Buckingham Palace Redesigned: A Radical New Approach to London's Royal Parks

Sir Terry Farrell

ISBN 10: 1901092402 / ISBN 13: 9781901092400

Edité par Papadakis Publisher, 1999

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Terry Farrell's plans for the full integration of London's Royal parks and palaces into the fabric of London in a positive and creative way.

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• Titre: Buckingham Palace Redesigned: A Radical New Approach to London's Royal Parks
• Éditeur: Papadakis Publisher
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1901092402
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781901092400
• Reliure: Hardback
• État de l'article: Very Good

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London's royal parks and palaces play a vital role: they highlight the difference between the City of Westminster and the City of London, or the seat of government and monarchy, and the seat of commerce. Sir Terry Farrell, an international architect based in London who has done some of his most sensitive work there, sees them as anti-urban set pieces: great country houses set in rural parkland, originally intended as hunting grounds. Over the years, they have evolved and become assimilated in the dense urban fabric. He believes that in a democracy they should be accessible as a glorious public realm. Published here for the first time are his plans for their full integration into the fabric of London in a positive, creative, and visionary way. The primary motivation for drawing up these concepts on Buckingham Palace arises from the long-held belief that the Royal Parks and palaces are London's primary public realm and virtually the only world-class public realm in the urban metropolis of this great capital city. Yet the parks and the palaces as they now exist are not as splendid as their designers intended: walls separate them from their parklands, very busy roads travel through and around them and pedestrian movement and visual connectedness are ill-served. It is to resolve and enhance the urban design importance to London that these masterplanning suggestions are put forward. The work shown is masterplanning and as such is at a very broad concept stage. Therefore, as with all concept masterplanning, the proposals are not 'architecture' as such, and all buildings shown are purely illustrative of masterplanning concepts.