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PLANT's Conversation Piece, part of the 2004 Interior Design Show in Toronto, has been awarded the Gold Award for Temporary Spaces by the National Post Design Exchange Awards. |
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PLANT Architect Inc. is a featured designer in the |
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PLANT's Conversation Piece tables and benches – Shown at the 2004 Toronto Interior Design Show – are now available for purchase. The tables (7-foot length) and benches (2'6" and 3'6" lengths) are sold separately. |
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PLANT's Conversation Piece light fixture “LightRAIL” – Shown at the 2004 Toronto Interior Design Show – is now available at: Eurolite, 5 Lower Sherbourne Street, Toronto, ON, 416 203 1501 |
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Foote's Pond Wood is featured in the new book building/art edited by Andrew King, Jocelyne Belisle and Lawrence Eisler from the University of Calgary Press. The book is based on the Artcity exhibit which took place in Calgary in 2000. |
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PLANT's Conversation Piece opened at the Interior Design Show in Toronto on 12 February 2004. One of three "Concept Spaces" the room was up for three days during which time thousands of visitors sat, talked, and visited the space. more> |
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PLANT has been named one of Canada’s “Fab 55” by Gardening Life magazine. PLANT is listed as part of the Next Wave of rising designers in Canada. The January/February 2004 issue of Gardening Life is on sale until 3 March 2004. |
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A Conversation of Views appears in the October/November 2003 |
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PLANT's Tranby Garden appears in Small Space Gardens, |
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Three projects by PLANT appear in the new book Garden Design published this fall by TeNeues. |
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Green Peace, a profile of PLANT's Howland Garden One appears in the August 2003 Issue of Toronto Life magazine. |
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A Conversation of Views opens at the Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, Oakville, Ontario, on 19 June 2003. |
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PLANT has been selected as the recipient of the “Protégé Honour” from Arts Toronto, a commission as a prize for the Toronto Arts Award to video artist Richard Fung. The commission will be a rear yard privacy concept and will be unveiled in early Fall. |
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PLANT's Tranby Avenue Garden appears in the May/June issue |
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PLANT has been awarded an OAA Architectural Excellence Award. The Tranby Garden received an Honourable Mention in the Residential A Category. See the OAA web site for details. |
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PLANT has been mentioned in three recent articles in the Toronto Globe & Mail: A Tiny Toronto Backyard Transformed and Tranby Garden Wins Accolades (9 May 2003), and Bug Off (26 April 2003). |
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PLANT's Tranby Avenue Garden appears in the May issue |
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PLANT Architect Inc. has been selected to be part of the exhibition Aurora Canadese - New Dawn: Canadian Designers in Milan as part of this year's Milan Triennale. PLANT's proposal, entitled City Instrument / Strumento Civico, consists of a series of musical benches disposed around the city. The exhibition runs 2 to 16 April 2003, and will be remounted in Milan during July.
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Yolles: A Canadian Engineering Legacy, by Beth Kapusta & John McMinn was launched on 17 October 2002 at Ballenford books on architecture. The book was designed by Bruce Mau with Chris Pommer of PLANT.
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PLANT Architect Inc. is part of the Ontario Association of Architects' first virtual exhibition, entitled No Limits.
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There is an article entitled "We Like Junk" about PLANT's
Superlegible Furniture in the current (July 2002) issue of Architectural Design on Furniture + Architecture. |
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The Design Exchange will be taking highlights of its New Landscape exhibition (including part of PLANT's Superlegible Furniture)
to Canada House in London, England in September, 2002. The show is planned to open in conjunction with the prestigious 100% Design Show (September 26th to 29th) which attracts record numbers of architects, interior designers, corporate users and other specifiers as well as a high profile international press contingent. 100% Design also promotes and encourages complementary off-site events and the exhibition at Canada House will be included in the official off-site calendar distributed during the show. |
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There is a Designer Profile of PLANT's garden work in the
June/July 2002 Issue of Garden Design Journal. |
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Three pieces of site specific furniture from PLANT’s Le Jardin du Repos – one of eight temporary gardens commissioned for the inaugural year of the International Garden Festival at Métis, Québec – have been selected to be reinstalled in the new Métis River Park adjacent to the historical Reford gardens. The new thirty-acre park will focus on environmental and ecological planning and sensibility.
The reconstruction of these pieces is supported in part by the Canada Council for the Arts. The Métis River Park will be inaugurated on 5 July 2002. |
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Check out the profile of the Tranby Garden in the May issue of Gardens Illustrated Magazine (UK).
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Check out the profile of the Geoffrey Street Garden in the May/June issue of Fine Gardening Magazine (US).
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The Wells Residence has just won the Renovation and Custom Building Award 2002 prize from the Greater Toronto Home Builder Association.
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There is more time to see our Superlegible Furniture.
The New Landscape: Design Transforms Canadian Furniture Design exhibit at the Design Exchange has been extended to July 28, 2002. A catalogue of the exhibit is now available from the Design Exchange. |
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