Company Gardens

Creating Identity with Trees, Plants and Street Furniture

The design of open spaces around a company headquarters or within a company premises is increasingly important, and in some cases now also a lucrative field of activity in landscape architecture. On the one hand, company gardens fulfil the function of a signboard advertising the company. On the other hand, in times of flexible working hours, work-life balance, and global networking, they are increasingly emerging as projection screens for innovative workplace concepts.

The implementations are remarkably diverse, with their conception often depending on whether the company garden is directed towards the outside world or rather designed for the employees. It can serve the public as a city park, act almost as a calling card as part of the corporate identity, be designed as a quiet oasis for breaks from work, or as a place for informal meetings and collegial communication.

Through selected examples of company gardens from around the world, Company Gardens by Chris van Uffelen reveals the great diversity present within this field of architecture.