PUBLIC REALM BUILT ON MYTH

摘要

In one of the most inventive townscape regeneration projects in recent years, this spring Liverpool-based BCA Landscape completed a ￡1 million environmental improvement project for the Lancashire village of Burscough Bridge. The firm - working with design consultancy Smiling Wolf - planned to reaffirm the village's identity with a series of squares and pedestrian routes inspired by local myths. New furniture, paving and lighting, as well as a village sign and clock, enliven a public realm which had, says BCA director Andy Thompson, been 'dominated by traffic' from the busy A59 road which cuts through the village.