Turbulence and tranquility: Tim Richardson reviews the new fountain in Kensington Gardens designed by Gustafson-Porter in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales. It is a subtle and sensitive example of the current interest in water gardens by leading landscape designers working in a Modernist idiom.

Apollo | August 1, 2004| | Copyright

According to dictionary definitions and everyday usage, a fountain is a jet of water that spurts up into the air. The new Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain in Kensington Gardens, London, does no such thing, however: it is a necklace cascade of flowing and bubbling water on a gentle, grassy slope overlooking the Serpentine.

But it is not quite a cascade, either, since the narrowness of the granite channel gives it something of the character of a formal rill. And the diverse quality of the water as it tumbles over 'rocks' or speeds along unimpeded is ...

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