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Fine Landscape Architects
This page: Kolonnadenhof at Berlin’s famous Museumsinsel. Photos: Claas Dreppenstedt
Delicately transforming the outdoors Berlin’s Levin Monsigny landscape architects design exceptional open spaces which inspire, invite for lingering and relaxation and open the users' eyes to the beauty and particularities of their surroundings – whether they are children in a kindergarten, employees in a company or pedestrians in a city or a park. TEXT: NANE STEINHOFF | PHOTOS: CLAAS DREPPENSTEDT I CHRISTIAN RICHTERS I MARCUS EBENER
Founded in the middle of Berlin in 1998, the office of Levin Monsigny is home to a German-French partnership which includes landscape architects Axel Hermening, Martina Levin, Nicolai Levin and Luc Monsigny.“We share the enjoyment of designing and building, the passion of discovering and capturing new places and the challenge of finding individual answers to fixed configurations,“ Nicolai Levin says. The landscape architects from Berlin have firmly established themselves across Germany and internationally due to their profound and creative work portfolio. The in-
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ternational orientation and the intensive interest in the history, as well as the presence of the special context make Levin Monsigny an exceptional architectural office. Regular invitations to international competitions show the trust of various clients in the work of the architectural office. Projects from Levin Monsigny are regarded as elaborate, as well as stylistically confident and innovative. Their designs are unique and profoundly contribute to the specific identity of a location. Levin Monsigny’s portfolio comprises
of prominent public urban spaces, as well as representative outdoor installations, the ‘business card‘ of companies and also fine, private gardens. Balanced and harmonious compositions of plants and natural materials, such as stone and wood give the sites their remarkable charisma. Working closely together with clients and other planning