Northern Regent Street
Above is an early drawing of regent
street, extending out of Regent park at the bottom. This park, like Saint
James Park, helps to unify the street by equating various parts of the
street. In this case, the north and south of the street are both parks, which
helps unify the entire length of the street. Nash described Regent Park as
"a public area to recieve the statues and monuments of great and distinguished
men", like much of Regent Street, this park was obviosly designed with
the upper class in mind. click
on the park for a view of it today
Above is an example
of a terrace along regents park, this one is Cumberland Terrace. Like Carlton
House at the southern end of the street, these terraces incorporate all
of the aspects of Regent Street architecture. Notice both the traditional classical
columns, as well as the flat ionic columns on the side, which were used along
the full length of the street. Also like the south of Regent Street, these terraces
along Regent Park prove to be both a unification of the northern end of the
street, and as the final "event" at the top of the street. If you
were to walk up the street, as you approached the northern end, these terraces
and the park itself would take your attention off of the street itself, and
instead you would focus on these terraces, just as Nash
intended.
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