For the Malta Mission to the United Nations, our goals were to create an event space to accommodate 20-60 guests while still remaining functional for every use by office staff and passively serve as a viewing shade garden from the adjacent conference room.
The design features angular custom steel planters which were welded together on site, integrated cedar benches, plants for deep shade and distinct lighting effects. Hand picked boulders and the shapes of the planters are all intended to subtly reference the Malta landscape. The paving, huge Ailanthus tree and the rear stacked stone planting bed were all preexisting and were fully worked into the design.