Twenty-six interactive garden installations created by 72 landscape architects, architects, designers and visual artists from nine countries will be on view this summer at the 17th edition of the International Garden Festival.
Five new creations by designers from Canada, the United States, France and Switzerland will join the temporary installations on view and a sixth will be exhibited at special events throughout the summer. The new gardens were selected by the jury from 203 projects submitted from 31 countries for the annual competition. The installations create new experiences and environments to add to those of past editions:
LA MAISON DE JACQUES by Romy Brosseau, Rosemarie Faille-Faubert, Émilie Gagné-Loranger, architectural interns, Quebec City (Québec) Canada La Maison de Jacques (or Jack?s House from the children?s fable Jack and the Beanstalk) is different from the one we know. You might think you have just stepped out of a children?s story. The house is a green grove that is enveloped in bloom. You enter by walking on stepping stones that traverse a ground-cover made of clay beads. Once inside, you wander between the rows of beans of tightly winding their way up a light wooden structure. The walls divide the space into a series of small hidden gardens, singular in their proportions. These cocoons are ideal hiding places for a game of hide-and-seek. One remains a secret, inaccessible…
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