The eighteenth-century English water gardens were often designed with playful intent. Picnicking visitors would be surprised as fountains spouted without notice and perplexed as they stumbled upon mysteriously evocative structures like gazebos and banquet halls. At Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Park in Yorkshire, home to one of the world’s best-preserved water gardens, these historic botanic and architectural follies—or, impractical, playful forms—were once abundant. Today, they’re being reinterpreted through equally whimsical contemporary art installations.
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Contemporary Follies Open at Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Park
https://www.archdaily.com/894007/contemporary-follies-open-at-fountains-abbey-and-studley-royal-parkElla Comberg
FleaFolly's Grimm City: The Antidote to Disney
There are few mediums that the Grimm Brother's Fairy Tales haven't been adapted into. Bowdlerized stories and films for children have since given way to revisionist tales that embrace the gruesome coloring of the originals, but something about the Grimm Brothers' gothic folklore still holds sway over popular imagination around the world. No matter what kind of adaptation is created - musical, childlike or modernized - the essential Grimmness of the tales still glowers through. FleaFolly's Grimm City is just such a creation.
https://www.archdaily.com/622229/fleafolly-s-grimm-city-the-antidote-to-disneyDario Goodwin