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彼得·库克

架构师提供的文本描述。与法国景观设计师AllainProvost合作的PatelTaylor已经完成了伯明翰130年来的第一个新公园-东区城市公园(Eastside City Park)。

Text description provided by the architects. Patel Taylor, with French landscape architect Allain Provost, has completed Eastside City Park, Birmingham’s first new park for 130 years.

 © Timothy Soar

C.蒂莫西·索亚

这座线性公园提供3.4公顷的公共休憩空间，是大城市规划的重要组成部分，也是伯明翰东区再生区的中心，人们可以在这里停下来，放松下来，享受丰富多彩的芳香景观。正是这个休憩空间，既是通往东区的重点，也是通往东区的主要通道，吸引市民进入东区，促进该区的经济繁荣，带动新的发展。

The linear park provides 3.4 hectares of public amenity space; a vital part of The Big City Plan and at the heart of the Birmingham’s Eastside regeneration quarter, a place where people can stop, relax and enjoy a colourful and aromatic landscape. It is this amenity space, being both the focal point and the principal route in to the district that will draw people into Eastside, enhancing the economic prosperity of the area and driving new development.

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该设计遵循Patel Taylor的策略，使一系列定义的空间在它们之间有一条合乎逻辑而又令人愉悦的路线，但由于这些空间在纵向或横向上的工作方式不同，因此增加了意义的分层。

The design follows Patel Taylor’s strategy of making a sequence of defined spaces with a logical yet pleasurable route between them, but with added layering of meaning as these work differently in the lengthwise or traverse directions.

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彼得·库克

公园的长度从公园街向东延伸，沿着正面的IF千禧角，向东南向Digbeth分支运河方向倾斜，它的叙事持续进行，并有一条188m运河的特色，其中包含了21座喷泉。在其较短的空间，它更多的是绿色的时刻，在一次穿越城市的旅程中，经过正式的草坪和由Corten钢铁点缀的公共广场。帕特尔·泰勒(PatelTaylor)把这份简报主要作为城市规划的一部分，其次是一个景观。

The park’s length which extends eastwards from Park Street along the frontage if Millenium Point, on a southeast decline towards the Digbeth Branch Canal, lends itself to a continuous narrative complemented by a canal feature running 188m that incorporates 21 jet fountains. Across its shorter dimension, it is more a moment of green in a journey through the city experienced via formal lawns and public squares punctuated by Corten steel. Patel Taylor has approached the brief primarily as a piece of urban planning, secondly as a landscape.

建筑师们实施了一项大胆的种植策略，以唤起人们对公园的共同看法和期望，帮助界定这些城市空间。大树区分空间，直视，提供庇护和围护。这种结构是通过种植较小的规模，具有足够的多样性，提供了许多不同的经验特点，整个公园，创造了一个展开的经验公园，充满发现和喜悦。

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.

 © Timothy Soar

C.蒂莫西·索亚

帕特尔泰勒的计划本质上是可持续的；这种做法已经改变了一个城市中心的布朗菲尔德遗址，以前的轻工业和商业用途变成了一个公共公园。公园的公共交通十分便利，它的结构提供了通往市中心的清晰的行人通道，并容纳了自行车路线和众多的自行车架，减少了对汽车的依赖。这座公园的设计是为了持久，使用高质量的、坚硬的战地材料。这为东区的质量提供了一个基准，并尽量减少了未来维修和更换的潜在碳和资金成本。

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 provides clear pedestrian links to the city centre, and accommodates cycle routes and numerous cycle racks, reducing reliance on cars. The park has been designed to last, using high quality, hard warring materials. This provides a benchmark for quality within Eastside, and minimises the potential future carbon and financial costs of repair and replacement.

 © Timothy Soar

C.蒂莫西·索亚

在整个设计过程中，与当地社区、东区内的利益攸关方(如伯明翰市大学)以及将负责公园维护的人进行了密切的协商。公园是一种长期投资，需要满足和超过用户的需求，而且在建成多年后必须继续这样做。

Throughout the design process, there has been close consultation with local communities; stakeholders developing within the Eastside quarter, such as Birmingham City University; and those who will be responsible for the maintenance of the park. Parks are long-term investments that need to meet and exceed the needs of users, and must continue to do many years after completion.

Architects Patel Taylor

Location Curzon St, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

Category Park

Architect in Charge Patel Taylor, Allain Provost

Project Year 2013

Photographs Peter Cook, Timothy Soar