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Category: school grounds

Posts on School Gardens and Grounds (+ see introduction to school gardens and grounds)

Little Free Libraries for urban landscapes

By Tom Turner Posted on January 30, 2019 Posted in landscape architecture, public parks, school grounds, urban design No Comments

Little Free Libraries are a great idea.  Landscape architects should include them in designs for public open spaces including parks, squares, piazzas etc. Universities should have several on every campus for textbooks as well as leisure reading. In 2010 I …

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Pro bono volunteer landscape architecture for the Dragon Garden in Ladakh

By Tom Turner Posted on January 29, 2016 Posted in school grounds No Comments Tagged with India

A Dragon Garden is being made for the Druk White Lotus School in a part of Ladakh India which is often described as Little Tibet. The design work is being done by pro bono volunteers. The vidoes below describe (1) a 2015 …

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The Dragon Garden in Ladakh, India

By Tom Turner Posted on July 25, 2015 Posted in school grounds No Comments

The Dragon Garden is being made for a school at 3,500m in Ladakh – a remote part of India’s Himalayan region often known as ‘Little Tibet’. The  design is influenced by Buddhist ideas with the buildings arranged to form a …

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