n 1996, my wife and I were spending our honeymoon in France, in the Loire Valley, when I came across an entry in a guidebook about a Festival of Gardens at Chaumont, only fifteen minutes away.

American and Japanese landscape architects–Peter Walker William Johnson Partners and OHTORI Consultants – joined to build a plaza in the midst of a huge development project in Saitama, Japan.

Hargreaves Associates has been on the forefront of landscape architectural practice since its founding in 1983, creating a narrative approach to landscape architecture that layers history, ecology, and environmental phenomena.

Holding to the highest standards of technical craft to create problem-solving landscapes that attain artful expression, Peter Walker and Partners (PWP) is responsible for some of the most beautiful iconic works of landscape architecture in the world.

Commissioned by the City of San Jose, California to work at Roosevelt Community Center, a new LEED gold building, Brookner created two installations that collect and filter rainwater shed from the roof of the building.