Gross Max - Potters Fields Park

 

GROSS MAX

POTTERS FIELDS PARK

Partners Eelco Hooftman and Bridget Baines founded GROSS. MAX. in 1995. The firm have since won many competitions and awards for public space. They are part of a small, new generation of contemporary landscape architects coming from the UK to the mostly European scene. Potter's Fields Park in Southwark needed refurbishment. The riverside park links Tooley Street with the Thames, and Tower Bridge to the Mayor of London's City Hall. Its £3m refurbishment was started in Spring 2006 after a consensus agreeing that the existing grass should be retained and enhanced, then irrigated and reinforced to help maintain it through the summer where it would experience lots of users and heavy foot traffic. Piet Oudolf was the inspiration behind the planting of the park, using a palette of seasonal herbaceous planting providing interest throughout the year, with echinacea, wild peonies, buttercups, snake root, Culvers Root and Lambs Ear. The planting scheme focuses on sustainability and has a sustainable management scheme implemented, and the wildflower planting provides invaluable habitat for foraging and nesting insects.

Greenflagaward.org. 2021. Park Summary Details. [online]

Available at: <https://www.greenflagaward.org//park-summary/?park=760>

[Accessed 19 March 2021].