Client: Direction du Patrimoine et de l’Architecture / Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel Location: Paris Architect: VOGT Landscape Architects Contractor: Eurovia Oui oui, Paris! The city of love and, of course, the Eiffel Tower. With close to seven million visitors a year, the Eiffel Tower is one of the most visited attractions in the…
TreeBuilders recently installed 240 m² tree growing facilities on the school yard of Groupe Scolaire in Chaville, a town situated between Versailes and Paris. These growing facilities are equipped with the TreeParker tree bunker system to allow the trees to grow sustainably, healthy and to full maturity for the next 100 years. Because healthy, well-growing…
If you ask a Rotterdam resident about the Binnenwegplein, there’s a high chance they’ll start talking about the Donner-plane tree. This iconic plane tree (Platanus x hispanica) from 1947 still stands proudly in the cityscape in the central area of Rotterdam. A lot of construction and renovation is happening in the center of Rotterdam to…
On the village square of the Flemish village Massemen (municipality of Wetteren), stands an ancient lime tree, also known as the ‘village lime’. The age of the tree is estimated to be 450 years. In 2016, this unique tree was crowned as ‘Tree of the Year’. An ancient tree is unique and irreplaceable and has…
Cities are becoming greener and more future-proof worldwide. This is also the case in Antwerp on Media Square, where an elevation was constructed above an underground car park to plant ten trees. Media Square is one of the most beautiful squares in Antwerp and has a central location in the city. The reason for the…