PLANT : News

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.

Team Agora

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>