Bellahouston Park
Glasgow
2006
Competitive design submission with Claire Barclay ·
A series of subtle interventions creating a thoughtful landscape narrative that weaves tales of the existing park, its past and present. Primarily the sunken former basement of Bellahouston House was to be transformed into a marsh garden, heavily planted with reeds and foliage to attract wild life, visible from ground level and above. A new arrangement of path, step, ramp would connect the marsh garden to two grassy scooped out terraces, and the excavated foundation of ‘Tait’s Tower’ - the now demolished ‘Tower of Empire’ the highlight of the Exhibition of Empire in 1938 – thereby introducing a journey of discovery – of ‘uncovering the traces’ of the parks rich history.
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