The Toronto City Hall Podium Roof Garden is one of the reasons to love Toronto, according to Toronto Life. Check out the August issue and find out what sedums have in common with drive-ins, fixie bikes, and chicken & waffles in making this city great. link>

Garden Design magazine has just posted an article and an updated image gallery of Liza’s Garden at the ROM. link>

Threepeat! For the third year running, PLANT has been recommended by Toronto Life in their annual Shopping Guide (this year, a new Home Guide).

The Podium Roof Garden on Toronto City Hall (phase one of the Nathan Phillips Square Revitalization) officially opens tomorrow as part of Doors Open Toronto. Come celebrate this weekend and get your first look at Toronto's newest public garden (and the first taste of what’s to come on the rest of the Square).

The Podium Roof of the Nathan Phillips Square Revitalization will be officially opened as part of Doors Open Toronto this Year. Come down on May 29th & 30th for the first look at Toronto's newest public garden.

The Dublin Grounds of Remembrance has been awarded a CSLA National Honour Award.

An article on The Dublin Grounds of Remembrance appears in the 25th Anniversary issue of Azure. Head to your local newsstand and check it out.

An article on Blue Note appears in this winter’s issue of Canadian Theatre Review. For those who missed the performance, the article’s included performance score allows the reader to immerse themselves in the tone of the performance.

The Roadshow Interviews are online! Check out Lisa Rapoport’s (and the others’) interviews at the-roadshow.tumblr.com.

PLANT’s scheme for Arvo Pärt Hall in Rakvere is part of a curated exhibit at the Virumaa Museums gallery in Rakvere, Estonia until 21 September 2009. Thereafter it will travel to the Estonian Museum of Architecture in Tallinn, Estonia.

PLANT’s Boustrophedon Garden has been awarded a Best of Canada Award for Landscape design for 2009. (More info here.)

Lisa Rapoport will be crossing the country talking about PLANT’s work as part of the Architectural Roadshow. (More info here.) Come and check it out when it’s in your town!

Toronto Life has declared PLANT’s landscapes the Best of the City. Read it yourself (on page 53, fyi) over here. >

PLANT's Boustrophedon Garden, part of Les Jardins éphémères at Québec 400, has received an Honorable Mention in this year's ID Magazine Awards. link >

The Dublin Grounds of Remembrance opened officially on Memorial Day. The grounds were filled to overflowing for the official dedication ceremony and flyover. More photos here. >

PLANT has created a booth for Paperstone at this year’s Interior Design Show entitled Paperstone Scissors. The booth is an exploration of the structural and fabrication possibilities of the material, and will be on display from 5–8 February 2009 at the Direct Energy Centre.

PLANT’s Boustrophedon Garden has received a Best of Category Award in Landscape Architecture at this year’s DX Awards.

Liza’s Garden was recently extensively profiled in both Landscape World and International New Landscape magazines.

The University of Applied Arts Vienna / Department Landscape Design presented an exhibition of the work in Tim Richardson’s “Avant Gardeners” in the conservatory of the Botanical Gardens. Two PLANT projects were included in the book and the exhibit. link>

Blue Note, PLANT's theatrical/installation collaboration with Nightswimming, opens tonight at York Quay Centre. The show will run until Sunday, 21 September 2008.

Liza’s Garden, a green roof installation to on the roof of the Royal Ontario Museum has officially opened. Visit c5 over the next few years to watch it grow.

PLANT’s Boustrophedon Garden has officially opened as part of Les Jardins éphémères at Québec 400. The garden will be open through to 28 September 2008.

A profile of PLANT has been included in Tim Richardson’s new book Avant Gardeners. PLANT’s Cabbagetown Garden and Roxborough Garden One are profiled as well. link>

PLANT has been awarded a CSLA Regional Merit award for Liza’s Garden, a green roof installation to be built this year on the roof of the Royal Ontario Museum.

Macroscape, PLANT’s entry garden for Canada Blooms 2008 was the recipient of three prizes at the show: the OALA Best Overall Garden Award, the Humber Nurseries Best Overall Use of Plant Material Award, and the Certified Landscape Designer Best Interpretation of Show Theme Award. The theme of this year’s show was Flower Power.

Agora|Theatre, our team’s scheme for the Nathan Phillips Square Revitalization Project, has been awarded a Canadian Architect Award of Excellence. Look for it in the December 2007 Issue of the magazine. link>

PLANT won double gold at this year's Design Exchange Awards. Foote's Pond Wood was awarded a Gold Award in the Landscape Architecture category, and the Woodlawn Residence was awarded a Gold Award in the Interior Design – Residential category.

Agora|Theatre, the PLANT team's scheme for Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto has been awarded an Award of Excellence as part of the Toronto Urban Design Awards in the Vision and Master Plan category.

PLANT's Ravine Forecourt project has been awarded a Best of Canada Design Award by Canadian Interiors magazine.

Two projects by PLANT have been awarded prizes as part of the Premio Internazionale Torsanlorenzo 2007. Roxborough Garden One was awarded the First Prize in the “Private Gardens and Parks in Cities and Suburbs” Category. Foote’s Pond Wood was awarded Second Prize in the “Landscape Design in Transformation of the Territory – Environmental Restoration, Renewal, and Recovery” Category. link>

Nightswimming and PLANT have been awarded a Fresh Ground commission by Harbourfront Centre for a theatrical collaboration entitled Blue Note. Presented to artist groups working in cross-disciplinary media, the Fresh Ground awards are the largest awards available to artists in Canada to assist with the production of new works. Blue Note, a performance piece inspired by a long-standing interest in choirs, not only tells a story about a group of individuals who come together to sing, but also explores site-specific staging and an interactive audience/performer relationship. link>

PLANT has won the commission for a Veterans’ Project in Dublin, Ohio after a two-stage invited competition. Entitled The Dublin Grounds of Remembrance, the project is on a site occupied by a historical cemetery and a forest on the edge of a river gorge. The scheme will create a new memorial grove of sycamores with a ceremonial loggia, and weaves a new path into the forest, lined with commemorative inscriptions and terminating in a “memory wall”. The project is scheduled for completion in November 2007. link>

The team led by PLANT, Shore Tilbe Irwin & Parners, Peter Lindsay Schaudt Landscape Architecture Inc., and Adrian Blackwell have been named the winners of the Nathan Phillips Square Revitalization Competition. link>

The final schemes for the Nathan Phillips Square Revitalization Competition have been revealed. The panels and models are on display at Toronto City Hall until 26 February 2007. The scheme developed by PLANT, Shore Tilbe Irwin & Parners, Peter Lindsay Schaudt Landscape Architecture Inc., and Adrian Blackwell, is one of the final four schemes up for consideration. link>

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