Secret Garden Malmö, Suède, 1999. Situated on a landfill area the proposed garden dreams of the sea. It consists of an enclosed dark mikado forest cut into the shape of a cube with a side length of 12 meters.

Introducing seasonality, play, and atmosphere to a premiere institution’s rooftop. West 8 prioritized comfort, intimacy, flexibility, and cultural identity while developing this flexible and adaptive Rooftop Garden.

The Garden integrates Houston’s native waterways into the overall concept to offer immediate landscape identity and give forethought to the biggest environmental challenges: flooding and intense weather events.

Collaborating with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, West 8’s design is rounded in its context and practicality. Emphasizing and preserving the quality of the local Tamil Nadu landscapes and community, the project goal is to develop the park into a precedent of both national and international attention.

West 8 is an urban planning and landscape architecture firm founded by Adriaan Geuze and Paul van Beek in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1987. It is known for its contemporary designs and innovative solutions to urban planning problems [ 1 ] using lighting, metal structures, and color.

Nov 12, 2024 · West 8 was invited to design and create a garden for the 2024 Chengdu World Horticultural Expo. Designed without any defined route or arrival, Xiaoliangtan invites guests to sit down on the stone...

Jun 22, 2020 · At the Lower East Side condo tower, residents have access to 45,000 square feet of green space designed by landscape architecture firm West 8. Considered to be one of the largest private...

Feb 18, 2016 · Dutch landscape firm West 8 has masterplanned a new botanical garden in Houston, Texas, featuring a mosaic of gardens and a bridge incorporating an arch of trees.

Sep 5, 2018 · The first phase includes a “global collection garden” of tropical, subtropical, and arid horticulture; an “edible garden,” with shady groves for picnics and consumable plants; an event lawn and glade, for weddings as well as educational and arts programming; and the Susan Garver Children’s Discovery Garden — three acres of wild and ...

HOUSTON BOTANIC GARDEN | WEST 8. Biodiversity is life, a concept that West 8 tried to empower through promoting public appreciation and understanding of plants and gardens as well as the conservation of nature.