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Lebanon & Beyond Garden Opens at Albuquerque BioPark

The Lebanon & Beyond Garden opened in early October at the Albuquerque BioPark Botanic Garden, marking it as the first garden of its kind in the United States. It offers visitors a unique cultural and botanical experience, showcasing the vibrant landscapes and heritage of Lebanon and the Eastern Mediterranean. This project was made possible through the generous support of Robert and Monika Ghattas. Learn more.

DDS Recognized with Three Merit Awards at ASLA Colorado/Wyoming Design Awards

We’re excited to announce that three of our projects were awarded at the 2025 Annual Professional Awards. Our firm received two Merit Awards in the Analysis and Planning category for the Chatfield Farms Master Development Plan and the South Coast Botanic Garden Vision Plan. The Habitat Gardens at the Denver Botanic Garden also received a Merit Award in the General Design $1M–$5M category. Learn more.

 

Pollinator and Bird Garden Named Winner of International Sustainability Award

Didier Design Studio is honored to reveal that our project, "Where the Pollinators Are," has been selected as the 2024 Jury Winner for the 12th Annual Architizer A+Award in the Sustainable Landscape/Planning category. Learn more.

 

DDS Named in Top 220 Architecture Firms

Didier Design Studio is recognized among 220 Best Architecture and Design firms worldwide in Architizer’s 2024 A+ list. Learn more.

 

Green roof opens at the University of Denver

Join Chad King, Director of Sustainability at DU for a preview of the recently installed green roof for the Community Commons designed by Didier Design Studio. Reducing heat island effect, detaining and filtering stormwater, and increasing biomass in urban areas, green roofs are the way of the future for our urban spaces. Learn more.

 

Discover the new sensory garden at the Denver Art Museum

Catch a behind-the-scenes look into the making of the Sensory Garden at the Denver Art Museum’s newly renovated Martin Building. Light and shadow, texture and scent, choreography and sequence come together to bring sensory experience to this outdoor terrace nestled within downtown Denver. Learn more.

 

Design Trends in Public Gardens

Join Emmanuel Didier for a glimpse into the world of public garden design through Plant Select’s annual conference. Prominent themes emerge from our recent collaborations with the Denver Botanic Gardens, the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden, and the Arboretum at Penn State. Learn more.

 

$23 million expansion plans revealed for Des Moines Botanical Garden

We are thrilled to reveal the vision for future development of the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden. Working closely with this institution over the past 3 years, Didier Design Studio has led a series of design and planning phases to best enhance the Garden's remaining 7 acres of riverfront property in support of their mission: "Exploring, explaining and celebrating the world of plants". Learn more.

 
 

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The green roof at DU’s new Community Commons places a steppe-inspired landscape within the heart of Denver. Catching light and moving with the wind, the planting is designed to evoke the experience of a prairie or sky meadow as a way of animati
The experience of playing in a garden filled with plants and life is very different from the sterile feeling of a playground. Play in nature is unscripted and open-ended. We believe nature is rich and magical. It spurs endless discoveries and memorie
The Children’s Garden is designed to be an outdoor classroom; a place of unscripted play and spontaneous exploration that provides a “hands on” educational venue where all senses are engaged. The design intent is to emotionally conn
Artful elements in a garden create unique moments that reveal a story and convey a sense of place. We discover what is unique, hidden, and exciting about the context of where we are designing and use artistic elements to spur questions and reveal ans
Moving through a series of garden “rooms”, visitors participate in a dynamic journey through Pennsylvania’s unique geologic history. The entrance to Childhood’s Gate is marked by stone walls arranged in vertical planes and a c
Children learn about the world through their bodies, not by reading signs. They understand space with their senses, discovering by moving over, under, and through. Childhood’s Gate reveals the story of water in Pennsylvania, where rivers flow a
Happy Earth Day! As we are watching bulbs bloom and buds sprout, we can all take a break to relish in life's reemergence. In our studio, we have only become more emboldened to fight for resiliency, and pass on the joy of watching spring come into ful
Our studio grounds its practice in art as a catalyst for observation and ideation. It is how we continue to be creative in design and reveal the poetry of space. Our principal, Emmanuel Didier, has written about his connection to art and landscape fo