It is always amazing to see a design coming to life. With a lot of help from so many people we were able to create the Jully Black Garden pretty much as we envisioned it. Now we are waiting how the public will experience our garden display.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Canada Blooms - Articles in the Star
Here are some links to articles featured in the online issue of The Star for some more information about the upcoming Canada Blooms Show. Enjoy!
Friday, March 11, 2011
Canada Blooms Jully Black - Move In, the Countdown Begins
Friday 12pm and the countdown begins. We have now until Tuesday 12pm to be ready with everything...
Walls are standing and ready for prep work.
Darren enjoying his job.
First colour is applied.
Curved walls and bench is brought in.
More to come soon!
More to come soon!
Thursday, March 10, 2011
365 Thing to do in Toronto Neigbourhoods - Design Talks with Sander Freedman
Sander always loves to speak about his passion for combining sustainable design with contemporary gardens and outdoor rooms, so when he was approached by Urban Mode to be a guest speaker he accepted the invitation.
Join us on March 10, 2011 at Urban Mode at 7:00pm. Tickets are $15.00
http://www.365toronto.ca/?p=372
Monday, March 7, 2011
Canada Blooms Jully Black - View Behind the Prefabrication
After the design was good to go we met with our contractor Peter Kim of J.B.Kim Landscaping. Now we just have to figure out how to build it...
first pictures of the construction work...
a rough layout is done in Peter's barn
3D forms emerge -
Peter and his team are building wood frames
with drywall cladding to give the walls their curves
now the final shape is already to see
More to come soon!
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Canada Blooms Jully Black - First Design Ideas
The 2011 Canada Blooms show featured gardens with the theme of the JUNO awards as tribute to the 40th anniversary of the award itself. This garden was designed in collaboration with Juno award winning artist Jully Black.
When we were first approached by the organizers of Canada Blooms to design one of the 5 JUNO Rocks Garden, we thought; this sounds interesting. We agreed to it and waited with anticipation to see which Juno award winner we would represent. We were pleased and excited to find out that we were representing the incomparable Jully Black.
In our first phone discussion with Jully we tried to understand what she would like to represent with her Juno Rocks Garden and what message she would like to get to her audience and the visitors of Canada Blooms. She also mentioned 2 songs which are very dear to; 'Running' and 'I travelled'.
Based on this phone conversation with Jully and some research, we started to do our part of the job. From the beginning we felt that the music video 'Running" holds a wonderful power and serves as a great medium to get Jully's message out. Not only through the music and lyrics but as well through the strong visuals. At once we decided that 'Running' was the perfect song to celebrate Jully in our Garden, the design took shape.
The black and white colour scheme of 'running' with it's little colourful splashes of turquoise, pink, purple and blue was ideal to pick up in the garden design. the black scarf blowing in the wind in Jully's video is picked up in our design by a mural wall paint emerging into a black sitting bench, meandering through the garden. This gesture of movement and running characterizes the garden. The curving walls, the bench and the flowing water standing for movement strength and courage.
Incorporated into the design will be a New Media Centre which will feature a video message from Jully Black and a chance for garden and plant enthusiasts to connect and share with Jully their thoughts via twitter.
Some 3D renderings...
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