The Cool Gardens 2017 competition registration is now open.
Presented by StorefrontMB and The Forks, Cool Gardens celebrates the interface between nature, art, urbanism and design. The exhibition has run in Winnipeg for the past four years, with 2017 marking its fifth anniversary. Past presenters include BGL, SPMB, Scatliff+Miller+Murray, Ewa Tarsia, ATLRG, Micah Lexier and Claude Cormier [providing a visiting garden from the Jardins de Métis].
The event is highly accessible to a broad audience including children, tourists, shoppers, cyclists, and business people. Mirroring Winnipeg?s internationally acclaimed Warming Huts Exhibition on Ice, Cool Gardens places design culture at the centre of summer activities in Winnipeg and Brandon, while offering pleasant relief from summer?s exasperations. In Winnipeg, installations will run from Main Street to Provencher Boulevard, highlighting this generally unrecognized pedestrian linkage that bridges the Anglophone and Francophone communities. Installations along this axis provide an engaging, creative, and active experience for downtown Winnipeg. A satellite site in Brandon includes the Riverbank Discovery Centre.
Cool Gardens will take place from July 2nd to September 24th, 2017. In addition to the three new gardens selected by competition, Cool Gardens 2017 will include an invited garden by Calgary-based architect Marc Boutin, as well as the re-mounting of four previous gardens: 2° [ LADR Landscape Architects ], Cure de Ville ...