The Panopticon of Good Taste — Locations

Zones

The Plinth

The civic and ceremonial heart of Formgård, where oversized Mies-derived pavilions of bronze-tinted glass and polished travertine house administrative functions with theatrical transparency — to gover...

The Canopy District

Rows of Farnsworth-adjacent dwellings dissolve into a landscape of weeping willows — Trauerweiden — whose curtains of trailing green soften the hard grammar of steel and glass into something almost me...

The Atelier Fringe

The one district where making is louder than looking: small craft studios occupy low brick volumes originally designed for light manufacturing, their doorways spilling sawdust, ceramic slip, and the s...

The Promenade of Good Objects

A pedestrian commercial spine lined with independent coffee houses and specialist craft retailers, each shopfront a considered exercise in restraint — no signage larger than a human palm, no chain log...

The Green Nave

A long park-museum hybrid running the full length of Formgård's central axis, where Isamu Noguchi stone gardens alternate with meadow grass, dense hornbeam hedging, and outdoor installations of oversi...

Streets