Central Park
New York’s great city park, shaped as a landscape in the middle of the city.
Olmsted and Vaux won the competition for the park in 1858 with the Greensward plan. The park was to give city dwellers a landscape to walk in, with paths that cross roads on bridges and in tunnels so that traffic is not seen.
Central Park became a model for city parks all over the world. Olmsted became America’s first landscape architect and built other great parks too.
Materials: Lawns, lakes, woodland, paths, bridges and terraces
Manufacture: Laid out from 1858 after the Greensward plan by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in New York.
The Bethesda Terrace and fountain.
The many bridges, each of a different form.
The lake with boats and paths round it.