Sunday, June 21, 2020
Antonio Citterio: 'A good, truly resilient city is also safe and inclusive'
The architect and designer on how projects in Milan are dissolving boundaries between interior and exterior
As a designer and an architect, my aim is not creating static and immutable furniture or buildings: I want to create something that talks of our daily life. Then creativity becomes a means to solve problems, and I like to solve problems. All design should be done for quality of life. Design isn’t just a statement – it should be something more.
Cities around the world are now experiencing continuous population growth, which requires adequate land-use and infrastructure planning – in other words, they need to be resilient. The idea of resilience originated in ecological research and was popularised by the Canadian ecologist Crawford Stanley Holling in the 1970s. Over time it’s become used for urban environments, too: used to describe a city’s ability to adapt to stress and hazard while striving for sustainability. A good, truly resilient city is also safe and inclusive.
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Saturday, June 20, 2020
Refreshing the rooftop roses | Allan Jenkins
Fragrant flowers on the terrace keep the air sweet and scented
I have re-homed some roses. I never keep records so cannot say what they are, beyond one was bought at the Chelsea Flower Show a few years ago: deep-pinked orange, deeply fragrant; the other’s a lemony English shrub rose, name unknown but classic David Austin.
They had outgrown their pots and were showing small signs of fatigue. So both are now homed in Kala’s border garden where they will have more room to expand.
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A guide to downsizing Nottingham Estate Agents
Are you thinking about packing up your family home and finding somewhere smaller to live? Here, the NAEA Propertymark offers advice to make the process a little easier: Planning is key – Packing your home into boxes can be a real chore, particularly when you are moving to a smaller property, but planning well in advance can […]
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Refreshing the rooftop roses | Allan Jenkins
Fragrant flowers on the terrace keep the air sweet and scented
I have re-homed some roses. I never keep records so cannot say what they are, beyond one was bought at the Chelsea Flower Show a few years ago: deep-pinked orange, deeply fragrant; the other’s a lemony English shrub rose, name unknown but classic David Austin.
They had outgrown their pots and were showing small signs of fatigue. So both are now homed in Kala’s border garden where they will have more room to expand.
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The hidden gardens of lockdown
As some of the UK’s best-loved gardens prepare to reopen to the public, we ask the head gardeners what has been happening behind their closed gates
There are benches in the grounds of Knightshayes, a National Trust property in Devon, that head gardener Jess Evans has never sat on. During a normal spring, she’d be busy overseeing a team of six gardeners and 50 volunteers as they tend the walled kitchen garden and 25 acres of formal garden and woodland that surround this grand Gothic Revival house. But this has not been a normal spring. When lockdown was announced, the garden closed its gates and the rest of the team were laid off.
For the next three months, Evans continued to work in the grounds with the help of just one other gardener. And while the lack of helpers meant that she was busier than ever, the absence of visitors also allowed for some moments of reflection, a chance to sit on one of those benches – albeit briefly – or to wander the woodland paths through banks of rhododendron, hydrangeas and camellias, and simply soak up the magic of the garden.
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