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Miho Museum: Landscape

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See the collection of ancient and classical art from both eastern and western traditions, housed in the Miho Museum Museum of Japan, which was designed by I.M. Pei and features an integrated Japanese garden.
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Unesco: Spain: Aranjuez Cultural Landscape

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The Aranjuez cultural landscape is an entity of complex relationships: between nature and human activity, between sinuous watercourses and geometric landscape design, between the rural and the urban, between forest landscape and the...
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Unesco: Austria: Wachau Cultural Landscape

For Students 9th - 10th
The Wachau is a stretch of the Danube Valley between Melk and Krems, a landscape of high visual quality. It preserves in an intact and visible form many traces - in terms of architecture, (monasteries, castles, ruins), urban design,...
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Unesco: Brazil: Rio De Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes Between the Mountain and Sea

For Students 9th - 10th
The site consists of an exceptional urban setting encompassing the key natural elements that have shaped and inspired the development of the city: from the highest points of the Tijuca National Park’s mountains down to the sea. They also...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Frederick Law Olmsted House

For Students 9th - 10th
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), one of America's leading landscape designers of his generation, lived and worked at this site for the last twenty years of his life.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Springside

For Students 9th - 10th
Only surviving landscape designed by Andrew Jackson Downing; also known as Matthew Vassar Estate.
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Unesco: United Kingdom: New Lanark

For Students 9th - 10th
New Lanark is a small 18th- century village set in a sublime Scottish landscape where the philanthropist and Utopian idealist Robert Owen moulded a model industrial community in the early 19th century. The imposing cotton mill buildings,...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Me: Camden Amphitheatre and Public Library

For Students 9th - 10th
The Camden Library building was designed in the 1920s by architect Charles F. Loring, and its grounds, including an amphitheatre, represent one of the few public works of landscape architect Fletcher Steele.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Lincoln Park Lily Pool

For Students 9th - 10th
An example of Prairie School landscape architecture designed by Alfred Caldwell.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Naumkeag

For Students 9th - 10th
This Gilded Age mansion and country estate was designed by McKim, Mead & White, with landscaping by Fletcher Steele. Built in the 1880s for lawyer Joseph Choate, it was given by his daughter to The Trustees of Reservations, who...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Castle Hill

For Students 9th - 10th
This early 20th-century country estate is one of the finest of its type. The house was designed by architect David Adler of Chicago, and the landscaping was done by the Olmsted Brothers firm, among others. The estate is owned by The...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Robert Treat Paine House

For Students 9th - 10th
Also known as Stonehurst, this city-owned estate was designed by H. H. Richardson with landscaping by Frederick Law Olmsted for Boston lawyer Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (1835-1910). It is open to the public.

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