{"id":117,"date":"2008-08-24T15:29:33","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T15:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2008-08-24T15:29:33","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T15:29:33","slug":"the-olympic-landscape-architecture-of-firework-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/the-olympic-landscape-architecture-of-firework-displays\/","title":{"rendered":"The Olympic landscape architecture of firework displays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the hatred of competitive sport one learns best in a boys school, the only parts of the 2008 Olympics I watched on TV were the opening fireworks and the closing ceremony. China&#8217;s ancient prowess in fineworks and landscape painting were much in evidence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/edinburgh_fireworks_jenni-douglas-flickr-cc-2147744478_58e918db91_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-118 alignright\" title=\"edinburgh_fireworks_jenni-douglas-flickr-cc-2147744478_58e918db91_b\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/edinburgh_fireworks_jenni-douglas-flickr-cc-2147744478_58e918db91_b-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Edinburgh: fireworks with landscape and architecture\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/edinburgh_fireworks_jenni-douglas-flickr-cc-2147744478_58e918db91_b-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/edinburgh_fireworks_jenni-douglas-flickr-cc-2147744478_58e918db91_b-624x936.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/edinburgh_fireworks_jenni-douglas-flickr-cc-2147744478_58e918db91_b.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My home town, Edinburgh, ushers in each new year with brilliant use of its castle as a stage and Princess Street as the front stalls (photo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/jenni40947\/\">Jenni Douglas<\/a>). Beijing had fireworks running around the Bird&#8217;s Nest and dashing into the city (photo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/jenni40947\/\">Kathy Zhuang<\/a>). London had a great display on The Mall in 2002 to celebrate the Queen&#8217;s Golden Jubilee. In 2012, it should have a display which bursts out of the Olympic Park, tears up Thames and visits each of the Royal Parks. Such a show, would be a small thank-you to all those unfortunate Londoners, like me, who are forced to contribute hard-earned cash to an otherwise hateful sporting event. Obviously, landscape architects must be involved in planning the landscape fireworkitecture.<\/p>\n<p>See notes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/landscape_architecture\/london_landscape_architecture\/london_olympic_park_2012\">London&#8217;s 2012 Olympic Park Development Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the hatred of competitive sport one learns best in a boys school, the only parts of the 2008 Olympics I watched on TV were the opening fireworks and the closing ceremony. China&#8217;s ancient prowess in fineworks and landscape painting were much in evidence. My home town, Edinburgh, ushers in each new year with brilliant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,23,28],"tags":[50,90,150],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}