Old School Garden » Open Spaces

I attended a meeting in Haggerston, Hackney, London recently and spotted this rather fine old Park Keeper’s lodge at Albion Square Gardens. Old School Gardener

https://audaxdesign.org/2017/03/28/heart-of-hackney/

I’ve been a Green Flag judge for a few years now – I judged six parks and green spaces this year, including Eaton Park in Norwich (see picture below). I recently attended a ‘Debriefing’ s...

https://audaxdesign.org/2016/12/06/green-flag-going-well/

More than 80 unloved and neglected urban spaces across the country will be transformed into green oases for everyone to use, thanks to a share of a £1.5million dedicated fund, Communities Secret...

https://audaxdesign.org/2016/03/25/pocket-money/

I love this place. The Jardim Da Estrela (Star Garden) in Lisbon is fairly small, but captures every aspect of community life. I’ve been here many times, but never in winter. The day after Chri...

https://audaxdesign.org/2015/12/30/star-park-in-winter/

Old friends Jen and Dave are currently visiting Cambodia and Vietnam. Yesterday I had an email from them with some interesting pictures of public gardens in ‘the  French equivalent of Simla�...

https://audaxdesign.org/2015/11/25/da-latful/

On our recent trip to Bruges, Belgium we did a lot of walking and the weather was kind, with some bright, sunny, crisp mornings to explore the beautiful medieval town centre. One wonderful discov...

https://audaxdesign.org/2014/12/09/being-in-the-beiguinage/

Seafront Walkway, Malaga, Spain Old School Gardener

https://audaxdesign.org/2014/11/28/picpost-walk-this-way-2/

The 40,000 words of Thomas More’s ‘Utopia’ painted onto the sides of a redundant Electricity building in Norwich by Rory McBeth and students of Norwich School of Art and Design (2006). Old ...

https://audaxdesign.org/2014/11/14/picpost-a-place-of-felicitie/

A Learning Through Landscapes film in which Sir David Attenborough explains how schools in England are facing tough decisions to accommodate a sharp rise in pupils. He strongly believes that maki...

https://audaxdesign.org/2014/11/13/school-grounds-not-an-optional-extra/

Originally posted on Natalia Maks : I visited the Vigeland Park last summer. It is the world’s largest sculpture park made by a single artist, and is one of Norway’s most popular tourist att...

https://audaxdesign.org/2014/11/08/the-vigeland-park-oslo-norway/