Writer Stefan Simanowitz and architect Antonio Pisanò are proposing a memorial garden for Queen Elizabeth II that would see part of the Buckingham Palace Garden converted into a "natural sanctuary" for the public.
The duo proposes that a piece of land alongside the busy Grosvenor Place road in central London is converted from the Buckingham Palace Garden into the Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Gardens.
Queen Elizabeth II, who passed away on 8 September, lived in private quarters in Buckingham Palace. Its garden is currently only open to the public as part of paid-for guided tours.
The garden would be located along Grosvenor Place
The proposed memorial garden would "turn a strip of London which is one of the most unprepossessing, most polluted parts of London into a kind of natural sanctuary, where people can have a place for tranquility," Buckingham Palace Park Project founder Simanovitz told Dezeen. While the existing perimeter wall would be retained under the proposal, Simanowitz and Pisanò suggest opening up additional arches.
A new, high-security fence would cordon off the memorial gardens from the rest of Buckingham Palace Garden, though the exact dimensions and final content of the garden haven't yet been determined.
It would have a meadow-like feel
"Our vision is to have a place which will reflect Her Majesty?s love of nature and try and capture it in a beautiful walled garden, carved from just a sliver of the 42-acre Buckingham Palace Gardens...