In an 2016 article in The New Yorker, design critic Alexandra Lange said Geuze has reinvented the concept of the park with Governors Island and other projects in Europe. The massive 740-acre park serves as a “unifying public space” for a new suburb of 100,000 people. A 2-mile long, nearly 20-foot-tall honey comb-shaped pergola, which winds through the park, not only helps demarcate the public space, but also provides habitat for climbing plants, bats, birds, and insects. The project won an Urban Land Institute Open Space Award in 2018. For Geuze, these projects highlight that “public space has become the dominant subject for the landscape architecture profession.

Source: The Guardian September 06, 2022 18:06 UTC