Thursday, January 1, 2015

2015:Happy New Year




I wish everyone all the best for 2015, may your keen eye reveal beautiful vista's in your future!

As the media ended the year with list after list, I thought it would be nice to make a short list of the five most inspiring sites I visited in 2014...

-5- Langwasser (the Entlastungsstadt of Neurenberg also known as the first "Trabantenstadt")

-4- Gardenvillages Amsterdam-North (including the Vliegenbos a very rare elm wood)

-3- Gartenstadt Rüppurr (Unwinesque urban design south of Karlsruhe)

-2- 't Kiel Antwerp (several gems amidst the really ugly urban sprawl of Belgium)

-1- Nagele (the modernist new village built in the Northeast Polder of Flevoland)

And finally a place I must mention as it completely blew me away: Schlossgarten Schwetzingen, a unique late-baroque formal garden built for the Elector of the Palatine by Petrie von Zweibrücken with additions by Nicolas de Pigage which is incorporated in a romantic landscape garden with follies and arboretum by Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell (who also later designed the Englischer Garten in Munich).

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