Unused Laneways Ideal for Urban Gardens

An urban backdrop brings with it extensive challenges for landscape architects. While such a backdrop allows them the opportunity to be creative, think outside the box and juxtapose the built and the organic to create a high-impact focus, there is no doubting the limitations it also creates.

This is perhaps part of the reason why, when projects interlink both built and organic means, they are so widely recognised.

Australian architect Andrew Burns’ recently-revealed works for a London public garden is a case in point. Undertaken as a part of the Cityscapes Festival, garden installations have been unveiled throughout London’s Southbank region, with Burns’ particular landscape plot positioned in a former bypass laneway known as Gibbon’s Rent.