The Woodland Platform
(2003)

NVA and City Design created a contemporary contemplative garden in wasteland behind Tramway Arts Centre (Glasgow). The Woodland Platform is a shelter and renga platform, its form being foursquare oak benches. An angled roof, with a single oak growing through the centre. Beneath two of the benches is a xylotheque, a library of the native woodland. This is a complete set of hinged oak books, each one inlaid with a sample from one of the eighteen native tree species.

Photographs by Morven Gregor
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