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 horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone. Let our lakes receive as true names at least as the Icarian Sea, where “still the shore” a “brave attempt resounds.””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)