![]() ![]() ![]() The Piet Oudolf Garden, which will open to the public at the end of June, will be in full bloom later this summer through early fall. ![]() Frank Gehry’s Factory Building (1984) is situated just across Charles Eames Strasse. Howard (installed in 200o) a Jasper Morrison-designed bus stop (2006) Carsten Höller’s Vitra Slide Tower (2014), and smaller structures and installations by the likes of Thomas Schütte, Tobias Rehberge, Renzo Piano Workshop, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, and others. Not too far off is a modular 1953 filling station designed by Jean Prouvé (installed in 2003) a 1975 dome structure created by Charter Industries in collaboration with Thomas C. The garden is in an area straddling the northern and southern ends of Vitra’s sprawling campus between the VitraHaus, a Herzog & de Meuron-designed building that serves as the fabled Swiss modern furniture makers’ flagship store, and Álvaro Siza’s Factory Building. Populated by over 30,000 plants of largely the shrub, grass, and wildflower variety, the roughly 43,000-square-foot garden was first planted in May 2020. ![]()
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