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Schwartz Martha, *1950 (Philadelphia) Lives in London and Boston, works with landscape architecture and sculpture. Landscape design of Swiss Re Headquarters, Munich, landscape design, view of courtyard,2001 Water, glass cubes, glass cullet, gravel, stone blocks, tree trunks, mirrors, gazing globes, marbles, terra cotta pots and plants, © Martha Schwartz Artist Martha Schwartz, in charge of the exterior design at Unterföhring, paid a visit to the site before construction began and was impressed by the patchwork grid of the surrounding fields. She decided to use a similar structure, dividing the entire site into four differently coloured fields or quadrants: red, yellow, green and blue. The parts of each quadrant outside the perimeter of the building are planted with vegetation of the relevant colour, whereas the parts inside the courtyard, where natural light is more scarce, are filled with artefacts of matching colours. The four quadrants meet in the courtyard and are separated by pools of water.

Schwartz Martha, *1950 (Philadelphia) Lives in London and Boston, works with landscape architecture and sculpture. Landscape design of Swiss Re Headquarters, Munich, view of yellow quadrant (exterior),2001 Water, glass cubes, glass cullet, gravel, stone blocks, tree trunks, mirrors, gazing globes, marbles, terra cotta pots and plants, © Martha Schwartz Martha Schwartz stands for an entirely new landscape architecture philosophy that combines plants and artefacts in a witty, ironic and provocative way. The landscape, plants and artistic objects at the site all merge into one large-scale sculpture. Here in the yellow quadrant, large yellow sandstone blocks are irregularly distributed across a sandy surface. Schwartz originally planned to use blocks of plastic, but these would have clashed with the other materials used in and around the building.

Schwartz Martha, *1950 (Philadelphia) Lives in London and Boston, works with landscape architecture and sculpture. Landscape design of Swiss Re Headquarters, Munich, view of green quadrant (exterior),2001 Water, glass cubes, glass cullet, gravel, stone blocks, tree trunks, mirrors, gazing globes, marbles, terra cotta pots and plants, © Martha Schwartz In the courtyard, Martha Schwartz has created a mixture of landscape architecture and "outdoor art" that incorporates live plants. The result is an intermingling of landscape, architecture, plants and artificial objects, which all come together in a large-scale sculpture that follows the colour-coded signage system. A range of artefacts, rather than plants, was used in those areas where the overhanging office units block out the sun. Above the underground car park, silver-plated glass spheres reflect the surrounding accents of colour.