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Palace of Versailles: gardens The undulating roof of Renzo Piano's California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, contained many skylights and was covered with a field of native plants. Gardens of Campos do Jordão, Brazil. Japanese contemplative garden Structural pools in the gardens of the Generalife at the Alhambra, Granada, Spain. Sloped earth, trees, and colourful ground cover in Bluebell Wood, Winkworth Arboretum, Surrey, England. Kinkaku Temple, Kyōto, Japan Singapore Botanic Gardens: gazebo A pre-Civil War stone house in Manassas National Battlefield Park, near Manassas, Virginia, U.S. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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Palace of Versailles: gardens
The undulating roof of Renzo Piano's California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, contained many skylights and was covered with a field of native plants.
Gardens of Campos do Jordão, Brazil.
Japanese contemplative garden
Structural pools in the gardens of the Generalife at the Alhambra, Granada, Spain.
Sloped earth, trees, and colourful ground cover in Bluebell Wood, Winkworth Arboretum, Surrey, England.
Kinkaku Temple, Kyōto, Japan
Singapore Botanic Gardens: gazebo
A pre-Civil War stone house in Manassas National Battlefield Park, near Manassas, Virginia, U.S.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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Alexandre-Jean-Baptiste Le Blond
French landscape designer