Comments on: Chaumont garden design competition 2010

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 25 May 2010 04:22:12 +0000

Hi Tom, somehow this photograph sparked a debate about which side of the fence was Mexico and which was America! [ http://pixdaus.com/single.php?id=86707 ]

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:01:22 +0000

I went to the Chelsea Flower Show today and, though it certainly champions design, it also seemed a little more like a trade show than it has in pre-recession times.

By: Kat

Kat — Mon, 24 May 2010 08:39:09 +0000

Thanks for this write up and the images, I would love to go to Chaumont one day. I like the fact that it champions creativity in garden and landscape design, all the so called ‘garden shows’ we have here in Australia tend to be glorified garden centres with most focused on selling wheel barrows and tacky water features rather than doing anything creative with design. I also wish more public garden spaces seeking to inject some new design would look to things like Chaumont.

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Mon, 17 May 2010 17:45:48 +0000

Do you mean like the dominos in Berlin? But yes, the aims of garden design are often to create spaces for use and beauty. The Americans were terribly against the Berlin Wall but are now building something very like it between the US and Mexico.

By: xiaomin

xiaomin — Mon, 17 May 2010 17:00:59 +0000

A man, who is active and social somehow, when he looks at the image, said: “I feel an impulse to push down all the sheet arrangement”——-it looks more like Domino Game Set. Wow, It is interesting speaking that Garden design is relevant to art, but more than the pure art, which is a sense of a place and functional.

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:55:47 +0000

Thank you for the correction – the post has been adjusted.

By: Jonathan Fitch

Jonathan Fitch — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:02:59 +0000

As a participant in the Chaumont Festival in 2008, I can attest to the excitement of having the proposal of my firm, Landscape Architecture Bureau,accepted and built by the festival. At the same time, however, it should be noted that 20 or so gardens/temporary installations are premiated each year. There has never been, to my knowledge, a single “winner.” While the garden by Marinaz, Vacirca and Tonegatti that you cite is both interesting and beautiful, it is NOT the “winner.” Saying so does a disservice to the other terrific proposals that were accepted for the festival.