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:
“And year by year the landscape grow
Familiar to the stranger’s child;”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“We don’t need to connect. The prairie landscape isolates us from each other as well as from our history.”
—Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)
“The air was so elastic and crystalline that it had the same effect on the landscape that a glass has on a picture, to give it an ideal remoteness and perfection.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)