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Pennsylvania, USA
Longood Gardens, Inc.,

2007-
Longwood Gardens was created by industrialist and philanthropist, Pierre S. du Pont in 1906. In addition to the property serving as his country estate, Mr. du Pont set about creating gardens intended to “exploit the sentiments and ideas associated with plants and flowers in a large way.” Today, Longwood encompasses 1,050 acres including woodlands and meadows, 20 outdoor gardens and 20 indoor garden rooms inside a four-acre conservatory complex, with nearly one million visitors each year.

Longwood is world famous for its horticulture, and has a long tradition of inviting renowned landscape architects to help design the gardens, such as Tommy Church, Roberto Burle Marx and Sir Peter Shepherd.

Longwood has invited us to design a new square and performance area in front of the new East Conservatory. The proposal incorporates sweeping grass terraces that emerge from the landform and open southwards to the gardens and entrance. We are working with the building architects, Michaelis Boyd, to develop a brand new concept of domed top lit lavatory cabinets hidden within the earthform. These cabinets will open off a glass roofed spine through walls of orchids and ferns.
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