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Lan Su Chinese Garden (simplified Chinese: 兰苏园; traditional Chinese: 蘭蘇園; pinyin: Lán Sū Yuán; Jyutping: Laan 4 Sou 1 Jyun 4), formerly the Portland Classical Chinese Garden and titled the Garden of Awakening Orchids, is a walled Chinese garden enclosing a full city block, roughly 40,000 square feet (4,000 m 2) in the Chinatown area of the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood of ...
A garden solar lamp A child in Zambia studying by the light of a lamp charged by solar power during the day. A solar lamp, also known as a solar light or solar lantern, is a lighting system composed of an LED lamp, solar panels, battery, charge controller and there may also be an inverter.
President of the Botanical Garden Frances Paulo Huber recognized the need for an authentic Chinese garden in 1984. The garden was finally constructed with the support of many partners, including the Staten Island Botanical Garden, the City of New York , the Landscape Architecture Company of China, the Metropolitan Chinese American Community ...
'Zhongshan Park') is a Chinese garden in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Located in the city's Chinatown, it was the first Chinese garden built outside of Asia. It is located at 578 Carrall Street and consists of a freely accessible public park and a garden with an admission fee. The mandate of the garden is to "maintain and enhance the ...
The New York Chinese Scholar's Garden 寄興園 in Staten Island, New York; Lan Su Chinese Garden in Portland, Oregon; Liu Fang Yuan 流芳園 or the Garden of Flowing Fragrance, Chinese Garden at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California; Seattle Chinese Garden in Seattle, Washington; The Astor Court in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in ...
The Chinese garden is a landscape garden style which has evolved over three thousand years. It includes both the vast gardens of the Chinese emperors and members of the imperial family, built for pleasure and to impress, and the more intimate gardens created by scholars, poets, former government officials, soldiers and merchants, made for reflection and escape from the outside world.
'West Chinese garden') is located on 4.6 acres (1.9 hectares) at the north end of the South Seattle College [1] campus at 6000 16th Avenue SW, in West Seattle. The site has a panoramic view of downtown Seattle , Washington , Elliott Bay and the Cascade Mountains , including Mt. Baker and Mt. Rainier .
The Master-of-Nets Garden, Suzhou China, 2009 Garden of the Master of the Nets , Ministry of Culture, P.R. China, 2003, archived from the original on 2016-06-14 , retrieved 2009-09-24 Yuan (袁), Xuehan (学汉); Gong Jianyi (2004), The Classical Gardens of Suzhou (苏州古典园林) , CIP, p. 217, ISBN 7-214-03763-7 , archived from the ...