🏛️ Architecture & Design Sep 4, 2026 · Jessica Christin-Hametner

‘We have a moral obligation to experiment’: Bas Smets unveils Vitra’s new Water Garden

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‘We have a moral obligation to experiment’: Bas Smets unveils Vitra’s new Water Garden
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Bas Smets’ Water Garden at the Vitra Campus  in Weil am Rhein features a pond, flower gardens, micro-forests – and three sharks designed by Hella Jongerius







Photography by Julien Lanoo



Words by Jessica-Christin Hametner



Visitors to the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein may notice three striking shark-head sculptures jutting out of a shallow pond alongside the facade of Frank Gehry’s Design Museum. The ceramic fountains, titled The Three Graces and realised by Dutch de

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