Sentence examples for formal parks from inspiring English sources

The homogeneity of the architecture, with its classical facades typically arranged around formal parks, reflected the desire to create a symbolic language of national unity after the Civil War.

Biswas notes that change doesn't necessarily mean large-scale projects such as formal parks and gardens, which can actually be difficult for residents of the informal city to utilize.

Descending the steps of the court, we enter Washington's planted landscape, a formal park where nature stands alongside patriotic monuments and federal buildings.

The Schönbrunn Palace, the summer residence of the Habsburgs, with its splendid rooms decorated in Rococo style and its great formal park, lies to the southwest in the suburb of Hietzing.

Beneath its retractable roofs hang photographs of another grand park in a great capital city: Paris's Jardin du Luxembourg – but that's a formal park, like most of France's, unlike the more relaxed and playful English ones.

Grūtas Park in Lithuania also features Soviet-area monuments and memorials, along with narratives about the "naked Soviet ideology which for decades suppressed and hurt the spirit of our nation". There's also a repository of Soviet icons in Tallinn, Estonia, though it has more the feel of a graveyard than of a formal park.

Before the 1980s, a manager could act as he saw fit; there were no formal park rules.

There is currently only one formal park and ride site serving Leeds, a small 157-space site in King Lane to the north of the city.

Land on the Boboli hill at the rear of the palazzo was acquired in order to create a large formal park and gardens, today known as the Boboli Gardens.

The 470 megalitre Torrens Lake was created in 1881 with the construction of a weir, landscaping of Elder park and modification of the river's bank and surrounds into an English formal park.

The transition from formal public parks and gardens to small, intimate spaces coincided with developments in botany.