Greenwich has been perhaps the most picturesque venue at these Olympics, a park designed for Henry VIII to hunt deer.
FROM her 20th-floor apartment in Newark, Toni Griffin can see a park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and three apartment buildings by the great modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
A few weeks later I was at the Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport — a marvel that sits in a park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and is well worth a trip — when I ran into old friends from high school.
Its rambling building of slate and cedar shakes sits in a 22-acre woodland on the edge of a lily-padded pond, adjacent to a park designed by Frederic Law Olmsted's firm.
He showed a sign from a park designed to provide visitors with the rules for entry, which include prohibitions on washing, "scavenging," clothes drying and public defecation, all of it rendered in unintelligible — and in the case of the last item — rather salty English.
At another Café Venezuela in El Calvario, a park designed by French architects in the 19th century that had been abandoned before its recent renovation, customers lounged on beanbag chairs and listened to readings of poetry by Latin American writers like Pablo Neruda.
And in downtown Miami, federal marshals have suggested that the barricades originally included in the plans for a park designed by Maya Lin as part of a new courthouse complex might have to be reinforced, even as people begin to move into the building.
The 120 rooms at the Hotel Indigo St. Petersburg feature floor-to-ceiling murals inspired by the neighboring Summer Garden (a park designed by Peter the Great in 1704), the local metal works (the first foundry in Saint Petersburg was located across the street) and the nearby splendid river embankments.
Situated on a spectacular plot overlooking the Hudson River and nestled into a park designed by the Olmstead Brothers, sons of the landscaper responsible for Central Park (and somewhere a distant relative), the trip is more than worth it.
What if, hypothetically, we're discussing a park designed by the landscape architects considered by some scholars to be second only to Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. in their importance to American landscape history?
