Category: Media Coverage

Internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf will present his master plan for installing a public garden at Belle Isle Oct. 4 and Oct. 5.

Oudolf will reveal his plan to the media on Oct. 4. On Oct. 5 at 5:45 p.m. he will deliver a community talk about his career and the project at Wayne State University’s Community Arts Auditorium, 450 Reuther Mall. City of Detroit planning and development official Maurice Cox will introduce him. Piet will sign autographs after his one-hour talk.

via The Hub Detroit

The Hudson-Webber Foundation will grant the Belle Isle Conservancy $750,000 for its new garden from internationally renowned designer Piet Oudolf.

The approximately 2-acre garden on Detroit’s Belle Isle Park is among recipients of a round of gifts from the Detroit-based foundation worth $2.2 million, according to a Hudson-Webber news release.

via Crain’s Detroit

From the Fisher Building to Belle Isle (and beyond), the works of the renowned Albert Kahn endure. Here’s how to see them.

via New York Times

Could a beautifully designed garden bring more visitors to Belle Isle?In tonight’s Detroit 2020, we uncover another sign of big growth and development in the Motor City.

A big name garden designer has a new visions for one of Detroit’s most unique attractions.

In the dead of winter, it may be hard to picture a green Belle Isle, especially with all the snow.

via WXYZ.com

The world-renowned Dutch designer known in America for High Line park on an elevated rail corridor in New York City and the urban Chicago oasis of Lurie Garden is starting to conceive one of his dynamic gardens in a spot he chose beneath the Carillon tower on Belle Isle.

The Garden Club of Michigan — which invited him in a “why not Detroit” and a “why not Oudolf” moment — is beyond excited about the garden which will require more than $2.7 million in fundraising.

via the Windsor Star

Just days into his first visit to Detroit this past spring, world-renowned Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf asked his hosts to return to Belle Isle, the site where he’d been asked to work his magic, to look around one more time.

via Detroit News

Belle Isle will become even more beautiful in the coming years, as a new garden is in the works by an internationally-acclaimed Dutch designer. Piet Oudolf—whose projects include No. 5 Culture Chanel in Paris; The High Line in New York; Lurie Garden, Millennium Park in Chicago; Serpentine Gallery in London, and the Venice Biennale—will be bringing his vision to our own island park.

via Curbed Detroit

However cold outside, gardening is a hot topic in Detroit and likely to get even hotter.

As the Garden Club of Michigan and Detroit Institute of Arts’ Friends of Detroit Film Theatre are co-hosting a special screening of “Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf,” at 7 p.m. Jan. 4. The film will be followed by a conversation with Oudolf about the garden he’s planning to create on Belle Isle.

“We’re very excited,” said Duncan Campbell, a spokesperson for the club and husband to its past president Maura Campbell. “This is going to raise awareness for the project and it’s going to give people a chance to understand and see Oudolf’s work.”

via The Macomb Daily

Film on acclaimed garden designer Piet Oudolf at the DIA

via Detroit News

The main draw for garden visitors is Oudolf Field, a slope of 1.5 acres enclosed on three sides by traditional hedging. It’s a former field that is now a garden, conceived by international star Piet Oudolf. With the Dutch designer’s trademark perennials that have beauty at every stage, we wonder how they are doing in deepest winter?

via Gardenista