Kew Gardens, UK

Kew Gardens

Beehive inspired pavilion

Tree top walk way

On July 3rd 2003 the Kew garden was officially a word heritage site. Kew garden is filled with a variety of rare and indigenous plants and birds. It has some beautiful structure some dated back to the 1700s, which is one of the smallest and most intimate is made from red brick in a Flemish bond with the sides and ends alternating. The experience of visiting the gardens is breath taking with the experience of the bird life, the shade of the garden itself and the beautiful architecture.(1) King Williams’s temple sits on a mountain high platform in memory of William the fourth which was order to build by Queen Victoria. Its portico ordering system is “aba” like most small temples. The portico also contains plaques commemorating British military victories. (2)The main gate was fashion and Jacobean style iron work supported by stone pillars and was built in 4 years to signify what will become one of the world’s important botanical national institution which faces the River Thames, the Victoria Gate (named after Queen Victoria), situated on Kew Road. (3) The pagoda was completed in 1762, in the south-east corner of Kew Gardens there it was the Great Pagoda (by Sir William Chambers), the lowest of the ten octagonal stories is 15 m (49 ft) in diameter. From the base to the highest point is 50 m (164 ft). Every floor had a projecting roof, similar to the Chinese manner, originally covered with ceramic tiles and adorned with large dragons.  The walls of the building are composed of brick with a staircase of 253 steps, is in the center of the building. (4)The palm house was built by Richard Turner in the 1840s. The palm house to this day is tourist favorite attraction. It was made from glass and iron that at the time was the first building to have spanned a great distance. The building strategies was borrowed from the ship building industry which resulted in a light lofty space that was good for tall trees and plants. (5)The Kew consolatory was constructed in 1982 to replace 26 smaller surrounding building that was falling apart. Its technology create different environment as needed, wet or dry climate occupy the majority of the building but it has 8 other climate controlled under one roof. This place is very unique especially the architecture, there is not one building that’s repeated. Each architect was inspired by something different in their approach to what they were supposed to design.

 

 VERSUS French style Gardens

The style of this garden based on symmetry and the principle of imposing order on nature. Garden designs were composed of structures, with a progression of rooms which a guest could go through a course corridor, or vestibules with connecting chambers. They utilized the dialect of design in their plans, and utilize water powered frameworks to supply the wellsprings and bowls of the garden. Long bowls loaded with water supplanted mirrors, and the water from wellsprings supplanted ceiling fixtures. The overwhelming part of the design in the garden did not change until the point when the eighteenth century when the English garden touched base in Europe, and the motivation for gardens started to come not from engineering but rather from sentimental painting.

"Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew." The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide, edited by Helicon, 1st edition, 2016. Credo Reference, http://arktos.nyit.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/heliconhe/royal_botanic_gardens_kew/1?institutionId=259. Accessed 24 Apr. 2018.

https://www.kew.org/kew-gardens/attractions/mediterranean-garden-and-king-williams-temple

  

Arend, Liana Paredes. "Furnishing Hillwood: Marjorie Merriweather Post's Passion for French Style. (Hillwood Museum & Gardens)." The Magazine Antiques, no. 3, 2003, p. 88. EBSCOhost, arktos.nyit.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsggo&AN=edsgcl.98641323&site=eds-live&scope=site.