Carlton Gardens

The Carlton Gardens are a park in the Australian city of Melbourne. They count together with the nearby Royal Exhibition Building in him as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Location

The Carlton Gardens are located on the northeastern edge of the Central Business District in the suburb of Carlton.

The 26 -acre resort is home to the Royal Exhibition Building, the Melbourne Museum and an IMAX cinema, tennis courts and an award-winning children 's playground.

The rectangular floor plan is bounded by Victoria Street, Rathdowne Street, Carlton Street and Nicholson Street. From the exhibition building, the terrain reduces to the southwest and Nortdosten slowly.

Description

The gardens are an important example of landscape design in the Victorian era with extensive lawns and various European and Australian trees.

The planted trees include oak, white poplar, sycamore, elm, conifers, palm trees, cedar, Turkey oaks, Araucaria and evergreen plants such as the Moreton Bay fig. These are combined with beds of annual flowers and shrubs.

A network of tree-lined paths serves as the axes of the garden, which emphasize the fountain and the architecture of the exhibition building. These include the Grand avenue of plane trees leading to the exhibition building. Two picturesque small lakes adorn the southern part of the park. The northern part is home to the museum, tennis courts, facilities for entertainment of the park, the house of the curator and designed as a Victorian maze playground.

Important are especially the elm avenues of English elm Ulmus × hollandica and. They are among the few worldwide elm avenues that do not fall victim to the Dutch elm disease. The garden also has a copy (of the world only five) of the shrub Acmena ingens, an exceptional Harpephyllum caffrum, the largest bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) Victoria and large specimens of cypress and the large-leaved fig southwest of the exhibition building.

In the park possums, ducks, the tawny frogmouth ( Podargus strigoides ) and other city birds.

The garden has three important fountains: The Exhibition Fountain, designed for the exhibition of 1880 by the sculptor Joseph Hochgurtel, the French Fountain and the Westgarth Drinking Fountain.

History

In 1839, large tracts of land have been excluded by the original city of Melbourne from the sale by the Superintendent Charles La Trobe. Most of this area was later sold and subdivided or used for various public institutions, a number of larger areas, however, was reserved permanently for public parks such as Carlton Gardens, Flagstaff Gardens, Fitzroy Gardens, Treasury Gardens and Kings Domain.

Circa 1856 the area came under the administration of the city, this delegated Edward La Trobe Bateman with the design of a park. The routing of the tracks, and other parts of the design were built, although lack of money for the upkeep of the park frequently led to criticism.

In the seventies of the 19th century, the garden came back under the control of the government of Victoria and minor changes were made under the direction of Clement Hodgkinson. Shortly after the plant which takes place in Melbourne Great Exhibition of 1880 was considerably remodeled. The work was undertaken by the architect Joseph Reed; the well-known local gardener William Sangster was taken for the redevelopment of the gardens under contract.

1880, the exhibition building was completed. The additions made ​​for the performed this year at the World's Fair northern part of the exhibition hall were demolished after the exhibition on April 30, 1881 closed its doors. 1888 conducted Melbourne Centennial Exhibition celebrated a century of European settlement in Australia.

The house of the curator was completed in 1891 and purchased from John Guilfoyle. The first Australian Parliament was opened at the Exhibition Hall in 1901. The West has been growing for the next 27 years of the Parliament of Victoria seat.

In the times of the Spanish flu of 1919, the buildings were used as emergency hospital. 1928, the park fence was removed down to the base of blue stone. During the Second World War the building was used by the Royal Australian Air Force. From 1948 to 1961, part of the complex was used as a reception center for immigrants.

Taylor Cullity Lethlean in 2001 and Mary Jeavons has won awards for landscaping for the of them designed and built under their direction, new children's playground in the form of a maze. After several years of lobbying by the Melbourne City Council, in July 2004, the Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens taken at the 28th session of the World Heritage Committee in Suzhou, China in the list of world cultural heritage.

The exhibition building will continue for exhibitions, for example, the International Flower and Garden Exhibition of Melbourne used. The in 1996 opened the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre, South Bank, but offers modern facilities and is now the premier destination for exhibitions and conferences in Melbourne.

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