Festival | 2009 Edition
June 26 to October 3, 2010
The International Garden Festival is pleased to announce the names of the
designers selected by the jury for the 2010 edition of Festival. A total of 276
proposals for conceptual gardens was submitted by over 600 architects, landscape
architects, designers and artists from 34 countries, a record number of
participants since the inception of the Festival in 2000.
The jury was
composed of Angela Grauerholz, director of the Centre de Design de l’UQAM,
Martin Leblanc, architect with Sid Lee , Mélanie Mignault, landscape architect
with NIPpaysage, Lisa Rochon, author and architecture critic with the Globe
and Mail, Bernard St-Denis, professor, École d’architecture de paysage de
l’Université de Montréal, Alexander Reford, director of Les Jardins de
Métis/Reford Gardens and founder of the Festival and Emmanuelle Vieira, artistic
director of the 11th edition of the Festival.
The three teams
chosen by the jury to create gardens in 2010 are:
Studio
Bryan Hanes (Bryan Hanes, Jose Menendez, Yadiel Rivera Diaz, Brenna Herpmann)
landscape architects, and DIGSAU (Jules Dingle, Jeff Goldstein, Mark Sanderson,
Jamie Unkefer, Aaron Jezzi) architects, all based in Philadelphia, USA, and
their project “Veil Garden”
Habitation (David Vago,
Simone Marsh and Nick Brown) landscape architects from Sydney, Australia, and
their project “The grass is greener”
Rosetta Sarah
Elkin, a Canadian landscape architect based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and her
project “Tiny Taxonomy”
The
new gardens will join those that are returning for presentation in
2010:
Forest.Square.Sky by Suresh Perera
(Montréal);
Seedling by Mateo Pinto, Carolina Cisneros, Victoria
Marshall (New York City);
Dymaxion Sleep by Jane Hutton, Adrian
Blackwell (Toronto) – Gold Medal, Landscape Architecture Category, 2009
Design Exchange Award;
HAHA! by spmb (Eduardo Aquino, Karen
Shanski, Ralf Glor and Matt Baker from Winnipeg) and Martin Gagnon (Montréal);
Every garden needs a shed and a lawn!by Deborah Nagan (United
Kingdom);
Bois de biais by Atelier le balto (Véronique Faucheur, Marc
Pouzol, Marc Vatinel from France and Germany);
Réflexions colorées by Hal Ingberg (Montréal);
Bascule by Cédule 40 (Julien Boily,
Sonia Boudreau, Étienne Boulanger and Noémie Payant-Hébert from Saguenay);
SoundFIELD by Doug Moffat and Steve Bates (Montréal);
Fractal
Garden by Legge Lewis Legge (Andrea Legge, Deborah Lewis and Murray Legge
from New York City and Austin, Texas);
Réflexions suspendues by
Francesca Moretti, Federico Brancalion, Rodolfo Roncella and Mirando Di Prinzio
(Italy);
Le Bon Arbre au Bon Endroit by NIP Paysage(Mathieu Casavant,
France Cormier, Josée Labelle, Michel Langevin, Mélanie Mignault from Montréal);
and the iconic Blue Stick Garden by Claude Cormier (Montréal).
The 11th edition of the Festival will be held from June 26 to October 3,
2010. A series of festival events for families and visitors will be held
throughout the summer, gourmet picnics, cinema under the stars, concerts,
brunches, garden parties and much more. In March, the Gardens will present the
première of the new documentary on the Gardens by Philippe Baylaucq. The
Festival is partnering with chef Normand Laprise and his team from Montréal’s
famed Toqué! restaurant to present culinary events, the first in Montréal in
March and the second in Métis in August.
The International Garden
Festival is the leading contemporary garden festival in North America. Presented
since 2000, the Festival has exhibited more than 115 gardens on the festival
site and in Montreal, Toronto, France, Italy and the United Kingdom. The
Festival was recently featured in Tim Richardson’s new book, Great Gardens of
America and in the November issue of Landscape Architecture magazine.
The International Garden Festival is presented with the financial
assistance of many public and private partners. The Festival wishes to thank the
partners who assisted in the 2009 edition of the Festival: the Canada Council
for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, Economic Development Canada, Canada Summer
Jobs, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Emploi-Québec, Tourisme Québec,
ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l’Occupation du
territoire, Conférence régionale des éluEs du Bas-Saint-Laurent, Fédération des
chambres de commerces du Québec, Fondation canadienne de l'architecture du
paysage, Association des musées canadiens, Fondation Héritage Canada, Canada
Blooms,Landscape Ontario, Le Groupe Germain, Consulat général de France à
Québec, Les Forges de Montréal, Premier Horticulture, Centre de design de
l’UQAM, Musée du Château Ramezay, Société de développement commercial
Vieux-Montréal, Ville de Montréal and Toqué! restaurant.
Hydro-Québec has
been a major partner of Les Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens since 1999.
List of gardens for the 2009 edition
