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:
“There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics.... Error is certaintys constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.”
—Louis Aragon (18971982)
“We dont need to connect. The prairie landscape isolates us from each other as well as from our history.”
—Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)
“And year by year the landscape grow
Familiar to the strangers child;”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)