Scenes from Cascades of Time Garden in Banff National Park during August 2023. The stone building in this park is administration complex for the parks. As can be seen in the signs in this video the park is briefly referred as Cascade Gardens as well. The walking video starts around downtown district of Banff, Canada. Entry to the park with fantastic ponds and landscaped flowers is from the gate closest to the Bow River Bridge. Banff Canada is one of the highlights of the Rocky Mountaineer train journey highlights.
This is the Google Maps link to the Location
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Website for Administration Building
www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_f...
Chapters
00:00:00 Location Intro Animation
00:00:11 Walking in downtown district of Banff toward Cascade Gardens
00:00:47 Crossing Bow Bridge
00:01:37 Entering the Cascades of Time Park
00:01:45 Walking around Parks Administration building pond and garden
00:41:00 Walking around Cascades of Time Garden
00:09:40 Administration building closeup
Address : 101 Mountain Avenue, Banff, Banff National Park of Canada, Alberta
Recognition Statute: Treasury Board Policy on Management of Real Property
Designation Date: 1986-09-23
Dates:
1935 to 1936 (Construction)
Event, Person, Organization:
Harold C. Beckett (Architect)
Custodian: Parks Canada
Banff, the Administration Building is a large L-shaped building with a one-and-a-half-storey wing. It is a three-storey structure in a domestic Tudor-Revival style built of rubble limestone in broken courses with cedar-shingled pitched roofs. The main entrance to the building is centrally located within the projecting square tower, which has an oriel window, crenellation and sandstone trim. The entrance to the east wing is recessed behind a stone archway. The designation is confined to the footprint of the building.
The Banff Administration Building is distinguished by a commanding site terminating the southern end of Banff Avenue and by splendidly landscaped grounds. It is situated on 12 acres of land, and, at the time of construction, about one third of the property was planted as gardens while the rest was left as meadows and forests.
The gardens and the layout of the grounds were designed by the architect of the building, Harold C. Beckett, who submitted a proposal on his own for landscaping work. on the site of the building. His plan, originally known as the Cascades of Time, had the support of the National Parks Branch which considered it a tourist attraction as well as suitable landscaping scheme for the Administration Building.
After Beckett left Banff, portions of his plans for the garden were not completed but the current Cascade Rock Garden is still an important component in the Administration Buildings's setting; it also represents a rare example of landscape design coordinated with the design of a building by the same architect. A stone and ornamental wrought iron fence, subsequently constructed to replace the original rustic wood fence, gives the property a more institutional appearance but it is not out-of-keeping with the design of the building or its grounds. Banff residents and many visitors consider this building to be the most important symbol of the federal government's responsibility for the care and management of Banff National Park and the townsite while its Cascades Rock Garden is generally recognized as a unique and beautiful example of Canadian landscape design.
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