© Luke O’Donovan
London Festival of Architecture (LFA) has partnered with the City of London BID, Fleet Street Quarter, on a new installation at Holborn Circus. This has now been installed and will be in place until 31 August 2023.
‘The Herbalist’s Plant Press – a Garden by Fleet Street Quarter’ was designed and brought to the footprint by Wayward. The sensory garden is a greening installation of evergreen, scented and medicinal plants inspired by 16th century herbalist John Gerard and the area’s history of printing.
Wayward, a London-based landscape, art and architecture collective of designers, created an urban garden that brings together the history of the area with ambitions for a sustainable future of the area. John Gerard was an English herbalist with a prominent garden in Holborn. Gerard created his Herbal, or “Generall Historie of Plantes”, printed in 1597, also in Holborn area, near the Old Bailey. His catalogues are the source for the plants, and his woodblock prints are a key visual element in the design for this installation.
This is one of four installations commissioned in partnership with the City of London BIDs.
Visit to see, interact and relax on this new installation and be sure to tag us and #LFA2023 in any photographs you take!
More info can be found here.
