Peter Veenstra is landscape architect and co-founder of LOLA Landscape Architects in Rotterdam and Shenzhen. Peter leads many international design and research projects and is a guest lecturer and co-curator. In design projects, he strives to turn innovative ideas into achievable designs. His work led him to design places like the adidas HQ campus, and Shenzhen’s main waterfront, Shenzhen Bay Park.
With self-initiated studies and design researches, he keeps on working on topics that deserve more attention in the field of (landscape) architecture. Examples of his designs are The Meelfabriek Garden in Leiden, Forest Sports Park in Shenzhen, Haitang River Phase 2 eco park in Sanya, the landscape design for Shenzhen Stadium and the adidas HQ campus. Recent research focused on post-disaster landscapes, carbon positive land use, afforestation, and climate adaptation in the urban environment.
Peter Veenstra is since 19 years a senior landscape architect and founding partner of LOLA Landscape Architects (founded in 2006) and he has led numerous international big-scale landscape architecture projects. As director of LOLA Shenzhen he is also responsible for big scale projects in Asia.
