Comments on: Proposed alterations to the grounds at Drumlanrig Castle https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/proposed-alterations-to-the-grounds-at-drumlanrig-castle/ Gardenvisit.com Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:09:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/proposed-alterations-to-the-grounds-at-drumlanrig-castle/#comment-148 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:09:47 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=230#comment-148 Maybe the following quote may assist you in considering the Seagram building?

“On my way to work every day, I saw every day a very old house I liked particularly. I didn’t know then why and so on. But I liked it more and more. And then I asked myself, “What is the quality of this house? What is it?” It was not that it belonged to a certain style. It was just a plain, but to me a very fine house. By looking at it carefully, I found that the brickwork was done very well, and that the stone frames of the windows was done very well, and that the timber work was done very well. It takes no particularly elegant proportions, but it had very good proportions. And the workers of the house seemed equally … and reasonable. Everything was in harmony with the other parts, and I think that gave this house the beauty I saw.” Quote from Mies van der Rohe’s commencement address 1958 at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Perhaps you might also like to view the following weblink: http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/building_street_views.cgi?Seagram_Building

]]> By: stefan https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/proposed-alterations-to-the-grounds-at-drumlanrig-castle/#comment-147 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:46:03 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=230#comment-147 well, its good we can agree to differ!

the Seagram building is a ‘classic’ that i could never see the big deal about. its a big rectangle? wow.

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/proposed-alterations-to-the-grounds-at-drumlanrig-castle/#comment-146 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:46:12 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=230#comment-146 INTEGRATING DESIGN WITH NATURE OR NATURE WITH DESIGN

5. I do agree more has to be done about integrating cities and nature; whether that is through strong ideas of cities in nature or nature in cities.

I’m not sure I agree with you about Hundertwasser. (You haven’t convinced me yet.) I’ll go with po-faced any day over ‘Disney-style’ architecture. If I wasn’t happy with the po-faced sterile architecture I guess that I would at least have a better base to work with to renovate etc than something in Hundertwasser’s mode of expression. (You could send me an example of po-faced architecture as I may dislike it just as much as you do.)

But I suppose all is not lost if Hundertwasser makes someone (yourself) feel positively about the world, their day and their environment. [I’ll just look the other way when I go passed and hope it doesn’t proliferate!!]

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/proposed-alterations-to-the-grounds-at-drumlanrig-castle/#comment-145 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:44:53 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=230#comment-145 Yes, I would like to see the large extent of the lower ‘parterre’ managed as a wild flower meadow. This would involve lowering its fertility and perhaps over-sowing with a wildflower mix. The old path pattern, if that is what it is, would then be recovered with a mower. Christopher Lloyd popularised this approach at Great Dixter and it is now seen in many English gardens. As an alternative to ‘recovering’ the old path pattern, one could treat the ‘parterre’ as a great canvas and invite different artists to ‘draw’ on it each year. This could do a lot to raise the profile of Drumlanrig and thus increase visitor numbers, though I am not sure if this is what the estate wants.

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/proposed-alterations-to-the-grounds-at-drumlanrig-castle/#comment-144 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:43:27 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=230#comment-144 Yes, I would like to see the large extent of the lower ‘parterre’ managed as a wild flower meadow. This would involve lowering its fertility and perhaps over-sowing with a wildflower mix. The old path pattern, if that is what it is, would then be recovered with a mower. Christopher Lloyd popularised this approach at Great Dixter and it is now seen in many English gardens. As an alternative to ‘recovering’ the old path pattern, one could treat the ‘parterre’ as a great canvas and invite different artists to ‘draw’ on it each year. This could do a lot to raise the profile of Drumlanrig and thus increase visitor numbers, though I do not know if this is what the estate wants.

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/proposed-alterations-to-the-grounds-at-drumlanrig-castle/#comment-143 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:36:41 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=230#comment-143 This novel garden has a mysterious ephemeral quality reminiscent of a woodland clearing. Are you proposing to plant the garden in the collage with woodsage, hawthorn, ransoms, strawberry, Wood anenome and honey suckle?
http://www.pbase.com/byrontilly/wild_flowers&view=slideshow.

When, in what sequence and for what duration do you expect the flowers to bloom? When and which butterflies will be about to enhance this visual display? How are you proposing to change the wild flower display from time to time? Can you see the garden from the castle? [There was an amazing drawing on the website where you could ‘click’ on each of the gardens around the castle grounds…but I don’t seem to be
able to find it again.]

A really extravagant decorator would take advantage of such a subtle floral display to make deft changes to the interior decor of the rooms to reflect the dynamics of the blooms outside and to create opportunities for their display within the house as fresh cut flowers!

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