Her life-size work captures three figures in a lush, forestlike setting, their subtle facial expressions hinting at a metaphorical representation of the various emotions that one faces at a crossroads.

To rise above Tokyo’s teeming streets, Mr. Isozaki imaged in 1962 “The City in the Air,” pod-style apartments on an ever-evolving forestlike canopy.

Inside Gabon’s complex, a high-end furniture gallery, strung with forestlike greenery, displays the final products: tables, bookshelves and headboards made of purple streaked kevazingo, golden bilinga and other tropical wood.

And if you squint, artfully tended bonsai plantings staged around the garden lend a secondary forestlike understory to the dappled shade of the canopy.

You’ll quickly forget you started the hike in a residential neighborhood as you become immersed in a forestlike scene and pass a running stream.