West 8 Urban Design and Landscape Architecture

LOT-EK, West 8, and Beyer Blinder Belle have been selected as the design team for Pier 57 at West 15th Street and the Hudson River as part of the development group lead by New York-based real estate developer YoungWoo & Associates (YWA). YWA was awarded the project by the Hudson River Park Trust on July 30, 2009.

Miami Beach, FL, July 15, 2009 - West 8 has been selected by the New World Symphony and the City of Miami Beach to design Lincoln Park. The new 2.5 acre urban park in the cultural and civic heart of downtown Miami Beach will serve as an outdoor performance space for the New World Symphony as well as a distinctive park for residents and visitors. West 8’s design approach calls for an integrated relationship to the Frank Gehry-designed New World Symphony building a new park that balances the building design, the surrounding context, and its own programmatic and design ambitions.

The competition entry for the design of the under tunneling of the A2 highway, West 8 together with Humblé Architecten prepared for the consortium “Avenue2”, was unanimously chosen by the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, the City of Maastricht, the Province of Limburg and the City of Meerssen as the winning design.

Waterfront Toronto, together with the Government of Canada, Province of Ontario and City of Toronto, officially opened the Simcoe WaveDeck, the second and most dramatic urban dock, designed by West 8+DTAH, being built along Toronto's central waterfront.

The preliminary design of the master plan for the new Playa de Palma, West 8 designed for Consorcio Platja de Palma, was recently presented to the public.

The public space for the new business area Pegaso Park, West 8 designed for Inmobiliaria Urbanitas, has recently been completed. For the first time in Spain, the public space defines the quality of a business development for offices, retail, hotels and service buildings.

The first section of the permanent marking of the Rotterdam Brandgrens (fire limits), designed by West 8 for the City of Rotterdam, was officially unveiled by Mayor Aboutaleb on May 14th.

On the 29th of April Berlin's revitalized Harbor Tempelhof-designed by West 8 for Grundstücksgesellschaft, Objekt Tempelhofer MBH & CO. KG- was officially opened by Mayor Wowereit.

Construction is moving along at Vinex site Vathorst. Another two of in total 40 new bridges are now under construction.

Saturday the 18th of April the new pedestrian bicycle bridge ‘The Twist’, designed by West 8 for the City of Vlaardingen, was officially opened at the shores of the Vlaardingse Vaart in Vlaardingen, The Netherlands.

The competition entry for Almere Hout Noord West 8 prepared for housing corporation Ymere was unanimously chosen by the municipal assembly of Almere as the winning design.

The wavedecks Rees and Simcoe, which will open this summer, will provide unique gateways to the waterfront of Toronto and will create more publicly accessible spaces.

Construction is moving along at the new City Park designed by West 8 for Zeestad CV/BV in Den Helder, The Netherlands. The first of 69 Elms were planted as part of the first phase of implementation.

West 8+MRIO have been short listed for the Parque Lineal de Manzanares Madrid, designed for the City of Madrid, in the Conde Nast Traveller Innovation and Design Awards 2009.

To preserve the wonderful ancient alder thickets at the Leidsche Rijn Park, cutting back the trees is a heavy, but grateful chore.