Colley, David, author.

Prospect Park : Olmsted and Vaux's Brooklyn masterpiece / David P. Colley ; photography by Elizabeth Keegin Colley ; in collaboration with the Prospect Park Alliance.

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2013]

207 pages ; 29 cm

Right in the heart of one of America's most densely populated urban areas, in Brooklyn, New York, sits an exquisite public space, Prospect Park, encompassing 585 acres of meadows, woods and lakes. Created some 150 years ago, the park still maintains the qualities achieved by its acclaimed designers; Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert B. Vaux, who also built New York's Central Park. Despite Central Park's acclaim they considered Prospect Park their masterpiece, designing it to be a place of great beauty, a rural refuge with a sense of nature and wilderness and filled with healthful clean air. Today the park's new Lakeside Centre Facility, designed by the award-winning architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, and scheduled to open in January 2013, continues the goals of the park's original creators.

9781616891183 (hardback)
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Olmsted, Frederick Law 1822-1903
Vaux, Calvert 1824-1895
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903.
Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895.
21.74 landscape architecture and garden design.
ARCHITECTURE Landscape.
Parks.
Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.)
New York (State) New York Prospect Park.
United States.

Colley, Elizabeth Keegin, photographer.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 283866
Cote: BIB 222322
Statut: Disponible