Landscape & Urban Design Issue 17 2016 | Page 6

The architects have implemented a bold planting strategy that helps define these urban spaces in a way that evokes common perceptions and expectations of parks. Large trees differentiate spaces, direct views, and provide shelter and enclosure. This structure is reinforced by planting of a smaller scale that has sufficient variety provide many different experiential characteristics throughout the park, creating an unfolding experience of the park, full of discovery and delight. Patel Taylor’s scheme is inherently sustainable; the practice has transformed a city- centre brownfield site, with previous light industrial and commercial uses to a public park. The park is well served by public transport, and its structure