The linear park provides 3.4 hectares
The design follows Patel Taylor’s strategy of
complemented by a canal feature running
of public amenity space; a vital part of
making a sequence of defined spaces with
188m that incorporates 21 jet fountains.
The Big City Plan and at the heart of the
a logical yet pleasurable route between
Across its shorter dimension, it is more a
Birmingham’s Eastside regeneration
them, but with added layering of meaning
moment of green in a journey through
quarter, a place where people can stop,
as these work differently in the lengthwise
the city experienced via formal lawns and
relax and enjoy a colourful and aromatic
or traverse directions.
public squares punctuated by Corten
landscape. It is this amenity space, being
steel. Patel Taylor has approached the brief
both the focal point and the principal
The park’s length which extends eastwards
primarily as a piece of urban planning,
route in to the district that will draw
from Park Street along the frontage if
secondly as a landscape.
people into Eastside, enhancing the
Millenium Point, on a southeast decline
economic prosperity of the area and
towards the Digbeth Branch Canal,
driving new development.
lends itself to a continuous narrative