaping of the Lez river banks in Montpellier, the Manzanares Park in Madrid…
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Famous quotes containing the word landscape:
“The landscape of the northern Sprawl woke confused memories of childhood for Case, dead grass tufting the cracks in a canted slab of freeway concrete. The train began to decelerate ten kilometers from the airport. Case watched the sun rise on the landscape of childhood, on broken slag and the rusting shells of refineries.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“And year by year the landscape grow
Familiar to the stranger’s child;”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“Every landscape which is dreary enough has a certain beauty to my eyes, and in this instance its permanent qualities were enhanced by the weather. Everything told of the sea, even when we did not see its waste or hear its roar.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)