16/05/2026
✈️🌿 Visiting gardens
🖼️ Artwork: Le Mur Végétal
📍 Location: Musée du Quai Branly
✍🏻 Designer: Patrick Blanc
A living wall covering over 800 m² of the museum’s façade, just a few steps from the Eiffel Tower.
This is one of the most iconic vertical gardens in the world, designed by botanist Patrick Blanc and inaugurated in 2006 as part of the museum project by Jean Nouvel.
The wall hosts around 15,000 plants from hundreds of species (376), carefully selected from different climates and ecosystems around the globe.
Instead of soil, plants grow on a layered system of felt attached to a metal frame, allowing roots to anchor and receive nutrients through a continuous hydroponic irrigation system.
This technique recreates natural cliff ecosystems, where plants thrive without traditional ground, adapting to humidity, shade, and vertical growth.
More than a façade, it’s a living ecosystem that evolves over time colors, textures, and density shifting with the seasons and environmental conditions.
A pioneering project that blurred the line between architecture, botany, and art, and helped redefine how cities can integrate nature.
One of those places that makes you rethink what a “garden” can be.
