West 8

West 8 is an award-winning international office for bespoke urban design, landscape architecture and infrastructure projects, founded in 1987 with offices in New York, The Netherlands and Belgium. West 8 has an extensive portfolio of urban master plans and designs, landscape interventions, waterfront projects, parks, squares and gardens. The firm also develops concepts and visions […]

The Noordwaard project is a new 4450-hectare flow area that will prepare The Netherlands for the rising waters in the ‘Room for The River’ project. With its 12 pumping stations, hydraulic structures, and a large number of bridges, it is a bold but also humble design that respects the water landscape. The bridges have many different functions such as dikes, resting areas for birds, and introduces water in a spectacular way. They also facilitate public access and provide new opportunities for recreation in the de-poldered area. This is a clear statement that design matters because it adds value for people, birds, and water landscape.

Working in collaboration with the world-renowned Renzo Piano Building Workshop, the 3-acre landscape for Eighty Seven Park in Miami Beach enables the iconic luxury condo to float above a lush oasis. Inspired by the site’s extraordinary setting and the native and subtropical ecology of Fouth Florida, the private and public, natural and manmade, and indoor […]

Duke University’s 8000-acre campus is renowned on many levels—its breathtaking neo-gothic architecture, the Olmsted brothers’ splendid landscape plan, and an edenic setting within the greater matrix of the Duke Forest. Campus life shifts between the East and West sides of the Duke University grounds, with Campus Drive as the meandering link between them. Sitting at […]

Conceived over thirty years ago by a small constituency of local Houstonians, Houston Botanic Garden will be the first new Botanic Garden in the United States in recent memory. Taking its inspiration and structure from the best qualities of its location, West 8’s Master Plan for the garden articulates a phased, experimental, and resilient plan […]

Xinhua Waterfront Park is a 1.9 km stretch of green public space, situated on the east bank of Shanghai’s Huangpu River. Between 2015 and 2018, the site was transformed from an inaccessible industrial dock into a much-relished space for residents and visitors alike. The park creates new connections between the city and the beautiful Huangpu […]

Máximapark is a 300 hectare, multi-functional public park on the west side of Utrecht, situated between the districts Vleuten, De Meern and Leidsche Rijn. Until 2007, the area was in use for agriculture – today it’s a celebrated forest park that lets the surrounding communities meet and escape from the busy life in the city. […]

In 2003 Madrid City Council decided to bury the 10 km western stretch of the city’s first Ring Road, known as the M30. This West section travels along both banks of the Manzanares River. The original construction of the M30 was not the result of a single design, it had taken place carelessly during the […]

The Toronto Central Waterfront extends 3.5km along Lake Ontario and is in direct proximity to the downtown business district. It is one of Toronto’s most valuable assets, which, after decades of patchwork development and efforts, was lacking a coherent vision for linking the pieces into a greater whole. In this context, the fundamental objective of […]

New Holland Island has witnessed many significant periods of Russian history and was under authority of the Russian navy until 1918. It served as a mixed-use facility for the army until 2004. Eventually, Millhouse, LLC won the 2010 reconstruction competition, and opened the island to the public for the first time in 2011. The challenge […]

Phase 1 Developed from the 2007 international design competition winning entry and the 2010 Park and Public Spaces Masterplan, Phase 1 of Governors Island, which opened in 2014, creates 30 acres of new park and public spaces and adds key visitor amenities to the historic North Island. West 8 understood from the outset that the […]