Landscape & Urban Design Issue 26 2017 | Page 39

International Garden Festival 2017 text Cathy Azria, BD Designs architects, Laure Qarémy, teacher & Pauline Lazareff, architect engineer], Paris (France). An unusual playground grows in the shade of trees and forms a play space where the children become giants, perched at the top of the wooden causeway. www.atelieryokyok.com La Chrysalide by landscape architects Gabriel Lacombe & Virginie Roy-Mazoyer, Vancouver (British Columbia) & Montréal (Québec) Canada. An invitation to take a break in time, between childhood and adulthood, to climb into the tree, make a nest and lay there to dream. Paysage euphonique by MANI [Claudia Campeau, architect & Maud Benech, designer], photo Cathy Azria, BD Designs Montréal (Québec) Canada. A set of giant play facilities creates a tension in our rapport with the landscape and forces us to see and hear nature differently. www.manimtl. wordpress.com Soundcloud by Johanna Ballhaus, landscape architect & Helen Wyss, architect, Montréal (Québec) Canada & Fribourg (Switzerland). Bells attached to the ends of metal rods create the illusion of mist and clouds where a dialogue with nature begins and where stories can be told. HAIKU by architects Francisco A. Garcia Pérez & Alessandra Vignotto, Granada (Spain). A lonely swing in the forest, a flooded path, a motionless stone. SOUNDCLOUD by Johanna Ballhaus, landscape architect &Helen Wyss, architect, Montreal (Quebec) Canada & Fribourg (Switzerland). L'ESCALE by Collectif Escargo [Pierre-Yves Diehl, designer, Karyna St-Pierre, landscape architect & Julie Parenteau, arts teacher], Montreal (Quebec) Canada. Landscape & Urban Design 39