Christopher Bradley-Hole had a successful career as an architect before transitioning into gardens and landscape architecture. This creation, in collaboration with Piet Oudolf, is a stunning combination of clean and rigid structure juxtaposed with an explosive riot of texture and color in planting. Bradley-Hole is often described as an anthropocentrist designer, imposing human structure upon the landscape.
The Bury Court garden explores this concept of control and restraint, but with Oudolf's wild brushstrokes of planting, the idea is almost turned on its head as the plants obscure the routes and the rigid structural forms. The pagodas' open structural form appears to reference Le Corbusier's style of rectangular forms, and the roofs separated by a riser from the main frame evoke a touch of Japan. While there are two pagodas, the smaller one is sliced into the larger form; creating a structure that becomes increasingly complex the longer you look.
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