Tag: landscape architecture
Flora and Future Delights at North Point Park
The Glorious Fourth has gone out with a BOOM!, Bastille day revelers have long since abandoned the barricades, and the local tomatoes have finally arrived at the farmers’ markets. It’s late summer, and the big bright floppy prairie flowers are in full bloom in the New American Garden–that is, North Point Park. North Point is [...]
Wet Lions at Harvard’s Allston Library Park
When Harvard’s involved with a park, you need at least four lions and three prepositions. The pretty little Library Park behind the Honan-Allston Branch Library, which opened to the public on July 7, was “was created on land given to Boston by Harvard,” (emphasis mine) according to the Harvard Gazette. And it does have lions, [...]
Olmsted, Grundel, and the Remaining Back Bay Fens
By now, anyone who actually cares about Boston’s 19th-century park design has already read Justin Martin’s article “A Body of Water so Foul“ about Frederick Law Olmsted and the Back Bay Fens. For those of you who don’t care, or can no longer read articles longer than 140 characters due to a nervous Twitter habit, here’s [...]
