Project
CityZen Garden

Category 
Best Implemented Landscape Architecture Project

About the project
Public park for post-industrial meditation in West Palm Beach, Florida. Pocket-size urban zen garden with a series of meditative spaces for individual and collective reflection. Urban acupuncture for the hectic city offering an oasis of calmness and stopping of artificial time. Modern man has to take the liberty to travel 1000 years back in order to realize, that the things are the same. Wood, stone, recycled glass, bamboo, tropical trees, water. 1000 m2.

Location
Downtown West Palm Beach, Florida, the USA

Project implementation year
2019

Project website
https://www.casagrandelaboratory.com/portfolio/cityzen-garden/

More project images
http://casagrandetext.blogspot.com/2021/08/cityzen-garden-west-palm-beach.html


Additional information
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/urban-acupuncture-community-localised-renewal-projects
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Casagrande
https://web.archive.org/web/20131014144208/http:/www.europeanarch.eu/eur_arch_prize/2013/CASAGRANDE_WEB_PAGES.pdf
https://www.citedelarchitecture.fr/fr/video/global-award-2015-marco-casagrande-casagrande-laboratory-helsinki-finlande-taiwan-vf-urban
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrmQjqgSB0s

Applicant and authors of the project
Casagrande Laboratory & LeJobArt.
Project by Marco Casagrande, Sherryl Muriente, Beju Dudali.

Other participants
Broadstone Florida
Downtown West Palm Beach