... with an open-fronted hall (īwān) and flanking chambers, featuring standardized, apparently mass-produced, stone elements which could include Qur’anic inscriptions. The division of space from public to private is discussed, and the role of private gardens providing seclusion. The survey enables...

... as well as different types of hospital plans and ward designs. This runs in counter to the tendency in Britain and other parts of the West to aim for standardisation among all wards and between hospitals. Missionaries drew on the architecture of Islamic four-part gardens or Persian courtyard houses...

... collage curiosity James Henry shell shrapnel shell shock Heron Press Spanish Civil War Waugh Evelyn Carrington Dora postcard propaganda Virginia Woolf Hope Mirrlees memorial culture tombstones statues Paris: A Poem Jacob’s Room Kew Gardens Poems by C.N. Sidney Woolf In late September...

... and mortar but in its name and its brand. The Ritz aesthetic was an anticipation of corporate minimalism: white walls and white curtains with minimal decorative ornaments, culminating in the evaporated surfaces of its rooftop gardens. Its whiteness and transparency were fitting architectural expressions...

... to the development of the formal garden in Scotland did not come only from a generic knowledge of French formal gardens, nor even from the great number of engravings he brought back, but also because he was given access to the working design drawings by Le Nôtre's royal gardens department at Versailles. building...

...This chapter presents ‘Kew Gardens’ by the contemporary Scottish poet D. M. Black, a poem which captures both the need for a source of meaning that transcends scientific materialism and the potential for poetry to provide that meaning, without withholding assent from science itself. Black's...

...This chapter argues that a comparative lack of British interest in traditional Chinese gardens during the period 1880-1914, often interpreted as evidence of Japan’s more ready appeal, obscures the complexity of organic exchange going on between Britain and East Asia at this time. Celebrated plant...

... Ramblers Federation Scottish Rights of Way Society Scottish Tourist Board shipyards socialist Sunday School movement East Lothian privatisation Rascarrel Stirling tenants allotments Defence of the Realm Act 1917 Dig for Victory fruit kolonihager colony gardens Stavanger Trondheim Drammen...

...The mystery of whether Katherine Mansfield inspired Virginia Woolf's story 'Kew Gardens,' has long been of interest to both Woolf and Mansfield scholars. This article returns to this contested question, but rather than focusing on the issue of attribution, it explores what appears to be a ferment...

... in the SAO Moonwatch Programme organised by Dr Roy at the Observatory, in University Gardens. Small telescopes were positioned on concrete pillars, with recordings made of the passage of artificial satellites. In the picture on the right, Margaret I. Watson (now Mrs Morris) is seen collating the various...

..., rebellious or sexual sentiments in a way that was seemingly conventional and feminine. Crans Montana feminism flowers gardeners Italy and Italians Brett Dorothy Switzerland Greenaway Kate The Language of Flowers Greenaway K The Language of Flowers With Illustrative Poetry Schoberl F Miller Thomas...

.... In Rhys’s fictional world, nature is not a benevolent being or attractive ornament. It often aids and abets amoral power, but also when given the chance to escape the particularly British desire to turn wilderness into dependent, subservient gardens, nature can become a kind of parallel to Rhys’s...

...The artist moves to New York, holds an important exhibition of cyanotypes and makes work for the New York Botanical Garden. Birth of daughter Marcelina. New York- Cyanotypes – Exhibitions – Botanic Gardens- Daughter Right: Brooklyn Bridge NewYork 1989 I arrived in NewYork in the Autumn of 1988...

... influences, practitioners, and landmark texts of direct cinema, charting the rise, fall, and ongoing influences of its practices and beliefs. It includes a close reading of Grey Gardens. body cinéma vérité Corner John direct cinema France immediacy interactive documentary intimacy...

...Discusses garden types, hydraulic machines, and decorative fountains that found their way from Samarra and Baghdad to North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula. Examines the diminution of gardens and the increasing elaboration of pools and fountains, both celebrated in contemporary poetry. Alhambra...

...Among the many places of worship that could be found in the territory of the city of Athens and its chôra during the classical period, several offer remarkable configurations of nature: the sanctuary of Aphrodite of the Gardens on the slope of the Acropolis with its flowery meadow, the green field...

...The book presents investigative and interpretive articles on some of the most significant monuments and innovative features of medieval Islamic architecture, ornament, and gardens in Syria and Iraq, with comparative expansions into Anatolia, Egypt, North Africa, and Spain. These monuments, many...

...: it is both generous and selfish, and it creates a personal bond but at the same time offers a challenge, demanding response and reciprocation. Acts of gifting and generosity – including praise, letters, conversation and, as Simpson argues, Mansfield’s idea for a story that later became Woolf’s ‘Kew Gardens...