PLANT, in collaboration with Shore Tilbe Irwin & Parners, Peter Lindsay Schaudt Landscape Architecture, and Adrian Blackwell, have been named one of the four finalist teams for the Nathan Phillips Square Revitalization Design Competition.

PLANT's Forest Hill Landscape has been awarded a Silver Award in the Landscape Architecture category as part of the 2006 Design Exchange Awards.

PLANT was commissioned, along with six other firms, to design and make Gingerbread Houses to be auctioned off for the Toronto Star Santa Claus Fund. PLANT's contribution is a (fairly delirious) concoction of landscape and built form. The pieces will be on display at William Ashley in Toronto from 27 November to 20 December 2006. There will also be a feature in the Sunday Star on 26 November 2006. The bidding will take place online until 11 December 2006, so get your bids in now! link>

PLANT has been named the winner of the Stratford Market Square Competition. Our scheme for the revitalization of the historic Square of this southern Ontario town was selected from an international field of thirty-one entries. “The jury unanimously selected PLANT Architect’s strongly people oriented space, environmentally-friendly orientation, and flexibility in the types of activities that can be accommodated. It also very effectively communicated the history of Stratford,” said George Baird, jury chairperson.

PLANT is currently part of an exhibition at the York Quay Centre at Harbourfront entitled “Sited”, running from 16 September to 5 November 2006. PLANT's installaton, entitled Peripheral Sitings, exploits the conditions on the site in order to create an expanded view above, below, and beyond the site of the vitrine to explore the real spatial condition of the vitrine. The installation emphatically states that there is a here here, which is complex, diverse, changing, and requires the defocusing of our vision in order to recognize, understand, and appreciate it. link>

An extensive profile of PLANT appears in the July 2006 issue of Gardens Ilustrated magazine. Projects discussed include Le jardin du repos, the Prince George Drive Garden, and the Cabbagetown Garden

There is extensive coverage of the 2006 Banff Session in the May 2006 issue of Canadian Architect, including PLANT's presentation and a broad perspective of the current dialogue in Canadian and international architecture.
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The Albany Avenue Residence is featured in the May 2006 issue of Gardening Life. In the article Open Concept, Marjorie Harris describes the transformation of her back deck into a new enclosed room for year-round observation of her garden.

PLANT were one of the invited speakers at this year's Banff Session in March. Our talk centered on the role of process in our work, as well as providing an overview of the work of the studio.