Landscape Architecture symbols

West 8 is definitely an award-winning worldwide office for urban design and landscape architecture, founded later with offices in Rotterdam, New You are able to and Belgium. During the last twenty five years West 8 has built itself like a leading practice by having an worldwide group of 70 designers, urban designers, landscape designers and industrial engineers. West 8's New You are able to office started after winning an worldwide design competition in the year 2006 for the style of Governors Island Park - a 172-acre island within the New You are able to Harbor.

Multidisciplinary approach

Having a multi-disciplinary method of complex design issues, West 8 has extensive experience of large-scale urban master planning and style, landscape interventions, waterfront projects, parks, squares and gardens. We develop concepts and visions for big-scale planning problems that address climatic change, urbanization and infrastructure.

Focusing on an worldwide level from the start, West 8 developed projects around the globe in places for example Copenhagen, London, Moscow, New You are able to, Madrid, Hamburg, Toronto, Amsterdam, Shanghai and Seoul. Work acquired worldwide recognition with projects for example Schouwburgplein in Rotterdam (NL), Borneo Sporenburg in Amsterdam (NL), Chiswick Park working in london (United kingdom), Expo '02 in Yverdon-l'ensemble des-Bains (CH) and Miami SoundScape (USA). Most of the projects are caused by groundbreaking records in important worldwide competitions. Lately won competitions include West Kowloon Cultural District Park (HK), Governors Island in New You are able to (USA), Madrid Rio (ES), Sagrera Linea Park (ES), and Yongsan Park in Seoul (KR).

Among the various honours received by West 8 would be the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture™, the Recognition Award from the American Society of Landscape Designers (ASLA), the Worldwide Urban Landscape Gold Award (IULA), the Prix p Rome, the Nederlander Maaskant Award, the Bijhouwer Award, the Rosa Barba First European Landscape Prize, the Eco-friendly Pin, the Veronica Rudge Eco-friendly Prize for Urban Design and also the Lifetime Achievement Award for Architecture from the Mondriaan Fund (formerly BKVB, holland Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture).

Second character

West 8 approaches producing character in 2 different - but characteristically Nederlander - ways. First, we have a classic civil engineering method for creating landscape - a logic according to utility and necessity. Second, we are members of a landscape tradition that confers identity and, therefore, understand the requirement for creating symbols in producing landscape. This process envisions a brand new character, a 'second nature' of built landscapes that react to practical demands (water management, population growth, traffic jam) as well as reinforce the culture that they belong (identity, symbols, expression).

Inside a departure in the old destroy and install engineering methodology, or even the current preserve and safeguard model, we're adding and indicating new natures. The actual future in present day debate about sustainability lies not inside a political or philosophical dialogue by what we're safeguarding or how we will 'sustain' it, but instead how you can positively create new ecologies. Creating land after which painting it: in lots of ways, this is actually the soul of Nederlander culture.