Winding paths lead visitors through this landscaped garden at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, which Piet Oudolf designed to complement the site's iconic architecture.
The Oudolf Garten covers an area of approximately 4,000 square metres at the furniture company's production site, which features buildings designed by some of the world's leading architects.
Top: the garden has a series of winding paths. Above: it surrounds the architecture park
With production buildings, museums and a showroom created by architects including Nicholas Grimshaw, Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano and Zaha Hadid, Vitra describes the campus as an "architecture park".
According to Vitra chairman emeritus, Rolf Fehlbaum, who began commissioning architects to create buildings for the campus in the 1980s, landscape design was not a consideration in the first decades of its development. The garden has a naturalistic approach
"It was only in the course of connecting the northern and southern parts of the Campus, when the projects by �lvaro Siza and Günther Vogt were commissioned, that landscape interventions were first implemented," said Fehlbaum.
"Piet Oudolf's garden has added a fresh dimension to the campus and opens up a new, ever-changing experience for visitors."
The garden has around 30,000 plants
Oudolf is known for his naturalistic approach to gardening, which involves working primarily with perennial plant varieties that are chosen as much for their structur...