Fourth Garden Review: The Princeton

The Princeton

The Princeton is the apartment i'm currently living in on st Kilda Road (don't stalk me, btw!!). For this place, I actually think that the garden looks very nice and neat, something that could direct your attention for a second or two when you're walking by.

The scenery here has a modern touch that's a mixture of both sculptures and the usage of plant design working together, which I think is absolutely brilliant. This is the cause that the modern touch is currently the "In" thing for the cityscape probably, it gives flexibility on using plants even in this concrete, cement and paving wonderland also actually taking advantage of it for a design. Admire the picture below on how the abstract structure going in rows act like "trees" for the grass turf rather than leaving the place plainly, the picture also shows a vice versa effect on how the small tress support the fence paving as an extension.

Here is another example on adding the modern touch in garden beds, instead of filling the whole land with plants requiring high maintenance (so the plant wont overcrowd the place, or ended up looking messy because they grow out of the original design), this design uses rocks and paving to limit the growth of plants on going out of the borders and keeping it neat.

In some ways, the modern touch is an effective design for public cityscape, however it does not work on other places besides that (can you imagine if someone use this in the suburb ? It will look out of place making the garden looks weird instead of unique). So i'm not judging that the modern touch in designing is a good thing, it is really dependent on the area which it will be implemented and so far the cityscape is the best suited for it.

That ends my fourth review, thanks for reading hope you enjoyed it!

- Justin H Kusnandar