Urban Spaces: Square 2

These are urban spaces with rectangular shapes and bounded by streets or a landmark building:

Source: wikipedia.org

Bryant Park, New York City, New York, USA

The Rockefeller Brothers created the Bryant Park Restoration Corporation (BPRC), under the founding leadership of Andrew Heiskell, then Chairman of Time Inc. and the New York Public Library, and Daniel A. Biederman, a Harvard Business School graduate and systems consultant with a reputation as an innovator in downtown management. Heiskell and Biederman, in 1980, created a master plan for turning around the park. 

Bryant Park reopened in April, 1992, to lavish praise from citizens and visitors, the media, and urbanists. -- official web site 

Source: geograph.org.uk

Manchester Square, London, UK

Manchester Square, west of Bentinck street, has a central private garden with handsome plane trees, laid out in 1776. The mansion on the north side of the Square, now the home of the Wallace Collection that features world-class French eighteenth-century painting, porcelains and furniture, once housed the Spanish ambassador, whose chapel was in Spanish Place. -- Wikipedia

Source: Scott Pease archdaily.com

Perk Park, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 2012 designed by Thomas Balsley Asociates with Jim McKnight

.... as part of Pei’s urban renewal scheme. The first park on the site was completed in 1972: a New Brutalist ensemble of heavy concrete planters surrounding a sunken plaza, the old park quickly became a favorite haunt of vagrants and pigeons, an unloved and underused blight in the middle of the bustling central business district. 

The new park greets the street courtesy of what Balsley describes as a “forest and meadow” concept. Shade trees, as well as modified versions of the original planted mounds, are preserved from the old design; but now they’re complimented by a wide-open lawn sitting atop the former central sink, punctuated by a sculptural knoll perfect for daylight lounging. -- ArchDaily