Gardens of Can Framis Museum | Spain

 41°24'12.02"N |   2°11'41.75"E

"A sea of ivy covering flower bulbs which burst into a symphony of colour to accompany the museum. The bulbs flower in a monochrome pentagram according to the season of the year (the week of the white flowers, the red week, blue, violet, etc.).

A deliberately old-style garden, where vegetation will play the leading and not the secondary role. A natural haven, a chunk of nature within the city, in clear contrast to the surroundings. A somewhat windswept look, hardly mapped out, with narrow and winding paths and metallic green street furniture which evokes the past, with a certain air of melancholy, in tune with the building.

The garden, slightly sunken and with dunes (waves) which screen it from street level, and its masses of flora (ivy, grasses, flowers and trees) become an oasis of silence and calm… akin to being in the middle of a forest.

An out-of-touch visitor will think that the garden has always been there, the backdrop to Can Framis." (http://www.jordibadia.com)



Place: Barcelona, Spain
Landscape architects: EMF Landscape Architecture (Marti Franch) e BAAS (Jordi Badia)
Promoter: Asociación administrativa de cooperación de la U.A.
Surface: 1 ha
Implementation period: 2007-10
Photos: Landezine, BAAS

Sources:
http://www.landezine.com
http://www.jordibadia.com
http://www.emf.cat

Garden of 10,000 Bridges | West 8 | China

34°19'31.76"N | 109° 3'1.52"E

Entitled Garden of 10,000 Bridges, the project features gently curving red bridges that are speckled across a wild landscape.  According to the designers, “As both a distinct sense of enclosure and vantage points are provided, the Garden plays with the sensation of surprise. In the design advantage is taken of the strategic, central position of the plot, and views to other parts of the exhibition are integrated with those to the features of the park and surrounding landscape.”

The bridges (unlike the name suggests, there are only 5 structures) provide the user with a different perspective above the landscape, and define a new spatial network above the ground plane.   Linked by a winding path, the red bridges gently arch over tall bamboo and will open for the public through October.

“Gardens tell a story. They combine poetry and narrative. The Garden of 10,000 Bridges represents the human life; the path of people’s lifetime, which is a route of uncertainty and burden, but also of highlights and elation. The garden design takes you on this walk of life as a meandering, winding trail – continuous and like a labyrinth. It lets you find your way through nature and takes you over 10,000 bridges,” added the designers.

The Xi’an International Horticulture Exhibition 2011 is open until 22 October 2011.

Place:  Xi’an, China
Landscape architects: West 8 (Adriaan Geuze, Christian Dobrick, Claudia Wolsfeld, Gaspard Estourgie, Joris Weijts, Karsten Buchholz, Pieter Hoen, Yichun He)
Partners: DYJG Beijin
Promoter: International Horticulture Exhibition 2011
Images: West 8 

Sources:

http://www.landezine.com

http://www.designboom.com

http://www.archdaily.com

http://www.west8.nl