PWP Landscape Architecture created the Colorado Esplanade designs, which “orchestrates the complex circulation functions with a legible and elegant design that achieves a sense of arrival and departure and celebrate this location in Santa Monica.”

"I loved working with him because he was very subjective and intuitive," Walker said this week.

Designed by PWP Landscape Architecture, the topography of the new Pacific Park complements neighboring Sydney G. Walton Square Park which was designed by Peter Walker with SWA Group in 1968.

Less than four months after opening, the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site has welcomed its one millionth visitor...

Designed by Michael Arad and Peter Walker. 2011. The world famous 911 Memorial occupies two acres at Ground Zero at the foot of the soon to be completed Freedom Tower. 

The design of the project has been conceived by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's architect Craig W. Hartman, and Peter Walker of Berkeley-based PWP Landscape Architecture. 

Trust for the National Mall has announced the Stage II results, naming the ten design teams selected to continue in the third and final stage of the National Mall Design Competition. 

"Visitors arrive and they know they arrived at the new VMware," David Walker, the landscape architect for the project, told the board.

"There's nothing wrong with the Embarcadero being grand, but every piece doesn't have to be grand," says Walker, whose firm PWP Landscape Architecture..." 

Michael Arad and Peter Walker are both extremely experienced in their fields of work. They have worked together exceedingly well, building one of the most meaningful and aesthetically pleasing memorials ever made.

Santa Monica residents agreed that the esplanade should have a “spontaneous” feel and that the Pier sign should always be visible. The design should be something that would “show up on a postcard,” said PWP partner Adam Greenspan.

Jury chooses 15 design teams to compete to redesign features of the mall; Rogers Marvel Architects with PWP Landscape Architecture will compete for both Union Square and Constitution Gardens.

Santa Monicans were invited to walk the site of the new esplanade—Colorado Boulevard from 4^th Street to the Pier—and imagine what it will look like; representatives of Peter Walker Partners will identify the features at the basis of their design.

Walker: "I can't affect the field through some new theory; I can only provide an example. The separation of landscape architecture and planning was a disaster so I am going to dedicate my remaining time and energy to getting this dialogue to work easier. When the fields separated, planners took away politics, sociology. Landscape architects took away botanical knowledge, knowledge of spaces."

‘The rebuilding of both the memorial together with the surrounding buildings will give the American people a sense of rebirth from the terrible attacks of 9/11.’ -Peter Walker

PWP is designing a pedestrian area that will funnel visitors from the Expo Line to Santa Monica’s oceanfront amenities.

Planted trees by Peter Walker and Partners continue the grid throughout the enormous site, transforming it into an urban park.

Just as obtaining tickets for Broadway hit shows requires planning and strategizing, so will a visit to the World Trade Center memorial.

Internationally renowned architect Peter Walker is the lead designer of the Headland Park.

What better way to bring hope for the future than by incorporating eco design and planning for a sustainable future?

Peter Walker and Partners presented its vision of a pedestrian-friendly stretch of Colorado Avenue, which will carry thousands of visitors a day from the Expo line terminal at 4th Street to the Santa Monica Pier, with side trips to the downtown commercial district and the Civic Center and the to-be-completed Palisades Garden Walk Park. 

“We’re sometimes dismissed as the guys who put the trees in,” says David Walker about his firm’s seminal role in the design of the 9/11 memorial site. The 50-year-old Walker, who co-led the project for Peter Walker & Partners, his father’s renowned landscape architecture firm, is in equal measure self-effacing and self-assured, both traits that served him well throughout the seven-year odyssey that lead to this week’s opening of the site. Moreover, he is also part of what, by all appearances, is an extraordinary design accomplishment.

Walker said his vision for the 9/11 Memorial and surrounding plaza, which carried a price tag of around $50 million, was the interworking of three metaphors: If Arad's voids represented loss and sadness, then the flat plane of the design would symbolize the earth, and the trees, a forest of 412 swamp white oaks, life.

His most recent project was the National September 11 Memorial in New York. Walker received that commission for a reason, as he has created many classically elegant modern parks and streetscapes in cities around the world since he began his career 50 years ago.

Anybody watching yesterday or anybody who's been fortunate to visit it can say that it's done a remarkable job of creating a kind of poetic communion.

Visitors were allowed to walk among hundreds of white oak trees on the eight-acre site and gaze at the water on the exact spots where the World Trade Center's twin towers stood.

People will have the very special feeling of stepping on the ground that people have not seen for the past ten years.

Peter Walker's landscape of oaks, benches, and pale gray granite paving will probably prove to be a crucial element in the design.

Veteran landscape designer Peter Walker is also shaping Paul Keating's beloved headland park at Sydney's controversial Barangaroo development.

“I was in San Francisco; my wife was in Muncie and called and said, 'Turn on the TV.'”

When the fountains open there's an expectation that people will throw all sorts of things down into them.

To have hid the names below ground and had a park above would have been to hide in some sense from the true gravity of the attacks.

Protected by trees whose leaves quietly track the passage of time with seasonal changes of color, the memorial offers a haven away from shrieking traffic and overbearing pressure of the city environment.

More than 400 trees will be planted at the memorial plaza, considered to be one of the world's most eco-friendly sites.

Designed by landscape artist Peter Walker, the plaza is one of the most eco-friendly places in New York City today.

The trees -- more than 400 -- line the walkways and plaza leading to the voids. All but one are recent transplants. The lone "Survivor Tree," a callery pear, was found in the ruins and nursed back to health. The greenery provides a bucolic sense in the midst of city concrete.

