Comments on: Northala Fields – the landscape planning of a public park https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/northala-fields-the-landscape-planning-of-a-public-park/ Gardenvisit.com Sun, 08 Sep 2013 04:02:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/northala-fields-the-landscape-planning-of-a-public-park/#comment-5501 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 04:02:15 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=9805#comment-5501 In reply to Christine.

Jellicoe was the son of a publisher and seems to have inherited joint enthusiasms for the past and the future.

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/northala-fields-the-landscape-planning-of-a-public-park/#comment-5500 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 02:56:19 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=9805#comment-5500 Liz do you have a link to your dissertation that you could post?

Tom, Jellicoe is an interesting precedent for Northala Fields also. It also gives Jellicoe a bit of founding father cred in the sustainability movement!

]]> By: Liz Logan https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/northala-fields-the-landscape-planning-of-a-public-park/#comment-5499 Fri, 06 Sep 2013 15:15:47 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=9805#comment-5499 This was studied for my dissertation, and Peter Fink caused a stir in the council at that time – but it was progressive thinking in re-use of spoil for one.
see …Green Places Feb-07 article… “POLITICS AND THE PARK”

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/northala-fields-the-landscape-planning-of-a-public-park/#comment-5498 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 03:54:17 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=9805#comment-5498 You are right Tom, an interesting bio. My initial thoughts were that the aesthetics may have been influenced by Jencks while the philosophical underpinnings were more about ecological concerns. But it is quite probable that there is a more sophiscated interplay of influences going on than are informed by my cursory impressions?

Do you know of anything he has written on the project?

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/northala-fields-the-landscape-planning-of-a-public-park/#comment-5497 Mon, 02 Sep 2013 03:44:23 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=9805#comment-5497 In reply to Christine.

Given the date of Northala Fields completion (2007) it seems likely that the mounds were inspired by Jencks. In design terms they look better than Jencks ‘landscape mounds’ but not as good as his ‘garden mounds’. On plan and from the air they are not as good as any of Jencks’ mounds. In fact, on plan, they look as though they were designed for some water treatment function. Also, the story Jencks tells about his reasons for making spiral mounds is vastly more interesting than anything I have read about Fink’s work. But perhaps I have missed something: his bio mentions a degree in philosophy Peter has a leading role in strategic projects focusing on green urbanism and he brings to the practice an unusual background and combination of skills with degrees in Engineering, Philosophy and Visual Arts. With post-abstract art understanding is a necessary support to observation.

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/northala-fields-the-landscape-planning-of-a-public-park/#comment-5496 Mon, 02 Sep 2013 03:07:41 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=9805#comment-5496 Do you think that the park is any way inspired by Charles Jencks Garden of Cosmic Speculation?

]]> By: jerry https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/northala-fields-the-landscape-planning-of-a-public-park/#comment-5495 Sat, 31 Aug 2013 13:17:00 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=9805#comment-5495 I love Nothala field, it is almost the best modern park in London.

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