Tanghe countryside park 1st prize In 2018 we were honoured to receive the first prize for a closed competition. A project were we enlarge the scope of the project and want to focus on ecological recovery of the lake besides the project. This is Baiyangdian, the largest freshwater wetland in North China, with a [...]
Guangzhou garden We were invited to participate in a competition to make a new design for the Guangzhou garden and got the 2nd prize. The existing garden is located in the town and plays an important role in connecting the city to the famous Baiyun mountain. Guangzhou is referred to as the ‘Flower City [...]
Landscape design of Floriade 2022 2021-02-22 On skates, Niek Roozen and Debby Toorenaar discussed the starting points and the development of the planting design for Floriade 2022. Later in the video, Niek made a snow painting on the ground for Debby as a preview of the flower paintings during the event. And now it [...]
Citizens' Square, Shenyang We were invited to participate in a closed design competition for one of the most important plaza’s in the city. Large infrastructural changes and the development of a new modern office complex required a new plaza design along the Golden Axis, a 7km long main street housing the most important business [...]
Revive the river, China Baiyangdian is the largest freshwater wetland in North China, with an area of more than 300 square kilometers at its largest. Historically, a combination of nature and man-made influence has formed a group of 146 large and small lakes connected by more than 3,700 ditches and rivers. This wetland carries [...]
The last day of Luc Lefèvre 2021-01-28 Luc, who has been working for more than 35 years as our designer and technical advisor, is retiring soon. During Floriade 1982, Luc met our company founder Niek Roozen and joined us. Luc contributed in many international and national exhibition projects. Besides technical work, he has always [...]
Challenging plant puzzle at Floriade 2021-01-20 Niek Roozen and Jacqueline van der Kloet recently started planting perennials at the Floriade in Almere. A very challenging plant puzzle!
Rejuvenation of north-western forest edge of ‘Haarlemmermeersebos’, Hoofddorp 2020-12 In the past month, the 2nd phase of the rejuvenation of the edge of the Haarlemmermeer forest was carried out. Old poplars trees were removed by a crane to create space for young trees. Removing them with a crane means that the trees are removed [...]
Planting of Green City Arboretum Floriade 2022 in Almere is in full swing! 2020-10-21 We started with the planting of 180.000 perennials and 90.000 shrubs in the Green City Arboretum of the Floriade 2022. All these plants have a value for cities and several special properties, like air purifying, increasing of the biodiversity, water [...]
The Dutch garden in Warsaw has been beautifully photographed. 2020-09-18 The last months the new Dutch ambassador in Warsaw has used the Dutch garden in the historical park many times. Because of Corona measures meetings were forbidden, and therefor she loved to invite her guests for a walk in the garden. Furthermore was the [...]