West 8 Urban Design and Landscape Architecture

Consortium NOVAYA Zemlya was announced as the winner of the two stage Open International Competition for the Development of a Master Plan for the Derbent Urban District. West 8 was acting as a landscape consultant in the multidisciplinary consortium.

Both Tushino Embankment and Tverskaya Zastava Square projects were awarded the Gold Diploma of the X Russian National Award for Landscape Architecture.

The Mies van der Rohe Award retrospective shows Borneo Sporenburg and Madrid Rio and is on display until 12th January at Museu Marítim de Barcelona, Drassanes.

The 10th edition of the Rotterdam Architecture Prize (RAP) will be presented in the Rotterdam City Hall on Wednesday 18 December. Paradijshof in Nieuw Crooswijk has been shortlisted for the award. 

As leaves fall and days get shorter, come inside and listen to a member of the West 8 team for an engaging talk. 

West 8 project leaders Inna Tsoraeva and Juan Tur will speak at this year's World Urban Park Congress in Kazan. 

This week West 8 will take part in the 20th Annual Walk21 Conference—an International Conference on Walking and Liveable Communities. 

A public inauguration was held to celebrate the opening of the Duke Sculpture Garden on Saturday, September 28th.

The American Planning Association has named Governors Island as a Great Public Space on their annual Great Places in America list. 

Houston Botanic Garden has officially broken ground and we're celebrating by sharing more about the exciting elements planned for the Edible Garden, an integral component of Phase I of the garden’s 30-year Master Plan by West 8. 

In collaboration with BOVAArchitects, West 8 has created a new plan that extends the existing parking structure below ‘t Zand Square into the area below King Albert I Park and redesigns the park itself. 

West 8’s winning-entry to the Middle Branch Waterfront Revitalization Competition has been featured in Next City’s The Power of Parks series. 

We are excited to share that West 8, along with our core local partners Mahan Rykiel Associates, Inc. and Moffatt & Nichol, has been announced as the winning team of the Middle Branch Waterfront Revitalization Competition! 

West 8 has been selected to design Campusplein, a new square at the heart of Leiden Bio Science Park (LBSP). The design will embody the park's ambition of becoming a more ecological, biodiverse and sustainable campus. 

Our Rotterdam office will move to the Fenixloods I building, a historic warehouse on the quayside of the Rhine harbor in Katendrecht, later this year. 

The IABR and the city of Dordrecht have organized the “IABR-Atelier the Ark of Dordrecht” to examine methods to optimize its multi-layered water safety strategy.

On June 19th, the Bridges and Pumping Stations of Noordwaard, designed by West 8 and ipv Delft, were awarded the Landezine International Landscape Award (LILA) in the category of Infrastructure.

West 8 is pleased to announce the grand opening of the Park at Essex Crossing! The park, designed by West 8, provides a refined, shaded oasis in the heart of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. 

This weekend our new climbing structure along the Groene Loper in Maastricht was revealed.

This week, West 8, in partnership with SHoP Architects, Brandywine Realty Trust and Drexel University, celebrated the opening of Drexel Square—our new 1.3-acre community park— which marks the first completed project within the visionary $3.5 billion master-planned Schuylkill Yards development in University City, Philadelphia.