Architectural Stops For Toronto Visitors FOR Brigitte Shim of Shim-Sutcliffe, Toronto is a garden of architectural delights.
Yotam Ottolenghi Alongside this Victorian department store, over three floors, there's a yard full of garden and architectural antiques.
Still, none of them will ever be in House and Garden or Architectural Digest, and if they were, their creators would have nothing to say.
As part of the renovation, Mr. Buechner (pronounced BEAK-ner) created a sculpture garden featuring architectural gems, like Louis Sullivan's capitals from the Bayard-Condict Building on Bleecker Street, that the museum had salvaged from demolished buildings.
Stourhead's most famous feature came a little farther along: the Pantheon, a gorgeous neo-Classical structure designed by Henry Flitcroft, who advised Hoare on most of the garden's architectural features.
The chief subject here is the voluptuous female, seen in three relatively large sculptures and numerous small reliefs that apparently depict harem scenes, with luxurious garden and architectural settings and, always, a door, provocatively ajar.
"They believed, like the builders of Central Park did -- Olmsted and Vaux -- that if you were surrounded by green, you would be renewed," said Barry Lewis, a 30-year resident of Kew Gardens, an architectural historian and author of "Kew Gardens: Urban Village in the Big City".
