Krymskaya Embankment is a kilometre long linear park in Krymskaya Embankment is a kilometer long linear park in the heart of Moscow.
A former busy riverside road it was closed in 2013 and turned into a park with a formal plaza of lime tree grove, a huge fountain in front of the New Tretyakov Gallery, and more naturalistic adjacent planting.
The new perennial meadows were the first big scale New Perennial wave public realm project in Moscow. A year earlier Anna has designed and planted Moscow’s first public perennial borders ever in the same park.
The perennial planting at Krymskaya references semi-natural grasslands (hay meadows) of temperate Europe. A matrix of blue moor grass (Molinia caerulea) and tufted hairgrass (Deschampsia cespitosa) is interplanted with thousands of colorful perennial forbs, bulbs and other grasses. The planting was designed to be a showcase of a perennials and ornamental grasses adapted to the regional conditions and includes both native and non-native North American species. Grasses, crabapples and Majak willows – a Soviet bread hybrid of a shrubby willow with colorful bark - provide winter interest.
Lead designer: Wowhaus Architecture Bureau
Planting Design/Concept & DD: Anna Andreyeva Alphabet City
Lighting Design: Anna Kharchenkova
Landforms’ Consultant/DD: LDA Design
Year built: 2013
Area: 4,5 Ha
Perennial meadows area: 0,5 Ha (5000 sq.m.)