Hirschorn Sculpture Garden, Washington

Much smaller than it's original design and fantastic for it - this almost domestic garden, albeit one with strong concrete edges, ramps and levels, sits in the National Mall. It was designed in the early 1970s by Gordon Bunshaft - who is responsible for the cylindrical Hirshorn itself. 


It has everything from an unfussy but considered setting to great art from Rodin to Miro and on through to the magical Susan Philipsz' 'Sunset Song', last heard under a bridge in Muenster with 'The Lost Reflection' (2007). A reflective and curvy Dan Graham sits at its centre, not unlike it's big brother - the Waterloo Sunset pavilion at the Hayward Gallery (2002-3). 


Finally, if you get a quick (and illegal) turn on a fellow kid-tourist's scooter, it is the ultimate playground, until the guards get you!