New York news: as the city bakes in the heat, Louise Nicholson relaxes in the latest high-tech addition to the Bronx's best-kept secret, the Botanical Garden. Apollo (8/1/2005)
...until 1891 that the New York Botanical Garden was created. The site was selected by the landscape designers Calvert Vaux and Calvert Parsons Jnr. It incorporates a beautiful gorge of the Bronx River, a tract of virgin hemlock forest, and the...
More than natural grace. New Criterion (2/1/2004)
...hundred-tenth Street.) In fact, Calvert Vaux's and Frederick Law Olmsted...rages between those who believe Calvert Vaux has the true claim on these parks...Mr. McLanghlin's mentioning Calvert Vaux only once in the book's ...
In the park with Fred The man who brought country to city -- a biography of Frederick Law Olmsted The Boston Globe (5/23/1999)
...may have learned from his partner, architect Calvert Vaux. Although both Olmsted and Vaux always said that their contributions were equal...heart of" it, Rybczynski writes of the Olmsted/Vaux plan. "Vaux and Olmsted took great pains to...
Morrison Heckscher, On the Park. The New York Observer (New York, NY) (3/25/2008)
...land. A lot of people know about Frederick Law Olmsted. But can you explain the role of Calvert Vaux in the park's conception and design? Calvert Vaux had worked with Downing, the father of American landscape gardening, and if Downing had...
Muestran su genesis.(Cultura) Reforma (México D.F., México) (8/2/2003)
...centro de la exposicin es la presentacin original de Calvert Vaux y Frederick Law Olmsted que, bajo el ttulo de Greensward Plan, fue declarada ganadora del concurso. Calvert Vaux (1824-1903) creci en Inglaterra, mientras que la...
The Park and the People: A History of Central Park. The Nation (11/16/1992)
...Frederick Law Olmsted and his partner Calvert Vaux stepped into the early tumult of claims and intentions. Olmsted and Vaux's Greensward Plan for the park is...interpretations not only in stressing Vaux's neglected but equal contribution...
TRADITIONAL METHODS DEFY PASSAGE OF TIME.(SERIES: Neighborhoods)(Local)(Column) The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) (11/8/2001)
...pioneers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux after the Civil War. The partners...wood, constructed the arbor from the Vaux and Olmsted design. They used tree...radio. Historians credit Olmsted and Vaux with introducing Americans to rustic...
150 anos Central Park.(Internacional) Reforma (México D.F., México) (7/19/2003)
...paisajistas Frederick Law Olmsted y Calvert Vaux fue seleccionado y el parque comenz...realidad la fantasa verde de Olmsted y Vaux. Aunque el Central Park abri oficialmente...en valores actuales. "Olmsted y Vaux tuvieron muchos problemas a la hora...
City sanctuaries: New York's Central Park set the standard. Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service (7/7/2003)
...Olmsted and his occasional partner Calvert Vaux, fathers of the American urban park...pigsties and shantytowns. Olmsted and Vaux moved more than 2.5 million cubic...stone bridge, called Endale Arch. Vaux's bridges were often designed to...
Happy 150th, Central Park! And Many More. The New York Observer (New York, NY) (4/28/2008)
...Cross Drive "The Olmsted & Vaux Way" after the park's two architects, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. A few weeks ago, The Observer sat...of public art and how the Olmsted-Vaux duo beat out 33 other design schemes...
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