Boughton Park is an early eighteenth century garden of land and water; avenues and vistas; rhythm and reflection.

The current Duke of Buccleuch has begun the massive task of restoring the gardens and commissioned us to create a new feature on the empty space opposite the great Mount.

We have designed a space that emphasizes the scale and mass of the huge earthwork, to create an Orphean Hades to complement the Olympian Mount.

An inverted grass pyramid descends 7 metres below the level of the restored terraces. Walking around the landscape, the new design is invisible, but drawing near to the mount, a gentle grass path spirals down to a square pool of still water deep underground. The water reflects the sky, a little like an inverted James Turrell occulus.