On top of a plateau overlooking a deep valley, facing the old city of Luxembourg, there follows from east to west the Museum of Modern Art, Fort Thungen, and Fort Obergrünewald. These three geometrically powerful and complex works of architecture needed to be joined together within the same landscape.

We began with the grading of the plateau's surface in order to establish a common ground, as well as with the clearing of the trees on the hill facing the old city. The remaining slopes are left in their natural wooded state. In the center, a clearing is created from a spacious meadow, bordered clearly by an edge of young trees densely planted together. This clearing works in harmonizing the views possible from the old city, positioning the urban facade of the European institutions in the background.

This contrast between the natural character of the clearing and the urban character of the institutional buildings is offset by the planning of Europe Square, where a constellation of very tall pine trees stand here and there on top of the decomposed granite ground, creating a shaded bareness favorable to all kinds of museum activities. In the heart of this setting of trees, the museum can display its sculptures in the open without the landscape interfering with references to artistic practices, Land Art among them.