Brooklyn Botanical Garden opens stunning platform overlooking the cherry esplanade

A completely new platform offers a beautiful view of the cherry esplanade, the rose garden and other previously empty sections of the botanical garden. Now they are decorated with 40 of thousands of new plantings. This publication writes AM New York.

A viewing platform called Robert W. Wilson Overlook occupies an 0,5 hectare of the Botanical Garden in Brooklyn, whose total area is 21 hectare, the newspaper writes.

The project designer, the architectural firm Weiss / Manfredi, took the idea from his newly developed visitor center, Diane H. and Joseph S. Steinberg, in the garden as the basis. To it they added almost 200 meters of walking route that connects the upper trail and the planting of cherry trees.

This object was planted with 40 by thousands of new plants. Now there grow 34 crepe myrtle (12 of various types), four varieties of local herbs and perennials, wild strawberries, bluebells and other plants.

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“Our design for Robert W. Wilson Overlook is conceived as an ascending garden from crepe myrtle, with public meeting spaces overlooking the iconic cherry esplanade,” said a statement from Weiss / Manfredi, Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi.

At the same time, a winding path, framed by cast stone walls, surrounded by integrated benches and lighting fixtures, reveals the magic of the garden, the source added.

Toby Wolf of Wolf Landscape Architecture said the project brings together the Visitor Center’s living roof and Native Flora Garden, creating "an almost continuous ribbon of plantings inspired by meadows, each of which is a kind of response to its place and mission of the garden."

Who is Robert Wilson?

Robert Wilson, after whom the new species area in the Botanical Garden is named, lived in Brooklyn and was a Wall Street salesman. He himself loved to stroll in this garden.

At one time, he contributed to the campaign to protect this garden, as well as $ 10 million to the campaign "Over the Next Century" in 2007, which ensured the completion of the renovation of the garden.

Such a transformation of the garden was realized precisely in partnership with the Robert Wilson Charitable Foundation, the source said.