Water Board Rijn en IJssel
The new building of the Rijn en IJssel Water Board in Doetinchem was completed in 2008. To tie in with the transparent architecture, Nico Wissing has created a design for a landscaped park-like garden which not only does full justice to the building, but which also enhances the wellbeing of both staff of the Water Board and future visitors. On a site of approx. 2.6 ...
Urban Oasis (in progress)
The pavilion consists of a series of innovations based on inventions inspired by nature. The top panels, for example, are covered with moss that provides a 5 to 7% contribution to air purification as the hairs on the moss leaves electrically bond half of the neutrally charged exhaust fumes from automotive vehicles. Below the podium, an active technology device is installed – the ultrafine dust ...
HUUS Hotel Gstaad Switzerland
Vision on the design of the outdoor space The vision for HUUS The document before you is our outline vision on creating the outdoor space around HUUS. This vision is based on the discussions we held with you, our visit to the location, the vision of the interior design architect, and our vision on the creation of living outdoor spaces. We have divided the outdoor ...
Philadelphia Flower Show 2017 Garden Nico Wissing
Reconnection At one with nature. An outdoor space in which the advantages of nature and sustainable materials are interwoven with human functioning and wellbeing. In this show garden, I will demonstrate how an environment can be created that offers the ideal environment for plants, animals and people, by using natural, local and sustainable materials, combined with already present factors such as rainwater. The entire natural ...
Traveling Ecodome
With the Dutch Green Inspiration Centre also known as the Ecodome, NL Greenlabel has created a unique, innovative and scalable concept that the Ministry of Economic Affairs will be able to present over the next few years at home and abroad. The Ecodome is the new version of the Hollanddorp concept, that ties in with the vision of Economic Affairs for the Netherlands. The Ecodome, ...
Pine Tree Circle, Nagasaki, Japan 2014
The multi-stemmed Pine tree, arise from a seed of the deceased old tree, is the centerpiece of the garden and gives life to new pine trees. The garden symbolizes the lifecycle of a Pine tree. The old stump and dead Branches from the ancestor of the multi-trunked tree give the multi-stemmed Pine tree the power to develop further. The seeds of the multi-stemmed Pine tree ...
The Floriade 2012
The Floriade 2012 was the stage for our ‘Garden of the Future’. Together with popular TV gardener and presenter Lodewijk Hoekstra, Nico Wissing created a very special garden. Their aim was to demonstrate to the public and professionals that a wide range of sustainable alternatives are available for use in gardens. To promote these alternatives, they launched a new label under the name NL Greenlabel ...