West 8 Urban Design and Landscape Architecture

Jamie Masly Larson, principal of West 8 New York, to partake in the panel "Getting to the 99%: Tools for Innovating the Usual Public Meeting", at the National ASLA Conference. The panel will discuss the importance of public outreach in design process. The conference will take place on the 1st of October.

Edzo Bindels will present Cronenburgh, ie Loenen aan de Vecht, during the Architectural debate on how to aim for quality in the present age of hit-and-run. The architectural Debate will take place on the 27th of September in het Parkgebouw, Rijssen.

West 8 to particpate in two events at the MoMa, the exhibition 9+1 ways of being political: 50 years for political statements in architecture & urban design, and in the symposium "The Child in the City of Play", part of another exhibition.

West 8’s Governors Island Park and Public Space Master Plan has won an Honor Award in the Analysis and Planning category from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).

The September issue of Architectural Digest have listed 8 innovators who they believe have made an important contribution to the world of design. West 8 has the honour to be featured as one of them.

As part of the Miami Beach City Center Redevelopment Project, Miami Beach SoundScape received 2012 Institute Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design of AIA.

West 8, in collaboration with local with local designers Mark Jensen, principal at Jensen Architects, Marcel Wilson, principal at the landscape architecture firm Bionic, and Ila Berman, Director of Architecture at California College of the Arts, has been selected as one of the three finalists for the Fort Mason Center Design Competition in San Francisco.

At the entrance to the beach near Buren, on the Island of Ameland, a new PHILIPS Urban Star was unveiled.

West 8 in close collaboration with MRIO (a joint venture of Burgos&Garrido Asociados, Porras La Casta Arquitectos, and Rubio&Alvarez-Sala) have been awarded the prestigious FAD award for Madrid Rio in the category City and Landscape

The 24th of July, 'the construction of Governors Island Park and Public Spaces, Phase I, including the installation of Day is done by Susan Philipsz' was awarded for Excellence in Design 2012 by the New York Design Commisision.

Every second Saturday of the month, the construction site at Rotterdam Central Station opens its doors to the public showcasing the large-scale, ongoing transformation.

West 8 to present at the American Public Gardens Association Annual Conference on June 22, 2012.

Madrid Rio is a finalist for the European Garden Award 2012 in the category 'Innovative Contemporary Concept or Design'. The award ceremony will take place at the 31st of August.

On the 28th of June, West 8 will give a lecture on the potential of underground infrastructure at the International Forum 'Integrated development of underground space of cities'.

The 7th of June, the opening of the first housing block in Nieuw Crooswijk was celebrated. Nieuw Crooswijk is a project by West 8 and has been developed in close collaborations with the project developers and various architects, to create a contemporary district with an open urban atmosphere.

The redevelopment of Queen's Quay is to take off this June. The reconstruction is expected to last till late 2014.

For the past months, a lot of work has been moved at the Jubilee Gardens near the London Eye. Today, the 31st of May, the Jubilee Gardens is to open to the public, just in time for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations set this coming weekend.

Last Friday, the 25thof May, the Minister of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs has awarded the team of West 8 as winner of the "Yongsan National Park Competition" during an official ceremony.

The 24th of May, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced the groundbreaking of Phase 1 of the Governors Island Park and Public Spaces, designed by West 8.