The project “UrbanLinks 2 Landscape” supports the Schloss Dyck Foundation, the Regional Association of the Rhineland (LVR) and partners from six countries (Sweden, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Great Britain, Germany) to work on the transition area between the city and the landscape. How can these spaces be designed to be more attractive and useable? How do…
Our EGHN partners in the Russian Museum / Summer Garden in St. Petersburg had the idea and the resources for an outdoor exhibition with photos of selected partner gardens of the EGHN and finalists of the European Garden Prize. After the long Russian winter, the exhibition “Heritage in Bloom” was opened on June 21st. At…
Giardino di Ninfa (Italy) 2nd Prize The town of Ninfa has a Roman origin and was built close to a spring. Of the abandoned medieval town remained a double wall and the ruins of a castle, churches, municipal buildings and private dwellings. Gelasio Caetani and his English mother, in the 1920s, started the creation of…
Broughton Grange (United Kingdom) 1st Prize The gardens of Broughton Grange are beautifully set in 350 acres of parkland, farmland and open meadow, with planting that owes its origins to the Victorian era. The gardens include the Knot Garden, the Long Borders, the Yew Terrace and others. The recent gardens’ development started in the late…
Adare Manor (Ireland) 2nd Prize The natural, built and heritage assets of Adare Manor Estate provide several contrasting landscape typologies. Recent developments significantly improved the character and restored key views. The arboretum as a heritage feature has been supplemented with new trees. The ‘white’ Ballroom Garden is bursting with flowering plants set amongst an evergreen…
Kasteeltuinen Arcen 2nd Prize Arcen Castle dates from the 17th century. The original garden had a division of sixteen rectangles. Ten of these areas, each with a different theme, were reinstated. The rosarium, surrounded by a pergola, includes more than 250 species and many perennials and shrubs. There is also a lovely woodland garden with…
Image by kind permission ©John Sturrock Pancras Square (United Kingdom) 2nd Prize Close to London’s St Pancras Station, Pancras Square forms part of the 72-acre King’s Cross redevelopment with over 40% of public open space. Pancras Square, a 4.000 sqm ‘outdoor room’, has a strong sense of place inspired by the atmosphere of a continental…
Bartokpark (The Netherlands) 2nd Prize In March 2012, after the developments of the BK40 complex and the demolition of the Bartok Hall some years before, this square in Arnhem was a thorn in the eyes of entrepreneurs and local residents. The Departement Tijdelijke Ordening (DTO), however, together with BUROHARRO designed the Bartokpark, a mini piece…
Mihai Eminescu Trust (Romania) 2nd Prize Transylvania can be considered as a visual record of rural Europe with all its ancient richness and beauty intact. It offers more than just a panorama of evocative architecture and magnificent churches or a survival of the harmony between man and nature or traditional farming. Its secret lies in…
Stavros Niarchos Park (Greece) 1st Prize The new National Library of Greece and Greek National Opera House are sited in the Stavros Niarchos Park in Athens by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. This 17-hectare ensemble is located on an abandoned seafront piece of land – a parking lot left over from the 2004 Olympic Games. The…
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