Dreamland Margate, Kent Fun Park Reopening, Architecture, Buildings, News, Image
Dreamland Margate Amusement Park
Margate Buildings, Thanet, Kent, southeast England, UK – design by AECOM
28 May 2017
Dreamland Margate Amusement Park News
Dreamland Margate Opening
Design: AECOM
Landscape design helps transform heritage amusement park ahead of its reopening
Global infrastructure services firm AECOM has created striking new landscaping designs for the redevelopment of Dreamland, a historic amusement park in Margate that originally opened in the 1870s. The park, which reopened this week following a major renovation programme, brings together sensitively restored vintage rides and an array of modern facilities, including a 15,000-capacity open air venue for music events.
photo By Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php"curid=12342802
AECOM?s landscape design for the 3.5 hectare site has transformed the park?s previous vast, open and hard spaces by introducing heavy planting to create a lush, green and intimate setting for the site?s collection of vintage rides. In addition, new open parkland as part of the site?s extension provides an eye-catching setting for the main stage area. With direct views of the park from Margate?s High Street, connecting visually with the town was a key component of the design and the landscaping.
More than 1,000 trees and 60,000 shrubs appropriate for the park?s seaside location have been installed. The sele...