In the mind of Mr. Donham, his company, and the team under Michael Arad, a new space has been forged that will at once denote new life—“the trees are key”—and the uncluttered conditions  . . . for a place of remembrance.

The memorial component of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum is just about finished, and scheduled to open next Sunday. Early reviews have been largely positive.

...Landscape architect Peter Walker was brought in to add greenery. Hundreds of swamp white oak trees have been trucked in to provide a canopy over the memorial plaza.

“The rebuilding of the memorial together with the surrounding buildings will give the American people a sense of rebirth from the terrible attacks of 9/11.”—Peter Walker 

How the memorial and plaza will fit into Manhattan will depend as much on what the city brings to it as what it brings to the city.

"It's the most complicated, the most technically demanding project of anything we've done," ... "It's more than three-dimensional chess, and it has gone on for seven years."

Animation showing the memorial plaza animation showing , with fountains among the largest ever created, is at the heart of ground zero.

Rest easy: the 225 five-year-old Swamp White Oak trees at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum site were saved from the wrath of Irene.

In this rigorously minimalist aesthetic of straight lines, Walker throws one curve, and it's a doozy. The so-called survivor tree, a Callery pear that was found alive in the rubble and nursed back to health, has been installed just west of the pools. Its limbs were burned off on 9/11, but they have grown back to form a living candelabra.

Designed by the global competition winners architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker, the memorial consists of a peaceful tree-filled plaza and two reflecting pools.

Matthew Donham, the project manager at PWP Landscape Architecture, the firm that helped design the memorial plaza, says, “It’s never good to have a hurricane two weeks before opening.”

Arad and Walker have worked hard to keep the memorial site open to the city, unbounded, neither raised on a plinth nor set into a frame.

“We’ll actually fare better than a nearby street tree,” predicted Matthew Donham, project manager at PWP Landscape Architecture.

The voids are combined with trees that represent rebirth; “the result is a memorial that expresses both the incalculable loss of life and regeneration.”

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AN‘s recent visit to the plaza, crowded with workers laboring toward the anniversary opening, revealed a vast, contemplative space that we predict will function well as both a memorial and a public space for New Yorkers.

The devastated area around the site of the two world Trade Center towers is once again becoming a vibrant neighbourhood packed with restaurants and hotels, places to live and spots to shop.

A tough work of abstract minimalism, softened by waterfalls and oak trees, seeks to meld remembrance and regeneration.

Once you've read the names and confronted the void, you'll make your way back out toward the cacophony of Manhattan, with the green landscape both giving you time to consider what you've just seen and suggesting a sense of growth and rebirth.

The pedestrian plaza, landscaped by Peter Walker and Partners, could yet prove the perfect, verdant buffer between temple of memory and profane street.

“I think the landscape is very beautiful. It has trees (that soften Arad’s stark original plaza design) and creates places where people can sit. It’s full of symbols and also full of the liveliness which a plan of this scale has to have.”

The site will be a place of reflection and contemplation for many, and the memorial, designed by the winning team of Michael Arad and Peter Walker, will be open in time for the 10^th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Spiega Matthew Donham, l’architetto dei paesaggi di Pwp, lo studio californiano responsabile del Memorial, che i riflessi delle cascade d’acqua nella vasca saranno la traduzione piu visiblile del concetto firmato Michael Arad & Peter Walker: “Assenza riflettente.”

The combination of the fountains and the canopy of trees is intended to house both death and life, both acts of pilgrimage and lunchtime sandwich eating by office workers. "You walk through trees," says Walker, "and suddenly these waterfalls open up underneath you. Then you turn around and you're in a forest, which is a symbol of life."

The memorial is scheduled to be dedicated on September 11, 2001, the 10th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center.

“We’ve got the best landscape architects in the world in this room today, and they’re all working on gardens in Dallas," said symposium moderator Peter Walker.

If landscape architects want to be the leaders of the team, they have to learn to speak the languages of these experts and they have to learn how to use those experts in a fluid and economically efficient way.

The design of the 9/11 memorial, by architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker, was selected from a world-wide competition, from 5,200 competition entries received from 63 countries.

Designed by architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker, the memorial consists of a peaceful tree-filled plaza and two reflecting pools in the exact places where the towers once stood. Sustainable design principles were used to create the space.

Mr. Arad worked with Peter Walker, a landscape designer, who added in more than 400 trees to the original barren design.

The new images also show progress being made on the 9/11 Memorial, designed by the winning team of Michael Arad and Peter Walker.

Inspired by the steepness of the site, Gwathmey conceived of a collection of separate pavilions—a private, pristine hill town, as it were. 

The Santa Monica Daily Press reports that the Council chose Peter Walker and Partners of Berkeley . . . .

“You need a place to calm down and to feel a little less tense,” says Peter Walker.

A look at the state of construction at Ground Zero as the 10th anniversary of 9/11 draws nearer.

The facility is designed around a series of smaller buildings with varied social and academic spaces.

“The park will help make the transit center a 'great neighbor,' not merely a functional hub for daily commuters.”

Online journal focusing on architecture, landscape, and urbanism features a photograph of the San Diego Children's Park Fountain.

“This is an abstraction,” says Walker, "a painting or a sculpture of a headland, rather than a headland.”

This will be a place where people can touch the water and interact with natural beauty that has not existed on the site for more than 170 years.

Designed by Peter Walker, the park suggests an alpine meadow with mountains—think skyscrapers—towering above.

This one of a kind public space will be perched atop the hotel's three 55-story towers.