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Union Terrace Gardens, Aberdeen by LDA Design

By 2023-08-15T00:01:00

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The city’s celebrated Victorian pleasure gardens have reopened after a £28.3m revamp – and decades of drama and indecision, writes Elizabeth Hopkirk

The future of Aberdeen’s celebrated Union Terrace Gardens has been a preoccupation of the local newspaper since the 1950s. By the early years of this century the saga had begun making headlines in Building Design as a string of new visions for the Victorian city centre park, some quite outlandish, were proposed and then ditched. Eventually the tale caught the attention of the national papers.

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